Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1906 — A SUDDEN DEATH IN HANGING GROVE. [ARTICLE]

A SUDDEN DEATH IN HANGING GROVE.

A very sudden death occured in H iging Grove township, early last Sa: irday morning, and also a very la i -utable one, as it called away a Wo thy and industrious man, in thejniiuo oi llf\ and from a large and dependent MuiilyT Tt was that of William Hag.e, who lived upon and worked a portion of the.-McCoy land, about a mile east of .McCoys burg, and also worked on the new stone road. He worked as usual Friday, and uothbiug wrong was noticed with him until about four o’clock Saturday morning when his wife h?ard him gasping. She arose and lighted a lamp but when she returned to the bed he was dead. He hid long been troubled with a disease of the heart. He was a little over 45 years old, and le ives a wife an 1 four children, the oldest 15 years old. The faue.'al was held Sunday, by Bev. S. W. Noland of Lee, and interment made in Smith cemetery, in Barkley Tp,, where some of his wife’s relative?, the Lowman’s are buried. He moved from Btark county last fall. He leaves his family but poorly provided for, in this world’s goods.