Sullivan - Marcus O.
Source: Waveland Independent
Waveland, Montgomery County, Indiana
May 5, 1899
MO Sullivan bought a large box of matches and took them home the other day, and his wife put them in a china dish in a closet. A few days afterward on going to the closet she found that in some way the matches had caught fire and burned up, and if they had not been in the dish the house would have gone, too.
Source: Waveland Independent
Waveland, Montgomery County. Indiana
Nov 18, 1927
Nov 18, 1927
The following obituary of the late M.O. Sullivan was
prepared at his request by his lifelong friend, Elder C.L. Airhart. Four
score and 10 years ago, Gilford Co NC a little boy was born to Joseph
L. and Nancy N. Sullivan who as he grew up proved to be a worthwhile
person. Early in life he gave unmistakable evidence of striking
intelligence associated with a laudable ambition to make advancement
through honest effort and from this line of action he never departed and
did succeed. The accumulations of his hands are the just reward of
honest toil and honest dealings with his fellow men. When 22 years of
age he left the plac eof his birth and came to Indiana on Jan 9, 1859
landing with 25 cents in his pocket. He at once sought employment and
was directed to Mr. Howard Clore who gave him employment at $7 per month
until the following April when he was agani employed for four months at
$16 per month. On Aug 5, 1860 he was engaged to work for Mr. Youse
Durham at the same wages for some time and then for Mr. John Demaree
until the breaking out of the Civil War. Enliste in 1861 in the Army of
the Union in the 9th Indiana Battery, Light Artillery and was given the
rank of Sgt and acted in the capacity of drill master for 3 years. On
April 18 1863 while the battle of Shiloh was raging he was severely
wounded and confined in a hospital for six weeks after which he was sent
home on furlough for 125 days. He was met at Evansville, Indiana by Mr.
Simon Demaree and Mr. Casper Budd and was finally housed in the home of
Mrs. John Demaree. He was united in marriage in 1863 to Elvina
Mitchell, to whom no children were born. For many years they walked
life's highway together and shared life's affordings with mutual care
and interest. They saw the wilderness blossom as the rose with their
hands and their hearts, they helped to make it so. They were separated
by her death which occurred in 1916, and on May 17, 1917 he was united
in marriage to Nancy E. Hume, whose compansionship and tender care like a
light shown upon his path to the end of his pilgrimage. He was elected
county commssioner for Parke County, Indana and rendered an efficient
service. As farmer ans tock raiser his fame was known in his own and
foreign countries. In the fraternal world he was a member of the most
ancient and powerful organization of men - the Free and Accepted Masons,
the tenets of whose teachings he expressed in his life. It was not the
smallest of the acts of his life, when on the 14th day of Feb 1873 he
united with Old School Baptist Church at Union near his home. In its
faith, its docctrine and its practice, he was an uncompromising devotee.
He was often hear to say, "as I grow older, I grow stronger in the
faith" and his life proved his words true to the last hour he remained
among the sons of men. This man, who was the little North Carolina boy
born on 3 July 1837, whose well-rounded out life stands imperishable
monument ot his memory is known to us, MO Sullivan - Uncle Doc - who
died in Waveland Indiana on Nov 1, 1927, at the age of 90 years, 3
months 28 days, leaving a devoted and afflicted wife, several nieces and
nephews, and a world of neighbors and friends to bear their loss. In
the plentitude of God's mercies shall we bow and humbly say, "Thy Will O
God, be done!