St. Clair County Obits

JOHN H. PUNTNEY

Clinton, Mo. - Died Monday, March 13, about six o'clock, the immortal spirit of John H. Punteney passed to the better world, after a lingering illness of about three months. Born June 18, 1815 in Pennsylvania but while yet an infant was taken to west Virginia, where he lived until he was 16, when he went to Indiana to reside. In 1880, located in St. Clair County where he lived until about six years ago when he came to Clinton. He joined the North Methodist Church in 1836, has been a faithful Christian. He had been suffering from heart disease for several years. Leaves a wife and eight children. Burial in Englewood.