Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1915 — T. D. Conaghan Lost Three Sons in Less Than a Year. [ARTICLE]

T. D. Conaghan Lost Three Sons in Less Than a Year.

T. D. Conaghan arrived Tuesday afternoon from Pekin, 111., and will visit his new farm tenant, George Sheetz, and look after some improvements on his farm south of town!. Mr. Conaghan now has the farm in good shape, having done a lot of tiling and building since he bought it several years ago. 4 Mr. Conaghan had th% misfortune since last April to lose three grown sons, two having died at Pekin, HI., and a third in California. The sons wer<* from 28 to 34 years of age. The one in California had tuberculosis but the other two were in apparent good health. One was a lawyer in Pekin and he came home one evening and was playing ,with his little son when an attack of heart trouble siezed him and he lived only a short time. Another son took sick one Sunday and died the next, fee had previously lost his wife and three other ohildren. Five children are still living.