Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1912 — Rev. Edward Baech Dead. [ARTICLE]

Rev. Edward Baech Dead.

Earley this morning Rev. Mr. Baech who has been pastor of the Presbyterian church here since 1903, passed q lietiy away. For over a week his death had been anticipated, consequent upon the malignant disease from which he suffered since last fall. He has borne his illness, and looked forward into his death with wonderful fortitude and Christian patience, dying as be had lived in simple and splendid faith of the Lord he so faithfully preached. He was until midnight keenly conscious of all that was passing about him and talked calmly of the end, until he passed away about half past three. The funeral services took place at 2 o’cflock Monday afternoon at the Presbyterian church. The interment will be made in Weston cemetery at Rensselaer Tuesday. Edward Baech was born in Vincennes, February 7, 1863, of foreign parentage. His mother was a pure Germain, and his father half French, decended on his father’s side of Huguenot ancestry. His father was an accomplished musican and taught in that brandh in the Military Academy at West Point from 1850 to 1851. 1

i Both of his parents died when Mr. Baech was a ctiild, he was ' brought up by Mrs. Emily Simpson, a noble Christian woman, living on ; a farm near Vencennes. He studied at the Vincennes University, the Indiana University and Hanover college, there he graduated In 1890. i Three years Later he graduated . from the McCormick Theoligical Seminary and entered the ministry Jin the Presbyterian church. After a year’s pastorate at Rensselaer he

served as associate pastor of the second church in Indianapolis from 1895 to 1-898 and then at Matoon and Arcola, I’.Q. In 1903 he was called to the Presbyterian church in this city and with what fidelity he has shown in thiis charge is known of all menu—Saturday’s Delphi Journal. <