People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1896 — Obituary. [ARTICLE]

Obituary.

Samuel McMurry, aged 85 years, 6 Mo. and 23 days, died of old age, at4:ls p. m., Wednesday, Feb. 5, 1896, at the home of his son, T. Z. McMurry, four miles southwest of Rensselaer. The funeral was held in the M. E. church at Remington on 1 riday, Rev. Horner officiating. The deceased was a native of Pennsylvania. In about the year 1845 he moved with his family to Ohio where he resided until 1870, when he moved to Jasper county, since residing here. Miss Julia Ann Junod became his wife about 1832, and preceded him to the grave four years ago. They were the parents of eight children, three daghters and five sons, of whom four sons are now living. Mr. McMurry and his wife were life long members of the Methodist chuch,and lived faithfully within its practical precepts being honored by thier neighbors during life and sincerely mourned in death.