American Legion card gives his date of birth as 8/2/1828 (in error). His cause of death was listed as "Artero Sclerosis".
PIONEER RESIDENT ANSWERS FINAL SUMMONS
Old Settler Succumbs To Heart Failure last Wednesday Evening
Interment at Round Lake
On last Wednesday evening about 8:30 o'clock occurred the death of Isaac R. Bascom, resulting from neuralgia of the heart. He was a well known pioneer resident of Starke County.
Born in Switzerland County, August 24, 1830, where he spent his boyhood, he came to Starke county at twenty-five years of age and located on the land where he died a half mile north of Toto.
In 1861 he enlisted in the 29th Indiana Infantry, served in the mighty conflict as a soldier in the army of the Cumberland for nearly four and a half years.
In 1865 after returning to his home he was married to Sarah Stone of Winamac, Pulaski county, this state. To this union eleven children, seven of whom are living were born.
Mr. Bascom built the first building in Toto. For nearly forty years he kept the post office here in connection with his store of general merchandise which he managed up to the time of his confinement even after he became too aged to carry on active business. It had become a part of him, his being. In addition he had spent his leisure time in attending to his orchard and honey bees.
He was always hale and hearty up to last November, since when he had slowly grown weaker. He had lived to a ripe old age, being over eighty-three years old.
The funeral was held at Round Lake cemetery, Sunday, in charge of William Landon Post, G.A. R. Sermon being preached by Rev. J. A. J. Tannehill, of Knox. Music was furnished by Round Lake choir.
Mr. Bascom was a kind hearted old man with a helpful and courteous spirit. True, he had his faults, but who does not. Did not that greatest of all Americans whose birthday we celebrate soon, say: "There is so much good in the worst of us, that it behooves not any of us to speak ill of the rest of us."
Those who survive him are his wife, three daughters, Mesdames Blaine Crawford and Frank Kagel of South Bend and Gerstandt of north of here, and four sons, Richard of Lake City, Ark, Good of Decatur, Mich, S.C. of Devawis Bluff, Ark., and Dale of this place, including eight grandchildren besides a host of other relatives and friends.
(IR Bascom died January 29, 1913)
PIONEER RESIDENT ANSWERS FINAL SUMMONS
Old Settler Succumbs To Heart Failure last Wednesday Evening
Interment at Round Lake
On last Wednesday evening about 8:30 o'clock occurred the death of Isaac R. Bascom, resulting from neuralgia of the heart. He was a well known pioneer resident of Starke County.
Born in Switzerland County, August 24, 1830, where he spent his boyhood, he came to Starke county at twenty-five years of age and located on the land where he died a half mile north of Toto.
In 1861 he enlisted in the 29th Indiana Infantry, served in the mighty conflict as a soldier in the army of the Cumberland for nearly four and a half years.
In 1865 after returning to his home he was married to Sarah Stone of Winamac, Pulaski county, this state. To this union eleven children, seven of whom are living were born.
Mr. Bascom built the first building in Toto. For nearly forty years he kept the post office here in connection with his store of general merchandise which he managed up to the time of his confinement even after he became too aged to carry on active business. It had become a part of him, his being. In addition he had spent his leisure time in attending to his orchard and honey bees.
He was always hale and hearty up to last November, since when he had slowly grown weaker. He had lived to a ripe old age, being over eighty-three years old.
The funeral was held at Round Lake cemetery, Sunday, in charge of William Landon Post, G.A. R. Sermon being preached by Rev. J. A. J. Tannehill, of Knox. Music was furnished by Round Lake choir.
Mr. Bascom was a kind hearted old man with a helpful and courteous spirit. True, he had his faults, but who does not. Did not that greatest of all Americans whose birthday we celebrate soon, say: "There is so much good in the worst of us, that it behooves not any of us to speak ill of the rest of us."
Those who survive him are his wife, three daughters, Mesdames Blaine Crawford and Frank Kagel of South Bend and Gerstandt of north of here, and four sons, Richard of Lake City, Ark, Good of Decatur, Mich, S.C. of Devawis Bluff, Ark., and Dale of this place, including eight grandchildren besides a host of other relatives and friends.
(IR Bascom died January 29, 1913)
American Legion card gives his date of birth as 8/2/1828 (in error). His cause of death was listed as "Artero Sclerosis".
PIONEER RESIDENT ANSWERS FINAL SUMMONS
Old Settler Succumbs To Heart Failure last Wednesday Evening
Interment at Round Lake
On last Wednesday evening about 8:30 o'clock occurred the death of Isaac R. Bascom, resulting from neuralgia of the heart. He was a well known pioneer resident of Starke County.
Born in Switzerland County, August 24, 1830, where he spent his boyhood, he came to Starke county at twenty-five years of age and located on the land where he died a half mile north of Toto.
In 1861 he enlisted in the 29th Indiana Infantry, served in the mighty conflict as a soldier in the army of the Cumberland for nearly four and a half years.
In 1865 after returning to his home he was married to Sarah Stone of Winamac, Pulaski county, this state. To this union eleven children, seven of whom are living were born.
Mr. Bascom built the first building in Toto. For nearly forty years he kept the post office here in connection with his store of general merchandise which he managed up to the time of his confinement even after he became too aged to carry on active business. It had become a part of him, his being. In addition he had spent his leisure time in attending to his orchard and honey bees.
He was always hale and hearty up to last November, since when he had slowly grown weaker. He had lived to a ripe old age, being over eighty-three years old.
The funeral was held at Round Lake cemetery, Sunday, in charge of William Landon Post, G.A. R. Sermon being preached by Rev. J. A. J. Tannehill, of Knox. Music was furnished by Round Lake choir.
Mr. Bascom was a kind hearted old man with a helpful and courteous spirit. True, he had his faults, but who does not. Did not that greatest of all Americans whose birthday we celebrate soon, say: "There is so much good in the worst of us, that it behooves not any of us to speak ill of the rest of us."
Those who survive him are his wife, three daughters, Mesdames Blaine Crawford and Frank Kagel of South Bend and Gerstandt of north of here, and four sons, Richard of Lake City, Ark, Good of Decatur, Mich, S.C. of Devawis Bluff, Ark., and Dale of this place, including eight grandchildren besides a host of other relatives and friends.
(IR Bascom died January 29, 1913)
PIONEER RESIDENT ANSWERS FINAL SUMMONS
Old Settler Succumbs To Heart Failure last Wednesday Evening
Interment at Round Lake
On last Wednesday evening about 8:30 o'clock occurred the death of Isaac R. Bascom, resulting from neuralgia of the heart. He was a well known pioneer resident of Starke County.
Born in Switzerland County, August 24, 1830, where he spent his boyhood, he came to Starke county at twenty-five years of age and located on the land where he died a half mile north of Toto.
In 1861 he enlisted in the 29th Indiana Infantry, served in the mighty conflict as a soldier in the army of the Cumberland for nearly four and a half years.
In 1865 after returning to his home he was married to Sarah Stone of Winamac, Pulaski county, this state. To this union eleven children, seven of whom are living were born.
Mr. Bascom built the first building in Toto. For nearly forty years he kept the post office here in connection with his store of general merchandise which he managed up to the time of his confinement even after he became too aged to carry on active business. It had become a part of him, his being. In addition he had spent his leisure time in attending to his orchard and honey bees.
He was always hale and hearty up to last November, since when he had slowly grown weaker. He had lived to a ripe old age, being over eighty-three years old.
The funeral was held at Round Lake cemetery, Sunday, in charge of William Landon Post, G.A. R. Sermon being preached by Rev. J. A. J. Tannehill, of Knox. Music was furnished by Round Lake choir.
Mr. Bascom was a kind hearted old man with a helpful and courteous spirit. True, he had his faults, but who does not. Did not that greatest of all Americans whose birthday we celebrate soon, say: "There is so much good in the worst of us, that it behooves not any of us to speak ill of the rest of us."
Those who survive him are his wife, three daughters, Mesdames Blaine Crawford and Frank Kagel of South Bend and Gerstandt of north of here, and four sons, Richard of Lake City, Ark, Good of Decatur, Mich, S.C. of Devawis Bluff, Ark., and Dale of this place, including eight grandchildren besides a host of other relatives and friends.
(IR Bascom died January 29, 1913)
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