Teague - Henry Dorsett
Source: Iva Lewis Obituary Scrapbook
Henry Dorsett Teague, son of Henry and Martha Teague was born Sept. 28, 1841 on the farm now owned by his brother Reason Teague in Washington township, Parke Co Ind. He was the eight child of a family of twelve children two of whom died in childhood. The others lived to manhood and womanhood and are located in homes of their own and for a period of 54 years their circle was unbroken by death, since that time they have gone one by one till there are but three left, John Reason, and Mrs. Stephen Beeson. His childhood and early youth was spent in the home of his father. During that time he obtained a common school education of that day, at what was known as the Roaring Creek school, later he hired out as a farm hand. During the civil war he enlisted as a private, in Company E of the 137th regiment of the Indiana Infanty. On Nov. 7, 1872 he was united in marriage to Sarah E. Cox. To this union were born ten children, 5 daughters and 5 sons, Elias O, Grant, and May Kennedy of South Dakota; Frederic, Everett, Artie Pickard, and Esta Lindley, of Tangier; Arthur of Minnesota; Dory Myers, and Bertha of Grange Corner. They have all reached manhood and womanhood and all but two, Arthur and May have had the privilege of being with their father to his last sickness. He was converted at the Cross Roads church east of Anapolis in 1858, under the ministry of Rev. Moore and Mast. His conversion was very definite. He went to work right away for the salvation of others and God blessed his labors. As time went on he felt a call to the ministry. In 1868 (ten years after he was converted) he was ordaned as a minster in the United Brethern Church. His early ministry was marked by grate revivals and he had the joy of seeing many souls born into the kingdom of Christ under his ministry. The grater part of his christian life was spent in services fellowship with the breathern. He was not at all sectarian, he could give the right hand of fellowship to all evangelist churches. He officiated with the Friends at Rush Creek and at the time of his death was a teacher in their S. S. He united with the Presbyterian church a few years ago and at the time of his death was a member and an ordained minister in that denomination. He was a student and lover of the Bible. He accepted it as the word of God from Genesis to Revelation. His teaching ever showed him to de sound in …….. – jlr