Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1909 — NOBLE J. YORK DIED MONDAY NIGHT. [ARTICLE]

NOBLE J. YORK DIED MONDAY NIGHT.

Pneumonia and Acute Brights Disease Cause d Death of Citizen After Brief Illness. ■' ■Noble J. York died Monday night at about 9 o’clock at his residence on Milroy avenue, after—an illness of about two weeks duration. Mr. York was a door keeper at the session of the state legislature that adjourned on the Bth of this month and he came home feeling badly and suffering from a severe cold. Pneumonia soon developed and he had passed the crisis of that disease and it was thought would recover when it was found that the pleural cayities were filled with fluid that gave some evidence of tubercular origin. Kidney trouble also set in and acute Brights disease was the direct cause of death. k j Noble York was well known in Rensselaer and Jasper county and also in Monon and White county. He .was born in Laurel, Johnson county, 62 years ago the.4th of the coming June, and came to Rensselaer when but 16. years of age, that being in 1864. He was married .here in 1877 to Miss lona Wood, whose death occurred two years later. In 1885 Mr. York took up his residence in Monon, where he was again married and he resided there until four years ago when he came here to look after his sister, Mrs. Will Rhoades, who has been an invalid, for some years and to whom the residence where the Yorks made their home, belongs. "In his earlier life he had tubercular troubles and he spent three years ip Colorado and was’restored to health. Mr. York's business interests were largely in Monon, where he had considerable property, and where he spent much of his time. The funeral will be held Thursday afternoon at 2:80 o’clock x at the late residence and will be conducted by Rev. H. L. Kindig, pastor of the Methodist church. Burial will be made in Weston cemetery beside the grave of his first wife. Deceased is survived by his wife and four children, viz: Myrtle A., Noble H., Howard R. and Delos F., all of whom were at his bedside when the end came. He was conscious that he was going to die and asked those present to sing one or two hymns, and then called his family and friends to his bedside and hade them farewell.