Etc. -- Frank Seymore Dell's 1921 obituary
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A lightly edited transcription of a page 1 article in the 19 May 1921 Simcoe Reformer newspaper.

I.O.O.F. Attend Dell Funeral

The funeral of the late Mr. Frank Seymore Dell, who died on Thursday, 12 May 1921, took place privately from his late residence at 574 Norfolk Street north, last Saturday at 2.30 to Oakwood Cemetery.

The pallbearers were: Thos. Haddow, W. L. Innes and Frank Reid, representing St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, and Walter W. Cole, Malcolm Thornburn and Henry Johnson, representing the Independent Order of Oddfellows.

The late Mr. Dell was the last surviving son of the late Henry H. Dell, a former resident of Wellington, now the Norfolk Ward of Simcoe, who was the court crier in this county for many years. His brother, James Dell, resides at Robinson and Metcalfe Streets. 

The grandfather, Richard Dell, was an United Empire Loyalist and settled in Windham Township and later in the Long Point Settlement.

The late Frank Dell was 53 years of age at the time of his death, was a niller by trade, and was employed in William Sutton's mill. He was recovering from smallpox when cerebral hemorrhage set in.

He is survived by a wife and a nine-year-old daughter.
  

  
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