Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1912 — James Wigmore, Who Lived in Rensselaer in Seventies, is Dead. [ARTICLE]

James Wigmore, Who Lived in Rensselaer in Seventies, is Dead.

James S. Wigmore, of White county, died last Tuesday and was buried Thursday at the Montidtllo cemetery. He was 78 years, 5 months, and 3 days of age. Mr. Wigmore was born In Ireland, and when 14 years of age came to Toronto, Canada, where he learned jjhe trade of watchmaker, He later came tq Louisville, Ky„. and at the breaking out of the civil-war enlisted in the union army. Friends here say that he enlisted ln ( itfie- company formed by General Milroy. An obituary published in Monticello papers states that he enlisted afSalem Crossing, Ind. At the battle of Chapin Hills, near Perrysville, Ky., he lost a leg and was discharged in November, .1862. He was married to Martha J. Rothrock, of Monticello, Aug. 4, 1864, and five children were born to them, Emma, Charles, George, Lida and Stella. Charles died in 1894, The others still live, the oldest being the wife of Morris Holtzman, of Brookston. For some time during the seventies Mr. Wigmore and family lived to Rensselaer, where he conducted a jewelry store.,