Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 123, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1913 — Baby of Mr. and Mrs. Jay W. Stockton is Dead. [ARTICLE]

Baby of Mr. and Mrs. Jay W. Stockton is Dead.

-Jay Perkins Stockton, the 4-month-old baby of Mr. and Mrs. Jay W. Stockton, died at about 4 o’clock this Friday morning at the home of its parents west of Rensselaer. The baby had not been very well tor some time but the attending physician did not regard its trouble as especially serious. Thursday afternoon at about 5 o’clock it suddenly became alarmingly sick and the family physician was called and another physician in consultation. They found the child suffering from an obstruction of the bowels and were unable to relieve it and death resulted at the hour stated. The funeral will take place Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Stockton home in Newton township and burial will be made in Weston- cemetery. Rev. C. L. Harper will have charge of the service. The baby was named Jay after its father, and Perkins aftey its maternal grandfather.