Haines - Samuel B. - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Samuel B. Haines died at the residence of his son, Joseph, in Union Township on Monday morning last, aged 87 years, 5 months and two days.  Mr. Haines was born in Burlington County, New Jersey, October 24, 1812, and came to this county in 1851 and has lived in this county and Tippecanoe for 49 years. His wife, Rebecca Haines, died in this place December 15, 1897, aged 80 years, 4 months and 25 days. He was married to Rebecca Garwood Sept. 26, 1836, and to them was born ten children, seven boys and three girls, of whom two boys and two girls have passed to the other world leaving five sons and one daughter to survive him. All the sons were present at the funeral but the daughter, Mrs. Dr. Burnett, who lives in Kansas, was unable to attend. The funeral was held at the Christian Church at this place on Wednesday at eleven o’clock by Rev. Charles Brown, of Lebanon, assisted by Rev. C. W. Postill. Mr. Haines united with the M. E. Church in 1836 of which he was a member for many years, but he and his wife united with the Pleasant Hill Christian Church in 1891, under the pastorate of Rev. F. P. Trotter, now of Muncie, and remained members of said church until their death.  It can truly be said that a good man has fallen full of years and full of honor. The writer, who has known him nearly fifty nine years, has known him as an honorable upright Christian gentleman, and has never heard a bad word spoken of him, but Uncle Sammy has gone to reap the rewards of a well spent life in brighter climes than this. typed by "S"