Bastion - Thomas A
Source: New Richmond Record 5 December 1912
Thomas A. Bastion died at 4:30 o’clock Monday afternoon at his home on the plank road, southeast of New Richmond, after an illness extending over a month and from a complicating of diseases of which rheumatism and gall stones were the worst. A week ago, accompanied by his wife, he went to Martinsville in a search of health, but there Mrs. Bastion was told they could do nothing for him and she hurried home with him on Sunday and he died the next day. Tom was a well known farmer and threshing machine man, always a resident of this community, known and loved by a host of friends. He is survived by the wife whom he married December 25, 1889 and nine children who came to this union also survive, three daughters and six sons: Eva, Elizabeth, Mary, Argo, Virgil, Carl, Milford, Edison and Lee. Two brothers and two sisters, Charles Bastion of Lafayette, Mrs. Martha Stambaugh, Garrett L. Basion and Miss Rose Bastion of New Richmond, also survive him. The funeral occurred from his late home at 1 o’clock Wednesday afternoon, conducted by Rev. BE Antrobus, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Crawfordsville. He interment was made in the New Richmond cemetery. - kbz