Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 283, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1920 — OBITUARY. [ARTICLE]

OBITUARY.

Ward Beecher Peterson was born in Tippecanoe county, Indiana, November 21, 1869, and died after> a few days’ illness on November 17, 19,20. - " He came to Renaelaer about thirty years ago and followed the profession of painting aU these years. In August, 1895, he was united in marriage with May Kelley and became the father of two sons, John, L. and Ward Cliffton, who, with one sister, * Mrs. W. S. Richards, of Akron, 0., and a half-sister, Mrs. Pearl Root, survive him, his wife having died in 1904. . The funeral was held on Saturday afternoon, November 20, from the late residence.-services being conducted by RevTE. W. Strecker, pastor of the Methodist church, and burial made in Weston cemetery.