People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1894 — Obituary. [ARTICLE]

Obituary.

Died at her home in Walker Township, Jasper County [nd., June 7th, 1894, Minerva Jane, daughter of Joel F. and Julia A. Spriggs. Aged 20 years, 6 months and 14 days. She had been in poor health for three or four years and under treatment by physicians for ten months previous to her death. Her disease was defined by her last physician as indigestion. She was not confined to her bed all of the time, until about the Ist of May, 1894, from which time she grew worse rapidly until the 7th of June, when jT»e end came and she now sleeps in the cold and silent confines of the grave. Her w’ork is done. She rests from her labors. The esteem in which she was held is best told by the large number of sympathizing friends and the large concourse of people that followed her to her last resting place to show and pay their final tribute of respect to their deceased friend. The funeral services were conducted at the U. B. church, bv Rev. Dickenson, of Valparaiso, after w’hich her remains were ' taken to the Hersh man cemetery for interment. B. F. Ferguson is still selling, buying and trading in real estate.