Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 157, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1910 — Obituary of Thomas Daugherty. [ARTICLE]

Obituary of Thomas Daugherty.

Thomas R. Daugherty was born in Tippecanoe county, Ind., Nov. 16, 1836, and died in Rensselaer, Ind., on June 3.0, 1910, aged 73 years, 7 months and 13 days. He was the fourth son in a family of eight sons and one daughter, born to Barney and Lucy Daugherty. He came to Jasper county with his parents at the age of eight years, and spent the remainder of his life here excepting three years in the west. In August of 1871 he was united in marriage to Elizabeth St. Clair. To this union were born three children, Mrs. E. J. Murray, of Denver, Col., Mrs. W. C. Babcock, of Rensselaer, and John Daugherty, of Spokane, Wash. At the age of 16 he united with the Free Will Baptist Church and was an earnest, consistant Christian all of his life. He leaves to mourn their loss, his wife, three children, four grandchildren, three brothers and many relatives and friends.