Probably the oldest man in Greene County was called to his reward last Friday, when Captain Elijah EDINGTON died at Owensburg. He was born on August 12, 1831, in Coshocton, County, Ohio, and was therefore aged ninety-three years, eight months and six days. He was reared by his grandfather HARDESTY, and with him came to Greene County in 1848 and entered a one hundred and sixty acre tract of land in Jackson Township, near the tunnel of the B. & B. branch of the Monon Railroad. The land was covered with heavy timbers and cost $1.25 per acre.
He was a schoolteacher for over twenty-five years and for many years engaged in the mercantile business at Owensburg and Koleen.
During the first administration of Grover Cleveland as President of the United States from 1885 to 1890, he was the railway mail clerk on the old narrow-gauge railroad from Bedford to Switz City.
In politics he was a staunch Democrat and devoted his energies to the success of that party until the Prohibition Party came into existence and on account of being a strong temperance advocate he joined that party and consistently supported it during the balance of his life.
He was a large man and enjoyed remarkably good health until later years, but his mind was ever active and bright upon all questions of the community and nation until almost the hour of his passing.
He left the schoolroom where he was teaching, bade adieu to his wife and three children and organized COMPANY C, FORTY-THIRD INDIANA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY, August 29, 1861 and was mustered into service, infusing into his comrades something of the patriotism, which he himself felt. He was elected captain and soon ordered a march through to Camp Vigo, from which he was ordered to the front, the company first taking part in the battle of Helena, Arkansas, later fighting at Jenkins Ferry. On the way to Camden, that state, a portion of the regiment was captured, but Captain EDINGTON was doing provost duty at Little Rock. While here his term of enlistment expired and he was ordered to Indianapolis to be mustered out October 20, 1864, after serving three years and six months.
The deceased was married twice, the first in 1851 to Luticia LANTER, a native of Kentucky. She died in 1884, leaving four children, namely, Archibald, a farmer, now deceased; Frances, wife of John DECKARD, of Jasonville; Sidney, a miner, of Jasonville; Margaret, the wife of Frances M. HATFIELD, who lives in Arizona.
On November 22, 1884, the subject married Mrs. Mary A. COBB, widow of Samuel COBB and the daughter of Emanuel HATFIELD, the famous hunter whose family came from Tennessee to Jackson Township, Greene County, Indiana in 1832. No children were born to this last union. Mr. EDINGTON was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and active in Sunday school work.
Capt. EDINGTON was regarded by every one who knew him as an honest, upright man, firm in his convictions and trustworthy in all his dealings with mankind.
The funeral was held at Owensburg last Sunday afternoon, the services being conducted by Rev. Arthur PRITCHET. Interment in the Kentucky Ridge Cemetery.
Source: The Bloomfield News, Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, Thursday, April 23, 1925.
He was a schoolteacher for over twenty-five years and for many years engaged in the mercantile business at Owensburg and Koleen.
During the first administration of Grover Cleveland as President of the United States from 1885 to 1890, he was the railway mail clerk on the old narrow-gauge railroad from Bedford to Switz City.
In politics he was a staunch Democrat and devoted his energies to the success of that party until the Prohibition Party came into existence and on account of being a strong temperance advocate he joined that party and consistently supported it during the balance of his life.
He was a large man and enjoyed remarkably good health until later years, but his mind was ever active and bright upon all questions of the community and nation until almost the hour of his passing.
He left the schoolroom where he was teaching, bade adieu to his wife and three children and organized COMPANY C, FORTY-THIRD INDIANA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY, August 29, 1861 and was mustered into service, infusing into his comrades something of the patriotism, which he himself felt. He was elected captain and soon ordered a march through to Camp Vigo, from which he was ordered to the front, the company first taking part in the battle of Helena, Arkansas, later fighting at Jenkins Ferry. On the way to Camden, that state, a portion of the regiment was captured, but Captain EDINGTON was doing provost duty at Little Rock. While here his term of enlistment expired and he was ordered to Indianapolis to be mustered out October 20, 1864, after serving three years and six months.
The deceased was married twice, the first in 1851 to Luticia LANTER, a native of Kentucky. She died in 1884, leaving four children, namely, Archibald, a farmer, now deceased; Frances, wife of John DECKARD, of Jasonville; Sidney, a miner, of Jasonville; Margaret, the wife of Frances M. HATFIELD, who lives in Arizona.
On November 22, 1884, the subject married Mrs. Mary A. COBB, widow of Samuel COBB and the daughter of Emanuel HATFIELD, the famous hunter whose family came from Tennessee to Jackson Township, Greene County, Indiana in 1832. No children were born to this last union. Mr. EDINGTON was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and active in Sunday school work.
Capt. EDINGTON was regarded by every one who knew him as an honest, upright man, firm in his convictions and trustworthy in all his dealings with mankind.
The funeral was held at Owensburg last Sunday afternoon, the services being conducted by Rev. Arthur PRITCHET. Interment in the Kentucky Ridge Cemetery.
Source: The Bloomfield News, Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, Thursday, April 23, 1925.
Probably the oldest man in Greene County was called to his reward last Friday, when Captain Elijah EDINGTON died at Owensburg. He was born on August 12, 1831, in Coshocton, County, Ohio, and was therefore aged ninety-three years, eight months and six days. He was reared by his grandfather HARDESTY, and with him came to Greene County in 1848 and entered a one hundred and sixty acre tract of land in Jackson Township, near the tunnel of the B. & B. branch of the Monon Railroad. The land was covered with heavy timbers and cost $1.25 per acre.
He was a schoolteacher for over twenty-five years and for many years engaged in the mercantile business at Owensburg and Koleen.
During the first administration of Grover Cleveland as President of the United States from 1885 to 1890, he was the railway mail clerk on the old narrow-gauge railroad from Bedford to Switz City.
In politics he was a staunch Democrat and devoted his energies to the success of that party until the Prohibition Party came into existence and on account of being a strong temperance advocate he joined that party and consistently supported it during the balance of his life.
He was a large man and enjoyed remarkably good health until later years, but his mind was ever active and bright upon all questions of the community and nation until almost the hour of his passing.
He left the schoolroom where he was teaching, bade adieu to his wife and three children and organized COMPANY C, FORTY-THIRD INDIANA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY, August 29, 1861 and was mustered into service, infusing into his comrades something of the patriotism, which he himself felt. He was elected captain and soon ordered a march through to Camp Vigo, from which he was ordered to the front, the company first taking part in the battle of Helena, Arkansas, later fighting at Jenkins Ferry. On the way to Camden, that state, a portion of the regiment was captured, but Captain EDINGTON was doing provost duty at Little Rock. While here his term of enlistment expired and he was ordered to Indianapolis to be mustered out October 20, 1864, after serving three years and six months.
The deceased was married twice, the first in 1851 to Luticia LANTER, a native of Kentucky. She died in 1884, leaving four children, namely, Archibald, a farmer, now deceased; Frances, wife of John DECKARD, of Jasonville; Sidney, a miner, of Jasonville; Margaret, the wife of Frances M. HATFIELD, who lives in Arizona.
On November 22, 1884, the subject married Mrs. Mary A. COBB, widow of Samuel COBB and the daughter of Emanuel HATFIELD, the famous hunter whose family came from Tennessee to Jackson Township, Greene County, Indiana in 1832. No children were born to this last union. Mr. EDINGTON was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and active in Sunday school work.
Capt. EDINGTON was regarded by every one who knew him as an honest, upright man, firm in his convictions and trustworthy in all his dealings with mankind.
The funeral was held at Owensburg last Sunday afternoon, the services being conducted by Rev. Arthur PRITCHET. Interment in the Kentucky Ridge Cemetery.
Source: The Bloomfield News, Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, Thursday, April 23, 1925.
He was a schoolteacher for over twenty-five years and for many years engaged in the mercantile business at Owensburg and Koleen.
During the first administration of Grover Cleveland as President of the United States from 1885 to 1890, he was the railway mail clerk on the old narrow-gauge railroad from Bedford to Switz City.
In politics he was a staunch Democrat and devoted his energies to the success of that party until the Prohibition Party came into existence and on account of being a strong temperance advocate he joined that party and consistently supported it during the balance of his life.
He was a large man and enjoyed remarkably good health until later years, but his mind was ever active and bright upon all questions of the community and nation until almost the hour of his passing.
He left the schoolroom where he was teaching, bade adieu to his wife and three children and organized COMPANY C, FORTY-THIRD INDIANA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY, August 29, 1861 and was mustered into service, infusing into his comrades something of the patriotism, which he himself felt. He was elected captain and soon ordered a march through to Camp Vigo, from which he was ordered to the front, the company first taking part in the battle of Helena, Arkansas, later fighting at Jenkins Ferry. On the way to Camden, that state, a portion of the regiment was captured, but Captain EDINGTON was doing provost duty at Little Rock. While here his term of enlistment expired and he was ordered to Indianapolis to be mustered out October 20, 1864, after serving three years and six months.
The deceased was married twice, the first in 1851 to Luticia LANTER, a native of Kentucky. She died in 1884, leaving four children, namely, Archibald, a farmer, now deceased; Frances, wife of John DECKARD, of Jasonville; Sidney, a miner, of Jasonville; Margaret, the wife of Frances M. HATFIELD, who lives in Arizona.
On November 22, 1884, the subject married Mrs. Mary A. COBB, widow of Samuel COBB and the daughter of Emanuel HATFIELD, the famous hunter whose family came from Tennessee to Jackson Township, Greene County, Indiana in 1832. No children were born to this last union. Mr. EDINGTON was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and active in Sunday school work.
Capt. EDINGTON was regarded by every one who knew him as an honest, upright man, firm in his convictions and trustworthy in all his dealings with mankind.
The funeral was held at Owensburg last Sunday afternoon, the services being conducted by Rev. Arthur PRITCHET. Interment in the Kentucky Ridge Cemetery.
Source: The Bloomfield News, Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, Thursday, April 23, 1925.
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Additional Capt. Edington information source: "Biographical Memoirs of Greene County, Ind. with Reminiscences of Pioneer Days". B.F. Bowen & Co. Indianapolis, IN, 1908.
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