Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1890 — AGED MRS. TURPIE. [ARTICLE]

AGED MRS. TURPIE.

Senator Turpie’* Mother Burned to Death Near Delphi. Mrs. Mary Turpie, over ninety years of age, and the mother of the Hon. David Turpie, U. S. Senator from Indiana, met with a horrible fate at her home near Delphi, Wednesday. She has been living with her son, Mr. Robert Turpie, a younger brother of the Senator, for the past thirty, five years. Wednesday morning about 9 o’clock MY. Turpie stepped out to transact some business with a near neighbor, leaving her alone in the sittingroom of their home, wherein burned cheerfully an open fire. He was gone, he tates, only about half an hour, and on his return to the room where he had left his mother a most horrible sight greeted him. His aged parent was lying dead upon the floor near the open fireplace with nearly every vestige of her clothing burned to a crisp He found her body most frightfully disfigured by the flames, and her life had evidently just left her body. Mrs. Turpie was a native of Scotland, and had come to America when quite young. She was -a most estimable lady, and greatly beloved by all. Mr. Robert Turpie is greatly prostrated over the very sad occurrence.