WILKINS, George - 1878
Source The True Republican December 1878
At his home in Sugar Creek township, on Sunday, December, after a lingering illness, died George WILKINS, in his sixty-ninth year. George Wilkins was born in August, 1810, in Franklin county, Indiana, where he lived until 1827, when he settled in Sugar Creek township where he resided most of the time since then. Several years ago he moved to Penn Township, but returned to the old homestead to die. When he first settled in Parke he inaugurated a temperance reform which will be remembered by the oldest settlers:-that of excluding the whiskey jug from the harvest field; and he has himself led a temperate life ever since. He was one of the first advocates of Universalism in the county, and was the founder of the Mill Creek church. Icy Thomas was the wife of his youth. She died in 1851, leaving five children living, though somewhat scattered over the West and growing old. IN 1858 he married Eliza Jones, who survives him with four children, two of whom are small. Mr. Wilkins lingered for several weeks suffering with Bronchitis, but patiently waited the summons to come up higher. He expressed a willingness and readiness to die. His constant prayer was to be permitted to die easy. This request was granted him. He talked of death as he would of a mere business transaction. It had no terrors for him. More than half a century he has resided among our people. Now he sleeps with the fathers. Peace to his memory. - thanks so much to the Parke County INGenWeb page