Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 231, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1911 — Ereeting Tombstone at Grave of Parents Who Died Years Ago. [ARTICLE]

Ereeting Tombstone at Grave of Parents Who Died Years Ago.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Jones, of Pendleton, Ind., came Friday to visit 8. St Yeoman and wife. Ur. Jones is in his 82nd year and his wife i* ten years his Junior. He'is as sjfry as a much younger man. Mr. Jones brought with him a tombstone, which he is having erected at the grave of bis father and mother in th% Strong cemetery in Newton township. His mother died in 1861, Just a half century ago mad his father died in 1875. The graves have never been marked with a good stone < and Mr. Jones thought he should do this, erven though so many years had elapsed since their deaths. Mr. Jones’ visit here, revived ah, incident that will be remembered by many of the older' residents of this and Newton county. In 1861 his sister, Mrs. William Parsnett, weht to the old Brook mill, which was run by a man named Hawkins. She was watehlng the machinery in the mill when her skirts were caught in a belt and she was drawn against the shaft. Mr. Hawkins, the aged miller, undertook to rescue hqr, and both were,killed. She lived for a few hours and he lived i until the next day.