Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1912 — OLD CITIZEN FOUND DEAD. [ARTICLE]

OLD CITIZEN FOUND DEAD.

illiani E. Moore Dies Suddenly at His Home Sunday Morning William E. Moore, one of Rensselaer’s oldest and most highly respected citizens, was found dal oh the door of his bedroom at his home oh North Van Renss-ePer street at about 7 o'clock Suh-lay morning. When found the body was still warm and it was thought he had been dead but a short time In the: house a* the time were his housekeeper. Miss Alma Stiers, and Miss Nellie Feish, deputy in :h<_ county audFer’s office, who loarded at the Moore home. Neither of the women heard Mr. Moore during the night an I it is suppo-et’ ■ie got up some time early in the morning to go to -he bath room v><! was suddenly s ricken with heart disease and fed to the floor dead- ■. The funeral was held yesterday at 3 p. m - from the M. E. church, conducted by Rev. Drake of Winamac, a former pastor of the church here, and burial made in Weston cemetery.' ' Mr. Moore was born Jan 8, 1827. in Randolph county, Ina., and had lived in Jasper county for almost €0 years, where he hadi accumulated an estate of over $150,000* most of which he recently divided among his children, as he had been quite feeble for the past. few years and realized that he had not long to remain on earth. Hi.-' wife died about ten years ago. He leaves six children—Mrs. II.: E. Parkinson and Austin O. Moore • of Jasper county; Mrs. O. G. Yeoman and Mrs. Isaac Morgan of Kingman. Kan.; William Moore of: Gowrie. Iowa; and Mrs. J. C. Pax-' ton of South Bend. Also two brothers and one sister—Dr. S. H. Moore of Rensselaer;, Cyrus Moore of Winchester, Ind., and Mrs. Rebecca McProud of Farmland, Ind.

Ail the children were expected to be present at the funeral except Mrs. Morgan, whose is poor and was unable to come. "'Squire” Moore wah an ardent democrat, a man of more than ordinary intelligence, of strict integrity and a believer in the Golden Rule, and the world is better for his having lived. A true Christian man and a prominent member of the Methodist church, Mr. * Moore lived an honest and upright life and he leaves behind him in addition to the worldly goods which by honest dealing and thrift he had accumulated, a still greater heritage, an honored name.