Dr. A. W. Bouseman Dies of Heart Attack Sunday

Dr. A. W. Bouseman, 64, prominent Fountain Green physician for more than thirty years, was found dead near his car about 9:00 o'clock Sunday morning at the intersection of the LaCrosse and Fountain Green-LaHarpe roads.  Death, according to the verdict of the jury at the inquest conducted by Coroner J. D. Butler, was due to a heart attack with which he was suddenly seized as he was returning to his home from an early morning call to a home in LaHarpe.  Dr. Bouseman apparently got out of his car when he felt the attack coming on, it was decided at the inquest.  His body was found by Guy Wright and Sam Corbitt, whose farms are along the road.

Albert William Bouseman, the son of Thomas and Eleanor Cox Bouseman, was born on New Year's Day, 1881, on a farm in Marion county where he grew to manhood.  He was married to Nellie Dewhirst of his home community on his 21st birthday and they made their home on a farm for four years and then went to St. Louis where he entered Barnes Medical College from which he was graduated as a physician and surgeon in 1910.

Dr. Bouseman first located in Ivesdale for the practice of his profession, but in September, 1910, he and his family moved to Fountain Green and with the exception of the years between 1938 and 1941 that has been the family home.  He had an extensive practice, and it was at Fountain Green in 1920 that Dr. Bouseman made a national reputation in a typhoid epidemic by recovery of every one of his 88 cases of the dread disease.

Dr. Bouseman was one of the organizers of the Fountain Green high school and was active in all local and county civic and political affairs.  He was a member of the Presbyterian church, the Masonic and I. O. O. F. lodges.

He is survived by his widow and four children, Mrs. Iris Reid of Chicago, Glen Bouseman of Normal, Mrs. Alberta Hull of Sycamore and Mrs. Marilyn Johnston of Chicago.  He also leaves three grandchildren, Richard and David Hull and Roger Daniels; three brothers, Elmer of Fountain Green, Arthur of Springfield and Frank of Portland, Ore.; and one sister, Mrs. Emma Cain of Tuncunari [sic], N. M.

Funeral services were held at 2:00 o'clock Tuesday afternoon in the Fountain Green Presbyterian church with Rev. James Moore of LaHarpe assisted by the Rev. Victor Roberts of Macomb officiating.  Burial was in Moss Ridge in Carthage.