Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1906 — Death Of Nathan G, Stackhouse. [ARTICLE]

Death Of Nathan G, Stackhouse.

Nathan G. Stackhouse died at his home in Lafayette Monday. He was the oldest member of the well known Stackhouse family, so many of whom have lived in Rensselaer or its vicinity in times past, and was also, with one exception, the last survivor of their number, the exception being Mrs. Cynthia G. Weathers, of our city, but who has herself been making her home in Lafayette for some time past. Isaac and Clint Stackhouse, both former well known residents here were his brothers. Our Township trustee Charles Stackhouse is a nephew. The following interesting fact regarding him are condensed from a Lafayette dispatch to an Indianapolis paper: Nathan Gumley Stackhouse, the oldest male resident of Lafayette, is dead at the old family homestead in this city. Seventy-five years of his life were spent in this city. In point of residence as well as ot years he was the oldest man in Lafayette, and hadllived in the house in which he died for sixty years. Death was caused by paralysis, a second stroke proving fatal. He was born in Rossville, Butler ’county, Ohio, in 1812.. and Came to Lafayette in 1830. For the last twenty years he did nothing more than oversee the work on his large farm in West Lafayette.

Although he enjoyed perfect health up to his ninety third year, he never weighed more than 115 pounds. He never used intoxicants or tobacco and he ascribed his old age and good health to this fact. He also declared shortly before his death that he had never touched a/drop nor a grain of medicine for sixty years. He was eccentric in many-ways, being averse to riding in a vehicle of any kind. He always walked no matter how stormy’ the weather might be, and/for years he was a familiar figure on the levee between the city and West Lafayette, where he wejjt to look over his farm. .—a-