Jonas Abraham HASLER, son of Peter and Elizabeth HASLER, was born April 25, 1867, died March 24, 1918, age fifty-years and eleven months. He was the youngest of a family of fourteen children. Early in life his parents brought him to the Lord in holy baptism. He was engaged in farming and lived on his farm until in the spring of 1892, when he and his mother and sister moved to Bloomfield and with his two brothers, Peter and James, engaged in the hardware business under the firm name of HASLER Bros. In this profession he was continually engaged until his death. He was of a jovial disposition and had a host of friends who will sadly miss him, and the community and business world has lost one of its most honored, upright and fair dealing citizens. His father, having died when he was but a small boy, he assumed the duties of the farm and home, always caring for and looking after the comfort and welfare of his mother, who died at the age of eighty-six years. No son could have been more kind and loving to a mother than was he. He always attended to the business interests of brother and sisters, who intrusted all to his care, knowing his honest and careful manner of doing business. He was united in marriage to Miss Sophia SCHILT of Richland county, Ill., October 9, 1906. To this union two children were born, Paul Albert, who died in infancy, and ____rl Schilt HASLER, who with his devoted mother, survives him. Besides these he leaves five sisters and three brothers, namely Mrs. Margret WAGNER of Olney, Ill; Mrs. Emeline K______, of West Liberty, Ill., Mrs. Amanda LESTER, Peter HASLER and Samuel HASLER of Taylor township, James HASLER, Miss Sarah HASLER and Mrs. Lutetia GROVE, of Bloomfield, and many nieces and nephews and devoted friends who will mourn his untimely departure.