Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 213, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1918 — DIED AT AGE OF EIGHTY-FIVE [ARTICLE]

DIED AT AGE OF EIGHTY-FIVE

NORMAN WARNER PASSED AWAY AT HOME IN RENSSELAER MONDAY. Uncle Norman Warner, one of the oldest citizens of Jasper county, died at his home in Rensselaer Monday afternoon at 1:15 o’clock, after an extended illness, at the age of 85 years, his death being caused by troubles incident to old age. The funeral will be held at the Church of God Wednesday afternoion at 3 o’clock, Elder Lindsay, of Oregon, 111., conducting the services. Interment will take place in Weston c cm ct cry • For fifty-nine years a continuous resident of Jasper county and for fifty-five years living in the house in which he died in Rensselaer, Norman Warner had been in many other ways important and closely identified with this community. He knew Rensselaer first when iV was a hamlet, and his individual enterprise did much for the upbuilding of this community. As a business man his work was accomplished some years ago, when he surrendered his business cares to his three sons. He was born in Rush county March 15, 1833, and died in Rensselaer, Ind., September 16, 1918. His parents were Daniel K. and Elizabeth Warner, the former a native of Connecticut and the latter of Ohio. His father located in Jasper county in 1853. He bought nearly a section of land adjoining Rensselaer on the east. He died on his farm in Rensselaer in 1856. Norman Warner, who was a young man of twenty-three when his father died, in youth had learned the blacksmith trade as applied to carriage making in Cincinnati, Ohio. His first acquaintance with Jasper county was made on his seventeenth birthday, in 1850, and his employment Jiere at various occupations was varied. He also worked in Lafayette, Crawfordsville, Annapolis and Waveland, Ind. He was married to Josie. M- Grant, a daughter of Daniel M. Grant, who had pome to Jasper county as early as 1850. Following his marriage he lived in Waveland, in Montgomery county, for a time, and then, moved to Rensselaer as his permanent home. For many years Mr. Warner followed general blacksmithing in a shop of his own, which he continued to operate until the early seventies, when he added the implement business and from that embarked in the general hardware business. For forty years he kept his place as one of the active merchants of Rensselaer, but in 1898 he turned his business over to his sons, and retired from active life. For fifteen years he served as coroner of Jasper county. He and his wife were active members of the Church off God. To their marriage were born three children, Daniel Grant, Norman Hale and Charles Crittendon, all <rf whom survive. , He also leaves his wife, three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.