Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1914 — OLIVER P. ROBINSON DIED AT SOLDIERS’ HOME [ARTICLE]

OLIVER P. ROBINSON DIED AT SOLDIERS’ HOME

Well Known Veteran, Long Time a Constable and Court Bailiff Victim of Paralysis.

Oliver Pulaski Robinson died at the National soldiers’ home at Marion Wednesday morning. The particulars concerning his death were not received by relatives here, but the message which came stated that his funeral would be held at the home at 2 o’clock Friday afternoon and that his would be the first burial in the new cemetery established for the soldiers’ home. Mrs. Jennie M. Thompson, sister of the deceased, and Mrs. Fred Phillips, his niece, accompanied by Welcome DeWitt Robinson, also a brother of Oliver and Mrs. 8. F. Hayden, a niece, of Lowell, went to Marion today to attend the funeraL Oliver P. Robinson was born in Ohio, Dec. 7, 1845, and at the time of his death was 68 years, 4 months arid 22 days of age. He came to Jasper county in 1864 and after his arrival here enlisted in the union army and served during the last year of the civil war. He was never married, but lived for many years at private boarding houses and at the Makeever hotel. Something over four years ago he suffered a paralytic stroke, which chiefly affected one side of his face and one eye. He suffered two later slight strokes, each time becoming a greater charge and finally on Feb. 22nd of this year he was taken to the national soldiers’ home, where he entered the hospital and had remained an invalid ever since, although able to write occasionally to his sister, Mrs. Thompson. For many years Mr. Robinson served as a deputy sheriff, a constable and a court bailiff and his many friends who knew him during the period when he was enjoying good health will regret exceedingly to learn of his death. He was a brother of George M. Robinson, who was a county official and later postmaster of this city.

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