Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1910 — OBITUARY. [ARTICLE]

OBITUARY.

JJ. M. Ott was in Rensselaer Monday.. ", \ / - > Rain is badly 'needed in - this vicinity. Clyde Reeve and family visited his parents in Rensselaer Sunday. C. W, Littlefield, visited the family of his brother Neen in Rensselaer Sunday. • • ; Mrs Esau Hart, who has been in poor health for a long time, died Thursday afternoon, aged 77 years>. The democrats of Remington and Carpenter township, should not forget the democratic primaries next Saturday to select delegatees to the county convention. < Gilbert Goff of Goodland, aged 82, ‘died at his home in Goodland last Tuesday and the remains were taken to his old home .in Ottawa, 111., for burial. Ms. Goff was a son-in-law of "Doc’ Nichols, the well known Goodland hotel man, James Pitigan (colored) for more than forty years a resident of Goodland, where most of this time he run a barber shop, died March 30 inChicago, and his remafhs were brought back to Goodland for burial. “Jim” was an old-time southern darkey, and was born at Danville, Ky., in 1836, a slave. He came to Goodland in 1868, wheie he had since resided until the past year or two, which he spent in Chicago with his daughter, Mrs Maude Smith

E r enstena Barren felt was) born in Germany, Dec. 30, 1833, and departed this life April 8, 1910, aged 76 years, 3 months and 8 days. In 1868 she, together with her husband and three children, came to Indiana, locating near Lacrosse. In 1887 the family moved to the farm where occurred her death in Walker tp , Jasper county. From early childhold she had been a consistent member of the Evangelical church. For the past 15 years she had been afflicted with dropsy, but she bore her affliction with Christian fortitude. She has endeared herself to family and friends by her kindly disposition and self-sacricing spirit. She was married to Willis Rinehart, Sept. 18, 1862. To thio union was bbrn seven children, Amelia Rodkey, of Valparaiso, Ind ; Charlie, who remains at home; Frank (single) and Mrs. Ida Brown of Valparaiso; William (married) resides on a farm 1% nfiles south of the old homestead; two children, Augusta and Lena died in childhood. The funeral services were conducted Sunday at 10:30 o’clock at the home by Rev. C. E. Downey of Wheatfield, burial serices in charge of A. S. Keen of Wheatfield. xx