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- Henry Dorsett Teague
BIRTH 28 Sep 1841
Marshall, Parke County, Indiana, USA
DEATH 26 Oct 1916 (aged 75)
Indiana, USA
BURIAL
Poplar Grove Cemetery
Marshall, Parke County, Indiana, USA
MEMORIAL ID 30098948
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., Indiana.
He was the eighth child of a family of twelve children, two of whom died in childhood. The others lived to manhood and womanhood and 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 of them left, Reason, John 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.
Sometime during the Civil War he enlisted as a private in Company E of the 137th regiment of Indiana infantry. On Nov. 7, 1872, he was united in marriage to Sarah Elizabeth Cox. To this union were born ten children, 5 sons and 5 daughters-Elias O. Teague, May Kennedy of South Dakota; Everett Teague, Artie Pickard of Tangier; Arthur Teague of Minnesota; Frederic Teague, Esta Lindley of Tangier; Grant Teague of South Dakota; Berta, and Dora Myers 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 in his last sickness.
He was converted at the Cross Roads church, east of Annapolis, in 1858, under the ministry of Revs. 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 ordained as a minister in the United Brethren church. His early ministry was marked by great revivals and he had the joy of seeing many souls born into the kingdom of Christ under his ministry. The greater part of his christian life was spent in service and fellowship with the United Brethren. He was not at all sectarian. He could give the right hand of fellowship to all evangelical churches. He affiliated with the Friends at Rush creek and at the time of his death was a teacher in their Sabbath school.
He united with the Cumberland 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 be sound in doctrine on all the vital points of the Christian religion.
He was blessed with a good memory and could repeat whole chapters of the Bible. Just a day or two before he died he repeated the whole of the 34th Psalm to his nurse. In his childhood or youth he won a Bible as a prize for committing to memory the greatest number of texts in the Bible.
Whatever the mistakes or failures of life may have been thru the vicissitude of 75 years, we feel that we can truthfully say of him, as Paul said of himself, that he fought a good fight and kept the faith, and had the assurance that there were laid for him a path.
Thirty-nine years ago, this coming February he with his wife and two small children settled on a farm in Sugar Creek township. They have made that farm their home ever since. He was strong and robust physically and not afraid of hard work. When not engaged in ministerial service he helped to clear his farm and made for him and family a home.
He had always been well, and was unusually strong for his years. He had never been stricken down with sickness until five weeks ago. But disease had fastened itself upon him and thru all that good nursing and medical skill could do, was done for him. It proved to no avail. He quietly past away at his home Oct. 26, 1916, age 75 years and 28 days.
He leaves to mourn their loss his companion, 10 children, 13 grandchildren, two brothers and one sister, besides many relatives and friends.
Funeral services were held at Friends' Union, conducted by Rev. Mell Holland of the Cumberland Presbyterian church of Charleston, Ill. Burial in the Poplar Grove cemetery near Marshall.
(The other Rockville papers-Source-obit)
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