LINEBARGER, Joel - L-Obituaries

The funeral of Joel LINEBARGER was preached at the Linebarger Chapel by Rev AJ Marshall and George Linebarger Wed at 3 o'clock. The deceased was one of a family of 16 children, 13 of which are living. Joel died at his brother Jackson Linebarger's at Paris, Ill. He leaves 7 children all of whom are grown up men and women only two of them being permitted to be with their father during his last sickness and death. They all being residents of Ft. Worth, TX. Joel had been a sufferer of rheumatism for the last two years. Having contracted the disease while on a hunting expedition in Texas. He came North last winter to his old home at West Union among his brothers and sisters hoping to find some relief from the neerve racking disease of which he was the victim. Although he received the best of medical and Ostophatic treatments other complications came and an operation was performed from which he never recovered.