Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1907 — Death of Thomas H. Grant. [ARTICLE]

Death of Thomas H. Grant.

- ■ - ' Thomas H. Grant, for more than 57 years a resident of the immediate vicinity of Rensselaer, died about 4:30 o’clock, last Monday morning, March 25th, at his home in .Newton’s addition, of a cancer on the face, after a long and very painful sickness He was born in Kentucky, but moved while young with his parents to Wabash County this state, and came to this county in October, 1849, and has ever since made this his home, living on his farm about two miles west of town, until a few years ago, wh»n he sold the farm and bought the residence iu town in which his death occurred. He was one of the best known of our surviving early settlers, and familiar to all as “Uncle Tommy” Grant. His age was 84 years. 2 months and Bdays. He is survived by three sons and two daughters, Daniel Franklin and John Able Grant, of Rensselaer, and Dr S. C. Grant, a dentist of St. Joseph Mo., and Mrs. Lavona Hemphill, of Kansas, and Mrs. Rebecca Hemphill, who lived with him here. His surviving brothers and sisters are Stott, Alton and Shelby Grant and Mrs. Ruth Phillips and Mrs. Norman Warner. Mr. Grant was twice married. First to Martha McDaniel, June 2Q, 1847, and whose death occured Jan. sth, 1860. The second time to Hannah Hemphill, Sept. 17th, 1863, and her death occured Sept. Ist, 1902. The children were all by the first marriage. The funeral will be held Wednesday, the 27th, at 10:30 A. M., by the pastor, Elder D. T. Halstead Interment in We. to a cemetery.