Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1916 — MRS. VIRGINIA HALSTEAD DEAD [ARTICLE]

MRS. VIRGINIA HALSTEAD DEAD

Aged Resident of Newton Township Passes Away After Long Illness. Mrs. Virginia Halstead, who had been in failing health for a long time, died at the Halstead home in Newton tp. at 9:10 o’clock Tuesday night from cancer of the breast. The funeral, which was in pharge of Undertakers Calkins & Worland, was held from the Church’ of God at 2:30 o’clock Thursday; afternoon, conducted by Rev. S> J. Lindsay of Oregon, 111., and burial made in Weston cemetery. Mrs. Halstead’s maiden name was Harris, and she was a sister of Benjamin and Henry O. Harris of Rensselaer. She was born in Tippecanoe county, Indiana, February 19, 1836, and came to Jasper county in 1851. She was married to Micah B. Halstead in 1857, at Brook, Ind., and they went to housekeeping on what was known as Beaver prairie then in Jasper county. In 1865 Mr. Halstead bought the old Spitler farm in Newton tp. and they moved thereon and it had since been her home. Eight sons were born to this union of whom six survive her. They are Orpheus C., David L., Everett and Chester of Newton tp., Sanford of Worland, Wyo., and Rankin of McCleod, Miss. Edward M. died in 1885 in South Dakota and William died on Thursday of last week at the family home in Newton tp., as the result of fatal injuries the same day in a runaway accident, mention of which was made in Saturday's Democrat Mrs. Halstead was lying at the point of death when William was killed and she died without having been told of his death. Her husband died April 27, 1902, at the age cf 70. years.