Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1898 — Death of Valentine Gingerich. [ARTICLE]

Death of Valentine Gingerich.

Valentine Gingerieh, died Sunday night, at the home of Levi Miller, Sr., near Mt. Ayr, aged 25 years, 11 months, 8 days. The cause of his death was typhoid fever, and he was sick just two weeks. He was a sou of Elias Gingerieh, who formerly lived just north of Rensselaer. He was unmarried. The funeral was not held until Thursday, being deferred to allow bis father to arrive from Davies couuty, this state, and a brother from Mississippi. The latter, Isaac Gingerieh, arrived by way of Rensselaer at midnight Wednesday night. Levi Miller Jr., a young man of about the same age as Valentine, in the same family, took sick the same day as the latter, with the same disease. He has been very sick but is now improving.