Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1918 — MISS LYDIA DWIGGINS DEAD [ARTICLE]

MISS LYDIA DWIGGINS DEAD

Former Rensselaer School Teacher to Be Buried Here Today. A. F. Long has received a telegram from Marion, Indiana, stating that Miss Lydia Dwiggins, a former resident of Rensselaer and for a great many years engaged in school teaching, had died at the former place Thursday at 11 a. m., and that the body would be brought to Rensselaer this Saturday afternoon on the 2:51 train, for burial in Weston cemetery. The body will be taken direct to the cemetery from the train, where short services will be held. Miss Dwiggins was perhaps sixtyfive or seventy years of age, and had been engaged in teaching practically all her life. She taught in the Rensselaer schools many years ago and had since taught at various places, including Marion. She was well known to many o>f the older residents of this city.