Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1913 — Obituary of Mrs. E. H. Purcupile. [ARTICLE]

Obituary of Mrs. E. H. Purcupile.

Elizabeth Howe Purcupile was born in Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, January 4th, 1828, and died in Rensselaer, Ind., February 7th, 1913, aged 85 years, 1 month and 3 days. She was a daughter of William Henry and Nancy Ann. .Downing. Howe. Her early life was spent in Akron, Summit county, Ohio, her father being one of the earlier settlers of that city, and there on April 14th, 1845, she was married to Archibald Purcupile. To this union nine children were born, one dying 4n infancy and the other eight surviving their mother. The family moved from Ohio to Lafayette, Ind., in 1848, and in the spring of 1850 came to Jasper county, living on a farm on Carpenter’s Creek until the fall of the same year, when they came to Rensselaer, which place has been her home for the greater part through all of the succeeding years r Mrs. Purcupile united with the Presbyterian church while living on Carpenter’s Creek, in the fall of 1850, at a service held in the Egypt school house, under the ministry of Dr. Chestnut, who was the first pastor of the Presbyterian church of Rensselaer, the session of the church at that time being composed of Elders Hutten, Wright and Coen. She leaves to mourn their loss eight children, as follows: James Francis Purcupile, of Brooklyn, N. y.; Richard Henry Purcupile, of Rensselaer; John Israel Purcupile, of Lafayette, Ind.; Mrs. F. J. Sears,of Rensselaer; Mrs. William Strawbridge, of Lincoln, Neb.; Edgar Wlllet Purcupile, of Los Angeles, Cal.; Mrs. J. F. Hardman, of Rensselaer: Mrs. A. F. Long, of Rensselaer, be sides these leaving nine grandchildren and seven great grandchildren and many other relatives and a host of friends.