Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1920 — DEATH ANGEL WON THE RACE [ARTICLE]

DEATH ANGEL WON THE RACE

Judson Maines Dies in New York, Foliowinfl Recent Operation. Judson E. Maines of Friendship, N. Y., a former well known citizen and business man of Rensselaer and a son of Mrs. Susan E. Maines of this city, died at 10? 45 o’clock Friday night in a hospital at Olean, N. Y., where he had recently undergone an operation for a serious case of appendicitis. The body was brought to Rensselaer Sunday and taken to the home of his mother on Weston street and the funeral was held Monday afternoon at 2:30 from the Maines home, services being conducted by Rev. G. H. Clarke of Franklin, a former pastor of the Christian church here, and burial made in Weston cemetery. Mr. Maines was born at Ottawa, 111., Meh. 15, 1872, and came to this county with his parents in 1900 and replied on the farm north of town Tnow owned by Ed Ranton* which Mr. Maines, Sr., had purchased. In 1908 he purchased an interest in a feed and implement business here, but in 1911 sold his interest to Conrad Kellner and with his family moved to Montana where they lived on a ranch until last year, when he sold out aqd purchased a farm in New York state. Deceased is survived by a wife and five children, three daughters and two sons, ranging in age from 2 to 12 years; his mother; two sisters, Miss Eva Maines of this city and Mrs. Belle Hess of 1 Ravenna, 0., and two brothers, George Maines of Ravenna, 0., and Walter Maines of New York. Mr. Maines’s mother and sister, Miss Eva Maines, of this city were called to New York at the time he was operated on and at that time it was scarcely thought that he would recover, but after a few days he apparently began to improve and it was believed he would recover at the time they left there to return home. Later his condition grew worse and death ensued Friday night.