Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 127, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1912 — ANOTHER VETERAN OF CIVIL WAR CALLED. [ARTICLE]

ANOTHER VETERAN OF CIVIL WAR CALLED.

J. P. Warner Stricken With Attack of Heart Failure and Dies at Home On Front Street. Another sudden death occurred Saturday to lessen the ranks of Civil war veterans in Rensselaer, making the third old soldier to die from hqart failure within two weeks. The latest victim was John Phillips Warner, better known as Jack Warner, one of the oldest residents of Rensselaer. Mr. Warner was working Saturday in his carriage paint shop on Front street and when Mrs. Warner called him to supper shortly before 6 o’clock Saturday evening and he did not answer, she went into the shop and found him lying on the. floor. She Called a physician and other aid and Mr. Warner was removed to the house, which is near the shop. He lived for almost half an hour, being partially conscious a short titae. Mr. Warner was 75 years of age end had been tn quite poor health for the past year, although able to be up a considerable part of Jthe time and to work at carriage painting in his shop. He leaves a wife and two children, David Warner, of Hammond, and Mrs. Charles Pefftey, of Remington. He also leaves two brothers, Norman and Marshall P. Warner, of this city. Mr. Warner served three years in the Union army during the Civil war, being in the sth Indiana cavalry. The funeral was held this Monday afternoon‘at 2:30 o’clock. 3 •