Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1901 — Death of Oscar Anderson. [ARTICLE]

Death of Oscar Anderson.

Oscar Anderson died at 12:30 o’clock Friday at his home on south Front street, after an illness that confined him to his bed for three months, of chronic liver troubles. He was 41 years of age and leaves a wife and three small children in very poor circumstances. Deceased was born in Sweden and was a blacksmith by trade. He removed here from Lafayette about three years ago and until his sickness forced him to quit work, was employed in Jack Warner’s blacksmith shop.