From Rick Berkheiser

"The South Bend Weekly Tribune", Saturday, September 7, 1895, page 9

     Norman Loomis, recently from this place, died at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. S. S. Davis, in Otis, at 8 o'clock Wednesday morning.  The remains will be brought here for the funeral at his house Friday and the interment will be in the cemetery at New Carlisle.  Rev. W. L. Stine, of the Christian church, will preach the funeral discourse.  Deceased was 85 years of age and leaves three sons, John, Wallace and Thomas.  His wife died in this place last season.