Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1901 — Deaths in the G. A. R. [ARTICLE]

Deaths in the G. A. R.

A statistical table just completed by the Indiana department, G« A. R„ shows that during the calendar year 1900 there were 419 deaths of members in Indiana. This is the highest in the erganization in any year since the war, notwithstanding the total number of veterans has been diminishing year by year. The list of deaths this year is expected to show a considerable increase. Adjutant R. M. Smock estimates that the average age of members of the Grand Army in Indiana is now 62 years. The vitality ot the veterans, owing to wounds and exposure, is not nearly equal to the vitality of the men who did not go to war. For these reasons deaths will be rapid from now, he believes.