Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1904 — OBITUARY. [ARTICLE]

OBITUARY.

B. W. Harrington, who died at his home near Demotte June 21, 1904, was born in Muskingum Co., Ohio, June 21, 1835, making him, at the date of his death, 60 years old. He leaves to mourn his loss four children, one sister and one brother. He came to Jasper Co., in June, 1855, which has ever since been his home. He was married Nov. 28, 1858, to Susana Burgett. a (laughter of George Burgett, who was one of the very earliest pioneers of Jasper county. He settled with his father on a tract of land adjoining the little village of Virgie. This part of our county was at that time a part of Walker township, but after the organization of Keener it was embraced by that township. Later on it became and still is a part of Union township. He was one among the first to hold the office of township trustee in Keener township, and at one time was the candidate of his party for county commissioner from the Ist district, and although the county went overwhelmingly republican he was beaten by i. D. Dunn by only seven votes. He was kind in disposition, generous to a fault, honest, careful, and discreet; and as far as the writer knows was without an enemy in all the wide world. He made no pretensions, but simply lived a life that was a poem of grandeur and beauty. Interment was made in the Prater cemetery the following Thursday, in the presence of a large concourse of his' friends and neighbors who had known and loved him so long. One counter full Ladies’ Black and Misses Tan Oxfords, only 50c per pair, was $1.50 to $2.00 a pair, at Chicago Bargain Store.