SIGLER, Andrew
Source: Greencastle Star 15
May 1880 p1
Fallen another veteran gone.
On the morning of May 12, 1880, Andrew Sigler of Greencastle, Ind aged 76 years
7 months and 1 day. Mr. Sigler was born
in the State of Tennessee on the 11th day of October, 1803. He came
to Putnam County in 1821, when the ground on which stands our beautiful city
was an unbroken wilderness. His first
marriage which took place on the 2d day of December 1824 was to Miss Sarah
Heady. To them were born 11 children, four sons and seven daughters. All are
now dead save two sons and one daughter.
Mrs. Sigler departed this life on the 7th day of September
1868. On the 16th day of September 1869 he was again married to a
most estimable Christian lady of Lebanon, Ind who name was Amanda Campbell who
in connection with his affectionate granddaughter, Miss Sally Gillum of Paris
Ill nursed him during his protracted afflictions with the most untiring and
tender attention. For some 12 months, Mr. Signer has been visited with attacks
of partial paralysis, which increased in severity with every repeated
occurrence and which for some six months or more rendered him as helpless as an
infant. He also suffered from the most
terrific spasms, the last one of which occurred two days before his death and
from the effects of which he never fully recovered. He has been a member of the
ME church for over 30 years and often during the last year of his life spoke of
his perfect readiness to depart and be with Christ, in terms of the most
abiding confidence. He often expressed himself in words of earnest solicitude
that the time of his departure might come. Although Mr. Sigler commenced the world
in very moderate circumstances he succeeded by his untiring attention to
business in amassing a very considerable fortune. He has been fully aware of
approaching dissolution and to meet it, has been putting his house in order. He
desired his friend and neighbor, Elder OP Badger, who was often by his bedside
with words of consolation to preach his funeral which took place at the Dunkard
Church Thursday at 2:30 p.m. Mr. Sigler
was a kindhearted man, honest in dealing, prompt in the discharge of all his obligations,
a faithful husband and father, and a most obliging neighbor. One by one these
patriotic sires are passing off. May the same devotion to our republican
institutions inspire the hearts of their sons to the latest generations that
burned upon the hearts of these noble ancestors. I cannot close this brief
obituary without bearing my testimony to the most unremitting attention on the
part of Mrs. Sigler and the granddaughter to the husband and grandfather during
all these months of trial and gloom. It
cannot fail of being a life-long source of satisfaction to them to know that
they did not do their duty, simply, but they did it in tenderness and love.
B. May 14, 1880. - kbz