Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1912 — DEATH OF ELIAS STRONG. [ARTICLE]

DEATH OF ELIAS STRONG.

Former Well Known Resident of Jasper County Dies At Los Angeles, Cali. ' Lucius Strong received a telegram Tuesday afternoon from his niece, Miss Nellie Baker of Los Angeles, Cali., stating her uncle, Elias Strong, had passed peacefully away at 10:30 o’clock that morning at Glendale Sanitarium, near Los Angeles. He had recently passed through an operation for lung trouble and seemingly came out of it alright. He had been taken to the sanitarium to recuperate his health and was improving as fast as could be expected, when he was suddenly taken with the grip, which caused his death. \ Mr. Strong was born in Marion County, Ohio, in March 1832, and came to Jasper county with" his parents fn- 1857, and the family settled on what is now know as the Matheson farm just northwest of the city, He had , never married. He resided in Jasper county until some twenty years ago when he went to Los Angeles, and has since resided at or near that city. He was a very highly respected man and had many friends among the older residents of Rensselaer who will be sorry to learn of his death.

He leaves a younger brother, Lucuis Strong, of Rensselaer, and one sister, Mrs. Harrison P. Baker, of Onargo, 111. An older brother died many years ago. The funeral and burial took place at Loa Angeles.