Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 277, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1918 — OBITUARY. [ARTICLE]

OBITUARY.

Jennie Lucinda Porter was the eighth child of a family of thirteen childfen, and was born Feb.-16, 1842, in Orange county, Indiana, and died (Nov. 22, 1918, at the age of 76 years, nine months and six days. With her parents, Asa Porter and Lucinda Glover Porter, she moved to Jasper county when she was six year* old. Feb. 16, 1861, at the age of .twenty, she was baptised into the fellowship of the Baptist church. On the 27th of November, 1867, she was married to William Walter 'Wisihard, who on Feb. 20, 1906, departed this life for the glorious mysteries of the 'beyond. To this union were born five children, three hoys and two girls. The girts died in infancy. The boys, MelviMe, Ernest and Glenn, and a step-son, William, survive to mourn for one of the best of all mothers. Mother Wishard, known to so many as Aunt Jennie, possessed a kind disposition and a fervor of youthful spirit that endeared her to all. She took an active interest in religious affairs and was always faithful in the performance of her Christian duties. He lif e was a benediction to all who came in dose contact with her; and no one could know her intimately without sharing in some measure the fullness of her cup of joy and good fellowship, which was always running over. She was always pursuing the higher, nobler things of life and died peacefully, after a day give nover largely to things pertaining to His Kingdom. O(Read 14th chapter of John.)

She is not dead, but gone away From earthfty cares, from bonds of day. Her soul has sped with angel wings To regions of eternal springs. Serenely as bhe lived fihe passed Beyond our vision, and the mast Of her ship isailing out to see, Is lost from view, to you and me. —D e dicated to Our Mother.