Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1902 — A Death at the Poor Farm. [ARTICLE]

A Death at the Poor Farm.

Horney Coppess who was an idiot from infancy and a dwarf in size, died at the county asylum, Saturday night. He was 60 years old and had been at the farm 2 years. Previous to that time he had been oared for by relatives in Gillam tp,; and for 30 years Jasper county paid SIOO a year for oaring for him. He was taken to Gillam for burial Sunday, z