Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Saturday, June 27, 2009 at 05:09:30 :
The Marin Journal
Thursday, October 28, 1914
Page 3
Nicasio Pioneer Removed By Death
Death has claimed another of Marin county’s pioneers in the person of Edward K. Cornwell, for about forty years a resident of Nicasio.
He died Tuesday at the age of 67 years from the effects of a stroke of apoplexy, while at work in the blacksmith shop which he had conducted for nearly a half century.
Mr. Cornwell was born in Indiana, and came across the plains in a prairie schooner in 1856 to Petaluma, where he lived for a number of years. Upon leaving Petaluma he moved with his family to Nicasio, and during all the remaining years of his life he did his work as a man among men and as a mechanic in a manner to gain the respect of all with whom he came in contact. Stricken at the forge where he had labored so long, he died after two weeks of suffering.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Mary S. Cornwell, a son, J. F. Cornwell, formerly of this place but now of Nicasio; a daughter, Mrs. J. Filippini; a niece, Mrs. Edith McNutt of Oakland, and the following grandchildren: Jessie Filippini and Ernest Filippini, Mrs. M. C. Tomasini of Petaluma, Alettiea, Mary Evelyn and Francis Cornwell, of Nicasio.
The funeral will be held this morning at 10 o’clock from the funeral parlors of Dr. F. E. Sawyer, and the burial will be given in Mount Tamalpais cemetery.
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