Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 174, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1912 — Sudden Death of Emetine Switzer In Barkley Township. [ARTICLE]

Sudden Death of Emetine Switzer In Barkley Township.

Mrs. Emeline Switzer, widow of John Swiger, died suddenly at her home in Barkley township at 10 o’clock Sunday mornipg after an Illness of some weeks. She was apparently feeling better than common in the morning and had just partaken of her breakfast. She left the table and sat down in a chair and expired almost immediately, ketirL failure hewing the cause. ( She was the sisteixof Holdredge Clark, whose sudden death took place a few weeks ago; E. L. Clark, of Rensselaer; Mrs. Mary Porter, of Coats, Kans., and Mrs. Amzi Pillars, of Watseka, 111. She leaves two sons and two daughters, G. 8., Ezra and Celina Switzer, of Barkley township, and Mrs. Ula Fisher, of Watseka, 111.

Mrs. Switzer was 84 years of age. She was born in Ohio, moving to this county in 1856. Her husband died four years ago. The funeral will be held aLthe U. B. church at Aix at 10 o’clock Tuesday. Burial will take place in Weston cemetery in Rensselaer.