Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1905 — FUNERAL OF CLARENCE B. TRAVIS. [ARTICLE]

FUNERAL OF CLARENCE B. TRAVIS.

The remains of Ohrenoe BTravis arrived Saturday afternoon, and were taken direct to the residence of bis sister, Mrs/ Mary E, Thompson, on River street and the funeral was held there at 2:30 p;. m. Sunday by Elder D. T. Halstead and interment made in Weeton cemetery. His death ocoured at LongclifF asylum near Logansport, Friday Deo. 30th, after about a week’s sickness .with erysipelas in the face and during most of which time be was unconscious. He had been • patient at the asylum for the past four years, He was born at Phoenix, Pa., Jan. 27th 1850, and his age at death was 54 years lljjnonths and 3 days. His first removal, with his parents was to Ohio, the next to Illinois, and at 15 years of age, to Rensselaer, near which place ha has ever since resided. He was the youngest of 11 children to reach adult a £ e < only one of whom, Mrs. Thompson now survives. He married Mary E. O’Meara Apr -15, 1879, who survives him with two daughters, Mrs, Bert Welsh and Miss Leila Travis, now t>f Marion, He was a reaid - dent most of his married life of his farm about two miles south of town.

The pail bearers at the funeral, mostly old neighbors were Oscar Hauter, A. K, Yeoman, Robt Michaels, Geo. Terwilliger, Geo. Morgan and D. G. Warner. Besides the near relatives above mentioned, the only ones from e'sewhere present at the funeral were Fred Dalton, of Gilman, 111. a brother-in-law of Mrs. Travis.