Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1910 — MANY ATTEND FUNERAL OF AGED VETERAN. [ARTICLE]

MANY ATTEND FUNERAL OF AGED VETERAN.

Captain Payne Buried at Praeter Cemetery after Impressive Service at Methodist Protestant obureh. Captain Geo. W. Payne, aged veteran of the Mexican and Civil wars, and for forty years a minister in the Methodist Protestant church, was laid to his last rest today in the Praeter cemetary in Barklqy township. The funeral service was conducted from the little church which he loved so and which he had labored so hard to build up. Rev. C. o. Johnson, pastor of the church, was assisted by Rev. O. S. Rar di of the Rosebud church, and Rev. d L. Harper, of the Trinity M. E. church. The relatives, mostly descendants of the deceased, numbered about 75, and it is no funeral has been held in Rensselaer where ' there were more mourners closely|helated to the deceased. About 35 oldjsoldiers attended the funeral, D. H. Yeoman, Shelby Grant, John R. Whitesell Lewis and George Morgan being from the same company of which the deceased was one time the captain, Company A of the 87th Indian 4 volunteers. Captain James A. Burnhain, W. H. Hoover, Thos. Crockett, C. p. Wright, Henry Watson, also of the same regiment, still survive, but were unable ttT attend the funeral of their comrade from sickness or other causes. - A laijge number of friends of the aged minister gathered at the church to pay their last respects and the service was one of-the most impressive ever held in Rensselar.