Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1908 — SAMUEL BABB DIES. [ARTICLE]

SAMUEL BABB DIES.

Former Rensselaer Citizen Died at Monticello Last Thursday. p-Edward Babb of Rensselaer went Io Monticello Saturday to attend the funeral of his brother Samuel Babb, who died at that 'place last Thursday. He vms t,he only brother Ed had left-'fahe White County Democrat says ft him: “Samuel Babb, a well known resident of Monticello for almost a third of a century, died at his home' on North Railroad. street Thursday afternoon from the effects of a rupture sustained just a week before. The injury was received while mixing mortar for plastering at the new Trust bank building. It was not thought serious at the time but soon developed Into a severe case of strangulated hernia. A surgical operation performed by Drs. Coffin, Goodwin and Robinson failed to give relief and death resulted after great suffering. “Samuel Babb was one of the most familiar figures about Monticello, where he had Bved for so many years, and he was always a hard worker, and scarcely a new building went up in town in the past twenty-eight years that he was not engaged in Us capacity of mortar mixer.. *

*He was born Nov. 21, 1842, at the village of Romney in Tippecanoe county and was just a few days past 66 years old. He enlisted in Co. K„ 48th Jnd. Reg., in Is6l, and served till the end of the war, 4 years and 5 months. Jan. 24, 1869, he was married to Catherine Giver, in Rensselaer and for the nejrt eleven years he lived In Rensselaer, Remington, Wolcott and Rynolds, locating In Monticello in 1880. He leaves a widow and nine children and four grandchildren. "The funeral will be held Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. Services at the house and interment in Monticello cemetery under the auspices of Tippecanoe Post G. A. R. of which he had long been a member.’*