Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1918 — COLONEL R. P. DEHART DEAD [ARTICLE]

COLONEL R. P. DEHART DEAD

Colonel Richard P. DeHart, an old and Well-known resident and former jurist of Lafayette, died at his home Jij that city Wednesdayevening. Col. DeHart was born in Warren county, Ohio, January 1, 1832, and was therefore more than eighty-six years of age at the time of his death. He came to Indiana in 1855 and most of his life had been- spent in Tippecanoe county. He is survived by a wife and four children. The children are Horace P. DeHart of Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Jessie F. Cheek of Cameguay, Cuba; Mrs. C. A. Kurz of Dayton, Ohio, and H. T. DeHart of Lafayette. Col. DeHart was well known to many of the older people of Rensselaer and Jasper county and some few years ago he delivered a Fourth of July address here. He served in the civil war ki the 99th Indiana and also in the 128th Indiana. He enlisted in 1801 as a private and in 1 862 was made lieutenant-colonel of the 99th regiment, and later was detailed by the war department on recruiting service in Indiana. In 1864 he w-as commissioned colonel of the 128th Indiana infantry and Was seriously wounded in the battle of Lost Mountain.