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A GOOD DEED REMEMBERED.

About a year and a ha'f ago Eugene O'Keefe, of Jamestown, Butler Cocnij, Pa. He made a little money, and invest* ing it on an oil well, rapidly increased bis capita until he was worth, according to the locd uau'mL), - 20,000doFs. or 25,000d0)5. Last fa'l he was prontraffd t i(h a disease of the lungs, pad being fihgio and I a\ i)g no relatives in the place suffered for a :'me for hck of proper care. Miss Mr r/ E. Lo*aß, who kept a restacrpntneur o'Keefe's office, where he was lying sick, heHng tbat he h?d insufficient nurs'ng, offer;dber services, Ptd under her care he fei'ew rapidly-better, i id fiaa'ly able to get about, die con* clad d to go South for a time, hoping to recover his hf.Jtli. Before goi'Jgaway, however, he made a i'l, which properly signed and witness- i, he placed in a seeled envelope, with dxrect'ons to Father Qu'lter, its custodiia, lo open it in the presence of bis lawyer, m case they recJf i word that he was dead. The o^her day news was received rirom Da' 1 as, Texas, and Mr O'Keafe had died in that place. The will has been opened. All the propp y real and personal, of the de. ceased mzn is uncondi'iionally bequeathed to Miss Login. The esfata consists of 18,000 be rels of oil, the oil we'l, and other property sTnountiog of 25,000J015.

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Thames Star, Issue XI, 21 June 1880, Page 2

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A GOOD DEED REMEMBERED. Thames Star, Issue XI, 21 June 1880, Page 2

A GOOD DEED REMEMBERED. Thames Star, Issue XI, 21 June 1880, Page 2

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