The roll has again been called. The response was given and another old settler gone to join the innumerable throng. On the night of August 29, 1897, Abraham SHANKLIN died, aged seventy-three years, eleven months and twenty-six days. He was born in Tennessee. In 1823, was left an orphan at an early age and came to Indiana. Became a disciple of Christ in his nineteenth year. Married Jane DISHMAN Jan. 7, 1847. They were poor but had health and strength, so they turned their faces toward the then new country and began building a home. He lived for nearly fifty years near where he first settled.
Uncle Abe was reverenced and respected by all who knew him. No one was more ready to help a neighbor than he. No beggar was ever turned away hungry. He remembered the words “Inasmuch as ye do it unto the least of these ye do it upon me.”
He had been confined to his room for several months. All was done for him that friends, neighbors and children could do, yet the angel of death claimed him as its own. He has been the father of seven children, three of whom preceded him to the spirit land. May heaven bless the widow in her affliction and comfort the children with the thought, “He is not lost but gone before,” and to the one who has given up his youth and so nobly cared for him we can only say, “Heaven will reward thee.”
Uncle Abe was reverenced and respected by all who knew him. No one was more ready to help a neighbor than he. No beggar was ever turned away hungry. He remembered the words “Inasmuch as ye do it unto the least of these ye do it upon me.”
He had been confined to his room for several months. All was done for him that friends, neighbors and children could do, yet the angel of death claimed him as its own. He has been the father of seven children, three of whom preceded him to the spirit land. May heaven bless the widow in her affliction and comfort the children with the thought, “He is not lost but gone before,” and to the one who has given up his youth and so nobly cared for him we can only say, “Heaven will reward thee.”
The roll has again been called. The response was given and another old settler gone to join the innumerable throng. On the night of August 29, 1897, Abraham SHANKLIN died, aged seventy-three years, eleven months and twenty-six days. He was born in Tennessee. In 1823, was left an orphan at an early age and came to Indiana. Became a disciple of Christ in his nineteenth year. Married Jane DISHMAN Jan. 7, 1847. They were poor but had health and strength, so they turned their faces toward the then new country and began building a home. He lived for nearly fifty years near where he first settled.
Uncle Abe was reverenced and respected by all who knew him. No one was more ready to help a neighbor than he. No beggar was ever turned away hungry. He remembered the words “Inasmuch as ye do it unto the least of these ye do it upon me.”
He had been confined to his room for several months. All was done for him that friends, neighbors and children could do, yet the angel of death claimed him as its own. He has been the father of seven children, three of whom preceded him to the spirit land. May heaven bless the widow in her affliction and comfort the children with the thought, “He is not lost but gone before,” and to the one who has given up his youth and so nobly cared for him we can only say, “Heaven will reward thee.”
Uncle Abe was reverenced and respected by all who knew him. No one was more ready to help a neighbor than he. No beggar was ever turned away hungry. He remembered the words “Inasmuch as ye do it unto the least of these ye do it upon me.”
He had been confined to his room for several months. All was done for him that friends, neighbors and children could do, yet the angel of death claimed him as its own. He has been the father of seven children, three of whom preceded him to the spirit land. May heaven bless the widow in her affliction and comfort the children with the thought, “He is not lost but gone before,” and to the one who has given up his youth and so nobly cared for him we can only say, “Heaven will reward thee.”
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