Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1918 — Obituary [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Obituary

Judson Ross Michal, the fifth ant youngest son of Robert and Anna Michal, was born in Jordan township, Jasper County, Indiana, August 8, 1897, and died at the home of his parents in Reynolds, Indiana, i May 9, 1918, being twenty years, I nine months arid one day old at the ; time of his death. The deceased had lived in and near Rensselaer all his life, and is generally known f throughout that His parents moved from that community to Reynolds last autumn, since, which time the deceased has made ■ occasional visits at Reynolds. The deceased was converted and united 1 with the Methodist Episcopal church ' when he was a small boy. A few I days after coming home this last time, when it seemed to those who attended him that he could not get | weH, he told his mother that he | had great faith in God, that he had been praying all night, and felt that his sins were all forgiven, that if this should be “his call’’ he was ready to go. Two brothers, one of whom was Jud’s age when he died, have preceded him in death. This leaves to mourn their loss, the father, the mother, two brothers, other more distant relatives and a host of friendsss.. The love and sympathy of the community are ex-

tended to his bereaved family at thia their third journey into the Valley of the Shadow. May God comfort them in their sorrow and lead them on to a happy reunion in the Land where there is no Shadow. Funeral services were held at his. late home in Reynolds, Saturday, May 11, 1918. Internieht in Egypt cemetery.