Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 305, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1913 — WILLAM HALEY DIED IN PEORIA HOSPITAL [ARTICLE]

WILLAM HALEY DIED IN PEORIA HOSPITAL

Body of Aged Former Resident is Shipped Here tor Burial—to valid for Long Tim.e William Haley, who tor many years resided on a farm he owned in the southeastern part of Marion -township, died Sunday in St Francis hospital in Peoria, BL He bad been la the hospital for seven weeks and prior to that time had been a patient in another hospital He was about 81 years of age as nearly as his relatives can decide, he not knowing his own age exactly. He was bom in County Cork, Ireland, and came to America when quite young. He married Rebecca Ann Turvey and five of the children bom to them survive, namely, Miss Mary Haley, of Peoria, Ill; Miss Nancy Haley, of Tonapah, Nevada; Sister Thaddea, of Washington, D. C.; John Haley, of Stanley, N. Dak.; and Cornelius Haley, of Minot, N. Dak. His daughters (Mary and Nancy were with him at the close of lite Mr. Haley’s Arts wife died when the children were all quite young and he was again married, his second wife being Catharine Sheehan. She was killed in an accident some nineteen or twenty years ago. Besides the five children he also leaves one brother, Rlehaod Haley, of Lafayette Mr. Haley owned at the time of his death 120 acres of pasture land in the southeastern part of Marion township. He left here and went to Peoria about nine years ago. The body arrived to Rensselaer this Tuesday morning and was taken to the Wright undertaking parlors. The three daughters of the deceased accompanied the remains here from Peoria, where a funeral service was conducted at 6 o’clock Monday morning. The burial here will probably take place Wednesday morning, it havnig been decided to postpone the burial until John Haley arrived from Stanley, N. Dak.