Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 127, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1913 — YOUNG MAN DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS [ARTICLE]

YOUNG MAN DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS

(Continued from Page One.) clan to give him every attention each day, but it was recognized professionally that there was little if any chance for him to get up again. He was very hopeful himself, however, and up until a few days ago he entertained hopes of recovery. Two days ago, however, he took a decided turn for the worse and the suffering which he had undergone during the entire period of his sickness was intensified and those who were giving him every tender care well knew that their efforts to stem the tide of death had been without avail. He was conscious up to within a few hours of his. death. His devoted mother and father and other relatives and one or two close friends were at his bedside when the final summons came. His trouble is defined by the physicians as tuberculosis of the glands and lymphatics, and there was no power in the surgical or medical world to have averted the sad conclusion of his young life. Ross was 21 years of age the 10th of last September. He graduated from the Rensselaer high school with the class of 1909 and the following year attended Pranklin University. He was a young man of exemplary habits, clean life, light heart and buoyant spirit and those who knew him well say that he was one of the fine and promising young men of the county. His death has caused sorrow wherever he was known and especially will it cause a tinge of sadness at this gay commencement season, in the pleasures of which he would have been certain to have mingled had his life been spared and his health remained as in the robust days so recently passed. The devoted parents will have the sympathy of the entire community in this hour of extreme sadness. - • . While the funeral arrangements have not yet been made, It will probably be held some time Friday.