Published in The Rochester News-Sentinel
Wednesday, March 17, 1937

John Elmer YODER, well known farmer residing northeast of Macy, dropped dead at 2:30 Tuesday afternoon when he suffered a heart attack. Mr. Yoder had just driven into his barn with a load of straw when he was stricken and plunged headlong off the front of the wagon, alighting behind his team of horses. John A. SAVAGE, who was with Mr. Yoder at the time pulled the stricken man from beneath the wagon only to find that he had expired.
Although Mr. Yoder had been in declining health for the past two years, as result of a leg fracture he suffered when he was struck by a falling tree, he had never suffered a heart attack and his death came as a most severe shock to his many friends in that community.
Mr. Yoder was born at Denver, Ind., on June 6th, 1874, son of Benjamin and Sarah (DAWALT) YODER. He had resided in the vicinity of Macy for the past 16 years, where he followed the occupation of farming. On December 28th, 1892 he was united in marriage to Mary Belle YIKE, the ceremony being solemnized at Fulton, Ind. The deceased was affiliated with the Methodist church, of Macy.
The survivors are the widow; a son Roy YODER, of Hammond, Ind.; a daughter Mrs. Orpha SOUTHERTON, of Akron; two grandsons, John Frederick HOFFMAN, of Rochester; and Glen SOUTHERTON, of Akron; two brothers, Benjamin YODER of Peru, and George YODER, of Burlington Iowa, and a sister, Mrs. Belle KEPLER, of Rochester. A daughter, Mrs. George E. HOFFMAN, of Rochester, preceded in death 13 years ago.
Funeral services in charge of Rev. Ernest LUTES, will be held Thursday afternoon at the Macy Methodist church. Interment will be made in the I.O.O.F. cemetery at Rochester.

SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obituaries - 1937
by Jean C. and Wendell C. Tombaugh