Friday morning last a few minutes before eleven o'clock J.M.
Wells died at the home of his son, F.P. Wells, in this city.  He had
suffered for several years past from cancer and it was from its
effect that he died.  He had suffered a great deal,... for a year
past had not left his home.  During the hot weather of the last two
months he had been confined to his bed the greater part of the time.
        He was a native of Tennessee, being born in KNOX COUNTY on Dec. 14, 1809, and consequently would have been eighty-seven years old this coming December.  In 1843 he removed from Tennessee to Southwest City, Mo., where he resided until 1867,
when he came to this place, where he lived up to the time of his death.  He was married to Miss ISABELLA GILBREATH who was a faithful wife until God called her home twelve years ago.  One child, F.P. Wells, was born unto them.
     He had been a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian church for
over fifty years and a member of the Masonic lodge for more than
forty years.
        J.M. Wells was a good man in every sense of that word.  As a member of the church he lived an upright christian life; as a member of the Masonic order he was faithful, charitable and forbearing; as a member of society he ever strove to live by the rule called golden, which requires...interred Willow Wild, Bro. M. F. Crowden officiating.