Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 232, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1919 — OBITUARY. [ARTICLE]

OBITUARY.

Mrs. Emily Rebecca Gary was bom in Lewisburg, Champaign county, 0., June 9, 1847, and at the age of seven years she came to Rensselaer with her mother, three sisters and brother and lived at this place til lher marriage to Francis M. Sweet, March 18, 1867. To this union one daughter, Mrs. Nina Irwin, of Wolcott, was born. Becoming a widow September 3, 1883, she moved to Chicago and Novemberll, 1886, married John L. Hagins and continuing to make Chicago their home until October, 1893, when they moved to Minneapolis, going from there to Kansas City, Mo., May, 1902, and later moved to Rensselaer, July, 1905, where they have made their home, Mr. Hagins having been retired by the Pullman company. Mrs. Hagins had always been a very ambitious woman in ~her sire to live the golden rule. She was never affiliated with any chfirch, her earlier years. She always loved the beautiful and refined things of this life arid always was thoughtful of those about her and was a most loving mother and wife. Of her immediate family, her husband, J. L. Hagins, her daughter, Mrs. Ed W. Irwin, and sister, Mrs. Jennie Graham, of Wolcott, are all that are -left.n. : r ' : V"