MEHARRY, Thomas - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

Thomas Meharry was born in Adams County, Ohio, April 27, 1799, where he resided till the age of 28, when he was married to Unity Patton, and in a short time started for the unsettled portion of Indiana. After preparing a flat boat on which he stored all his goods, he rowed down the Ohio to the Wabash, up the Wabash, and landed at Attica, after being two months on his way. He arrived at Attica April 28, 1828. With some difficulty he procured a house in Attica, where his family was kept until a place was prepared near Newtown. He remained there for one year, when he moved to Montgomery County, to the place where he died.

He was one of the instruments in making the county what it is. He was ever ready to do his part—even more than his part—in building churches, school houses and in each and every moral reform. In life, he was industrious and ambitious; in his family he was a devoted, kind and generous husband and father, to the community, he was a ready, obliging neighbor; in fact he was every thing that marked the true spirit of a man of sterling integrity. He was a faithful member of the M. E. Church for over fifty years, and met death fearlessly and died in great hope of eternal life. His death was caused by typhoid pneumonia after a short illness of eleven days.

Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal Thursday Thursday, 5 February 1874

Mr. Thomas Meharry, one of the oldest citizens of Montgomery County, died on the 23d ult., of typhoid fever, after a short illness. Mr. Meharry was one of the best known men in Coal Creek Township and leaves a wide circle of friends besides an aged widow and a large family of grown children to mourn their loss. The funeral services were conducted by J. H. Claypool on the 31st.