Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1920 — Obituary [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Obituary

Olive Marie Butler Ollie Marie, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gus Butler of Fowler, was born Meh. 25, 1916, and died April 28, 1920, at the age of 4 years, 1 month and 3 days. She was a loving child and little sister to all who knew her. She took sick April 1 with scarlet fever, and was a patient sufferer all her sickness till the death angel came and took her little life awiay. The funeral was held Friday, April 30, and burial made in the Cathdlic • cemetery at Remington. May God bless her. Olive, dear, from us you have gone. A voice We loved is stilled. Your place is vacant in our home, Which never can be filled. Rest in peace. / ** Card of Thanks We wish to thank all those for their kindness and sympathy shown । to us during the sickness and death

of our loving child and sister. —MR. AND MRS. GUS BUTLER AND CHILDREN. •' John Theron Sayler son of Micah and Hannah Sayler, was born April 16, 1850, on a farm near Rensselaer, Jasper county, Ind., where he grew to manhood and was united in marriage to Marllla Jane Coen, daughter of John and Sarah Coen, July 16, 1874. To this union five children were born, three daughters and two sons, one of the latter, Perle Thomas, dying in infancy. The remaining four are all living and married, namely: Mrs. Mabel Daley of Detroit, Mich.; Mrs. Bessie Hershman of Brook; Mrs. Grace Deffenbacher and Burton O. Sayler oi Chewelah, Wash. He united, with the church in early manhood and was an earnest Christian worker all his life. He took an active part in all social affairs that were for the betterment of the community in which he lived. His old friends will remember him as an enthusiastic Sunday school superintendent of the Saylerville Sunday school, over which he presided for a number of years. He was a member and loyal supporter of the Iroquois lodge of Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Rensselaer, having served as Noble Grand and held other offices of trust in the lodge. He was also a member of the Camp at that place. In 1900 he sold his farm near Rensselaer and removed to one he purchased near Monticello, where he resided until 1906, when with his wife and two children, Burton and Grace, he removed to the state or Washington where he made many friends and held different offices, political and social. He served on the school board of his own district and on the city school beard of Chewelah, Wash. He was a devoted husband, a most sympathetic and indulgent father, generous and always happy in an act of service to a friend and neighbor. In the early spring of 1920 his health failed and after a short Illness he passed away on April 15, 1920, one day before his 70th birthday anniversary. He leaves to mourn his departure four children, eight grandchildren, one sister, Mrs. Letitia Benjamin, of Pamono, Calif.; one brother. Thomas J. Sayler, of Lamar, Colo., besides many more distant realtivos and friends. The funeral was held at the home of his daughter. Mrs Bessie Hershman, at Brook, Rev. Wilson of the Methodist Episcopal church officiating and burial was made in the Brook cemetery. Ones who attended the funeral from away were: his wife and his son, B. O. Sayler; his brother, Thomas J. Sayler; Mr. and Mrs. Daley of Detroit, Mrs. Beai of Monticello, George Ferguson of Wheatfield and many friends and relatives from Rensselaer.