Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1901 — Veterans Quickly Passing. [ARTICLE]

Veterans Quickly Passing.

Grand Army of the Republic circles are interested over reports issued by authoritative posts in the east giving the number of deaths in the United States of the organization during the last year. The year 1900 shows the greatest mortality in fifteen years, the percentage being 3:50, or more than 10,000 deaths almost at the rate of 1,000 a month. The total membership of the Grand Army of the Republic is now estimated at 276,662. More members of the organization died in Illinois during the last year than ever before in the history of the department, the deaths numbering 720, or more than 3 per cent of the membership.