Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1917 — Oliver Garriott Back to Indiana On Sad Mission. [ARTICLE]

Oliver Garriott Back to Indiana On Sad Mission.

Oliver • Garriott, a former citizen ! of Union otwnship, but for the past nine years a prosperous stockman of Lone Pine, Mont., is here visiting friends. On Decoration Day this year Mr. Garriott had the misfortune to lose his wife. Mrs. Garriott had been in poor health and they had decided to brnig her back to Indianapolis, her former home. They had proceeded about one hundred miles on this journey when Mrs. Garriott was takLen very much worse and it was necessary to take her from the train. This was at Missoula, Montana. She was taken to a hotel in that city and in a few hours passed away. Mrs. Garriott, who was formerly Mrs. Lola Cochran-Calvert, was known to a number of people in this city. She was a singing evangelist for the Disciples of Christ and with Rev. T.. G. Legg held a meeting here during the last year of the pastorate of the Rev. George H. Clark. She was a woman of most excellent musical talent and had written many songs, one of which has become famous, “Dear Old Indiana.” Mr. and Mr.s Garriott were married last September, but they had been acquainted from childhood. Both had been married before: Mrs. Garriott has two children from a former wife. They are Lawrence, age 26, who lives with him in the west, and Mrs. John Price, of Parr. The re-established Garriott home was a very happy one and Mrs. Garriott was as dearly loved by Lawrence as if she had been his own mother. Since the death of his wife, Mr. had been visiting with her relatives at Indianapolis and with friends and relatives at his birthplace and old home in the southern part of the state. He arrived in Rensselaer last Friday and next week will start for his home in Montana, making brief stops at Chicago, visiting his brother, Presston, and a day or two at St. Paul, Minn . Mrs. Garritot was at one time the highest officer of the Pythian Sisters of the state of Indiana. This fact became known at Missoula and the Pythian Sisters of that city did everything it was possible for them to do to comfort Mr. Garriott. They assisted in the preparation of the body for burial and contributed a very beautiful floral offering.