Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1912 — Hid Money for Burial. [ARTICLE]

Hid Money for Burial.

Rensselaer, May 17.—Samuel Boyd, a native of northern Ireland, and for the last ten years an inmate of the county infirmary, died. He said he was I®9 years old. Boyd tried to enlist when Lincoln made his first call for troops, but was not accepted on account of his age. He was a bachelor and had lived in Jasper county about 40 years. At one time he owned a small farm, but signed notes of persons who won his confidence and finally lost "his farm. The day before he died he called the county infirmary superintendent to his bedside and told him of five different places where he had money concealed. The superintendent went to each place and found smaL bags containing coin, which aggregated $33.27. The old man asked that it be used to bury him, as he had a dread of being buried at the county’s exp-ense