Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 282, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1910 — Young School Teacher Dies Of Consumption Near Rosebud. [ARTICLE]

Young School Teacher Dies Of Consumption Near Rosebud.

Jesse Smith, son of J. W. Smith, of the Rosebud neighborhood in Union township, died Saturday evening at 7:30 o’clock at the home of his father. Tuberculosis was the cause of death. He is the first of ten children to die. Another child was accidently burned to death in infancy. Deceased had taught school for the past five years and was an able young man of good habits and very popular with all who were acquainted with him. He was in apparent good health until about three months ago when he was taken down and physicians advised him that the condition of his lungs made it advisable that he go to another climate, but he decided to make the fight for his life here. Gradually he sank away. The end came unexpectedly Saturday evening. He was quite weak but had asked that some supper be served to him and when it was brought in he moaned slightly and sank back on his pillow and all was over. He was 26 years, 4 months and 5 days of age. The funeral will be held at 11 o’clock this Monday morning at the Rosebud church, being cdnducted by a Conservative Dunkard minister from Delphi. Burial will be made in the Dunkard cemetery, near Alx.