Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 121, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1918 — ALBERT J. BELLOWS [ARTICLE]

ALBERT J. BELLOWS

The funeral of Albert J. Bellows was held at the Presbyterian church in this city Wednesday afternoon.; The services were in charge of Rev. j J. B. Fleming of this city and Rev. J. G. Parrett of Hammond. Interment was in the beautiful cemetery at Remington at which place short services were conducted., A very large number of relatives and friends were , present attested to the splendid character of the deceased. His was a 'life of usefulness and ( happiness, a loving husband and father, a true patriot and a citizen of the very highest type. This, community has been blessed because t of his having lived among us. Such a character stamps its impress upon a community for all time. The following obituary was read at the services yesterday: Albert J. Bellows was born Oct. 31, 1843 at Troy, New Hampshire, and died at Rensselaer, Indiana, May 27. 1918 in the seventy-fifth year of his age. His father’s family moved from New Hampshire to Massachusetts in 1852 and five years later moved west and located in Kankakee county, Illinois, where Albert J. grew to manhood. His great-grand-father was a, soldier in the Revolutionary war and the great-grandson inheriting some of the sturdy patriotism of New England, enlisted and entered the army in the closing years of the civil war. For more than two years he served with Company K in the Fourth Illinois Cavalry, being honorably discharged in 1866. After his discharge from the army he returned to Kankakee county, Illinois, where he engaged in farming until 1870 when he moved to Jasper county, Indiana, and for forty-five years was one of the progressive and successful farmers of Carpenter township. Mr. Bellows was married to Miss Jeanette Dunbar, of Ottawa, Illinois, Sept. 21, 1876 and to this union was born two children, Mary Melissa, now Mrs. Charles Murphy, of Rensselaer and Edward who lives in Remington, Indiana. In 1906 Mr. Bellows retired and moved from the farm to Rensselaer, where he purchased a good, modern home and lived until the close of an active, full, happy and successful life. Mr. Bellows was a member of the Presbyterian church and for many years an elder, giving faithful and efficient service in the local congregation, the x Presbytery and the Synod. He leaves to mourn their loss, Mrs. Bellows, two children, 5 grandchildren and many friends.