SULLIVAN COUNTY INDIANA
OBITS
Mrs.
Belle Hopewell, 72, wife of Ed Hopewell, died at the home of her
son, James Moore, 1408 Fourth Street, early Saturday morning following
a long illness.
The funeral service was held Tuesday morning at the Eighth Street Church of God with the Rev. Harry Henderson in charge. Burial was in the Oaktown Cemetery.
Mrs. Hopewell is survived by the husband, two sons, James Moore of Lawrenceville (IL) and Harry Moore of Denver (CO); two daughters, Mrs. CM(Mina) Paris of Denver (CO) and Mrs. Melvin (Dessie) Jones of Bridgeport (IL); one sister, Mrs. Ollie Peters of Sumner (IL) and two brothers, Elmer Hobbs of Sumner (IL) and Charles Hobbs of Houston.
Her first husband, John Moore and two daughter predeeded her in death.
(Published in the Lawrence County News, April 14, 1949)
Belle Hopewell is buried in the Shaker Prarie Cemetery just north of the Knox County line in Sullivan County. Her name is mis-spelled on the stone as Ninnie Belle Hopewell, instead of Minnie Belle Hopwell. She was my paternal grandmother, and died before my birth.
(Contributed by Brenda Duckworth dbduck4@shawneelink.net)
Sullivan, IN. Dec.7.1898.
George W. Hanchsett, one of the pioneers of this county, died at his home in the city today. He was a veteran of the Mexican and Civil Wars and was 75 yrs old.
CRAWFORD, MARTIN BOWMAN
Martin Bowman Crawford on March 16, died after a long illness. He was born February 20, 1851 in Columbiana county, Ohio. In 1874 he edited the Booneville Standard, and on March 22 that year he married Miss Fannie K. Thompson in Sullivan, Ind. After editing the Terre Haute Daily Courier he came to Garden City in February 1886 where he edited the Daily Sentinel. In 1887 he became editor of the Hatfield News and also was appointed postmaster. He leaves his wife and only son Harry. The funeral was held March 18 at the homestead three miles south of Terry, and burial on the homestead north of the residence at his request. Services were conducted by Rev. L. D. Willingham and Rev. Albert Godley. (The Terry Eye, March 21, 1889)
M. B. Crawford, age 38, March 16 at his home in Hatfield, from lung hemorrhage. The funeral was conducted by Rev. Godley of the Christian Church, with the Tyrian Lodge of this place in charge of the burial. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge of Brownsville, Ind. (The Finney County Democrat, March 23, 1889)
Martin B. Crawford, age 38, on Saturday, March 16 died near Hatfield of hemorrhage of the lungs. Born February 20, 1851 in Columbiana county, Ohio, he married Miss Fanny K. Thompson in 1887 at Sullivan, Ind. Was publisher in Indiana before coming here in 1886, where he was with the Sentinel, then published the Hatfield News until six weeks ago. Funeral Monday with Tyrian Lodge and Rev. Albert Godley in charge. Burial near home on the claim. (The Garden City Sentinel, March 23, 1889)
Martin B. Crawford, editor of the Hatfield News, on March 16, after an illness of seven weeks which began with a severe hemorrhage of the lungs. The funeral was from the family residence March 18, largely attended by the people from the surrounding country. Terry, and Garden City. The services were conducted by Rev. A. Godley, assisted by Rev. Willingham of Garden City and hymns were sung by the Hatfield Choir. The Masonic fraternity of Garden City conducted their ritual at the interment as the remains were laid to rest on the homestead, in accordance with the wishes of the deceased. Mr. Crawford had been a member of the Presbyterian church in Terre Haute, Ind. and was a member of the Union church here. The Hatfield News, March 30, 1889.
(contributed by Peggy Thompson)
THOMPSON, MRS. MARY A.
Mrs. Mary A. Thompson, wife of Dr. J. J. Thompson and mother of Mrs. M. B. Crawford, died at the family home in Sullivan, Ind., Monday, of cancer. (The Hatfield News, March 21, 1888) Submitted by Peggy Thompson
WEIR, MRS. SOPHIA A.
Mrs. Sophia A. Weir, near Pierceville December 13 of heart disease. Formerly a resident of Indiana, was a sister of Rev. T. C. Smith, known to readers as president of U. C. College, Merom, Ind. Funeral conducted by Rev. Albert Godley. (The Garden City Sentinel, December 22, 1888) Submitted by Peggy Thompson
Sudden Death of a Coal Miner.
Sullivan, Ind., Jan. 27.—James Conner, a coal miner at Star City„ was found dead this .morning In bed. He had been In good health on the evening: before, and probably died of heart disease. Andrew Alsman was nearly killed by a premature explosion In a coal mine near here this evening. He is very dangerously hurt.
Weekly Indiana State Journal January 29, 1896
Rev. Alexander Knoy, Once a Prominent M E Preacher.
Sullivan, Ind., Feb. 27.—Rev. Alexander Knoy, a superannuated minister of the Methodist Church, died in this city last night, aged eighty-one. He was a minister for sixty years and a member of the Indiana Conference for ten years. Rev. Knoy
went to Kansas when he was prosperous and gained prominence as a pulpit orator After his retirement misfortune overcame him and he finally came back to this county and sought refuge in the County Infirmary.Shortly after his return the M. E. Church of this city ascertained the fact and provider a home and nurse for him until his deaths He was a prominent Mason and a charter member of the fraternity organized In this city in 1859.
Date: 1899-03-01; Paper: Indiana State Journal
Mrs. W. J. DURBIN, of Greenville, fell dead upon receiving news of the death of the wife of Rev. H.J. BARR, of Mitchell, one of her devoted friends.
Indiana General News Items from the Indianapolis News 15 December. 1890 Page 6 Column 5 and 6
Robert J Cummins
Farmersburg, Ind., Sept. 4 - Robert Cummins 67 years of age died at his home in Farmersburg. He leaves a widow, Mrs. Narcissus Cummins; a daughter, Mrs. Emma Branson; a son, Charles I Cummins; an adopted daughter, Mrs. Ethel Salesberry; two brothers, Alex and Charles; and a large number of other relatives and friends.
In his religious life he was a Baptist, having been a member of Friendship church for years. He was one of the oldest Past Grands in the Farmersburg I.O.O.F. lodge, having ben initiated at the time the lodge was opened. He was also a Charter Member of the Farmersburg I.O.O.F. Camp.
The funeral was preached at Liberty Wednesday afternoon by Rev. George Fuson. The Odd Fellows had charges of the services and burial. After a prayer and a few words at the house the cortege proceeded to the grave preceded by the Order of Odd Fellows marching in a body. After the funeral was preached the Odd Fellows proceeded with their burial ceremonies and he was buried in the Friendship cemetery with all the honors of the order.
Many visiting brothers from other lodges were present and joined in the exercises.
Newspaper: Sullivan Daily Times
Submitters Name: Misty Curl
Narcissus Catharyn Canaday Cummins
Katharyn Canada, daughter of David and Rebecca Canaday, was born April 12, 1842, at Hutsonville, Ill.; departed this life April 3, 1920.
April 25, 1862, she was united in marriage to Robert J Cummins. To this union was born four children, Emma Rebecca, James David, Charles Ira and Mary Esther. James David and Mary Esther died in infancy. Her husband passed away in 1909, Charles Ira in 1913.
Emma R., wife of James Branson, together with four grandsons, D. LeRoy, William, Robert Max Clarence and Leo Charles Cummins and two great-grandsons, John Harold and Leo Robert Cummins, survive her.
Forty-eight years ago she with her husband united with Friendship Baptist church and was still a member at her death.
She with her husband moved to Farmersburg in 1869, and have resided here, except six months they lived on a farm east of town.
The funeral was held Monday at the M.E. Church, conducted by Rev. George Fuson. Burial at West Lawn.
**Note - Charles Ira died in 1912, not 1913 as the obituary says.**
Newspaper: Farmersburg News (Weekly paper) April 18, 1920
Submitters Name: Misty Curl
Name of Deceased: Bridwell, John
Obit: NALS 27 Sep 1872 p4 c2: Sudden Death. The Sullivan Democrat says: The community was shocked on Thursday by the report that Mr. John Bridwell, a well known citizen, was dying. He was in his usual health that morning, only that day before having comsummated a bargain for the purchase of the store of Mrssrs. Price & McKnight, intending again to re-enter the mercantile business. He was taken sick about 10 o'clock Thursday morning, and died before midnight. Mr. Bridwell was well known to many of our citizens, having been engaged in selling goods in this place for over twenty years.
County: Sullivan State: IN
Newspaper: New Albany Ledger Standard
Submitters Name: spc
The following obituary is taken from the Carlisle (Indiana) News of February 28, 1907:
IN MEMORIAM
Mary Ann (Ferree) Markee was the daughter of Philip Copeland Ferree and Margaret (Trimble) Ferree. She was born near Paxton, Indiana, at the home of her grandparents, Joel Ferree and Mary (Leeth) Ferree, who were pioneer settlers of this township. The Ferrees are of French Huguenot ancestry, and she bore the name of her great-great-great-grandmother Madame Mary Ferree, who, with her children, fled from France after the edict of Nantes, came to America with William Penn and founded the first Huguenot colony in Pennsylvania in 1708.
The greater part of Mrs. Markee’s life was spent in this community. She received such education as the times afforded, which was meager. At the age of seven she was motherless, and e’er she was sixteen she was bereft of stepmother, father and grandparents. As the eldest of the little flock she bravely took the mother’s place until she was incapacitated by illness, when the care of the little brothers was assumed by an uncle and she and her only sister, Sarah Ellen, found homes with maternal relatives.
At the age of twenty she was married to William Linder Pirtle, son of Jacob and Lydia Pirtle, a young man of sterling qualities. He was a tanner, in partnership with Isaac Shannon, the home and tanyard occupying a block on Harrison street. In 1852, she united with the Methodist church. She and her husband were immersed in Busseron creek, near Ledgerwood’s Mill, by Rev. J.W. Julian. Her marriage was a happy one, but the young husband contracted quick consumption from overwork and exposure, and in August, 1853, she was left a widow with a young child, Margaret Olly (Mrs. Walstine Rogers), who survives her, the other daughter, Laura Jane, having died in infancy.
The widow was married, May 29, 1856, to Isaac Newton Markee, son of James M. and Rhoda Markee, of Palestine, Illinois. The ceremony was performed at her home by Squire Van Fossen, and the fiftieth anniversary of the event was quietly celebrated in Chicago last May. Of this union five children were born, for of whom survive her: William Allen Markee, of Chicago; Sarah Ellen (Mrs. Frank Buckley), of Monett, Missouri; Nora May (Mrs. Frank Alumbaugh), of Carlisle, Indiana; Maud Winifred (Mrs. George R. Miles), of Chicago. The second child, a daughter, died in infancy.
Mr. Markee’s health failed, and while the children were yet young she bravely became the bread-winner of the family and performed both father and mother’s part in caring for and educating her children. She faithfully ministered to her invalid husband until his death, September 6, 1883. At this time all her children were married and well launched in the world, except the youngest, and to better her condition she decided to leave her native state. The inherited pioneer spirit of her ancestors asserted itself and she turned her face westward to what seemed to her the Land of Promise – Antelope Valley, in northwest Nebraska. A colony under the leadership of Rev. J.A. Scamahorn, of Sullivan, was organized in 1884. About sixty or seventy-five families from Sullivan and Carlisle made up the party. Those from Carlisle were Mrs. Markee and daughter, Maud, Dr. W.A. Lisman, Samuel and Albert Helms, Jacob Milam, Alonzo, John, Joseph and Oscar Estabrook and Charles Speake. They went a hundred miles beyond Valentine, the terminus of the railroad, and settled on government land in the valley of the Antelope, in what is now Sheridan county, Nebraska. Mrs. Markee was then past fifty-four years of age and was companioned only by her young daughter. For thirteen years she lived there, enduring all the hardships incident to pioneer life. Everything was in the experimental stage, failure after failure rewarding their efforts. The severe winter, lack of rainfall and failure of crops all tended to discourage the little band of settlers. Strong men faltered, weak ones turned back, but Mrs. Markee bravely plodded on, firm in her confidence in the final success of the venture.
The years sped apace; success seemed within their grasp – the years of toil were bearing fruit – when suddenly the realization came that old age was upon her. She turned over the management of her affairs to her youngest daughter and finally yielded to the desires of her elder children to leave the scene of her struggles and returned to the land of her birth to spend the evening of her life with her children and grandchildren. Her industry, her public spirit, her high ideals, have made a lasting impression on the community which she helped to found. Her name is a synonym of courage, and there are many friends there who will mourn the passing of her brave spirit. Her life here since her return has been very happy. She has divided her time between her four daughters and has watched the development of her grandchildren and great grandchildren with satisfaction.
To look back over seventy-six years of useful life, to realize that no duty has been left undone, to sleep every night with a clear conscience, to feel that in all the walks of life she has acquitted herself nobly and well, to see her children grow up and fill honorable places in the world, to bear with patience the affliction which came upon her when paralysis robbed her of her activity, to be tenderly ministered unto during the year of her helplessness by her devoted children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren, to enjoy at intervals the relatives and friends who came with words of cheer, to have a heart full of gratitude and thankfulness and to preserve an abiding faith in an All Wise Creator – this has been her portion; this has constituted the glow which pervaded her sickroom. Her life went out like the passing of a perfect day, in a glorious sunset.
“Her children rise up and call her blessed,” and in all this world of shadows they see no shadow of a final parting from her. Three of her daughters were at her bedside when the end came. The simple funeral service was conducted at her home Wednesday afternoon by Brother and Sister Edwards, the details having been arranged in accordance with her wishes. The body was borne to its last resting place in the Carlisle cemetery by members of her own family.
Submitted by Katherine HaggertyTranscribed by Katherine Haggerty
Benson Jewell Sr
On Jan 19th, at his home, in Turner, Clay county, Benson Jewell Sr., died of old age. He was born in Spencer Co., KY November 8, 1810, and was in his 90th year. He was married to Miss Martha McKinley, daughter of Captain Wm. McKinley in Spencer County, KY in 1930. Of this union were born eleven children, six of them boys, all of whom went into the Union army in the war of 1861-5; three of them perished in the service and one has died since of disease contracted in the war, and two are yet living. W. R. of Danville, Ill., and Scott of Sullivan, Ind. Of the five daughters two survive, Mary A. Payne, Turner, Ind., and Ellen Boles, Terre Haute. In 1852 Mr. Jewell married to Mrs. Elizabeth Osborn. there were no children by this marriage. He was again married to Mrs. Elizabeth Steward, by whome there were five children, four of whom and the mother survive him.
Benson Jewell came of Revolutionary stock, both his paternal and maternal grand parents were in the Revolutionary war. He was one of the most peacable, honorable and kind-hearted of men. His family remember him with tenderest love, and no one can say he ever was revengeful or false to them. He went to his eternal rest full of years and honor.
Newspaper: Terre Haute Express Obit: Thurs, Jan 25, 1900
Submitted by Muriel White
Rev. Winfield S. Jewell
Special to the Tribune
Sullivan Co., IN, April 26
Rev. Winfield S. Jewell Jr, 81 years old, a retired minister and civil war veteran died here at his home Saturday morning at 4:30 o'clock. He is survived by the widow, one daughter, Mrs. George Lemmer, of Terre Haute, and a half brother. The funeral will be held from the residence Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock with burial in Center Ridge cemetery.
Note: This is Winfield S. Jewell Jr., who married Sarah Hale -02 Apr 1866 Vigo Co., IN
Newspaper: Terre Haute Tribune
Submitted by Muriel White
Squire Otis Smith
Sullivan, Ind., Oct 6, -- (Special) Squire Otis Smith, 56 years old, died at 1:30 o'clock Tuesday morning at his home. R. R. 3 Sullivan, IN. He was employed at the Baker Mine and he worked yesterday. He was a veteran of WW I. Surviving are the widow, Lorene Pearl; three sons, Malcolm Smith of Terre Haute, Charles Smith with the Army and Jerry Smith at home; three sisters, Mrs. Kathryn Truckey of Evansville, Mrs. Flora Harlow of Brazil, and Mrs, Cretia Harrel of Princeton, and two brothers, Arthur and Roy Smith, both of Hymera. The body was taken to the Railsback Funeral Home where services will be held at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon. Burial will be in the K of P. Cemetery.
Newspaper: The Terre Haute Tribune 10-06-1948 Obituaries
Submitted by Muriel White
Joseph Elza Woods
Shelburn, Ind., Jan 2. - (Special)
Joseph Elza Woods, 78 years old, died Thursday afternoon at the Mary Sherman Hospital in Sullivan. He is survived by the widow Minnie; a brother Perry Woods of Lewis; and 3 sisters, Misses Liza and Nora of Woods and Mrs. Cora Bays, all of Lewis. The body will be taken to the McHugh Funeral Home where services will be held at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon.
Newspaper: Terre Haute Tribune Friday, Jan 2, 1948
Mary Etta (Woods) Harding
Obit: Sullivan Daily Times - Oct 1993
Mary Woods Harding, 82, R1 Shelburn, died at 1:42 am Saturday, October 1 6, 1993, at Mary Sherman Hospital, Sullivan.
She was born December 6, 1911, in Clay County, to David L. and Laura E. Woods. She was a homemaker.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Ross Harding, who died in 1989.
Survivors include one sister, Ruby McNeeley, Brownsburg.
Funeral services were today at the Fidler-Mattox Farmersburg Chapel with Elder Tommy Freeman officiating. Burial was in Westlawn Cemetery.
Newspaper: Daily Times Date: Oct 1993
Submitters Name: Friends For Free Genealogy
Rev. Alexander Knoy Once a Prominent M. E. Preacher.
SULLIVAN, Ind,, Feb. 27.—Rev. Alexander Knoy, a superannuated minister of the Methodist Church, died in this city last night, aged eighty-one. He was a minister for sixty years and a member of the Indiana Conference for ten years. Rev. Knoy went to Kansas when he was prosperous and gained prominence as a pulpit orator. After his retirement misfortune overcame him and he finally came back to this county and sought refuge in the County Infirmary. Shortly after his return the M. E. Church of this city ascertained the fact and provided a home and nurse for him until his death. He was a prominent Mason and a charter member of the fraternity organized in this city in 1859.
Date: 1899-03-01; Paper: Indiana State Journal
Died at the residence of her grandfather, John Cordon in Sullivan County Indiana on the 13th instant. Edelia Ann Elsworth, of affection of the Iungs in the sixteenth year of her age. Her death has left a void in the family, but it must be great consolation to her friends that she gave good evidence that she died in the Lord
Date: 1850-08-17; Paper: Wabash Courier
SULLIVAN, Ind Jan. 30.—W. H. Thixtun died at his home in this city to-day of stomach trouble. He was sixty-two years old and was a prominent citizen and proprietor of the Arlington House,
Date: 1899-02-01; Paper: Indiana State Journal
Mrs. James Wright.
SULLIVAN, Ind. Sept 11—Mrs. James Wright, of this city, fell, last Saturday afternoon, and broke her right arm. She was subject to heart disease and died yesterday afternoon from the effects of the shock.
Date: 1899-09-13; Paper: Indiana State Journal
The funeral service was held Tuesday morning at the Eighth Street Church of God with the Rev. Harry Henderson in charge. Burial was in the Oaktown Cemetery.
Mrs. Hopewell is survived by the husband, two sons, James Moore of Lawrenceville (IL) and Harry Moore of Denver (CO); two daughters, Mrs. CM(Mina) Paris of Denver (CO) and Mrs. Melvin (Dessie) Jones of Bridgeport (IL); one sister, Mrs. Ollie Peters of Sumner (IL) and two brothers, Elmer Hobbs of Sumner (IL) and Charles Hobbs of Houston.
Her first husband, John Moore and two daughter predeeded her in death.
(Published in the Lawrence County News, April 14, 1949)
Belle Hopewell is buried in the Shaker Prarie Cemetery just north of the Knox County line in Sullivan County. Her name is mis-spelled on the stone as Ninnie Belle Hopewell, instead of Minnie Belle Hopwell. She was my paternal grandmother, and died before my birth.
(Contributed by Brenda Duckworth dbduck4@shawneelink.net)
Sullivan, IN. Dec.7.1898.
George W. Hanchsett, one of the pioneers of this county, died at his home in the city today. He was a veteran of the Mexican and Civil Wars and was 75 yrs old.
CRAWFORD, MARTIN BOWMAN
Martin Bowman Crawford on March 16, died after a long illness. He was born February 20, 1851 in Columbiana county, Ohio. In 1874 he edited the Booneville Standard, and on March 22 that year he married Miss Fannie K. Thompson in Sullivan, Ind. After editing the Terre Haute Daily Courier he came to Garden City in February 1886 where he edited the Daily Sentinel. In 1887 he became editor of the Hatfield News and also was appointed postmaster. He leaves his wife and only son Harry. The funeral was held March 18 at the homestead three miles south of Terry, and burial on the homestead north of the residence at his request. Services were conducted by Rev. L. D. Willingham and Rev. Albert Godley. (The Terry Eye, March 21, 1889)
M. B. Crawford, age 38, March 16 at his home in Hatfield, from lung hemorrhage. The funeral was conducted by Rev. Godley of the Christian Church, with the Tyrian Lodge of this place in charge of the burial. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge of Brownsville, Ind. (The Finney County Democrat, March 23, 1889)
Martin B. Crawford, age 38, on Saturday, March 16 died near Hatfield of hemorrhage of the lungs. Born February 20, 1851 in Columbiana county, Ohio, he married Miss Fanny K. Thompson in 1887 at Sullivan, Ind. Was publisher in Indiana before coming here in 1886, where he was with the Sentinel, then published the Hatfield News until six weeks ago. Funeral Monday with Tyrian Lodge and Rev. Albert Godley in charge. Burial near home on the claim. (The Garden City Sentinel, March 23, 1889)
Martin B. Crawford, editor of the Hatfield News, on March 16, after an illness of seven weeks which began with a severe hemorrhage of the lungs. The funeral was from the family residence March 18, largely attended by the people from the surrounding country. Terry, and Garden City. The services were conducted by Rev. A. Godley, assisted by Rev. Willingham of Garden City and hymns were sung by the Hatfield Choir. The Masonic fraternity of Garden City conducted their ritual at the interment as the remains were laid to rest on the homestead, in accordance with the wishes of the deceased. Mr. Crawford had been a member of the Presbyterian church in Terre Haute, Ind. and was a member of the Union church here. The Hatfield News, March 30, 1889.
(contributed by Peggy Thompson)
THOMPSON, MRS. MARY A.
Mrs. Mary A. Thompson, wife of Dr. J. J. Thompson and mother of Mrs. M. B. Crawford, died at the family home in Sullivan, Ind., Monday, of cancer. (The Hatfield News, March 21, 1888) Submitted by Peggy Thompson
WEIR, MRS. SOPHIA A.
Mrs. Sophia A. Weir, near Pierceville December 13 of heart disease. Formerly a resident of Indiana, was a sister of Rev. T. C. Smith, known to readers as president of U. C. College, Merom, Ind. Funeral conducted by Rev. Albert Godley. (The Garden City Sentinel, December 22, 1888) Submitted by Peggy Thompson
Sudden Death of a Coal Miner.
Sullivan, Ind., Jan. 27.—James Conner, a coal miner at Star City„ was found dead this .morning In bed. He had been In good health on the evening: before, and probably died of heart disease. Andrew Alsman was nearly killed by a premature explosion In a coal mine near here this evening. He is very dangerously hurt.
Weekly Indiana State Journal January 29, 1896
Rev. Alexander Knoy, Once a Prominent M E Preacher.
Sullivan, Ind., Feb. 27.—Rev. Alexander Knoy, a superannuated minister of the Methodist Church, died in this city last night, aged eighty-one. He was a minister for sixty years and a member of the Indiana Conference for ten years. Rev. Knoy
went to Kansas when he was prosperous and gained prominence as a pulpit orator After his retirement misfortune overcame him and he finally came back to this county and sought refuge in the County Infirmary.Shortly after his return the M. E. Church of this city ascertained the fact and provider a home and nurse for him until his deaths He was a prominent Mason and a charter member of the fraternity organized In this city in 1859.
Date: 1899-03-01; Paper: Indiana State Journal
Mrs. W. J. DURBIN, of Greenville, fell dead upon receiving news of the death of the wife of Rev. H.J. BARR, of Mitchell, one of her devoted friends.
Indiana General News Items from the Indianapolis News 15 December. 1890 Page 6 Column 5 and 6
Robert J Cummins
Farmersburg, Ind., Sept. 4 - Robert Cummins 67 years of age died at his home in Farmersburg. He leaves a widow, Mrs. Narcissus Cummins; a daughter, Mrs. Emma Branson; a son, Charles I Cummins; an adopted daughter, Mrs. Ethel Salesberry; two brothers, Alex and Charles; and a large number of other relatives and friends.
In his religious life he was a Baptist, having been a member of Friendship church for years. He was one of the oldest Past Grands in the Farmersburg I.O.O.F. lodge, having ben initiated at the time the lodge was opened. He was also a Charter Member of the Farmersburg I.O.O.F. Camp.
The funeral was preached at Liberty Wednesday afternoon by Rev. George Fuson. The Odd Fellows had charges of the services and burial. After a prayer and a few words at the house the cortege proceeded to the grave preceded by the Order of Odd Fellows marching in a body. After the funeral was preached the Odd Fellows proceeded with their burial ceremonies and he was buried in the Friendship cemetery with all the honors of the order.
Many visiting brothers from other lodges were present and joined in the exercises.
Newspaper: Sullivan Daily Times
Submitters Name: Misty Curl
Narcissus Catharyn Canaday Cummins
Katharyn Canada, daughter of David and Rebecca Canaday, was born April 12, 1842, at Hutsonville, Ill.; departed this life April 3, 1920.
April 25, 1862, she was united in marriage to Robert J Cummins. To this union was born four children, Emma Rebecca, James David, Charles Ira and Mary Esther. James David and Mary Esther died in infancy. Her husband passed away in 1909, Charles Ira in 1913.
Emma R., wife of James Branson, together with four grandsons, D. LeRoy, William, Robert Max Clarence and Leo Charles Cummins and two great-grandsons, John Harold and Leo Robert Cummins, survive her.
Forty-eight years ago she with her husband united with Friendship Baptist church and was still a member at her death.
She with her husband moved to Farmersburg in 1869, and have resided here, except six months they lived on a farm east of town.
The funeral was held Monday at the M.E. Church, conducted by Rev. George Fuson. Burial at West Lawn.
**Note - Charles Ira died in 1912, not 1913 as the obituary says.**
Newspaper: Farmersburg News (Weekly paper) April 18, 1920
Submitters Name: Misty Curl
Name of Deceased: Bridwell, John
Obit: NALS 27 Sep 1872 p4 c2: Sudden Death. The Sullivan Democrat says: The community was shocked on Thursday by the report that Mr. John Bridwell, a well known citizen, was dying. He was in his usual health that morning, only that day before having comsummated a bargain for the purchase of the store of Mrssrs. Price & McKnight, intending again to re-enter the mercantile business. He was taken sick about 10 o'clock Thursday morning, and died before midnight. Mr. Bridwell was well known to many of our citizens, having been engaged in selling goods in this place for over twenty years.
County: Sullivan State: IN
Newspaper: New Albany Ledger Standard
Submitters Name: spc
The following obituary is taken from the Carlisle (Indiana) News of February 28, 1907:
IN MEMORIAM
Mary Ann (Ferree) Markee was the daughter of Philip Copeland Ferree and Margaret (Trimble) Ferree. She was born near Paxton, Indiana, at the home of her grandparents, Joel Ferree and Mary (Leeth) Ferree, who were pioneer settlers of this township. The Ferrees are of French Huguenot ancestry, and she bore the name of her great-great-great-grandmother Madame Mary Ferree, who, with her children, fled from France after the edict of Nantes, came to America with William Penn and founded the first Huguenot colony in Pennsylvania in 1708.
The greater part of Mrs. Markee’s life was spent in this community. She received such education as the times afforded, which was meager. At the age of seven she was motherless, and e’er she was sixteen she was bereft of stepmother, father and grandparents. As the eldest of the little flock she bravely took the mother’s place until she was incapacitated by illness, when the care of the little brothers was assumed by an uncle and she and her only sister, Sarah Ellen, found homes with maternal relatives.
At the age of twenty she was married to William Linder Pirtle, son of Jacob and Lydia Pirtle, a young man of sterling qualities. He was a tanner, in partnership with Isaac Shannon, the home and tanyard occupying a block on Harrison street. In 1852, she united with the Methodist church. She and her husband were immersed in Busseron creek, near Ledgerwood’s Mill, by Rev. J.W. Julian. Her marriage was a happy one, but the young husband contracted quick consumption from overwork and exposure, and in August, 1853, she was left a widow with a young child, Margaret Olly (Mrs. Walstine Rogers), who survives her, the other daughter, Laura Jane, having died in infancy.
The widow was married, May 29, 1856, to Isaac Newton Markee, son of James M. and Rhoda Markee, of Palestine, Illinois. The ceremony was performed at her home by Squire Van Fossen, and the fiftieth anniversary of the event was quietly celebrated in Chicago last May. Of this union five children were born, for of whom survive her: William Allen Markee, of Chicago; Sarah Ellen (Mrs. Frank Buckley), of Monett, Missouri; Nora May (Mrs. Frank Alumbaugh), of Carlisle, Indiana; Maud Winifred (Mrs. George R. Miles), of Chicago. The second child, a daughter, died in infancy.
Mr. Markee’s health failed, and while the children were yet young she bravely became the bread-winner of the family and performed both father and mother’s part in caring for and educating her children. She faithfully ministered to her invalid husband until his death, September 6, 1883. At this time all her children were married and well launched in the world, except the youngest, and to better her condition she decided to leave her native state. The inherited pioneer spirit of her ancestors asserted itself and she turned her face westward to what seemed to her the Land of Promise – Antelope Valley, in northwest Nebraska. A colony under the leadership of Rev. J.A. Scamahorn, of Sullivan, was organized in 1884. About sixty or seventy-five families from Sullivan and Carlisle made up the party. Those from Carlisle were Mrs. Markee and daughter, Maud, Dr. W.A. Lisman, Samuel and Albert Helms, Jacob Milam, Alonzo, John, Joseph and Oscar Estabrook and Charles Speake. They went a hundred miles beyond Valentine, the terminus of the railroad, and settled on government land in the valley of the Antelope, in what is now Sheridan county, Nebraska. Mrs. Markee was then past fifty-four years of age and was companioned only by her young daughter. For thirteen years she lived there, enduring all the hardships incident to pioneer life. Everything was in the experimental stage, failure after failure rewarding their efforts. The severe winter, lack of rainfall and failure of crops all tended to discourage the little band of settlers. Strong men faltered, weak ones turned back, but Mrs. Markee bravely plodded on, firm in her confidence in the final success of the venture.
The years sped apace; success seemed within their grasp – the years of toil were bearing fruit – when suddenly the realization came that old age was upon her. She turned over the management of her affairs to her youngest daughter and finally yielded to the desires of her elder children to leave the scene of her struggles and returned to the land of her birth to spend the evening of her life with her children and grandchildren. Her industry, her public spirit, her high ideals, have made a lasting impression on the community which she helped to found. Her name is a synonym of courage, and there are many friends there who will mourn the passing of her brave spirit. Her life here since her return has been very happy. She has divided her time between her four daughters and has watched the development of her grandchildren and great grandchildren with satisfaction.
To look back over seventy-six years of useful life, to realize that no duty has been left undone, to sleep every night with a clear conscience, to feel that in all the walks of life she has acquitted herself nobly and well, to see her children grow up and fill honorable places in the world, to bear with patience the affliction which came upon her when paralysis robbed her of her activity, to be tenderly ministered unto during the year of her helplessness by her devoted children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren, to enjoy at intervals the relatives and friends who came with words of cheer, to have a heart full of gratitude and thankfulness and to preserve an abiding faith in an All Wise Creator – this has been her portion; this has constituted the glow which pervaded her sickroom. Her life went out like the passing of a perfect day, in a glorious sunset.
“Her children rise up and call her blessed,” and in all this world of shadows they see no shadow of a final parting from her. Three of her daughters were at her bedside when the end came. The simple funeral service was conducted at her home Wednesday afternoon by Brother and Sister Edwards, the details having been arranged in accordance with her wishes. The body was borne to its last resting place in the Carlisle cemetery by members of her own family.
Submitted by Katherine HaggertyTranscribed by Katherine Haggerty
Benson Jewell Sr
On Jan 19th, at his home, in Turner, Clay county, Benson Jewell Sr., died of old age. He was born in Spencer Co., KY November 8, 1810, and was in his 90th year. He was married to Miss Martha McKinley, daughter of Captain Wm. McKinley in Spencer County, KY in 1930. Of this union were born eleven children, six of them boys, all of whom went into the Union army in the war of 1861-5; three of them perished in the service and one has died since of disease contracted in the war, and two are yet living. W. R. of Danville, Ill., and Scott of Sullivan, Ind. Of the five daughters two survive, Mary A. Payne, Turner, Ind., and Ellen Boles, Terre Haute. In 1852 Mr. Jewell married to Mrs. Elizabeth Osborn. there were no children by this marriage. He was again married to Mrs. Elizabeth Steward, by whome there were five children, four of whom and the mother survive him.
Benson Jewell came of Revolutionary stock, both his paternal and maternal grand parents were in the Revolutionary war. He was one of the most peacable, honorable and kind-hearted of men. His family remember him with tenderest love, and no one can say he ever was revengeful or false to them. He went to his eternal rest full of years and honor.
Newspaper: Terre Haute Express Obit: Thurs, Jan 25, 1900
Submitted by Muriel White
Rev. Winfield S. Jewell
Special to the Tribune
Sullivan Co., IN, April 26
Rev. Winfield S. Jewell Jr, 81 years old, a retired minister and civil war veteran died here at his home Saturday morning at 4:30 o'clock. He is survived by the widow, one daughter, Mrs. George Lemmer, of Terre Haute, and a half brother. The funeral will be held from the residence Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock with burial in Center Ridge cemetery.
Note: This is Winfield S. Jewell Jr., who married Sarah Hale -02 Apr 1866 Vigo Co., IN
Newspaper: Terre Haute Tribune
Submitted by Muriel White
Squire Otis Smith
Sullivan, Ind., Oct 6, -- (Special) Squire Otis Smith, 56 years old, died at 1:30 o'clock Tuesday morning at his home. R. R. 3 Sullivan, IN. He was employed at the Baker Mine and he worked yesterday. He was a veteran of WW I. Surviving are the widow, Lorene Pearl; three sons, Malcolm Smith of Terre Haute, Charles Smith with the Army and Jerry Smith at home; three sisters, Mrs. Kathryn Truckey of Evansville, Mrs. Flora Harlow of Brazil, and Mrs, Cretia Harrel of Princeton, and two brothers, Arthur and Roy Smith, both of Hymera. The body was taken to the Railsback Funeral Home where services will be held at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon. Burial will be in the K of P. Cemetery.
Newspaper: The Terre Haute Tribune 10-06-1948 Obituaries
Submitted by Muriel White
Joseph Elza Woods
Shelburn, Ind., Jan 2. - (Special)
Joseph Elza Woods, 78 years old, died Thursday afternoon at the Mary Sherman Hospital in Sullivan. He is survived by the widow Minnie; a brother Perry Woods of Lewis; and 3 sisters, Misses Liza and Nora of Woods and Mrs. Cora Bays, all of Lewis. The body will be taken to the McHugh Funeral Home where services will be held at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon.
Newspaper: Terre Haute Tribune Friday, Jan 2, 1948
Mary Etta (Woods) Harding
Obit: Sullivan Daily Times - Oct 1993
Mary Woods Harding, 82, R1 Shelburn, died at 1:42 am Saturday, October 1 6, 1993, at Mary Sherman Hospital, Sullivan.
She was born December 6, 1911, in Clay County, to David L. and Laura E. Woods. She was a homemaker.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Ross Harding, who died in 1989.
Survivors include one sister, Ruby McNeeley, Brownsburg.
Funeral services were today at the Fidler-Mattox Farmersburg Chapel with Elder Tommy Freeman officiating. Burial was in Westlawn Cemetery.
Newspaper: Daily Times Date: Oct 1993
Submitters Name: Friends For Free Genealogy
Rev. Alexander Knoy Once a Prominent M. E. Preacher.
SULLIVAN, Ind,, Feb. 27.—Rev. Alexander Knoy, a superannuated minister of the Methodist Church, died in this city last night, aged eighty-one. He was a minister for sixty years and a member of the Indiana Conference for ten years. Rev. Knoy went to Kansas when he was prosperous and gained prominence as a pulpit orator. After his retirement misfortune overcame him and he finally came back to this county and sought refuge in the County Infirmary. Shortly after his return the M. E. Church of this city ascertained the fact and provided a home and nurse for him until his death. He was a prominent Mason and a charter member of the fraternity organized in this city in 1859.
Date: 1899-03-01; Paper: Indiana State Journal
Died at the residence of her grandfather, John Cordon in Sullivan County Indiana on the 13th instant. Edelia Ann Elsworth, of affection of the Iungs in the sixteenth year of her age. Her death has left a void in the family, but it must be great consolation to her friends that she gave good evidence that she died in the Lord
Date: 1850-08-17; Paper: Wabash Courier
SULLIVAN, Ind Jan. 30.—W. H. Thixtun died at his home in this city to-day of stomach trouble. He was sixty-two years old and was a prominent citizen and proprietor of the Arlington House,
Date: 1899-02-01; Paper: Indiana State Journal
Mrs. James Wright.
SULLIVAN, Ind. Sept 11—Mrs. James Wright, of this city, fell, last Saturday afternoon, and broke her right arm. She was subject to heart disease and died yesterday afternoon from the effects of the shock.
Date: 1899-09-13; Paper: Indiana State Journal