This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HUFFMAN, LESTER Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Ci.2ADE/4450 Message Board Post: THE BLOOMFIELD DEMOCRAT, Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, Thursday April 19, 1900, Volume XXXII, Number 7, Page 4, Columns 4, “Death of Ranz I. LESTER.” [Transcribed 29 Mar 2002 from Bloomfield-Eastern Greene County Public Library’s IHS Microfilm Records.] Ranz I. LESTER died April 12, 1900 at his residence in Taylor Township of brain trouble. He was born June 26, 1868. He joined the church in 1884 and at the time of his death was an officer in the church at Simpson Chapel. He was married to Jennie M. HUFFMAN, October 28, 1893 and to them three girls were born who with their mother live to mourn the loss of a dear and kind father and husband. The funeral occurred Saturday and was largely attended. Mr. LESTER was born and lived all his life in the neighborhood where he died and he was loved and respected as a moral upright citizen, a good neighbor, a loving husband and a kind father who provided well for his own household. — NOTES—RLJ: (1) INDEX TO MARRIAGE RECORDS IN GREENE COUNTY, INDIANA, 1939, WPA, Page199, LESTER, Rhans I. To Jennie M. HUFFMAN, wed 28 Oct 1893, Book N, Page 531. (2) CEMETERIES OF EASTERN GREENE COUNTY, INDIANA, 1994, G.C.H.S., Taylor Township, Simpson Chapel Cemetery, Page 218, Column 3: LESTER, Rhanz, 28 Sep 1868—12 Apr 1900; LESTER, Margaret Jane, w/o Rhanz, 1877—1963.