Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 260, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1918 — OBITUARY OF R. L. BUSSELL. [ARTICLE]

OBITUARY OF R. L. BUSSELL.

Royal L. Bussell was born May 18, 1884, in Hanging Grove township, Jasper county, Indiana, and died Nov. 1, 1918, at the age of 34 years. He was the youngest son of Charles W. Bussell and Lucy Whitaker Bussell. His mother died April 22, 1891, his brother Willie on March 10, 1893, and his sister, Nellie Bussell Lefler, on January 27, 1917. Royal, when fourteen years of age, united with the Methodist Episcopal church, of which he has been a faithful worker to the time of his death. He was married to Verne Elizabeth Parker, oldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Parker, of Hanging Grove township, on December 25, 1907. To this union four children were bom, namely: Lucille, Merle, Elizabeth and Edison L. Besides his wife and four children he leaves his father, step mother, two half brothers, Wilson, of McCoysburg, *and Elvin L. Bussell, with the American Expeditionary Forces in, France; two half sisters, Florence and Ella, of Hammond, Ind., and 'hosts of other relatives to mourn their loss. Royal was mail carrier out of Mccoysburg since the route was established fifteen years ago. He has always been a kind and loving husband arid father and loved by all who knew him.