John Wesley Fultz (abt. 1860 - 1933)

Born about 13 May 1860 in Kentucky, United States

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Died 14 Mar 1933 at about age 72 in Aug-wah-ching sanatorium

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John was born in 1860. He passed away in 1933 at the Minnesota State Sanatorium from Tuberculosis. John Fultz, 72 years of age, passed away on Tuesday, March 14th at the Walker Sanatorium. Funeral services are to be conducted Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Bagley Gospel Tabernacle, Rev. L.A. Thompson officiating and the Neujahr Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.

John W. Fultz, whose funeral service was conducted Saturday at the Bagley Gospel Tabernacle, was born May 13, 1860, coming to Minnesota in 1879. He was united in marriage to Miss Mary Wicker September 17, 1889, and to this union was borne nine children, four of whom have preceded their father in death. In November, 1932, Mr. Fultz was taken to the Aug-wah-ching sanatorium where he remained until the time of his death. He passed away March 14th, 1933 at the age of 72 years and ten months.

Surviving are his wife, two sons, Raymond and Basil of Bagley, three daughters, Mrs. Hess of Cokato, Mrs. Paul of Hibbing, and Mrs. N.J. Nelson of Bagley, besides a multitude of friends and neighbors who wish to extend at this time their moset heartfelt sympathy to those who mourn the departure of e beloved husband and father.

Aug-wah-ching sanatorium

The Minnesota State Sanatorium for Consumptives, or Ah-Gwah-Ching, opened in 1907, about three miles south of Walker in Cass County. Overlooking Shingobee Bay on the south shore of Leech Lake, the hospital evolved into a massive complex of distinctive buildings exhibiting Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, and Spanish Colonial Revival styles.

The sanatorium adopted new procedures as they arose. Artificial pneumothorax, for example, involved collapsing a diseased lung, which inhibited growth of tubercule bacilli. Patients survived on one lung while the damaged one healed. Then, in the 1940s came antibiotics, which were so successful at killing the bacterium that tuberculosis was almost eradicated in America by the 1960s.

In Minnesota, more than 20,000 people died of the disease between 1887 and 1899

Sources

• https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=62354170

• http://people.mnhs.org/finder/census/1702770 -1985

• http://people.mnhs.org/finder/census/1702772 - 1905

• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X3CB-6FC : accessed 11 August 2015), John W Fultz in household of Raymond Fultz, Nora, Clearwater, Minnesota, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 0020, sheet 3B, family 60, line 73, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1083; FHL microfilm 2,340,818.

• Gardner, Denis. "Minnesota State Sanatorium for Consumptives, Cass County." MNopedia, Minnesota Historical Society. http://www.mnopedia.org/structure/minnesota-state-sanatorium-consumptives-cass-county (accessed February 2, 2018).