TERHUNE, William

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OBITUARY.

After a lingering illness of four weeks, William Terhune died at the home of his son, A. Hite, at Trafalgar, Ind., Dec. 19, 1895.

He was the eldest of five children, and had lived to be the last leaf on his family tree. He was born near Danville, Boyle Co., Ky., Aug 21, 1807.

In his infancy he was baptized into the old Scottish Presbyterian faith, but after maturity, adopted the Methodist Episcopal doctrines, and during his sickness spoke often of the happiness awaiting him on the other side, where father, mother and brothers from the old Kentucky home, sisters from the Gulf States, one son from Anderson, another from the bloody field of The Wild­erness, and a daughter from his Indiana home, were waiting to greet him.

He was married to Judda Bates in 1833, to them eleven children were born, eight of whom are still living: Mrs. John Brown, Union Village; Mrs. W. H. Younce, Franklin; A. Hite, Ed­ward A. and W. Richard, Trafalgar; J. Wesley, Normandy; Floyd R. and Chas. S., Kansas, with the aged wife mourn their loss.

During the deceased’s early manhood and until the organization of the Re­publican party, he was a stanch Whig, and after the Republican party infringed on the Whigs to such an extent as to destroy them, he embraced the dem­ocratic principles.

His life stretched almost across a century. In this time he saw his country struggle in her early independence, pes­tilences come and go, wars with their bloodshed, defeats and victories, fin­ancial crisis, wrapping the nation in clouds of fear and apprehension—but he lived to see her pass victoriously through trials which have placed her at the head of all other nations.

In all this carnal strife he never forgot his religious duty, which to him was a pleasure through life, a comfort in death, and a joy beyond the grave.

Link to William Terhune’s grave

Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry