Rominger - Alvin
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal 10-27-1887
The community was shocked on last Saturday to learn of the death of Alvin ROMINGER. He had been quite ill from congestion of the stomach but had recovered and been able to be about at business. A second attack of only a few days' duration ended in his sudden death. The day preceding his demise he had been quite bright and cheerful and no one apprehended serious results. His funeral occurred from his residence on Market Street on Monday afternoon. The services were conducted by Rev. Switzer, pstor of the ME Church. The funeral was one of the largest ever seen in Crawfordsville. People of all classes and conditions in life were there to pay their last sad and tearful tribute to the ashes of what had been in the truest sense of the word a representative citizen of Crawfordsville in all things honest, eminently enterprising, public spirited and charitable, one whose purse was ever open to those in suffering and distress. Alvin Rominger was born and raised in this county and to him as much as to anyone else is the city in debted for what it now is. He was 50 years of age. He leaves a wife but no children. He was a soldier and the old veterans attended his funeral. kbz
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal 10-27-1887
By the death of Alvin ROMINGER and the removal of Warren H. Ashley from one ward to another, it becomes necessary to elect a councilman in both the second and third wards. The office is not eagerly sought after. kbz