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Jefferson County, Indiana Obituaries

JANE BAXTER
Wednesday, July 4, 1855
Page 108 Column 7

"May 28 (1855) - At her residence, in Jefferson county, Indiana, JANE BAXTER.
      She was born in Ohio and removed, with her parents, while quite young, to Indiana. For nearly fourteen years, she was a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and exhibited to all, by her sweet spirit and pious example, that she was a child of grace. Her last days were full of peace, and often attended with ecstasy. Beloved by all, she was lamented by a large circle of friends. She was followed to her grave by a group of twelve children, with her companion. W.W. BAILEY"

See: Craig Cemetery.
Note the tombstone gives the death date of May 27, 1855.

CECILE BRANDT
Wednesday, April 4, 1855
Page 56 Column 7

"February 18 (1855) - At her residence, in Hanover township, after an illness of eight weeks, terminating in paralysis, Mrs. CECIL (Celia? This was hard to read) BRANDT, in the sixtieth year of her age.
      She was admitted to the communion of the Episcopal Church in Switzerland, in her twelfth year. In 1818 she, with her husband, emigrated to this country, and settled in Madison. Indiana, they connecting themselves with the Presbyterian Church of the place. In 1829 she was hereft of one of the kindest of husbands and left, with a large family, a stranger in a strange land. Upon the division of the Presbyterian Church she joined the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which she continued a worthy, faithful and zealous member til death. Her life was chraacterized by a strong faith in the Gospel and its promises, and her death was peaceful and triumphant. SAMUEL WEEKS"

See: Hanover Cemetery

JAMES BROOKS
Wed. February 22, 1871
Page 63 Column 1

BROOKS - James Brooks, Esq., near Brooksburg, Jefferson county, Ind., Dec. 10th, in his sixty-eighth year. For forty-three years he was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He ever kept an open house for the weary and hungry; more especially has the Methodist itinerant always found a cordial welcome at his cheerful hearthstone. Practically, brother Brooks said, "I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness." Although God had favored him with an abundance of this world's goods, he deemed it a privilege with his own hands to keep the Lord's house in order. The writer will not soon forget how, with tearful eye, at the last meeting he was permitted to attend, he said "You will have to get some one to attend to the house. I have kept it as long as I can." With perfect composure he arranged his secular business, gave charge concerning his funeral, and then fell asleep in Jesus." (Written by A.L. Roop)

See: Morris Chapel Cemetery and Will Records

ALBERT E. CHAPMAN
Wed. April 19, 1871
Page 127 Column 1

CHAPMAN - Of consumption, at his father's residence, Madison, Indiana, Albert E. Chapman, April 6, 1871, in his 21st year. About two years ago he united with the Church, of which he remained an acceptable member till death. The last weeks of his sickness were characterized by patience and hope. The day preceding his death he rejoiced in the Lord. His last words were: "I am saved, I am saved." (Written by W.T.S.)

SAMUEL STOCKTON McCURRY
Wed. June 21, 1871
Page 199 Column 1

McCURRY - Samuel Stockton McCurry was born in Jefferson co., Ind., May 2, 1826; was married to Miss Lucretia Henry, Aug. 13, 1840; united with the Methodist Episcopal Church the following year; remained an acceptable member of the same until his demise, which occurred in Scott co., Ind., May 24, 1871. His illness was of painful but short duration-only ten days-which he bore with Christian patience and courage. He frequently exhorted his only son, James, to meet him in heaven, and said to his wife. "I shall soon be in that happy home." He was constitutionally unassuming and retiring in his manners. The large concourse of Christian friends and neighbors that followed his remains to the grave, showed the esteem in which he was held. A widow, son, and only daughter, son-in-law, and several brothers and sisters remain. (Written by E.T. Spencer)

Note: According to the marriage index (Indiana State Library), Samuel S. McCurry married Lucretia F. Henry on August 13, 1846 in Jefferson Co., Indiana.

See: Valley Cemetery and McCurry, Samuel E. Will Record

SARAH PETERS
Wed. June 7, 1871
Page 183 Column 1

PETERS - Sarah Peters, at the residence of her mother, near Brooksburg, Ind., February 10, 1871, in great peace. Sister Peters was a widowed daughter of the lamented James Brooks, who preceded her to the better land just two months. She was a meek and quiet spirit. Her last hours were full of holy triumph. Her last words were, "Now, Jesus, come and take me," when, without a struggle, she gave up mortal life. Her friends sorrow in hope. (Written by A.L. Roop)

See: Morris Chapel Cemetery and James Brooks Will Record

RUTH ANN PRENTISS
Wed. April 5, 1871
Page 111 Column 1

PRENTISS - Mrs. Ruth Ann Prentiss, daughter of Thomas Ogden, sen., was born April 9, 1841 in Lancaster, Jefferson co., Ind. While yet young she joined the Methodist Episcopal Church, under the ministry of Rev. Wm. Maupin, and was happily converted. Nearly two years ago she was prostrated by consumption, and has suffered much and long, but she has "suffered with Christ," and will doubless be "glorified with him." She died at ten o'clock, Jan. 26, 1871, and her "end was peace." (Written by John G. Chafee)

See: Will of Irwin H Prentiss

Wed. April 26, 1871
Page 131 Column 2

MRS. NANCY ROOP

    Died, at the parsonage of Moorfield circuit, South-Eastern Indiana Conference, March 27, 1871 of pneumonia, Mrs.Nancy Roop, wife of Rev. Abner L. Roop, of the South-Eastern Indiana Conference.
    Mrs. Roop was born on the banks of the Ohio River, some ten miles above the city of Madison, Indiana, May 5, 1824. She was married to Mr. Roop in 1842, and the same year embarked in a religious life and united with the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which she continued an acceptable member until death. She was the mother of a large family of children, to whose comfort and training she devoted all energies. Naturally modest and retiring, and possessed of a meek and quiet spirit, one had to be well acquainted with her and visit her in her own home, to appreciate her character and estimate her worth. Few met the apostolic requirement of a Christian wife and mother more fully than she: "Discreet, chaste, keeper at home, loving and obedient to her husband, loving her children; uncomplainingly toiling and suffering that her husband might go and preach the "unsearchable riches of Christ."
    A few months ago God removed from her arms a dear little boy, since which she had more fully than ever before consecrated herself to God's work. At the time her last sickness commenced God, was gloriously renewing his work in the village and neighborhood where she lived. Her soul was more than usually engaged. Here she was permitted to see her last unconverted child broght to Christ; and from the midst of the joyous throng of more than a hundred converts she went home to sicken, to suffer, and to die. Her life work was done. Calmly and gently as the evening breeze she passed away. (Written by W. Terrell)

Note: Nancy was the wife of Abner L. Roop. I suspect that Abner is the minister who wrote the obituary of James Brooks (A.L. Roop). According to the Indiana Marriage Index (Indiana State Library listing), Abner L. Roop married Nancy Savage on May 9, 1842 in Franklin Co., IN.

JAMES STEWART
Wed. April 12, 1871
Page 119 Column 2

STEWART - James Stewart was born in Montgomery county, KY., February 22, 1814; embraced religion and united with the Methodist Episcopal Church in his eighteenth year and died in Jefferson county, Ind., January 9, 1871. He was a good man in every relation of life. As a Christian he was faithful and devoted to all the interests of the Church, which he liberally sustained. In the prayer and class meetings he was a power. He was a prompt and most efficient steward, and in the language of one of his class. "His place can not easily be filled at Mt. Gilead." He leaves a wife and several children and a large circle of relatives. (Written by E.T. Spencer)

See: Pisgah Cemetery [Unsure if this is the same James Stewart]

OLIVER W. THOMAS
Wed. April 5, 1871
Page 111 Column 1

THOMAS - Oliver W. Thomas was born near Philadelphia, Penn., in 1831. When young his parents moved West, and settled in Madison, Ind. When about seventeen years old he joined the Methodist Episcopal Church, and experienced religion. From that time he had been an earnest and much of the time active, member of the Church, serving with acceptability as steward, class-leader and teacher in Sabbath-school, until forced to retire by failing health. November 1870, he took his bed, where he lingered with much suffering until December 24, 1870, when he passed away with words of holy triumph on his lips. His disease was consumption, and though his suffering were long and great, his Christian patience and cheerfulness were unfailing. God bless his wife and children! (Written by John G. Chafee)

LEWIS M. YOUNG
Wed. February 8, 1871
Page 47 Column 1

YOUNG - Nov. 18th, in Madison, Ind. of typhoid fever, Lewis M. Young, in his sixty-first year. He united with the Methodist Episcopal Church many years ago, in Kentucky, his native State. He came with his family to Indiana in 1852, since which time Madison has been his home. He was a plain simple-hearted Christian man, a Methodist after the old school who loved plain churches, plain preachers, plain sermons, and plain people. The Bible was his book, the Western Christian Advocate his paper, and the class meeting his favorite means of grace. His last sickness was painful, but grace was sufficient for him, and his dying words were "All is well" All is well." A wife and daughter survive him and mourn. (Written by W.T. Saunders)

See: Springdale Cemetery

Alexander M. Duffy
Published November 17, 1843

b 16 Apr 1810, Mason Co., KY; d 6 Sep 1843, prob. Madison, IN; mar 23 May 1832, prob. Madison, IN Sarah E. White; Issue: 4 daus. When a boy, came to Cincinnati as an apprentice; at 21, to Madison, IN

See: Duffy Family

Charles Leroy Goodwin
Published April 16, 1847