Published in the Rochester(IN) News-Sentinel, Thursday, January 10, 1929
Charles Allen PIPER, aged 59, well known farmer living southeast of the city on the Wabash road, died at 11:25 Wednesday night after a few days' illness. Death was due to complications which developed following an attack of influenza. Mr. Piper had been in ill health for several years but his condition had only been considered serious for two days. His death marks the second death in he Piper family within a week, his sister, Mrs. Sophronia CLARK having died last Thursday, at her home in Peru.
The deceased was born on a farm near Deedsville on March 31, 1869 the son of David and Sarah PIPER. His boyhood was spent in the vicinity of Deedsville, but for the past 25 years he had resided southeast of the city. On January 17th, 1903 he was married to Miss Lulu ROBINSON. Mr. Piper served in the army during the Spanish-American War having been a sergeant in Co. B 158 Infantry, I.N.G. He was a member of the local organization of Spanish-American War Veterans and of the I.O.O.F. Lodge at Green Oak.
Surviving are his wife, two children, Thurl [PIPER] and Anna Ruth [PIPER], both at home; a sister, Mrs. Frank STEFFY, of Rochester, and a brother, James [PIPER] of Walthill, Nebraska.
Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at two o'clock at the home with Rev. J. B. GLEASON in charge. Burial will be made in the Mt. Zion Cemetery.
SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obituaries – 1929 by Jean C. and Wendell C. Tombaugh
Charles Allen PIPER, aged 59, well known farmer living southeast of the city on the Wabash road, died at 11:25 Wednesday night after a few days' illness. Death was due to complications which developed following an attack of influenza. Mr. Piper had been in ill health for several years but his condition had only been considered serious for two days. His death marks the second death in he Piper family within a week, his sister, Mrs. Sophronia CLARK having died last Thursday, at her home in Peru.
The deceased was born on a farm near Deedsville on March 31, 1869 the son of David and Sarah PIPER. His boyhood was spent in the vicinity of Deedsville, but for the past 25 years he had resided southeast of the city. On January 17th, 1903 he was married to Miss Lulu ROBINSON. Mr. Piper served in the army during the Spanish-American War having been a sergeant in Co. B 158 Infantry, I.N.G. He was a member of the local organization of Spanish-American War Veterans and of the I.O.O.F. Lodge at Green Oak.
Surviving are his wife, two children, Thurl [PIPER] and Anna Ruth [PIPER], both at home; a sister, Mrs. Frank STEFFY, of Rochester, and a brother, James [PIPER] of Walthill, Nebraska.
Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at two o'clock at the home with Rev. J. B. GLEASON in charge. Burial will be made in the Mt. Zion Cemetery.
SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obituaries – 1929 by Jean C. and Wendell C. Tombaugh
Published in the Rochester(IN) News-Sentinel, Thursday, January 10, 1929
Charles Allen PIPER, aged 59, well known farmer living southeast of the city on the Wabash road, died at 11:25 Wednesday night after a few days' illness. Death was due to complications which developed following an attack of influenza. Mr. Piper had been in ill health for several years but his condition had only been considered serious for two days. His death marks the second death in he Piper family within a week, his sister, Mrs. Sophronia CLARK having died last Thursday, at her home in Peru.
The deceased was born on a farm near Deedsville on March 31, 1869 the son of David and Sarah PIPER. His boyhood was spent in the vicinity of Deedsville, but for the past 25 years he had resided southeast of the city. On January 17th, 1903 he was married to Miss Lulu ROBINSON. Mr. Piper served in the army during the Spanish-American War having been a sergeant in Co. B 158 Infantry, I.N.G. He was a member of the local organization of Spanish-American War Veterans and of the I.O.O.F. Lodge at Green Oak.
Surviving are his wife, two children, Thurl [PIPER] and Anna Ruth [PIPER], both at home; a sister, Mrs. Frank STEFFY, of Rochester, and a brother, James [PIPER] of Walthill, Nebraska.
Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at two o'clock at the home with Rev. J. B. GLEASON in charge. Burial will be made in the Mt. Zion Cemetery.
SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obituaries – 1929 by Jean C. and Wendell C. Tombaugh
Charles Allen PIPER, aged 59, well known farmer living southeast of the city on the Wabash road, died at 11:25 Wednesday night after a few days' illness. Death was due to complications which developed following an attack of influenza. Mr. Piper had been in ill health for several years but his condition had only been considered serious for two days. His death marks the second death in he Piper family within a week, his sister, Mrs. Sophronia CLARK having died last Thursday, at her home in Peru.
The deceased was born on a farm near Deedsville on March 31, 1869 the son of David and Sarah PIPER. His boyhood was spent in the vicinity of Deedsville, but for the past 25 years he had resided southeast of the city. On January 17th, 1903 he was married to Miss Lulu ROBINSON. Mr. Piper served in the army during the Spanish-American War having been a sergeant in Co. B 158 Infantry, I.N.G. He was a member of the local organization of Spanish-American War Veterans and of the I.O.O.F. Lodge at Green Oak.
Surviving are his wife, two children, Thurl [PIPER] and Anna Ruth [PIPER], both at home; a sister, Mrs. Frank STEFFY, of Rochester, and a brother, James [PIPER] of Walthill, Nebraska.
Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at two o'clock at the home with Rev. J. B. GLEASON in charge. Burial will be made in the Mt. Zion Cemetery.
SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obituaries – 1929 by Jean C. and Wendell C. Tombaugh
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