Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1920 — OBITUARY. [ARTICLE]

OBITUARY.

Matilda J. Hemphill, daughter of Benega and Mary Baker, was born in Crawford county, Ohio, Nov. 24, 1843, and died at Rensselaer, Indiana, March 15, 1920, Wt the age of 76 years, 3 months and 20 days. In the year 1850 she came with her father's family to Jasper Go., Indiana, and settled on a farm two miles north of Rensselaer, where she grew to womanhood. November 8, 1866, she was united in marriage to Marcus Hemphill at Rensselaer, Indiana. To them were born four children, three daughters and one son, all but one of whom still survive. Miss Minnie G., a daughter of 16, died February 4, 1890. „ The surviving children are, MrsLuella Hoyes, wife of John Hoyes; Mrs. Maude E. Alter, wife of B. Frank ,Alter; and Charles Hemphill, all of Jasper county, Indiana. Of her own brothers and sisters, one brother alone survives, John Baker, of Mt. Ayr, Indiana. After the death of her husband, July 7, 1908, most of the time she has made her home* with her daughter, Mrs. B. Frank Alter. In 1890 she united with the Vaughn Free WiH Baptist djurch under the ministry of Bev.. B. F. Ferguson, and remained faithful until the end.