Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1917 — ILLINOIS CITIZEN DIED HERE [ARTICLE]

ILLINOIS CITIZEN DIED HERE

Body of L. B. Knickerbocker Taken to Kankakee Saturday. Lester B. Knickerbocker of Kankakee, Illinois, father of Ross Knickerbocker, an employee at the Columbia furniture factory, died at the home of the latter in this city early Saturday morning. Mr. Knickerbocker suffered a stroke of paralysis in September of this year, and three weeks ago he and his wife * came here that he might receive treatment and also be with their eon. The body was taken to Kankakee Saturday afternoon and burial was made at the former home of the family at Herscher yesterday.