Sullivan - Marcus O.
Source: Waveland Independent newspaper, Waveland, Montgomery County, Indiana 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 and stock 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 as an imperishable monument ti his memory is known to us, M.O. 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!" -- kbz