Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1914 — Funeral of John Ade Friday Was Very Largely Attended. [ARTICLE]

Funeral of John Ade Friday Was Very Largely Attended.

Those who went from Rensselaer to attend the John Ade funeral Friday afternoon at Kentland report if the largest funeral they ever attended. The wide acquaintance and the close personal friendships he had made, brought many from long ditances, while the noble life he £ad led brought out a great crowd of admirers, who gathered to pay their last respects to him. The crowd at the funeral is estimated at from 1,000 to 2,000. At the cemetery, a considerable distance from the town, there were more than one hundred automobiles. Several old citizens spoke briefly In his hour at the funeral service, declaring his as elean a life as they had ever known. Men of all parties gathered to honor him and many spoke briefly of his virtues, all declaring him a man of the highest type of excellent citizenship and given to many deeds of charity and kindness , that made him the first citizen of Kentland and Newton county. The eulogies were many and well expressed but none of them could overdraw the splendid life he ha<3Lled. Among those who attended the funeral from here were: Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Fendig, Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Warner, Delos Thompson, John O’Connor, Moses Leopold, Norman Warner, George A. Williams, T. G. Wynegar, Firman Thompson and probably a number of others. Almost the entire town of Remington is reported to have been there, while there were many from all over Newton county, also a number from Fowler, Lafayette, Chicago and other places. From Lafayette was Judge Edwin P. Hammond, who spoke in eulogy of Mr. Ade, as Also did Judge Saunderson, of Fowler; Judge Darroch, of and Jfonnett Lyons, of Brook. There were 183 Masons in the procession. The floral tributes were extensive and marvelously beautiful and in every appointment the funeral was the most beautiful that those who attended from this place had ever seen, being the highest tribute to the memory of one of the best men Who ever lived in this part of Indi- 1 ana. . ' '