Heslar - Oscar Everett
Source: Waveland Independent newspaper, Waveland, Montgomery County, Indiana, Feb 10, 1911
Oscar Everett Heslar, son of James Milton and Annie Heslar was born Feb 10, 1895 and departed this life Feb 6, 1911, lacking 4 days of being 17.
He was still in school at Guion; should have graduated last year but failed in one or two studies and was cheerfully pursuing his last year over again.
He was a favorite among all the scholars and young people of the neighborhood.
He was a very dutiful and obedient son and never went any place without the permission of his parents.
He was very obliging to his sisters and neighbors and was held in the highest esteem by all who knew him.
He was a member of the Guion Sunday School and when he lived in Waveland four years ago he was a member of the ME Sunday School.
His teacher had a good influence upon him, so much that when his sister joined Church, his only excuse for not joining with her was that he wanted to join the Waveland Church.
His last illness with typhoid - pneumonia was 17 days duration.
His suffering was intense but he was exceedingly patient and obedient and never missed a dose of medicine prescribed.
He will be sadly missed in school where he never mixed in any of the difficulties but was always jolly
in Sunday School where he loved his teacher -in the neighborhood where he was ever helpful and ever welcome
but most of all in the home, where he was the only son, by his father, mother and four sisters.
But let us not grieve too much for our loss is his gain and Heaven's gain, also. Funeral services were conducted at the Waveland Methodist Episcopal Church, on Tues. afternoon by the Rev. JD Ulay, of Ladoga, assisted by the Rev. WH Fertich. Interm. at maple Ridge Cemetery
Those who attended the funeral from a distance were: John Hesler;
Mr. & Mrs. Walter Young and son, Clarence, of Rockville; Mrs. IA Gilkerson and Henry Pickard of Crawfordsville; Chester Heslar of Russellville