Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1919 — AN OLD RESIDENT IS CALLED [ARTICLE]

AN OLD RESIDENT IS CALLED

Mrs. Elizabeth Saylor Buried Here Last Sunday. I - Mrs. Elizabeth Saylor, widow of the late Lewis Saylor, died at the home of her son, Lawrence, at Wheatfield* Friday forenoon, aged 79 years. The funeral was held at 11 o’clock Sunday at Wheatfield and the body brought to Rensselaer and burial made in Weston cemetery—beside her husband, who died some years ago. Mrs. Saylor had been in poor halth for some little time before her death. z Deceased was one of the old residents of Jasper county, having come here with her parents, Stephen and Hannah Yeoman, from Fayette county, Ohio,' in June, 1844, the family settling on a farm near Rensselaer. She had since been a continuous resident of Jasper county. She was one of ten children born to Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Yeoman —Joseph, 'Sarah, Elvira, James, Mary/ Minerva, Elizabeth, John, Ira W., and Stephen—all of whom have now been gathered to their fathers except Stephen, who resides at Elwood, Nebraska. She leaws nine children —Ira "of Valparaiso; L. N., of Kniman; Mrs. Mary Dewies of Medaryville; J. 8., of North Dakota; Mrs. Flora Bailey of (Hanging Grove; Mrs. Cora Kessinger of Spokane, Wash.; Mrs. Lillie St. Peter of near Hammond, and Lawrence and Claude of Wheatfield.