Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1920 — MIKE KANNE DIES SUDDENLY [ARTICLE]

MIKE KANNE DIES SUDDENLY

While Out at His Farm In Gillam Township Monday Forenoon. Michael Kanne, one of Rensselaer’s best known citizens, died' very suddenly Monday forenoon while out looking after some fence building at his farm In Gillam township, occupied by James Poicel. Mr. Kanne had driven out to the farm in his car and stopped at the house and talked with Mr. Poicel regarding building some fence. v. . He ate an apple while at the house and then said he would go out to the field where the fence was to be built and look it over. A son of Mr. Poicel’s was mowing in the field and he saw Mr. Kanne come out there, but on his next round saw nothing of him. He thought this a little strange, and got off the mashing and went to some trees or BTtlsh, where the thought he might have gone, and found him lying on the ground, dead. A doctor was summoned at once from Medaryville and the sons notified here, but the body was not removed from where it was found until after the doctor arrived and saw that the old gentleman was beyond all medical aid. The doctor thought the apple had produced an attack of acute indigestion, which was followed by a stroke of apoplexy. The body was brought to Rensselaer Monday evening and the funeral will be held at St. Augustine’s Catholic church at 9 o’clock tomorrow (Thursday) morning, and burial made in Mt. Calvary cemetery, south of town, beside his wife, who departed this life Aug. 12, 1918. Mr. Kanne came to Jasper county 14 years ago with his family and purchased several good farms near Rensselaer. All were good farmers and good workers and “the Kannes' were soon known as among the best farmers in Jasper county. A few .years ago the father bought ground and erected a modern home in Rensselaer, where he had since resided. He had always been stout ana rugged and was one of the last men in Jasper county one would have expected to pass off so suddenly. His death was a distinct shock to the relatives and many friends of the family. Mr. Kanne was born in Illinois Nov. 6, 1848, and therefore lacked less than three months of being 72 years at the time of his death. He is survived by 10 children, eight sons and two daughters. The sons are John of Campus, HI.; Joseph, George, Frank, Tone, Ed, A 1 and Art kanne, and Mrs. Stephen Kohley of near Rensselaer and Mrs. Gaylord McFarland of Barberton, O. Another son, Gus, who resided in Illinois, was killed in an automobile accident there a few years ago.