Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1920 — DEATH CAME TO OLD SOLDIER [ARTICLE]

DEATH CAME TO OLD SOLDIER

JACOB R. WILCOX PASSES AWAY THIS MORNING AT ADVANCED AGE. Jacob R. Wilcoi, for -sixty-five years a resident of Jasper County, and a veteran of the civil war, passed away at his home on N. Weston street at eight o’clock this Tuesday m'orning after an illness of many months. Mr. Wilcox' was born in Ohio in the year 1840 and when a lad of fifteen years of age came to this county with his family to make 'his home, locating in Union township where he continued to reside until a number of years ago when he gave up his active duties and came to this city to reside. 'Mr. Wilcox served throughout the civil war and was a member of the 48th Indiana Volunteers. ,-The deceased was a member of thA Methodist church, having' accepted that faith when a young man. ' He is survived by ibis wife and one son, Elmer J. Wilcox, of Cincinnati, 0., two brothers and two - - Services will be held at (2:30 o’clock Thursday afternoon and burid! will foe Ynade in Weston cemetery.