Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1906 — OBITUARY. [ARTICLE]

OBITUARY.

Ida Body Shesler, wife of Wm. R. Shesler, died at her home two and a half ' miles east of Rensselaer, Monday night | at 9 o’clock, after being ill a long time with creeping paralysis. Brief funeral services were conducted at the family residence Tuesday after noon, after which the remains were taken to Woodland, 111., for burial. Funeral services were held thereat 2:30 Wednesday afternoon by Rev. Kindig, of Rensselaer. Jda Body Shesler was born February 11,1865, in Belmont township, Iroquois county, 111., and died July 9, 1916, aged 41 years, 4 months and 28 days. She was married to Wm. R. Shesler September 15, 1885. To this union was born two children, Ina W. and John T„ who with her husband, survive. She also leaves an aged father and three brothers— Leonard, William and John I Body, Jr. She, with her husband, united with the United Brethren church in the winter of 1893 in Illinois. But since removing to Indiana they united with the M. E. church in Rensselaer. In the spring of 1902 the family came to this community.