Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1908 — Visitors from Walnut, Iowa. [ARTICLE]

Visitors from Walnut, Iowa.

Samuel R. Comer and wife and U. Overton and wife and his mother, Mrs. Harriett Overton, arrived in Rensselaer on the 11:04 train Sunday night from Walnut, lowa. Mrs. Comer and Mrs. 1 Overton are sisters of Calvin Coppess, of Medaryville, and of Mrs. John Gray, of Rensselaer, and Mr. Overton is a brother of Jas. OverJon, of Rensselaer. All are old time residents of Rensselaer and Jasper county, and they are bark for the home coming. Mr. Overton was well known when a boy as "Seeb" Overton. He left here in 1874 and went to Iroquois county, 111., then later to Kansas, and then to Missouri and in 1881 io Walnut, lowa, where he has since resided. Mr. Comer is* engaged in the undertaking business at Walnut. Joe Long, another old resident of Rensselaer, also resides in that town, but he will not get home for the reunion.