Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1914 — Last Member of Group Gone. [ARTICLE]

Last Member of Group Gone.

The recent death of John Coen, removes the last member of a group of twenty-three early settlers of Rensselaer and Jasper county, whose photograph was taken at the home of W. W. Wishard in 1898. In this group at that time were: Jarard Benjamin, Rev. D. T. Halstead, David Nowels, Wesley Hinkle, John Makeever, Clinton Hopkins, Henry Bruce, Henry Babb, William Wishard, Henry Smith, Simon Phillips, Sylvester O’Mera, John Coen, HenrjFisher, James Leatherman, Reece Goddard, Samuel Parker, William Robinson, Isaac Sayler, Joseph Callow, Micah Sayler, Sidnial King and William Cotton. All were old men at that time, and none of them, we believe, died much under 80 years of age.