Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 134, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1904 — DEATH OF JOHN L. PIERCE. [ARTICLE]

DEATH OF JOHN L. PIERCE.

News was rcoeived here this Saturday morning, of the death on Friday st 2 o’clook p. m„ of John L. Pierce, at bis home at Lebanon this state. He bad been in poor health since last April, and the news of his death was no sorprise to the relatives here. He suffered from a pulmonary trouble, and a complication of other diseases. He was the oldest and only surviving son of the venerable Wm. 0. Pierce, of Rensselaer, and was raised in this vicimtv, though be has made bis home in Lebanon for manv years, in the practice of law, and where he .once filled the offloe of City Ma>or. He wbs about 55 years old. His father and his two sisters, the latter Mrs. 6- H. Howe end Mrs. Thomas Kncx. left for Lebanon on the 11 a. m., train, today, to be present at the funeral which will probably be Md Sunday.

The numbers given by Miss Lamkin consisted of Indiana Clnb swinging and reading. Mm Lamkin ia on txcepti-nalty fine reader.*-Herald, La Pore, Ind. The p ople of Rensselaer should bear her next Friday evening at the Prtsbyterian Church.