Gaskill - Joseph
Source: Crawfordsville Daily Journal Friday, 20 July 1894
Joseph Gaskill, a former well known citizen of this place, died last night in Frankfort. The remains will be brought here tomorrow on the morning train for interment and will be taken from the depot direct to the Odd Fellows’ Cemetery. The Odd Fellows will take charge of the service. The Frankfort Times of this morning says:
After weeks of suffering and at the extreme old age of eighty one years, Uncle Joseph Gaskill died at his home last night shortly after 8 o’clock.
He was born July 1st, 1813 in Warren County, Ohio, He came to Clinton County, Indiana, in 1833, and moved to Crawfordsville in 1840, where he lived until February, 1887, when he moved to Frankfort.
During the most of his life he worked at the trade of shoe making. However, while he resided in Crawfordsville, for a time he was in the retail boot and shoe business. In this he met with reverses, his store being burned. He had been twice married and his last wife survives him, but leaves no children. For a great many years he was a consistent member of the Methodist Church, and belonged to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. The simple expression, “If he had an enemy it is not known” is one of the most eloquent tributes that can be paid to any man, yet it is true of him. There was that about him that indicated the unswerving honesty of his nature and drew men to him as friends. - s