Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1908 — MEXICAN WAR VETERAN DEAD. [ARTICLE]

MEXICAN WAR VETERAN DEAD.

Last Survivor in Hamilton County Stricken at Age of Eighty-One. Noblesville, Ind., December I. John Hendrin, age eighty-one, the last Mexican war veteran in this county, dropped dead last night of heart trouble. He served through the Mexican and civil wars and was captured by the Confederates and imprison-

ed at Andersonville. He and three

companions tunneled under the stockade and succeeded in making their 'escape. After roaming about in the woods of Georgia for three weeks they reached the Union lines. Mr. Hendrin was the father of a large family of boys, most of whom survive him.