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ZENOR/ROUSSEAU FAMILY OBITUARIES

These obituaries copied from old, yellowed newspaper clippings found in the pages of the Zenor Family Bible. No date or name of publication was added to identify them further.

DIED

ROUSSEAU. At his residence in Hennepin (IL), May 18th, 1878, of Erysipelatous Gastritis (commonly known as inflammation of the stomach), Dr. Clement Van Dyke Rousseau, aged 77 years, 11 months, and 7 days.

Clement Van Dyke Rousseau was born June 17, 1800. when less than fourteen years of age he inlisted for the war of 1812 - 14 and served until the death of Gen. Ross, at Baltimore, when his company, the Pennsalvania Defensibles, was discharged. He graduated in the higher branches, receiving a diploma, and delivering the valedictory address, out of a class of twenty graduates, July 13, 1817, at the Philadelphia Academy. In 1822 he was married to Mary Newman, at Philadelphia, Penn. In 1825 he graduated at the Medical University of Pennsylvania, receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine. In 1830 he was commissioned as Surgeon in the U.S. Navy, but soon resigned his position on account of the failing health of his father, Dr. J. C. Rousseau, then late of Paris, France, who died soon after, aged 96 years. At the time of the yellow fever plague in 1835, he went to New Orleans on his appointment to the charge of the Louisiana Charity Hospital; contracted the yellow fever and returned home in the winter of 1835. In April, 1836, he settled with his family at Hennepin, Putnam County, Illinois, where he continued the practice of his profession until 1874, when his declining health forced him to a more retired life. He left four surviving children and eight grandchildren.

McFERSON. At his residence in Tonlca, on Friday evening, April 26, 1878, Mr. Harvey McFerson, aged 60 years and 3 days. Deceased was a native of Brown county, Ohio, whence he came to this State (Ill) and settled in Putnam county in 1840, moving onto section 22 in the town of Eden, La Salle county, in 1856, and thence to the village of Tonlca a little more than a year ago.

DIED

At Hennepin, March 22nd, 1871, Mr. William Zenor, aged 89 years.

Mr. Zenor was born in Pennsylvania, April 14th, 1782. When he was about 12 years of age his parents moved to Jefferson county Kentucky, two years after that State was admitted into the Union. Thus his early life was spent in a new country. Here he grew to manhood, and married Miss Sarah Scaton, and reared a family. But after years of labor in the country became too thickly settled for him, when he moved with his family to Clay county, Indiana, in the year 1830. He remained in this State but six years. His son, H. K. Zenor, having settled in Illinois, he, in 1836 moved to this State, and settled in this county, Dec. 14th, 1842. The companion of his youth and the sharer of his pioneer life died. AFter this sad event he remained about six years on his homestead, when he came to live with his son, H. K. Zenor. For the past twenty-two years he has made his home there.

A pioneer in three States, he had his share of the labor, exposure and privations includent to such a life. A strong, healthy man, reared to labor, he has seen the friends of his youth pass away, and has buried one of his sons, who had lived more than the average age of man. For some time past he has seemed like some weary traveler waiting on the river bank for the ferryman to come. We did not hear the boat as it gained the sand, but we know that he passed from our sight, with the boatman pale, to that land from whose bourn no traveler returns. Thus does death's untiring reapers gather in the pioneers, but the memory of them will remain green in our hearts. His funeral was preached at the M. E. Church, March 24th, and the large congregation of sympathizing friends and neighbors shows how much his life was respected, and his death mourned. -- J. B. D.

RESOLUTIONS OF SYMPATHY.

At a regular meeting of Hennepin Lodge No. 118, I.O.O.F., held April 14, 1908, a committee was appointed to draft resolutions on the death of Bro. L. C. Rousseau, and said committee offers the following:

WHEREAS, It has pleased the Supreme Ruler of the Universe to call our worthy brother, L. C. Rousseau, from the scenes and activities of this life into the eternal world; and

WHEREAS, The long and intimate relation held with him on the faithful discharge of his duties in our Lodge makes it eminently befitting that we record our appreciation of him; therefor, be it

RESOLVED, That we, as brothers, bow in humble submission to His will, and while we so deeply mourn our loss, we most sincerely join in extending our sympathy to the grief stricken family, and pray that the Holy One may administer to them "the oil of joy for mourning and beauty for ashes."

RESOLVED, That we cherish and emulate the noble traits that characterized the life of our departed Brother whilst living among us, not for self only, but in the exemplification of our beloved order, in that of bettering all by kindness and good deeds with whom he associated and came in contact.

RESOLVED, That these resolutions be spread upon our minutes, a copy transmitted to the bereaved family, also a copy for publication in THE PUTNAM RECORD, and that our charter be draped in mourning for thirty days.