Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1913 — OLDEST WOMAN IN RENSSELAER DIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

OLDEST WOMAN IN RENSSELAER DIES

Mrs. Lucinda Antrim Died at Home of Daughter at Advanced Age of 95 Tears. “Grandmother” Lucinda Antrim, who passed her 96th birthday last October, died quite suddenly this Friday morning. She hadv been complaining for several days and the physician in attendance found that she was suffering from some bronchial trouble. Thursday she was somewhat improved and the physician was ( not .called. This morning she seemed better and sat up for a short time and was then assisted into bed again. Attendants who stepped to her side a moment later found that she was dying and it was only a moment until she had_ breathed her last. Mrs. Antrim had for many years lived with her daughter, Mrs. Rachel Scott, on South Van Rensselaer street, where she had received the constant and undivided atten tion of her daughter. The funeral arrangements > have not been completed but it has been decided to hold the funeral Sunday afternoon and the Ladies of the G. A. R., of which Mrs. Antrim was an honorary member, Will attend iin h body.

MRS. LUCINDA ANTRIM