Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 304, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1912 — Obituary of J. V. Parkison. [ARTICLE]

Obituary of J. V. Parkison.

Joseph Y. J’krkison, the sixth of a family of eleven children born to John G. and Matilda Kenton Parkison, was born in Logan county, O, may 16, 1829. He died at ißucklin, Kans., Dec. 18, 1912, aged 83 years, 7 months and 2 days. He moved with his parents to Indiana in the year 1837 and settled in Barkley township, where he resided until the year 1903, when he moved to Kansas, and has resided there until the time of his death. He was united in marriage to Fannie Kenton Oct. 23, 1851. To •this union nine children were born, six daughters and three sons, two sons dying in infancy and a daughter died Oct. 19, 1887, at the age of 19 years. Mr. Parkison has been a man of strong constitution and of influence in .his active days, being one of Jasper county’s pioneers, a successful farmer and stockman. He was a charter member of the Masonic order of Rensselaer. He leaves a wife, children, Mrs. Alfred Collins and Wallace, of Bucklin, Kans.; Mrs. Bruce Porter, of Mt. Vernon, S. Dak.; Mrs. Walter V. Porter, of Rensselaer; Mrs. Jocie Milligan, of Garnet, Kansas, , and Mrs. Frank Yeoman, of Kaw, Kansas Also twefity-three grandchildren and eighteen great-grandchildren and a host of friends to mourn this loss. Services were conducted from Trinity M. E. church, Rensselaer, by Revs. J. C. Parret, of the Presbyterian church, and C. L. Harper, of the Methodist church. Miss Helen Meader, of Union township, started to Rensselaer Saturday on a shopping trip and after arriving in town in her father’s automobile she discovered that she had lost her purse containing $36, one bill each of the following denominations, S2O, $lO, $5 and sl. She at once placed an advertisement in The Republican. The money was found by Miss Cora Dexter, one of the Rensselaer school teachers, whose parents, ML and Mrs. H. J. Dexter, are neighbors of the Meaders. The purse had been lost out of the automobile near the Meader p home. It was restored to her Sunday, very much to her delight. Roy C. Stephenson is home from Bonesteel, S. Dak., for a Christmas vacation that is quite certain to terminate in him having company when he returns to the northwest and for the balance of his life. Roy has made good progress in the railroad business and for some time has been a conductor on a short local run on the Northwestern. Railroad business in the west has not been so good, however, as usual, owing largely to the fact that the weather has been so good. They usually prepare for bad weather and if it does not come not nearly so many hands are employed. Oil is burned instead of coal in the engines and this reduces the labor materially.

Stanton J. Pelle, formerly of Indianapolis, chief justice of the United States court of claims, called on President Taft Wednesday and gave him formal notice that he expects to retire in February. Judge Peelle said: *T am SIO,OOO poorer than I was when I came to Washington, and when I retire I will have nothing but my retirement salary.” Rv '■ **• : , - ’<