Taken from Fountain County Obituaries 1896 -1922 found at Crawfordsville Public Library,
Local History Room July 2007 -- The funeral of Joel LINEBARGER was preached at the
Linebarger Chapel by Rev AJ Marshall and Goerge 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.