People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1894 — Obituary. [ARTICLE]

Obituary.

John Piter was born re; r Newbury, >h Y., Jan. 11, 1811, and dkii at the home of his son, |in Rensselaer, Ind., July 20, 1894, aged 83 years, G mouths, and 6 days. He was in early ehildho; d when the family moved from b s native place to the vicinity of Trenton, New Jersey. There he lost his father. Thence, at the age of fifteen, he conducted his widowed mother, with her family, across the mountains, tp Ohio, halting first at Cincinnati, but pressing on after a year or two, into the White River country, Indiana. Ho was twice married. His first wife was Rebecca Gillespie, of Owen county, Ind., to whom?; he was married in 1833, She was born of Methodist parents aear Lexington, Ky., her anees- . try hailing from the Janies River region, Va. Her father was a minister of some note ia the local ranks. She died in Montgomery county, Indiana, in 1847. He married his second wife, j Mariam Bailey, of Hamilton; county, Ohio, in 1849. One child, a son. Was born to him of his first wife. His second nmV : riago was without issue. Hi.. I last Wife died at Thorntown. ! Ind., Dec. 13, 1892, after which ! he made his home with his son. Rev. R. D. Utter, of tho NorthWest J.udiana Conference.

Not lofig »,fter the date of his first marriage hr was and received into the fellowship ff t’jMethodist Episeop • vuuroii. On declaring himseii a follower of Christ lie erected the family alter, and ever after, morning and evening, as regularly a» the day came round, the voice of prayer and praise was heard in his home. A more honest, upright man never lived. He was thoroughly conscientious, acting from principle rather than impulse, never swerving from the right as God gave him to see the right. The end has come at last. Having finished his course, he has gone to receive his reward, a crown of life. The funeral services were conducted by the. Rev. Mr. Bmch, of the Presbyterian Church at 9:30 a rff.,-July 21, after which, by the 10:50' rn. train, the body was taken to Thorn town, Ind., for interment.