GASKIN, William Earl - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

Services for William Earl Gaskin, 81, a life resident of State Line, Ind., who died early yesterday (Friday, Oct. 20, 1967) in St. Elizabeth Hospital, will be at 2 p.m. Monday at the Barrick & Son Funeral Home. The Rev. Charles Williams will officiate. Burial will be in Walnut Corner Cemetery. Friends will be received at the funeral home 2-4 and 6-9 p.m. Sunday. Mr. Gaskin retired in 1960 as principal of the State Line Grade School. Born May 2, 1886, in State Line, he was a son of William and Elizabeth Sisk Gaskin. He was married in September of 1912 at Lafayette, Ind., to Edna Mills who survives. Also surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Carl (Caroll) Roderick of State Line; three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by two sisters and a brother. Mr. Gaskin was a member of the State Line Methodist Church and the Mound Masonic Lodge 274. Mr. Gaskin was a Warren County member of the Indiana Civil War Centennial and the Indiana Sesquicentennial Commission. His interest in the Civil War stemmed from the fact his father was a Civil War veteran. He was an authority on the history of Warren County and the Western Indiana area. He was a member of the Ward Hill Lamon Civil War Round Table of Danville. He had written a number of historical articles published in area newspapers.  --typed by Walt W