Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1903 — Buried In One Grave. [ARTICLE]

Buried In One Grave.

8 ime six miles northeast of Rensselaer, in that naturally sightly but now sadly neglected, rpit where rest from tbeir labors so many of Barkley township’s early pioneers, tbe Smiih Cemetery stands a large marble slab, bearing, in snbstanoe these inscriptions: ‘’Harrison A. Guthridge, died June scb 1845, aged 42 jeers. Also bis wife, Emma Gnthridge, died Jane stb, 1845, aged 37 years.” It sometimes happens that husband and wife, having reaobed extreme old age, die on the same day. Most people have known of sash oases and heard of others, bnt when a man and wife, both in the very prime of life, depart together it usually implies a tragedy of some kind. Either that they were carried off by some sort of aooident, saoh as poisoning, being struck by lightning, a runaway, or other oasnalty. Or iq these later days, when husband and wife die tbe same day, it is qnite apt to be another oase of murder and suicide, that double crime whioh before was practically unheard of has, during the fast 20 years become a matter of daily ooonrenoe'in some part of the country or other. Edqniry however, among the few old settler* who remember this sad circa mstsnoe of more than 58 years ago, show that this oonple in Smith cemetery died, neither from aooident nor murder nor. even from an epidemic. Bat by a marvelous ooinoidenoe died the same May from wholly dissimilar oanses. He from a fever of some kind and she dying in confinement.

•No one of their name lives in this oounty now, so far as we know, nor none of their kith or kin, but he wsg an uncle of Capt. J. G, Guthridge, that brave Jasper oounty soldier and great friend of the late Capt. M. F. Ohiloote, tor whom Rensselaer's junior Grand Array poet is named. It pays to trade at WiJn. Sohleman’a.