An unedited transcription of a page 1 article  in the 28 Apr 1910 Simcoe Reformer newspaper.

"SAM" BOUGHNER DEAD

Mr. Samuel Boughner, proprietor of the Stoddard House, Delhi, dropped dead yesterday afternoon about two o'clock.

He had not been ill and a few minutes before death overtook him he was in the Bank transacting business.

Mr. Boughner had lived at Port Rowan, Langton, and other places in Norfolk and was well known over the Western half of Norfolk. He resided in Simcoe for a few months some years ago and had many friends here who will learn of his untimely death with regret.
 

An unedited transcription of an article  in the 4 May 1910 British Canadian newspaper.
[The 5 May 1910 Waterford Star also reported Sam Boughner's sudden death, erronously 
reporting he died in his 85th year, in a page 1 obituary.]

MR. SAMUEL BOUGHNER

On Wednesday afternoon of last week a gloom was cast over Delhi, when it was learned that Mr. Samuel Boughner dropped dead at his home in the Stoddard House, where he has been proprietor for the past two years.

Mr. Boughner had been enjoying a game at quoits at the side of the house, and after the finish of the first game Lawyer Jones, whom he was pitching with, asked him if he wished to play another game, and he said "I am too tired," and on entering the house, spoke a few words to his bartender, Thomas Lorimer, and passed through to his private apartment, when, without a moment's notice, he succumbed to an attack of the heart.

Mrs. Boughner was in the room at the time lying down, as she was not well, and immediately screamed to the girls upstairs that her husband was very sick. The girls came at once and saw that he had passed away.

Mr. Boughner was in his 58th year. He leaves to mourn his sudden demise, a wife, one daughter, Gladys, and one brother, Louis [sic], of Langton. The family have the deepest sympathy of the community. The interment took place in the Langton cemetery on Sunday afternoon.
 

 
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