Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 294, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1918 — OBITUARY. [ARTICLE]

OBITUARY.

Etama Keener Bums was born Aug/ 6, 1851, in White county, Ind. She > was the daughter of James and Nancy Keener. She was united in marriage to Charles W. Bums, of the same county, March 21 # 1868. After they were married they moved to this county, settling.on a farm eight miles north of Rensselaer in what was at that time an unsettled country. They Jived on that farm 45 years. Mr. and Mrs. Buras saw the country grow from a wild, unsettled country farthe improved, prosperous land it now is. The lived on the odd homestead and raised to, manhood and womanhood ten children, three dying in infancy. Those wtho are left to mourn for their departed mother are VeMa E. .uatciiews, of South Bend; Nina Price ..a orace Snerrrll, of Otterbein; Wil,am A., Lilian Williams, Irene Wat.m Ai.u IU.3S r iurence Burns, of Chicago, III.; Leota Garriott and Ray G., of Rensselaer, and Glen W., somewhere in France. She is also survived by nineteen grandchildren and <tthree great-grandchildren, also two brothers and one sister. They are Mrs. George Casey, of Rensselaer; Wiliam Keener, of 'Marion, and Albert Keener, of Rensselaer. She died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Matthews, in South Bend, she and her husband going 'there a short time before for a visit. Mrs. Burns had been in failing health for a couple of years, but her last illness was of only two weeks duration. I nlher girlhood Mrs. Burns was a member of thq Methodist church of Whitley county. After coming to Jasper county she and her husband united with the United Brethren Church. After the old farm was sold Mt. and Mrs. Burns moved to the farm just north of town, .where the husband still lives. Later Mrs. Buras united with the Methodist church of Rensselaer. She was a good wife and mother, living a consistent Christian life, and died in the triumph of a living faith. Mrs. Burns was 68 years, four, months and five days old at the time of her 4eath. s The funeral was conducted from the Methodist church Of Rensselaer by the pastor, Rev. E. W. Strecker. Interment was made in Weston cemetery. The song service was conducted by Mrs. English, Mrs. John Medicus and Mrs. M. D. Gwin. The pail bearers were George McLain, Vernon Newels, Cal Cain, Fred Waymire, G. A. Williams and S. C. Irwin.