Was One of Guard That Watched
Over Dead Body of President
Lincoln.
The death of Samuel R. Van Horn occurred at 8:30 o'clock yesterday morning at the age of 72 years, following a protracted illness from the effects of an attack due to diseases incident to old age. The death removes from Huntington a splendid old citizen, an honored soldier and good man. One of the most distinguished honors of the civil war came to him upon the death of President Lincoln, he being placed in charge of a guard of twenty men who watched over the body of the martyred president until after it was laid to rest. He often spoke of that honor with a great deal of pride deeming it one of the finest things that came to him during the entire war.
The decedent was a member of Battery B. First West Virginia Artillery. He enlisted October the first, 1861, and was discharged June 28th, 1865. He is survived by a widow and three children, namely, Mrs. E. S. Koontz, of Proctorville, Ohio; Mrs. James Spicer of Sixth avenue, and Herbert Van Horn of this city. Two grand daughters, Misses Kathryn Jarrell and Ethel Keeney also made their home with him.
The funeral will take place Thursday afternoon from the home at 2:30 o'clock.
-The Huntington Herald-Dispatch, Wednesday, November 9, 1910
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