Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1919 — DEATH ENDS LONG ILLNESS [ARTICLE]

DEATH ENDS LONG ILLNESS

ANOTHER CIVIL WAR VETERAN DESERTS COMRADS THIN- ' NING RAfiKS

John Q. Alter until three years ago the carrier on rural route three out of this city "died at his home on Park Ave., Sunday, January 12, 1919, at 4:30 p. m. He gave up this work on account of illness and since that time has been in very poor health and was a great sufferer. The last fourteen months of the three years pf suffering he was confined to his bed. His ■illness was the result of a sunstroke in the Civil war and on Thanksgiving day 1917 he had a stroke of paralysis which with complications caused his death. The deceased was born Dec . 28, 1844. He served almost three years in Co. A of the 87th Indiana and was one of the youngest men in the Civil war. Whale he had suffered greatly during his long illness, death came peacefully and he passed away in quiet sleep. He is survived /by his wife, three daughters and on> son. Funeral services will be held at the Methodist church Tuesday, January 14, at’ 2:00 p. m. He was a member of the local lodges Grand Army of the Republic and Independent order of Odd Fellows.

The brood sows at Chauncey Huntington’s sale Jan. 15, are good ones and will farrow from April 1 to 15. :zzzzzzz.