Harriett James, for 67 years a resident of Jackson township, dropped dead Tuesday afternoon about 4:15 at the home of her son, Asa James, five miles northeast of the city, death being due to apoplexy. She had gone to the garden to gather some tomatoes and at the time appeared in better health than usual. After being stricken she started to the house and had just reached the garden gate when she staggered and fell. The daughter-in-law was the first to reach her side but life was practically extinct. The son, who had shortly before gone into the fields, was also called and the lifeless body taken into the house. The funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at two o'clock at the Wheeling Presbyterian church, of which she had been a member for 59 years, Rev. E. LeRoy Steffey officiating. Interment was made in the Maple Lawn cemetery. Deceased was born in Warren county, Ohio, May 8, 1840. In company with her parents, Daniel and Emily Brown, she came by the old canal boat to Logansport and settled in Washington township, Carroll county, where she lived for four years and then moved to Jackson township, which had since been her home. On New Year's Day, 1868, she was united in marriage to Andrew J. James, who preceded her. To this union one child. Asa James, who still survives, was born. She also leaves seven grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren and one brother. Andrew Brown, of Young America, to mourn her sudden departure. G. V. Brown, local jeweler, is a nephew. The early life of Mrs. James was spent in the days of the pioneers and in those days the commandment ''Thou Shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" was part of the religion of the brave souls whose struggles, industry and perseverance cleared the forest, drained the land and made it fit for the habitation of the race. In this environment her life was molded and she learned the great lesson that it is always more blessed to give than to receive; this she learned from actual experience as she was ever willing to answer the call of the needy. She was a sainted lady in every way, one whose going from the community in which she had lived for almost three score and nine years will be greatly noticed.
Harriett James, for 67 years a resident of Jackson township, dropped dead Tuesday afternoon about 4:15 at the home of her son, Asa James, five miles northeast of the city, death being due to apoplexy. She had gone to the garden to gather some tomatoes and at the time appeared in better health than usual. After being stricken she started to the house and had just reached the garden gate when she staggered and fell. The daughter-in-law was the first to reach her side but life was practically extinct. The son, who had shortly before gone into the fields, was also called and the lifeless body taken into the house. The funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at two o'clock at the Wheeling Presbyterian church, of which she had been a member for 59 years, Rev. E. LeRoy Steffey officiating. Interment was made in the Maple Lawn cemetery. Deceased was born in Warren county, Ohio, May 8, 1840. In company with her parents, Daniel and Emily Brown, she came by the old canal boat to Logansport and settled in Washington township, Carroll county, where she lived for four years and then moved to Jackson township, which had since been her home. On New Year's Day, 1868, she was united in marriage to Andrew J. James, who preceded her. To this union one child. Asa James, who still survives, was born. She also leaves seven grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren and one brother. Andrew Brown, of Young America, to mourn her sudden departure. G. V. Brown, local jeweler, is a nephew. The early life of Mrs. James was spent in the days of the pioneers and in those days the commandment ''Thou Shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" was part of the religion of the brave souls whose struggles, industry and perseverance cleared the forest, drained the land and made it fit for the habitation of the race. In this environment her life was molded and she learned the great lesson that it is always more blessed to give than to receive; this she learned from actual experience as she was ever willing to answer the call of the needy. She was a sainted lady in every way, one whose going from the community in which she had lived for almost three score and nine years will be greatly noticed.
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