Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1902 — A Former Resident Dead. [ARTICLE]

A Former Resident Dead.

News has been received by Mrs, J. F. Irwin of the death at Wessington, S. Dak., of her brother Jasper B. Ravenscorft, which occurred at 5 o’clock Wednesday morning. He has been a resident of Dakota for 10 or 12 years, but lived most of his life in Carpenter township, this county. The particulars of his death have not been received, but it was entirely unexpected by the relatives here, as they had had no knowledge that he was even sick, and instead, were expecting him back here on a visit in about a month. He was still a - young man, being only about 43 years old, but he leaves a wife ana* eight children; and his death is? all the greater affliction to them because they are very inadequately provided for financially. His. mother, the venerable Mrs. SarahRavenscroft, of Carpenter Tp.,, survives him, and also a brother and several sisters.