Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1918 — ANOTHER OLD RESIDENT DIES [ARTICLE]

ANOTHER OLD RESIDENT DIES

Mrs. Maria Hopkins Dies After Extended Illness. Mrs. Maria Hopkins, who had been in poor health for nearly a year past and for several weeks had been in a crititeal condition, passed i away at the home of her son, George W. Hopkins, on Park avenue at about 7 o’clock Tuesday * evening, aged about 76 years. , Mrs. Hopkins, whose maiden name was Maria Howe, was born near Akron, Ohio, December 14, 1842. She was married to Joseph M. Hopkins October 15, 1863, in Ohio, and they caime to Rensselaer ( which place had since been her home. Her husband was engaged in the furniture and undertaking business here for a number of years. He was a soldier in the Civil war and died some twenty-eight years ago. Mrs. Hopkins is survived by two sons and three daughters—Arthur Hopkins of Holdridge, Nebraska; George W. Hopkins, Mrs. C. W. Hanley and Mrs. Ed Reewes of i Rensselaer, and Mrs. FranX W. Hardy of Oklahoma City, Okla. Arthur arrived Wednesday night, but Mrs. Hardy will probably not be here for the funeral on account of sickness in their family. | On account of the ban on public i funerals, brief services were held at Weston cemetery yesterday afternoon at 4 o’clock where burial i was made.