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Rockford (ILL) Republic
Saturday, 16 October, 1915

         IRA E. MARKS BURIAL
          TO BE IN MICHIGAN
          
         Civil War Veteran Who Passed Away
          Yesterday at Home of Son is Taken
           to Old Home for Interment.
           
         IRA E. MARKS, Civil war veteran, passed away yesterday
       at the home of his son, HARRY D. MARKS, 531 Horace avenue,
       after having lived here for three years. Short funeral
       services were held at the Burpee undertaking parlors this
       afternoon and the remains were taken to Marine City, Mich.,
       for interment.
       
         MR. MARKS was born in Michigan seventy-two years ago and
       served in Company 2, 22nd Michigant infantry as sergeant.
       He affiliated with the G. L. Nevius Post G.A.R. here. For
       a time he worked at the Emerson-Brantingham Company plant.
       
         He is survived by the widow and seven children, MRS.
       GERTRUDE BUTLER, MRS. THERESA RETSINGER, ALFRED MARKS,
       HARRY D. MARKS, ELDRIDGE MARKS, FRED J. MARKS and DAN
       MARKS, all of Rockford.
       
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