My previous message should have read:

He lived in Minnesota in 1901 and then died in Idaho in Feb of the same year? Just thought there might have been a mistype.

Do you have any other info from the obituary,
wife's name or children?

I don't know of a place called Cheney in Dodge Co, MN.
There was a Cherry Grove but on think that was in the neighboring county just across the line.

Wendy