Lewis Larkins died suddenly Sunday morning, July 26th, of supposed heart disease, aged 72 years, 7 months and 12 days. Rev. Jerome B. Clemmons preached an excellent funeral discourse in the Wilkins M. E. church to a large congregation. Interment in the Chapinville cemetery by the side of his first wife.

Meadville Weekly Tribune-Republican, 5 August 1891, page 5, column 1