Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1916 — H. GRIFFIN DEAD AT LAPORTE [ARTICLE]

H. GRIFFIN DEAD AT LAPORTE

Body of Former Jasper County Resident Brought Here to Bury. Howard Griffin, aged about 36 years, and until recently a resident of near Gifford, died at Laporte at 11 o’clock Wednesday night from tuberculosis, from which,' he had been a sufferer for the past year or more. Deceased had moved to Laporte about two months ago. He leaves a wifq and three children. The body was brought to Rensselaer on one of the afternoon trains from the south yesterday and taken to the Smith cemetery in Barkley township, where burial was made. Deceased was a brother of Mel Griffin _ of just south of Rensselaer. »’