Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1905 — Old People Fast Departing. [ARTICLE]

Old People Fast Departing.

In 1898 a remarkable group of o'd citiz ns were photographed h're, and a copy of the picture is now banging in the Sharp photograph gallery. There were 23 'old men in the picture of those* only eight are etid with us. They Jared Benjemin, David Nowels David Halstead, John Makeever, iD. 0. Hopkits, W. W. Wiabard, Simon Phillips and John Coen. Those who have goue to their long rest, 15 in number are Henry Fiabe’, Henry Bruce, Henry I Smith, Sylvester O’Meara, James Reason Goddard, L. I W. Henkle, Wm Cotton, Sidnial I King. Micah Sayler, John Callow* Isaac Sayler, Isaac Parker, H. M ' Babb, and William Robinson.