Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1909 — WOUND 46 YEARS OLD FATAL [ARTICLE]

WOUND 46 YEARS OLD FATAL

Veteran Hurt During Morgan’s Raid Finally Succumbs. Salem. Ind., July 23.—Henry Hoar, sixty-five years old, a retired farmer of Washington county, died at his son’s residence from the effects of a wound he received on July 10. 1863, while "Raider" Morgan, with 5,000 armed men was attacking Salem. Hoar was making his escape from Salem on horseback, and before he had traveled half a mile was shot through the body with a rifle.