Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1911 — OBITUARY. [ARTICLE]

OBITUARY.

Catherine Lecklider Laßue was born at West Point, Ind., August 10, 1834, and died at Rensselaer, Ind., June 16, 1911, aged 76 years, 10 months and 6 days. She was one of four children born to Lewis and Sarah Lecklider. About the year 1844 she came to Jasper county, where she has lived ever since, excepting fourteen months spent in Fairbury, 111. September 8, 1853, she was married to John Wesley Laßue. To this union seven children were born, five of whom died in infancy, and only two yet survive. Since the death of her husband, which occurred on February 16, 1879, she has made her home with her son, A. S. Laßue. In the year -1857 she united with the Baptist church. Eight years later,she withdrew from the Baptist church and joined the Church of God, and at the time of her death she had been a member of this church for 46 years. She . leaves to mourn her departure two sons, Amzi S. and Samuel M.. both of Rensselaer, four grandchildren, Frank Wade, Belle, Emmet M. and Ray S., all of Rensselaer; one sister, Mrs. Angeline Abbott, also of Rensselaer, and other more distai. relatives and a host of friends. xx