Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1902 — About Some Former Residents. [ARTICLE]

About Some Former Residents.

Mr. Williams, of Lafayette; is in town today. He was an early resident of this county, and bis parents were among our very early settlers. They are both buried in the Welsh cemetery Jordan tp He is a brother of Dick Williams, formerly a very well known resident of Rensselaer and its vicinity. Some incidents of Dick’s history are well remembered He was engaged to marry Libbie Ope nchain, and for some unex plained reason disappeared just before the wedding day. He finell y turned up again and they were married.- Some 6or 8 months later he abandoned her and never returned, What finally became of him was never known here, but now his brother states that be committed suicide 17 years ago, in Colorado. Dick was a popular young fellow, but seemed to bs somewhat peculiar in his upper story, and it is thought be finally became entirely demented.