Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1908 — DEATH CLAIMS WM.H.EGER [ARTICLE]

DEATH CLAIMS WM.H.EGER

Well Known Hardware Dealer Saccombs After Short and Painful Sickness. William H. Eger, for the past twenty years engaged in the hardware business in Rensselaer, and one of our best known and most highly esteemed citizens, died at 9:50 o’clock Saturday night, after an illness that confined him at home only since Thursday night. Heart failure and a badly congested condition of the lungs wfere responsible for death. Mr. Eger had been a sufferer from a weak heart for fully twenty-five years and had on several previous occasions almost succumbed to the attacks. Last year for some time he was confined at his home with rheumatism and he had not recovered his former vigor since that time, but recently he had b»n in fair health. On Thursday eveninghe told his brother John that was feeling better, and that evening friends were at the house and he was apparently feeling very well and laughed and joked with them. Friday morning he got up and dressed bnt he was soon seized with tha heart pains and it was recognized that his condition was esrions. Respiration was very difficult and he could not lie down. He became very much worse Friday evening when violent fits of coughing were followed by blood hemorrhages. |A counsel of physicians was held in the night and it was agreed that there was no hope for his life. Daring most of Saturday he suffered from the conghing spells and the accompanying hemorrhages, and was in great agony until given a hypodermic injection of morphine. He then rested seme and for the last two hoars he was apparently unconscious and death came painlessly. Mr. Eger has had a long and honorable business career in | Rensselaer, and his unexpected death has cast a shadow over the entire community. He was the oldest child of Michael Eger and wife, and was bora at Lafayette on Nov. 25th, 1851, being 56 years and 2 months old. His parents came to Rensselaer when be was only two yean of age and be has since re sided here. In his earlier life he worked as a tinner for Norman Warner, and he was also at one tisae a partner with his brother, John, in the grocery business. For the past twenty years he has been in the hardware business and has built np a large and successful business. He was Ang. 20, 1882, to Mary D. Duvall, and to their anion were born three children, all of whom survive; viz. Mrs. Bessie Grant, Oleve, aged 22, a * student at Purdue University, and Harry, aged 19, a student in the high school. His mother also survives, as do the following sisters and brother, Mary, Lizzie and Oarrie, at home, John, the groceryman and Mrs. Emma Maloy, of Lowell. The funeral will be held Tuesday afternoon ot 2:30 at the family rerfdence on Division street. It hill be under the oharge of the Maaouie lodge of which he was a member, and Rev. J. OL Parrett will be the minister. Interment in Weston oemetery.