Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1885 — Obituary. [ARTICLE]

Obituary.

> Mrs. Lizzie H. wife of Mordecai F, cKileote, Esq., died in Rensselaer, Indiana, January 15, 1885. She was born in Brobkville, Indiana, March Ist, 1842. She was the„yourigest daughter of Nathan iel and Hannah Hammond. Hon. At A. Hammond, —Governor —of Indiana, Judge William Hammond, of lowa, and ,Hon. E P Hammond, late a Judge of the Supreme Court of Indiana, were her brothers. In 1854 her father moved to Jasper county, and’ located in Barkley township. On the 27th day of September, 1865, the subject us this notice was married. In 1868 her husband moved to Rensselaer with his family, and here has since been their home, Ilu 1875 Mrs. Cbileote united witii the Presbyterian church, of which shfe was a member when she died. She was the mother of two sons. who survive her, and one daqghter. Several years ago, at the death of her sister, Mrs. John Miller, who left a large family of small children in the care of an invalid husband, i Mrs. Cbileote adopted four of tinorphans Into her family, becoming to them a mother in all of care and love.

Brightly conspicuous tun on g tinmany virtues of this woman watliat of charity. A kind ard,sym pathetic disposition led her to make many personal sacrifices foi the alleviation and the comfort ol others. Probably np other woman in the county was more prompt t< respond to the cries of suffering. To visit and watch with ’the sick to comfirt the sorrowful, and tv relieve those in distress, were the spontaneous impulses of thi.character; but her charitable deed.were as unostentatious as the bies sings of Providence, that fall, tike the gentle dews, while the work-i sleeps.

Mrs. H. C. Bruce, of\ Marion tp. south of Rensselaer, whose sick ness has been , noticed several times in this paper, died last Sat uiday morning at 6 o'clock. Tin funeral was held Monday, at 11 o’clock a. m. Mrs. Bruce and hei family were well known and highly esteemed in Rensselaer, and » considerable number of Reusse laer people went out to the funeral.