Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 263, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1914 — Died Before He Lived. [ARTICLE]

Died Before He Lived.

Philadelphia, Pa. —A close observer, visiting an old churchyard near here,has just discovered the mournful obituary of a man who apparently had the misfortune to die many years before he was born. The inscription on the gravestone read as follows: "In memory of John Favinger, who was 'born the 18th day of September, 1774, and departed this life September the 25th, A. D. ( 1721. Aged 47 years and 7 day."