Wasson, John F. 1847-1906

WASSON, BISOM, WARDEN

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Date: 1/30/2005 at 16:47:43

Mr. J. F. Wasson, who passed away last Thursday afternoon at his home seven miles south of this city, was fifty-nine years old, having been born in Huntington County, Indiana, Jan. 17, 1847.

When twelve years of age he came to Jasper County with his parents to reside on the farm where his death occurred.

Mr. Wasson had suffered some with stomach trouble, but there had been no alarming features and his death coming suddenly as it did, was a great shock to the members of his family, especially to the mother who is very old and feeble.

The father died twenty-one years ago. Since his death the mother has resided with the son’s family. She is now 84 years old, is blind and perfectly helpless, having suffered some time ago a stroke of paralysis and thus dependent very greatly on the care and help of her only son.

Besides this mother, he leaves a wife and four children, Mrs. Carl Bisom, James Warden, Bert and William.

The funeral was held from the United Presbyterian Church at Palo Alto Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock. Before going to the church, because it was the request of the mother, short services were held at the house. Rev. E. F. Gillis officiated at both services. The interment was in the cemetery near the church. ~ The Newton Daily News, Tuesday, February 13, 1906, Page 1, Column 3
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Dropped Dead in His Home

J. F. Wasson Succumbs to Heart Disease and is mourned by Many Friends

The news of the sudden death of J. F. Wasson, last Thursday afternoon, was a great shock to his friends in this city, but more especially to the neighbors among whom he had lived for half a century and who held him in the highest esteem. His death came without a moment’s warning-he being apparently in the best of health up to the very moment when he was stricken with death.

Mr. Wasson had been about his home chores as usual and about 3 o’clock in the afternoon went into the house to render some assistance to his aged mother, who, blind and almost helpless, had been lovingly cared for by him and his family for years. Just as he stepped from her bedside into the sitting room, he fell to the floor and expired almost immediately.

Mr. Wasson was born in Richmond, Indiana, January 17, 1847. Forty-seven years ago he came with his parents to Jasper County, and for most of that time his home had been on the farm where he died, eight miles south of Newton. About twenty-five years ago he was married to Miss Mary Crawford, who with four children-Nellie, wife of Carl Bisom, and Jas. W., Bert and William-survive the husband and father.

No man ever stood higher in the esteem of his neighbors, than Jack Wasson, as he was familiarly known by them-everybody was his friend. It was a strange coincidence that the first neighbor who arrived at the home after the death of Mr. Wasson was Charlie Charlesworth. Forty-seven years ago when Charlie arrived here with his parents direct from England, “Jack” was the first boy he met and became acquainted with, and from that day until death broke the ties between them, they had been neighbors and chums-an affection almost brotherly always existing between them. While Mr. Wasson belonged to no church, he was one of the truest of men, and always tried to gauge his life by the “golden rule.” For his aged mother, wife and children, to whom he was so tenderly devoted the greatest sympathy is felt by everybody.

Funeral service were held at the U. P. Church in Palo Alto Township at 3 o’clock Saturday afternoon, conducted by rev. F. F. Gillis, and was one of the most largely attended of any service of the kind ever held in the neighborhood.
~ Newspaper name and date unknown.