James Austin RENNER

RENNER, PETERSON, TRAINOR, CONNELLY, LEE, COLLINS, BUXTON, SWOPE

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 10/11/2008 at 09:48:01

Sterling Gazette, Illinois
September 4, 1918

Funeral Of James A. Renner Occurred In Tampico On Sunday

The funeral services of the late James A. Renner were held Monday afternoon at three o'clock, at the Tampico Methodist church, following a brief service at the home. The services were in charge of Rev. II. C. Brown, pastor of the Tampico Methodist church and interment was made in the Tampico cemetery. Appropriate hymns were rendered by a quartette, composed of Mesdames J. H. Hellier and R. N. Hellier and Mesrs, E. W. Meredith and J. H. Hellier, Miss Kathleen France, accompanist. The pall-bearers were Messra, Ed. Cunningham, Ed. Devine, Ed. Swanson, James Conroy, Addie Flock and William Foley. Honorary pall-bearers, Messrs, J. B. Fullerton, Fred W. Smith, Barney McGrady, James Leshy, H. A. Woods and, S. M. Harrington veterans of the Civil War and members of the G. A. R. There were a number of beautiful floral offerings and the large attendance gave proof of the esteem and respect in which the deceased was held by all with whom he came in contact.

James Austin Renner was born April 11, 1847, in Greenville township, Bureau county, Illinois where he resided until he became a young man and then moved north into Whiteside county east of Tampico, where he has made his home for more than half a century. He was married March 26, 1884, to Lena Peterson and eleven children blessed this union. Mr Renner served his country during the war in Company E. 148 Illinois Volunteer Infantry, receiving an honorable discharge at the close of that conflict. Practically all his life was spent in Hahnaman township east of Tampico where he accumulated land holdings, raised a large family and was noted for his big-hearted generosity and kindness to his neighbors who with his relatives will mourn his passing.

He is survived by the widow, six sons and four daughters as follows: Guy, of Stanley, Wisconsin; William, Clarence, Lawrence, Asa and Lourde, all residing east of here, and Mrs. Nellie Trainor, of Durand, Ill.; Mrs. Grace Connelly, of Fairfield; Mrs. Sadie Lee, of Hume, and Mae at home. Three sisters, Mrs. Robert Collins, of this place; Mrs. Charles Buxton, of Deer Grove and Mrs. Milton Swope, of Clarion, Iowa. Two brothers, Frank and John also survive.