Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1910 — DIES PENNILESS. [ARTICLE]

DIES PENNILESS.

Oliver P. Warren, Friendless and Alone, Buried In Potter’s Field. Marion, Ind., Dec. s.—Once wealthy and influential, Oliver P. Warren, age seventy, died at the Grant county poor farm and his body was buried yesterday in the potter’s field. Twenty years ago Warren was prominent farmer near Ora, Pulaski county, and was worth from $30,000 to $40,000. He had served as county commissioner, and a bridge over the Tippecanoe river near his former home, is still known as the Warren bridge. This is his only monument. When fifty years old Warren, lathen twice a 'widower, married a girl of sixteen. The union was unhappy and in obtaining a divorce the young wife received $3,000 alimony. He then traded his farm for a lumber yard in Gas City, and moved to that place. The lumber yard was traded for incumbered Gas City real estate, and his ventures turned out disastrously and his property finally slipped away f<om him. Over a year ago he gave up the struggle and went to the county poor farm. It is said that Warren had a daughter by his first marriage but she could not be found and his burial was at the county’s expense.