Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 243, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1914 — OBITUARY. [ARTICLE]

OBITUARY.

Orpha L. Kenyon, daughter of Barber and Ab’bie Kenyon, was born in Exeter county, Bhode Island, Sept. 6, 1848. She came to Indiana about the year 1876 and was united in marriage to David D. Gleason two years later. To this union were born five children, twq sons and three daughters, Mrs. Dora Olson, Everet D., B., Orpha D. and Orla D. Soon after marriage she and her husband joined the Baptist church at Lake Village and remained a faithful member during her life. She was ,a good wife and mother and a kind neighbor, always ready to cheer the despondent and aid the sick. She was also a woman of education and telligence. She departed this life Oct. 8, 1814, aged 66 years, 1 month and 2 days. Beside her husband and children she leaves seven grandchildren, a sister and two brothers, Angelina, Charles and Claude Kenyon, all of Bogue, Kansas, and a host oi friends. Her funeral was held at the,M. E. church Saturday morning at 10 o’clock, Bev. P. Swart,' pastor of the Holland church, officiating. She was laid to rest in the DeMotte cemetery. r .* We will unload a car of those nice large, white Michigan potatoes this week. 65c per bushel. Bowles & Parker, Phone 95. Oliver S. Lyford, one of the most widely known veteron railroad men in the country, diedlMonday at the country home of his son, W. H. Lyford, in Wheaton, 111. He was 91 years old.