Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1910 — Obituary of Mrs. Barrenfelt. [ARTICLE]

Obituary of Mrs. Barrenfelt.

Erenstena Barrenfelt was born in Germany Dec, 30, 1833. She departed this life April 8, 1910, aged f 6 years, 3 months and 8 days. In 1868, she, together with her husband and three children, came to Indiana, locating near LaCrosse. In 1887 the family moved to the farm they occupied at her death, in Walker township, Jasper county. From early childhood she had been a consistent member of the Evangelical church. For the last fifteen years, she had been afflicted with dropsy, but bore her affliction with Christian fortitude. She has endeared herself to family and friends by her kindly disposition and self-sacrificing spirit She was married to Wm. Rinehart September 18, 1862. To this union was born seven children, Amelia Rodkey, Charlie, who remained at home, s Frank, single, and Mrs. Ida Brown, of Valparaiso, Ind., and William, mar ried, who resides one and one half miles south of the old homestead. The funeral services were conducted Sunday at 10:30 o’clock at the home, by Rev. C. ■E. Downey, of Wheatfield. Interment in the Wheatfield cemetery. Burial services in charge of A. S. Keen, of Wheatfield. Announcement was made at the White House yesterday that the president had not changed his mind on his decision not to visit Indianapolis on May 5. Senator Beveridge conferred with a number of insurgent senators Friday, but would not discuss the Indiana convention or its action upon the tariff. Other Insurgents took occasion to congratulate the Indiana senator upon his speech and to indorse the tariff commission plank. t Try the Classified Column.