People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1897 — Remise of John E. Randle. [ARTICLE]

Remise of John E. Randle.

DIED.—At his residence in Hanging Grove township, seven miles east of Rensselaer, on Tuesday, March, 16, 1897, at 2:30 p. m., of lung fever, after an illness of one week, John E. Randle, aged 54 years and 22 days. The funeral occurs to-day at 10 a. m., from the family residence, Rev. W. O. Moore of Rensselaer officiating; interment in Weston cemetery at Rensselaer. Mr. Randle's parents were Thomas and Nancy Randle who settled in Jasper county in 1834, He leaves a wife, (Eva - line Brown,) and four children, (Curtis, Clyde, Belle and Grant,) and his estate is sufficient to make them all comfortable, having been a successful business man. He was a member of Company A, 87th Indiana regiment, and was a gallant soldier, suffering a sevare wound in 1863, which kept him in the hospital until the close of the war. Mr. Randle was highly respected by his neighbors, who will regret his sudden demise. He was about to move with his family to Rensselaer, and had the plans prepared for a new house to be erected this spring.