People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1894 — Obituary. [ARTICLE]

Obituary.

John Charles Reed, son of John W. and Eliza Reed, was born in Jordan township, this county, March 26,1857, and died Sunday, Dec. 31, 1893, at 11:15 p. in. He had been a sufferer of lung trouble for many years. He was patient in all his suffering. never murmuring and jovial in his nature. He had a strong love for his friends, that was true and abiding. One belief with him was that every good deed and noble thought lasted through the eternal ages. He was married to Miss May Kessinger, February 27, 1189. They walked side by side all these years, not a ripple disturbing the harmony wf their lives, ex-

cept that of declining health. The result of their union was two children, a boy and girl. Rev. B. F. Ferguson preached the funeral sermon at Egypt school house, where a large concourse of sorrowing friends gathered to see the loved form laid to rest in the Egypt cemetery, to await the resurrection morn. The paliiH of death are past; Labor and sorrow cease. And life's lon« warfare closed at lust. Ills soul Is bound in peace. A Friend.