exceptionally important in the chartering of the Illinois Central and legal work connected with the construction, and as a Senator this courtesy seemed due him.

One morning in early 186912 a caller found the Count's body on the floor of his restaurant, fully clothed, but with not a cent on his person nor in the cash drawer. Townsmen searched for an early associate, suspecting foul play, and strangely enough this man was never seen again. Yet there was no mark of violence on the body, and not a thing seemed disturbed or out of place in the building.13 No one could be located who knew of a friend or relative closer than his friends in the new town on the prairie. Thus his death was perhaps more of a mystery than his life had been.

His body lay at William Neifing's undertaking establishment for two days. Then his old friend and admirer, William M. Jenkins, told

William M. Jenkins. Uncle Billy was El Paso’s first store keeper and first postmaster.
 
  Neifing to hold the funeral and place the grave on his lot in Evergreen Cemetery. This was done, and the necessary cash expenditures for burial clothes, casket, undertaker and livery were allowed in the April meeting of the county supervisors at Metamora. No titled rela-

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