Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1919 — SOUND TAPS FOR SERG.PUMPHREY [ARTICLE]

SOUND TAPS FOR SERG.PUMPHREY

VETERAN OF THE CIVIL WAR IS BURIED BY COMRADES SUNDAY. The funeral of Sergeant George 0. Pumphrey, who died at his home in Friday, January 10, was held at the Methodist Episcopal church in this city Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock, and was in charge of his comrades, members of the Grand Army of the Republic. Sergeant Pumphrey was until a few years ago a resident of this city . and was known and greatly respected by his comrades and the people of this vicinity. Accompanying the body of the deceased to this city was his wife, Mrs. George 0. Pumphrey, his son, Newton Pumphrey, and wife, and their daughter, Elizabeth, and son, Glen, and Thomas Butler, all of Columbia City, also Mrs. Lilly Gilchrist, of Hammond. The following sketch of the life of the deceased is taken from a history of the 99th Indiana Infantry, and jwas written by Sergeant Pumphrey: Born June 18, 1843, at C onnersville, Ind. His, parents moved to Plymouth in 1848, and to Jasper county, the part now known as Newton county, in 1853, where he was living when at 18 years of age George enlisted in Co. E, serving fifteen months as corporal and the rest of the service as sergeant. He took part in all the campaigns of the regiment from first to last. After the war he returned to NewtOn county, Ind., where he resided until 1893, when he rented his farm and moved to Rensselaer, Ind., , where he has a small suburban fruit place which he cultivates and also makes a specialty of breeding Barred Plymouth Rock chickens, and says': “Tell the comrades I forage my milk from a pure Jersey cow but don’t milk it in a canteen.” Hewa s married Nov. 9, 1869, to Isabel Morris, of Rushville, Ind., and they had two sons, but were so unfortunate as to lose the eldest at the age of 29 years about two months ago, April 6, 1900. He ’ was a bright, intelligent man, the

author knowing him well, and he left behind a wife and two children. His death was sudden and was a sore bereavement to all the family. Comrade Pumphrey always attends the reunions and is n true man and comrade.