STEUBEN REPUBLICAN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1880, p.8, c.3.

JOHN FRENCH, 08 Jun 1815 - 03 Oct 1880

   The Rev. John French died very suddenly at about 3 o'clock 
on Sunday afternoon, aged 66 years.  He attended church in 
the morning at Ray, felling usually well.  Just before he got 
home he was taken with a cramp in the stomach and lived only 
about thirty minutes after he got out of the buggy.  Elder 
John French has long been identified with the Covenanter 
church at this place as its pastor.  He was a man of ability, 
strong will, a fine speaker and a good christian man.  He has 
been in feeble health for some time.  He leaves a wife, two 
children and a host of friends to mourn his death.  "Soothed 
and sustained by an unfaltering trust, he approached the 
grave like one who wraps the drapery of his couch about 
him and lies down to pleasant dreams."

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

   Rev. John French, 08 Jun 1815 - 03 Oct 1889, about 1852, 
in California Township, Branch County, Michigan, married 
Lydia (Carithers) French, 26 May 1825 - 14 Jan 1907.  They 
are buried at Coventry Cemetery, Steuben County, Indiana.

CHILDREN:
   Margaret S. French, 1860 - 1911.
   James French, 03 Dec 1863 - 03 Jan 1866.
   Lida A. French, born 1866, no date of death.
All the children are buried at Coventry Cemetery.

"Cemeteries of Steuben County, Indiana, 1990," by Audree 
Seibel Lewis, Vol. 1, page 673.
www.familysearch.org:  Family Group Record, John French.
Submitted by Mona Hilden-Beckwith
e-mail:  hilbeck123@att.net