Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1892 — OBITUARY. [ARTICLE]

OBITUARY.

Hugh E. Coen, of Birdville, Texas formerly of Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana,,was born July 4th, 1834 in Marion County, Ohio, removed to the State of Indiana with his parent# in 1841, thence into Jasper county in 1850. Was married to Mary Yeoman in the Spring of 1858. To them were bom 9 children, 8 of whom and his faithful, loving companion survive him. About 30 years ago he located on an unimproved farm in Newton township Jasper county, six miles west of Rensselaer, where ha,, and his family endured the hardships and privations attending the opening up and the improving of a farm in an early day, but by continued and persistent labor he succeeded in establishing himself upon one, among the best improved farms of Jasper county. Twenty one years ago he joined the Free Will Baptist church, under the preaching of Eldep K. I. Higgin of which he remained a faithful and consistent member until called by the good “Master” from labor to reward, after an illness of twenty-five days, at his late home, Birdville, Texas, (where he had moved in January 1892) at the age of 57 years, II months and 3 days. He was the youngest son of John and Aseneth Coen. He had five brothers and two sisters, of whom but two brothers survive him, viz. John Coen and William S. Coen, both of this vicinity. He was a man of great moral force, manifesting to all with whom he had to do, that nobility which is fonnd only in the sonls and lives of the devout and meek followers of Lord Christ.

B. F.

ago, that about the time the suckers began to run ..in the river in the spring, that the new railroad projects would begin to put forth the tender buds of hope. Xn those days it was an off week when The Republican did not announce the chartering of another railroad company which proposed to build a railroad to cross Jasper county. The Rochester, Rensselaer A St Louis was one of the earliest of these in the field and the last to leave it. In fact, it died hard, and, indeed, revived consciousness after many periods of suspended animation, but this year even Major Bitters, of the Rochester Hepubliqan, has not had the courage to insert his old electrotyped paragraph, heretofore republished every spring, announced the revival of the project and its almost certain construction “this season.” It is now evidently dead for good, and there is nothing to take its place except a faint and uncertain rumor, noticed lately in an Illinois exchange, to the effect that there is some talk of a railroad from Logansport, this state, to Streator, 111. This, if built, would certainly come to Rensselaer, as a direct line from Logansport to Streator would pass only,four or five miles south of town. It would be a good route for Jf new railroad for Rensselaer. It would give the .advantages of an eastern market, and competing rates. Tor an< * 3^ and more important still, would give ns cheap coal from the big coal regions Streator.