Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1912 — Prominent Carpenter Township Man Victim of Pneumonia [ARTICLE]

Prominent Carpenter Township Man Victim of Pneumonia

Joel Zinser, aged about 53 year 3, and a prominent citizen-of Carpenter township, died at about 3 o’clock this Wednesday afternoon, after a brief sickness. Mr. Zinser contracted a cold, which settled on his lungs and he too t to his bed only three or four days ago. He was not regarded to be In a serious condition but during Tuesday night he became very ill and nothing could be done to relieve him and he > passed away at the- -hour stated; Mr Zinser came to Carpenter township about . fourteen, years ago from Illinois and located five miles southeast of Remington. He was one of the most progressive and highly esteemed farmers in the county and there will be general sorrow at his sudden demise. He leaves a wife and four children. The two youngest daughters, Josie and Marjorie, are at home, while the son Harvey and another daughter, MTs. Dudley Tyler, live near the hom# of the mother.