Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1908 — Death of George W. Payne. [ARTICLE]

Death of George W. Payne.

The long sickness of George Washington Payne, son of James H. Payne and grandson of Capt. G. W_, Payne, was brought to a close last Saturday morning at 9 o’clock, when he passed peacefully -away. Consumption was the cause of death, and he had been sick for two years., Abdut this time in the fall of 1906 he had a bad spell of the malarial fever from which he never fully recovered to d it was followed by a severe and lasting cold and tuberculosis developed. At that time he lived with his parents in Hammond and the following spring they took him to Colorado Springs for his health but it did not do him any good and they later returned to Indiana and to Rensselaer. He failed gradually and some months ago it became evident that he could not conquer the disease. Everything possible was done for him, but to no avail. Deceased would have been 33 years of age on the 18th of the coming December. His parents, two sisters and two brothers survive. The brothers are Louis and Chas. Payne and the kstern are Mrs. Ida Marion and Mrs. Bertha McNanny, the latter of Hammond. The funeral was held*' Monday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at the M. E. church.