Show SMOKED NEARLY YEARS AND LIVES TO GOOD AGE OF I 7 SCHENECTADY N N. Y T. July Tuly 27 John 27 John Kelderhouse el h years of age died today at the I home e of his daughter Mrs al J. J of ot this city leaving five children seventeen grandchildren and twenty-six twenty great He had been a farmer all of ot his life and until three years ago his son law had to provide ground at the suburban home on which Mr Kr family I Kelderhouse He 0 had 3 fl lived raised I dl In vegetables this locality for the the b larger part of his life and he will be lt M eG t burled buried Saturday y in t the Guilderland cemetery cemetery m tery near which he conducted a farm farn for tor years Born of sturdy G German a aa a ancestors to John Kelderhouse hg was s one of f nine f children Both of ot his parents parents' were born in this country but his grandfather and grandmother grand grand- mother were who ekl killed who lYn in an emigrated i Indian e massacre from cr Germany ef In Co Columbia Columbia Co- Co lumbia county Mr Kelderhouse was bornat born bornat bornat at Livingston Manor Columbia county where he spent the early years of ot his life in clearing and running a farm tarm his fathers father death had left lert undeveloped When 20 years old he married His bride w s also an orphan arid five years younger than he To them were born thirteen children Of th the eight who died one died while serving as a member of the Tenth N New w York regiment Ir 11 in the Civil war Mr Kelderhouse moved to this locality soon after his marriage where he developed developed de de- de one of ot the most productive pieces of land in Schenectady county On this farm he reared his I family 1 y and passed f into the tt period of old I age i His wife died twenty-seven twenty years ago His died memory and o o's his s 's was tales s c clear of efa early a to ry We the life time and de det t the he progress of the State were full tull of inter est He was always a Democrat and took tooka a deep Interest In the affairs of the State and National Government Though Mr Kelderhouse did not at attribute attribute at at- tribute the cause of his long life lire to smokIng smoking smoke ing he continued d to smoke o a pipe until n uret J brt about b two years ago ao a habit which he formed in his youth OU I. I Until eight years ears ago he worked at least a part of every year on n his farm Until two years s ago he ba was na a active W e but t sl since then he lh has been t in bed with rheumatism |