Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1904 — DEATH OF BLANCHE ANTRIM. [ARTICLE]

DEATH OF BLANCHE ANTRIM.

5 Miss Blanche Antrim, mention of whose fatal illness was made in these columns last week, died at the home of her aunt, Mrs. Jesse Ball, Saturday morning at 5 o’clock. Deceased was a daughter of George B. snd Viola Antrim, and was born in Keener township, Oct. 31, 1883. Her mother died of consumption several years ago, and her father remarried, the second wife also dying, and the father is now supposed to be some place in Dakota, the precise location, we understand, not being known. Blanche looked after a brother and two half-brothers, to whom she took the place of a mother, and for whom she secured good homes when she realized that death was near. She taught school up to Christmas, but was first taken with the dread disease in September. Unlike most persons stricken with consumption, she felt that she was going to die from the first, and made all preparations, even to procuring her shroud. She was engaged to be married, it is understood, to Wm. Burns, formerly of Union tp., but now of South Bend, who was also present at the funeral. Deceased was a beautiful girl both in face and nature, and it seems doubly sad that she should be taken so early in life. The fqneral was held Sunday, from the U. B. church at Aix, Rev. J. M. Elam conducting the services, and interment made in the Prater cemetery. The funeral was very largely attended.