People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1895 — OBITUARY. [ARTICLE]

OBITUARY.

Gen. Philip Sidney Post, member of congress from the Tenth Illinois district, died suddenly in Washington. Gen. H. B. De Bray, who commanded a brigade in the confederate army, died at Austin, Texas. Mrs. Susan Rowe expired while attending services in Woodward Avenue Baptist church at Detroit. She was 74 years old. Alfred McClure, United States vice consul general at Belgrade, Servia, died after a lingering illness. Jonas M. Walker, a pioneer of Nevada, at one time worth millions, died in poo-r circumstances at San Francisco. Mary T. Lathrop. a well-known poet and lecturer, died at her home in Jackson. Mich., of neuralgia, aged 56years. Funeral services over the remains of the late Sir John Thompson, premier of Canada, were held in Halifax, N. S. Dr. William A. Elder, the pioneer physician of Bloomington, 111., dibd after a lingering illness at the age of Cl) years. Mrs. Sarah Bryant Reeve, a niece of William Cullen levant, died at her home in Princeton, UL, aged 73 years.