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Two of the Nation's Oldest Odd Fellows Died Last Week
Rushville Times, May 12, 1937

*Note: same paper has the obits. Obits will be in the obituary section.

Two of the Nation's Oldest Odd Fellowes Died Last Week.
Last Week marked the death in the adjoining counties of Fulton & Schuyler of two of the Nations oldest members of the Fraternal Order, I. O. O. F.
Henry O Bader, who had been a member of Browning lodge since 1865, died near Bader on May 6 & on Sat. May 8 William Arbuthnot who joined the order at Canton on Aug. 16, 1865 passed away.
Mr. Bader at the time of his death was the second oldest Odd Fellow in the Nation.

CLARENCE BADER MOVING
Rushville Times, August 18, 1937

Clarence Bader of Browning Twp. is making plans to move to Hancock Co., where he lately purchased 150 acres farm of W. R. Cochean, two miles north of Hamilton, where he expects to make his home. He has already moved his threshing outfit and is threshing the neighborhood grain crop.
The dwelling on his new farm is a pretentious stone building erected about civil war time and is in excellent state of repair.
Mr. Bader is a farmer who will be missed in Browning Twp., where he took an active part in community and religious affairs.
*Note: I was told while growing up that this house was on the Underground Railroad during the Civil War and had many hiding places in the walls. Sara Hemp