Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1898 — Passed Away. [ARTICLE]

Passed Away.

Santa Rosa, Cal., April I.—Rev. J. Avery Shephnrd, one of the best-known Episcopal ministers in northern California, died here Thursday, aged j>2 years. He was in Montgomery, Ala., when the confederate congress held its first session and delivered the opening prayer. He was a prominent mason.