Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 151, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1911 — James W. Noland, of Fair Oaks, Died Monday Evening of Dropsy. [ARTICLE]

J ames W. Noland, of Fair Oaks, Died Monday Evening of Dropsy.

- James W. Noland, an old soldier and for a number of years a minister, died Monday evening at his home in Fair Oaks. He was about 70 years of age. Dropsy was the cause of death. Mr. Noland had peculiar religious beliefs and for several years had been • attached to the holiness religious sect In Fair Oaks. *He was forinerly a resident of Lee and is related to the various other Noland families of that village. In 1895 he was a pastor of a Baptist church in the country near Brookston and was getting along very nicely when he became imbued with the John Alexander Dowie teachings. He undertook to turn the Baptist church into a Dowie church, but this was not tolerated and he was forced to resign. For some time he resided in Brokston and canvassed the country for Dowie„ sending considerable money to Zion City in exchange for prayers for the sick and infirm. A bunch of bad boys at Brookston teased him in various ways and one night placed a bunch of willow whips on his porch and left a note attached to them stating that they would be used on him if he did not move away. He sold his little home and moved to Zion City, where he is said to have been defrauded by Dowie of all •he had. He then returned to Indiana and resided at Fair Oaks, where himself and wife lived off his meagre pension. He is survived by a widow and one son, the latter living in Illinois. He was a good man, honest and upright. The funeral will be held at the late residence Wednesday morning at 10 o’clock. The service at his request will be brief. Burial will be matte, in the Fair Oaks cemetery.