Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1920 — AN OLD CITIZEN OF GOODLAND [ARTICLE]

AN OLD CITIZEN OF GOODLAND

J. A. Wickersham, Civil War Veteran, Buried There Last Week. J. A. Wickersham, on old soldier <md for many years a well-known resident of Goodiand, was burled at the latter place on Monday of last week. His age was 78 years. Mr. Wickersham .died In Chicago, where he had resided temporarily for the past few years. He leaves a wife by hie second marriage who was a daughter of Blake Wilson, deceased, a pioneer resident and stock buyer of Goodland, and one sod each by hU first and second marriages. His first wife, to whom he was married in November, 1875, was Sadie A. Crouch, a daughter of J. C. Crouch of Medaryville, she eking a f®* years later. The son born of this ( Harley Emmett Wickersham, resides at De Furlak Springs, Fla. The son his second marriage, Wilson Blake Wickersham, resides in Chicago.