Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 312, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1919 — DEATH CLAIMS AN OLD RESIDENT [ARTICLE]

DEATH CLAIMS AN OLD RESIDENT

ONE OF JASPER COUNTY’S EARLY PIONEERS DIES AT HOSPITAL. Death came to Malachi Prevo Comer at the. hospital in this city Monday evening at 6:45 o’clock. ' Mr‘. Comer had been sick for •some time and notice of his critical condition appeared in the Republi|'can.( The deceased was one of the i’early pioneers of Jasper county and 'was bom in Barkley township Aug. 30, 1841. His entire life, with the exception of one or two years which he spent in Carroll county, was lived in Jasper county. He was married to Mary Jane l' Taulman, who preceded him in I'death, having passed to the Great September 19, 1918. He is 'survived by three sons and one 'daughter, James Comer, of Hammond, Mrs. Joseph Norman, Victor ■Comer and John Comer, of this 1 county. i i 1 He was a man of sterling char'acter and for many years'*was a ii justice of the peace in Barkley j 1 township. Funeral services will be held at •the Aix church Wednesday after'noon at 1 o’clock and will be in charge of the Rev. W. T. Barbre, ‘pastor of the Christian church of •this city.