IRWIN, Hugh V. - 1900
Source: Iva Lewis Obituary Scrapbook (Iva lived in Fountain County, Indiana her whole life and gathered many obituaries through the years) - sadly no notation as to the original obituary source
Hugh V. Irwin was born in Fountain county, Indiana, February 12th, 1854, and died April 14th, 1900, aged 46 years, 2 months and 2 days. He was united in marriage to Miss Fannie Barton, February 12th, 1885 and to them five children were born. Bro. Irwin’s illness was of short duration, taking sick on Sunday morning, April 8th, and passing quietly and peacefully to his home the following Saturday. He bore manfully and patiently his sufferings to the end. His life has been lived the larger portion in this vicinity and it has been so lived that he has drawn about him a large circle of friends who who will only realize the depth and strength of his friendship as days come and go and they are deprived of his companionship. I think it can be safely said that he was, in every sense of the word, a neighbor. His hand was ever open and no one ever appealed to him that he did not respond. The community in which he has made his home, and where his little family had come to bless and beautify his home, will find more closely interlaced the life of this man than they had ever dreamed. His citizenship was a good and honorable one and was of sterling worth to this people. Bro. Irvin had never united with the church, but there has been a deepening interest in his preparations for the future, and to us who were with him in his last moments there was given sweet sustaining assurance that Jesus had become to him a personal Savior. He assured us that could he not recover he would be at rest. We can leave him with us loving Savior and be who said “Him that cometh unto me I will in no wise cast out.” His home was his greatest attraction and it was his pleasure in the midst of the little group that made home so beautiful to him. Only she, who for 15 years has been his constant companion and has shared with every care and entered into all his joys can know the beauty of his life as it was lived apart from the world. The children have lost a loving father a safe counselor but God has said he would be a father to the fatherless and husband to the widow. He leaves a wife and five children. Also six sisters and many relations and large circle of friends who deeply mourn his loss. The funeral services were held in the Baptist church at Newtown, April 10, at 2 o’clock and were conducted by Rev. Henson the present pastor after which the remains were laid to rest in the Newtown cemetery. – jlr