Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1912 — J. P. Simons the Uncle of White County Democrat Editor. [ARTICLE]

J. P. Simons the Uncle of White County Democrat Editor.

In commenting copying the short article In reference to the southern military prison experienc of J. P. Simons, published in a recent issue of The Republican, the White County Democrat adds: “The subject of the above sketch is an uncle of the editor of the Democrat, and has resided in Jasper county a number of years. He was a member of captured in the General Btoneman raid in 1864 and nearly started to death in AndersonviUe prison. The writer well remembers the skeleton of a boy that slowly made bis way up to our borne in the spring of 1865, steadying himself a part of the time by bolding onto the fence when he paused to rest.”