TERHUNE, Asa Garrett

LOCAL and PERSONAL.

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A. G. Terhune, after two weeks illness from pneumonia, died yesterday morning at 6 o’clock at his home in Union township. Deceased was a brother of ex-representative W. D. Ter­hune, and was a highly respected citizen. Funeral services took place today at one o’clock at First Mt. Pleasant church, conducted by Rev. R. W. Thompson of Greenfield.

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, March 25, 1898,
Volume XXXVIII Number 37, page 3 column 4

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In Memoriam.

Since it hath pleased God in His in­finite wisdom and mercy to remove from our midst by death Asa Garrett Terhune, one of our kindred, who was bound to us in love by the strong ties of natural affection, one whose paternal and domestic relations were such that our judgment would have dictated that he remain until decrepitude would have rendered him less useful, or at least until his family would have been less dependent.

But alas, in the midst of life, the fey hand of death was laid upon his brow, and now we know him no more in the flesh. Only the picture of memory re­mains. But we mourn not as those who has no hope, knowing his faith in a God whose ways and whose thoughts are as high above our ways and our thoughts as the heavens are above the earth. We submit, we acquiesce, be­lieving that “all things work together for good to them that love the Lord.”

Deceased was born Sept. 29, 1856, and died March 17, 1898. He was married to Miss Nannie J. Williams, of Boone County, Ind., May 21, 1869, to which union were born five children, viz: Ila Bert, Chalmers Victor, Walter Deloss, Elba Buren and Robert Max, who, with their mother remain to mourn their loss. He united with the Primitive Baptist church the first Sun­day in April, 1889; was baptized the first Sunday in May, and arose to a newness of life in which he ever afterward walked.

He was a true and devoted husband, a kind and indulgent parent, an accom­modating and obliging neighbor. Most of his life was spent in Johnson county, where he was born and where he died. The first and last year of his life was spent in Union township, while the intervening part in Hensley and Nine­veh. He died on the fifty-sixty anni­versary of the marriage of his father and mother and was laid to rest in the First Mt. Pleasant cemetery to await the resurrection morn, when we hope to renew our relations in a new life in the great beyond.

W. D. T.    

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The Franklin Democrat, Friday, March 25, 1898,
Volume XXXVIII Number 37, page 6 column 3

FROM OVER THE COUNTY.

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SAMARIA.

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Rev R. W. Thompson, Greenfield, preached A. G. Terhune’s funeral at First Mt. Pleasant last Friday. Mr. Terhune was born and raised in Hensley town­ship. He was a man of sterling worth and will be missed by the community. Much sympathy in behalf of his family and relatives is expressed by all.

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, March 25, 1898,
Volume XXXVIII Number 37, page 6 column 4

FROM OVER THE COUNTY.

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YOUNG’S CREEK

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Garrett Terhune, whose funeral occur­red last Friday, at First Mt. Plea­sant, was a resident of this neigh­borhood for a number of years until Feb. 1897, when he moved to his home in Union township, where his death occurred on Thursday of last week. As a citizen and neighbor he was respected by all during his residence here. His wife and children have the fullest sym­pathy of their friends here in their affliction. Several from here attended the funeral.

Link to Asa Garrett Terhune’s grave

Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry