Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1914 — JOSEPH HIXON DEAD. [ARTICLE]

JOSEPH HIXON DEAD.

Prominent Resident of North Jasper Dies at Home of Daughter in • < Lochiel. Joseph A. Hixon, a prominent resident of Kankakee ip., who has been in a critical condition of health for a long time, died of paralysis at the home of his daughter, Mrs. F. Guy Barnard, in Lochiel, Benton county, Monday, aged 78 years. Funeral was held Wednesday and burial made at Fowler, his former home, W ednesday. He had been bedfast since last May. Mr. Hixon was postmaster at Fowler under the Cleveland administration, and was one of the pioneers of Benton county, where he resided for many years. He had resided in Jasper county for the past fifteen years or more, and was a highly respected gentleman. His aged wife survives him.