Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1909 — DEATH OF IRA W. YEOMAN AT HOME IN REMINGTON. [ARTICLE]

DEATH OF IRA W. YEOMAN AT HOME IN REMINGTON.

Cancer Carries Away a Well Known Citizen of Jasper County—Was ( County Auditor Four Years. News was received this, Tuesday, morning of the death by cancer at his home in Remington Of Ira W. Yeoman, a former resident of Rensselaer and a well known citizen of the county. Mr. Yeoman has been troubled for. many years with cancer and for several months his condition has been considered critical. Ira W. Yeoman was born April 28, 1843, in Fayette county, Ohio. He removed with, his father’s faihily and settled in Jasper county, Indiana, five miles west of Rensselaer, in the year 1844. He obtained a common school education, and taught school in the winter for. several years; was raised on a farm; crossed the plains in 1864 during the Idaho gold excitement, and had many rough experiences during that trip, with Indians and otherwise, the Indians being on the war path all that season. He returned to the states late in that year; was elected Auditor of Jasper county in October, 1867, and served as such for four years; was admitted to practice law in January, 1872, and followed that calling until his health gave way. He removed from Rensselaer to Goodland in 1879, and from Goodland to Remington in 1887. During his residence there he served as clerk and treasurer of that town and was also secretary of Schuyler Lodge No. 284, I. O. O. F. of Remington during his residence there. The funeral services were held at Remington Thursday morning, and the remains were brought to Rensselaer that afternoon and Interment had in Weston cemetery.