His early life was spent on the Pacific coast. He came to Indiana at the age of seventeen to make his home with an aunt, Mrs. J.P. Spalding. He was married to Emma Jean Cleaver, September 8th, 1897. To this union were born eight children.
For many years he had been a sufferer from asthma and bore his affliction with indomitable courage and patience. His friendly interest in his neighbors has won him a large circle of friends who will miss him greatly.
He leaves to mourn their loss, his wife and children, Mrs. Lucie Powell, Elmo, Merrill, Rachel, Sara, Robert, Sidney and Mary Grace; two small grandsons, and one sister, Mrs. B.T. Canning of Cornell, Wis., and many other relatives and friends.
Funeral services were conducted in the Sheets & Sons funeral chapel at 2 p.m. Friday, Rev. H.L. McBride, pastor of the Lowell M.E. church conducting the service. Interment made in the Sanders cemetery, Undertakers Sheets & Sons in charge. Following were the pall bearers: Frank Rudolph, Thorn Clark, Arthur Hayden, Loren Love, H.W.C. Graves and Donald Clark.
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