Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1883 — A Sad Death. [ARTICLE]

A Sad Death.

Mrs. Harriet E. Rhoades, wife of Mr. M. D. Rhoades, died at her residence on Front street, in Rensselaer, on Monday morning, August, 6th, 1883. The cause of her death was typhoid fever, from which she had been sick for a period of eighteen days. Mrs. Rhoades, maiden name was Hutson. She was born in the state of Maryland, on May 22, 1849, and thus dies at the early age of 34 years and a few months. She lived in Rensselaer nearly all her life, and having been left an orphan at an early age she was adopted and raised by her grandfather, William Freeman, a man whom all the old residents of Rensselaer still hold in pleasant remembrance. Her marriage to Marshall D. Rhoades took place Oct., 19th, 1865. Her death is peculiarly sad in that a family of four young children, the youngest of whom is but three years old, suffer the calamity of losing, in their tender years, the priceless blessing of a devoted mothers’s care. The funeral took place from her late residence, in the presence of a very large concourse of friends, and was conducted by Elder D. T. Halstead of the Christian church.