TEAGUE, Clarence Leonidas - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

CLARENCE LEONIDAS TEAGUE,    son of William and Sarah Jane Teague, was born in Davies Co., Mo., Dec. 10, 1874.  Died at his home in Sugar Creek township, July 15, 1915, aged 40 years, 7 months and 5 days.   In his early infancy he was brought to Fountain co., Indiana by the family and later his home was in Parke County, Indiana.

  Clarence was stricken with Typhoid Fever and for about four weeks, suffered with this malady.

Though administered to by loving hands, receiving the best of attention, he succumbed to the disease.   He bore the long suffering with fortitude and patience, but all in vain.

  He attended the common schools in Sugar Creek township and was an apt scholar, graduating at an early age with honors, winning the first scholarship to Bloomingdale Academy, where he later attended.   His great intelligence fitted him well for a teacher and he became one of the ablest teachers in Sugar Creek township.   His firm yet kind discipline in his school work and his love for the children, made him beloved by all his pupils and their parents, which enabled him to achieve the great success in the schoolroom.   Aside from teaching, he followed the occupation of farming.

In politics, he was prominent, serving his party at different times as Township Central Committee-

Man and here, too his influence was for the better.  As a citizen, he was progressive always working for the betterment of the community in which he had lived.

The subject of this sketch was married to Esta McGaughey, September 27, 1914. To this union was born a son, Paul Bernard, now scarcely four weeks old, who by this sad death, is left fatherless and the widow without the loving care of a most devoted husband.  A home so beautiful is toRn asunder by cold relentless death who invades the sacred domains of a family circle and leaves a gap which never again can be filled to those whom the departed is so dear.  Not only the immediate family and relatives but all his many friends and acquaintances, will feel the loss.

His upright life and his high ideals won him the love and respect of all who knew him and his influence for a purer and higher life will yet live on.  A life so beautiful has not closed but will live on and on, only the mortality laid to rest and his spirit taken its flight to God who gave it, would that we might pattern after his life.  

Deceased was a member of the K. of P. Lodge of Marshall, Ind., No. 133.  He was also a member of the Friends Union church and had at all times supported and aided the church work of his community, standing for true Christianity, practicing the Golden Rule in his every day life.

Kind and accommodating, he had endeared himself to all and the memory of him shall ever remain with us, though the body as passed away.

To mourn  the loss of Clarence are his wife and child, his aged mother, four sisters, one brother, three nephews and four nieces, besides many other relatives and a host of friends.  May God in His infinite mercy comfort them all with the thought of the grand reunion in the Kingdom of God.

Funeral services were held at the Union church one half mile south of Grange Corner, on July 17, at 2 P.M., conducted by Rev. Ed Woodard assisted by Rev. Miles Martin.  After which he was taken to Poplar Grove Cemetery and there laid away to rest until the great Resurrection Day. – thanks to S&E