Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1919 — E. S. RHOADS PASSES AWAY [ARTICLE]

E. S. RHOADS PASSES AWAY

RENSSELAER BUSINESS MAN DIED AT HOSPITAL THIS FRIDAY MORNING. 4*. E. S. Rhoads, one of Rensselaer's oldest and most prominent business men, passed away at the Jasper county hospital this Friday' morning at about 9 o’clock, death being doe to pneumonia, from which the victim had been suffering for several weeks. His condition had been critical for several days prior to his death, bat it was thought that he was gradually growing stronger of late and his death was unexpected, as it was he was on the road to recovery. Mr. Rhoads would have been sixtytwo years of age in June, having been born in this county in the year 1857. His entire lifetime had been spent in this county and for the past several years he was the proprietor of a grocery store 1 on Washington street, where he had (butilt up a splendid trade. Deceased leaves to mourn their loss his wife, one daughter, Mrs. A. H. Davisson, of Home, TH.; two sons, Edwin and Donald, both of this city, and two brothers, Oliver, of Rensselaer, and Charles, of Hammond, Jnd., besides many friends. Mr. Rhoads was a member of the fraternal organization, the Knighta of Pythias. The funeral arrangements have not been rtiade, but it is probable that services will be held Sunday afternoon and burial made in Weston cemetery.