Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1920 — OBITUARY. [ARTICLE]

OBITUARY.

John Theron Sailer, son of Micah and Hannah was born April 16, 1850, on a fatm, near Rensselaer Jasper county, Iwafana, where he grew to manhood And was married to Marilla June Coen, daughter of John and Sarah Coen, July 16, 16*74. To this union five children were born, three daughters and two sons. One of the latter, Perle Thomas, dying in infancy. The remaining four are all living and married, namely, Mrs. Mabel Daley of Detroit, Mich.; Mrs. Bessie Hershman of Brook, Ind.; Mrs. Grdce Deffenbacher and Burton O. Saylor, of Chewalah, Washington. He united with. the church in early boyhood and,< was an earnest Christian worker all his life. He took an actiye part in all social affairs that Were for the betterment of the community in which he lived. His oM friends Will remember him as an enthusiastic Sunday school superintendent of the Saylerville Sunday school over which he presided for a number of years. He was a member and loyal supporter of the Iroquois lodge of Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Rensselaer, Ind., having served, as noble grand and held other offices of trust in the lodge. He was also a member of the Camp at that place. In 1909 he sold his farm near Rensselaer and; moyed to one purchased near Monticello, Ind., where he resided until - 1966 when, with his wife and two children, Burton and Grace, he removed to the state of Washington, where he made many friends and held different offices, political and social. He served on the school board of his own< district and on the .city school board of Chewelah, Wash. He was a devoted husband, a most sympathetic apd indulgent father, generous and always happy in an act of service to a friend and neighbor. In the early Spring of 1920 his health failed and after a short illness he passed away on April 15, 1920, one day before his seventieth birthday. He leaves to mourn his departure a wife, four children, eight grandchildren, one 'sisrter,Mrs. Letitia Benjamin, of PomoA Calif., one brother, Thomas J. Sayler, of Lamar, Colorado, beside many more distant relatives and friends. Funeral services were conducted from the residence of his daughter, Mrs. R. E. Hershman, of Brook, Ind., by Rev. J. J._ Nelson, of the M. E. church of that place.