Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1897 — Death of Charley Herkey. [ARTICLE]

Death of Charley Herkey.

Charley Herkey died of dropsy, Wednesday evening, Oct. 13th, at the county farm, where he has had a comfortable home and the kindest of care, since early last November. He was buried Thursday afternoon, in the county lots in Weston cemetery. Uncle Charley as he was called, has lived in this vicinity for 25 or 30 years. He was of German birth, but of his early life before coming here very little is known. He left a number of old letters and documents, all in German writing, and which will be translated. The only English document is an old deed of Mason Co., Michigan land made to John Huilke, which may have been his real name. He gave his age as 72 years.