Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1911 — JOHN H. WOOD DEAD. [ARTICLE]

JOHN H. WOOD DEAD.

Former Rensselaer .Business .Man Dies In Miami, Florida. H. Wood, an old-time resident and hardware dealer of Rensselaer, died at Miami, Fla., where with his wife he was spending the winter, ' last Friday' night of apoplexy, aged 71 years, Deceased was a brother of Mrs. J. M. Wasson of Rensselaer, and had one son buried here. He was a resident of Lafayette at the time of his death but with his wife was spending the winter in Florida) Mr. Wasson went to Cincinnan Monday to meet the ’funeral party, and the remains were brought here for burial yesterday. At this writing the arrangements for the funeral have not been fully completed, 4owing to the fact .that Mr. Wood’s two children. Chase Wood, and Mrs. Minnie Carper, residing in Thermal, Calif., 'will probably not reach here until some time to-day. The funeral

will be held to-morrow at 10 a. m., from the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Wasson. ' Mr. Wood leaves a widows—his second wife—and one sister, Mrs. Wasson of Rensselaer, and two brothers, one of Pulaskiville, Ind., who was also spending, the winter in Florida but several hundred miles from Miami. The other brother resides at Terre Haute. He had but tw’o children living.