Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1917 — Obituary. [ARTICLE]

Obituary.

Henry H. Watson was born July 10, 1840, at Pittsburg, Tippecanoe county, Ind. When but 9 years of age he came to Jasper county and lived on a farm in Marion township. Sept. 6, 1862, he enlisted in the 87th Reg., Company A, Indiana Volunteers, and served his country nearly three years in the civil war. He was a member of the G. A. R. On Nov. 17, 1809, he was united m marriage with Miss Mary Shortridge, and became the father of eight children, namely: Dee, Daisy, Bernice, Frank, Harry, Elizabeth, Charles and Jennett. In 1899 he moved with his family to Rensselaer and lived here until the death of his wife, June 10, 1905. Since the wife’s death he has made his home with his daughter at Chicago Heights. — ; . On May 21, 1917, he passed to the Eternal World. He is survived by seven children, Dee haying preceded him, and sister, Elizabeth Gwin.