Randolph County, Indiana
Obituaries
The Winchester JournalMcCAMISH: John, son of Margaret and William McCamish, was born August 14, 1838, died March 29, 1865; aged fifty-six years, seven months and fifteen days.
Wednesday, May 1, 1895
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At the age of twenty years he was married to Miss Hannah Gantz of this county. Their life was one of unbroken happiness and harmony, until the irresistable hand of death has cut them assunder.
He was the father of two children, one son and one daughter, both highly respected citizens of this locality. And while as a husband he was devoted and true and providing, and as a father careful, honorable and kind, he was also a Christian of undoubted consistency; at the early and blooming age of but twenty-one years he united with the Church, and ever since has been a devout and active member; often has he been heard to say in his own language that "without Christ, to him, life would be a failure." His last illness was long and tedious, but he endured it all with Christian fortitude. During his Church life he has repeatedly held the various offices of Steward, Class Leader, and Trustee.
He leaves a true devoted Christian widow, two children, two brothers, six sisters, and an aged mother to mourn his death. But he is not dead, he only sleeps, a calm, untroubled, hopeful sleep from which perhaps he shall be awakened by the hum and flit of seraphic wings, which have come to announce his resurrection glory. He has gone from our mortal sphere, but with the throng of ransomed souls we believe and trust his immortal spirit sings around the deathless sphere of God. Mortality, his earthly house has been dissolved, but immortality, his heavenly building, has been occupied; and thus we mourn not as those who have no hope, and may all those glorious virtues for which he was so eminent crown his life with a bow of unfading beauty and undying glory, and throw a holo[isc] of hope and concolation over our bereaved hearts and lonely hours.
The funeral was preached by Rev. C. W. Spangler, of Emmettsville, at the Hopewell Church.
Contributed by Phyllis Miller Fleming
The Winchester JournalJas. W. McCamish will buy wool here this season, paying highest market prices in cash.
Wednesday, May 30, 1893
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Ridgeville Items.
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Contributed by Phyllis Miller Fleming
The Winchester JournalMcCAMISH: William McCamish was born in Green County, Tennessee, August 25, 1812; and died in Ridgeville, Ind., May 14, 1893; aged eighty yeaers, eight months and nineteen days.
Wednesday, May 24, 1893
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At the age of twenty-three he came from his Tennessee home to Indiana, and settled in Green Township in Randolph County. In the same year of his arrival, 1835, he was united in marriage with Margaret Gray, with whom he lived happily for nearly sixty years, and who still survives him. The fruits of this unon were ten children, nine of whom are still living, and with one exception, were present at the last sad rites.
Brother McCamish was one of those hard-working pioneers who entered the forest and carved for himself a home, the peace of which he enjoyed until within a few years, when he came to Ridgeville that he might be free from the labors of the farm.
He was a man of unquestioned integrity, regarding his promise or his word as a bond inviolable. He studiously avoided debt, to which fact he often attributed his success in life. His habits were moderate and simple, and because of it he lived to a ripe and honorable old age. Early in life he united with the M.E. Church, but later connected himself with the Free-will Baptist Church of Ridgeville of which he was a member at the time of his death. His life has been an exemplary one, and contained many virtues worthy of emulation by those who are yet struggling for the common goal. Let us all draw an instructive inference from this life of toil, virtue and simplicity the we, like Brother McCamish, may hear the welcome words of "well done," when we are summoned to come up higher.
Contributed by Phyllis Miller Fleming