Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1905 — Sailor Bob Bissenden Dead. [ARTICLE]

Sailor Bob Bissenden Dead.

A dispatch was received here Thursday, from the state of Washington making enquiries about the relatives of Robert Bissenden, and stating that he bad been killed. Bob was located here for some years, quite a number of years ago. and engaged in painting and paper hanging, living with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm Bissenden who afterward moved to Illinois. Bob was a sailor by vocation and had been in pretty much all pirts of the world. No particulars of the manner of his death have yet been received here.