FLORENCE (FOGLE) GASKIN

Coal City, IN. March 17, 1962

Mrs Florence Gaskin, 81, died at 12:09 a.m. Saturday at her residence here. Surviving are five daughters, Mrs. Flossie Garlit of RR 2, Clay City, Mrs. Marie Kent of Gary, Mrs. Albie Miller of Coal City, Mrs. Mildred Delph of Clay City, Mrs. Ruth Louise Michaels of Hammond; Two sons, James H Gaskin of Pimento, and William H Gaskin of Hammond; a sister, Mrs. Minnie Dyar of Coal City; 20 Grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren. The body was taken to the Schoppenhorst Funeral Home at Clay City.

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GEORGE FLETCHER GRIFFITH

A GREENE CO, IN. NEWSCLIPPING, 1924

FOUND DEAD IN A CHAIR

CIVIL WAR BIBLE TREASURED THROUGHOUT LIFE.

BORN IN COUNTY OF GREENE

The funeral of George Fletcher Griffith, 83 years of age, who died Friday, brought to Worthington Sunday afternoon mourning friends, relatives from town and country, who filled the Methodist Episcopal church in the afternoon.Burial was in Worthington cemetery, where the local lodge of Odd Fellows to which he belonged, conducted services.The lifeless body was found in a chair at the home of a daughter, Mrs. George Secrest, with whom he had lived for the last 12 years.He had been ill but a few days. On the night before he had told members of the family he felt better and for them to retire.On going into Mr. Griffith's room the following morning, George Secrest found Mr. Griffith's body seated in a chair. His head drooped on his chest. Dr. J. W. Clifford was summoned and found life had been extinct for several hours. Mr. Griffith, the son of Samuel and Elizabeth Adams Griffith, was born in Greene county, on May 4, 1841.All of his life, he was a resident of Greene county. During the Civil war he served three years and nearly six months with the Union forces. His honorable discharge is dated April 1865.In November of the third year after completing his army service, Mr. Griffith married Catherine Myers.He joined the Methodist Episcopal church at the old Point Commerce church when a young man. The Bible interested him in the remaining days of his life. A Testament, which he carried through his war experiences was treasured and used as long as he was able. His last reading is believed by relatives to have been a passage from St. Matthews:"Servant of God, well done. Rest in the peace of a long and useful life.""His wife died in 1900 and for 12 years, his daughter, Gertrude kept house for him. Following her marriage in 1912 he made his home with her.At the funeral the address was delivered by Rev. Chas. A. McCullough local Methodist pastor. Songs were sung by two quartets; one with C. E. Hines, Mrs. C. L. Ingersoll, Mrs. Charles Myers and Rev. McCullough, as members and the other composed of Julian Moreland, David and Paul McKinney and Boyd Mitten. Mrs. T. C. Love was organist.He is survived by the daughter, Mrs. Secrest; two sons, Raleigh Griffith, Los Angeles; John H. Griffith, Carrier Mills, Ill., a brother, John Griffith and five sister, Mrs. Anna Danely, Mrs. Prescilla Irions, of Wharton, New Jersey; Mrs. Martha Coultern, Mrs. Amanda Switzer and Mrs. Laura Yockey of Buena Vista, Colo.

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TARVIN GROOMS

The Republican (Danville, Indiana) of Thursday, January 8, 1920 page 1

Tarvin C. Grooms, well known Greencastle attorney, died early in the morning of New Year’s day of apoplexy. He was well known at the local bar where he frequently came on business for the Big Four road. He was prominent in G.A.R. circles and despite his years attracted attention by his interest in war activities in the world war.

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HONORABLE J.R. GORDON

Paper Unknown

"Hon. J. R. Gordon died yesterday afternoon at his residence on East Washington Street, at 1:15 o1clock, of pneumonia. His illness began April 26, the date of the Democratic State convention at Indianapolis, where he contracted a severe cold which settled on [sic] his lungs from which he never rallied. He was conscious to the last but for twenty-four hours previous to his death had been gradually sinking. The funeral will occur tomorrow afternoon at 1:30 o'clock from the family residence where short services will be conducted by Elder O. P. Badger. Interment is Forest Hill..." "...Mr. Gordon was a good citizen and a model man. The Masonic Lodge and D. K. E. fraternity of which he was a member will have charge of the funeral services. The widow and relatives have the sympathy of the community in their bereavement."

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JAMES M. GOSS

Owen County Democrat, Feb. 4, 1892

James M. Goss was born in Owen county, Indiana, Dec. 10, 1840, and died at his home in Freedom, Jan. 22, 1892. He enlisted in the service of his country in 1861, in the 3d Iowa Regt. Inft. Vol. He was captured by the rebels at the battle of Shiloh and held as a prisoner of war. He was discharged by reason of disability in 1863, and returned to Gosport, Ind., and again enlisted early in the year 1865 in the 149th Ind. Vol. Inft. and was appointed hospital steward, and in August 1865, he was promoted to assistant surgeon of his regiment, and was mustered out in September, 1865. He was buried in the Hicks cemetery, Jan. 24, 1892, by the comrades of his post. G.A.R.

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JOSIAH GROSS

PIONEER DEAD

THE BLOOMFIELD NEWS, Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, Friday December 16, 1904

Josiah GROSS, aged seventy-six, a respected citizen of Worthington, died Wednesday of last week, and the remains were laid to rest the following day in the GROSS Cemetery in Owen County, near White Hall. He served as a Union soldier during the Civil war and was promoted to First Lieutenant of COMPANY I, 82nd REGIMENT INDIANA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY and marched with SHERMAN to the sea.

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