Biographies and Obituaries
In loving memory
William Padgett
Herald
W.B. Padgett.
Death again visited the Padgett home on the Bedford road, this time taking William B. Padgett. He died Sunday night at 10:45, only three months after the death of his wife, who passed away November 20, last. His death was due to a general breakdown following a cerebral hemorrhage last summer. Since the death of his wife he had failed rapidly being unable to leave his home. All the member of his family were at the bedside when death came.
Mr. Padgett was born in Hardin county, Kentucky, October 28, 1823, and came to Indiana with his father when he was seven years old, settling in martin county. The family lived there is a log cabin in the woods until ground could be cleared on which to erect a larger log house. At that age he labored in the work of assisting his father in the clearing and other farm work. He attended the rural schools of Martin ad Daviess county and his school education ended in the schools of the district, then limited in their education advantages. This schooling was supplemented with close attention to reading and in the end he possessed an education quite ahead of the average young man of the community.
He was married to Miss Minerva J. Seals February 15, 1844 and had Mrs. Padgett lived until the 15thof this month it would have been their sixty-fourth anniversary. Soon after their marriage they went to housekeeping in a log cabin in Van Burne township. There Mr. Padgett cleared a farm of 180 acres. In this home their family of twelve children were born and reared. Of this large family there are left C. W. Padgett of Vincennes, Arnold J. Padgett, J.Alvin Padgett and Mrs. W. F. Love of this city and Mrs. A. J. Cunningham of Loogootee.
While Mr. Padgett had the limited education of an early pioneer he had the keen intellect that made him a power in his community, possessing a wonderful memory he was a forceful and ready debater. He took an active part in democratic politics all his life, although he never sought or held a political office.
He was a soldier in the civil war in the union army. His service began when he joined company G, 22nd Indiana Infantry and ended with the war when he was honorably discharged July 24, 1865.
Word of his death will be received with sadness by hundreds in Daviess county as he was known to many in all parts of the county. His death makes one more vacancy in the ranks of the old soldiers and of the diminishing numbers of Daviess county pioneers.
The funeral will be held Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock from St. Simons church; burial will be at St. Johns cemetery.
Contributed by: Lisa OSullivan