Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 199, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1915 — Obituary of George P. Daugherty. [ARTICLE]

Obituary of George P. Daugherty.

iGeorge P. Daugherty was bom in Clark county, Ohio, November 18, 1827, and died in Rensselaer, Ind., Aug. 19, 1915, aged 87 years, 9 months and 1 day. He was the oldest son of a family of nine children bom to Barney and Lucy Daugherty. When Mr. Daugherty was two years old the family removed from Ohio to Indiana, settling near Lafayette. When he was seventeen years old the family came to Jasper county, where he has resided for almost 70 years. On March 28th, 1855, he was married to Nancy C. Williams. To this union eight children were bom, six of* whom are still living. On Nov. 24, 1863, he enlisted in Co. A, 126th regiment, the 11th I. V. C. and served until Sept. 19, 1866. He leaves to mourn their loss, his wife, who has traveled life’s pathway with him for more than sixty -years; six children, namely, Mrs. Paris Daugherty, of Ten Sleep, Wyo.; William H., Arthur P., George A., Mrs. A. L. Badgitt and Miss Nina Maude Daugherty, all of Rensselaer. Besides these he leaves 22 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren; two brothers, Lewis Daugherty, of Hammond, and John, of Rensselaer, and a host of other relatives and friends.

Brick Highway For Jasper County Proposed By Democrat.

' ,The Jasper County Democrat proposes a 16-foot brick highway for Jasper county to run north and south to the county limits, a distance of from 35 to ‘4O miles. The Democrat figures the expense to be about $350,000. The Jasper county court house cost about half of that sum. The new hospital for Jasper county, which The Democrat thinks we do not need, will cost about one-twentieth as much as a brick highway through the county. Just as a little dream of the air castle or puff of smoke variety The Democrat’s suggestion is an enjoyable one, but it is hardly probable that it will be given serious consideration after thoughtful men have reflected and used a pencil and paper. The development of the motor business apd its eventual entrance into a wider field of importance as a carrier of all kinds of freight over permanently constructed roads justifies consideration of hard surface road building, but the probability that state aid will be given to the construction of the trunk line roads and that automobiles will be taxed for the permanent construction of these roads would make it a very unwise thing for any county to saddle on to its taxpayers such an enormous debt, even if it could be legally done, which it probably can not. The Republican believes that there should be a low providing for an automobile tax for permanent construction and that it should be sufficient to provide revenue for the building of two or three miles of brick or concrete road each year. The next legislature is quite certain to take up this matter and Jasper county along with others can ■ wait and suffer no great inconvenience.