Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1901 — Obituary. [ARTICLE]

Obituary.

Sampson Erwin was born in the state of Virginia, Sept. 8, 1827, died April 2, 1901, aged 73 years, 6 months, 24 days. When a small child he came with his parents to the Wabash settlement, in Tippecanoe county, this state. He spent his life in Indiana, with the exception of about four years in Kansas at the beginning of the Civil Waraud five years in Tennessee. A year ago last November he came from Tennessee to Wheatfield, Ind., where he died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. L. W. Shaffner. He was married Jan. 22, 1850, to Rhoda Welsh, who died Aug. 12, 1900. They were married a few months over fifty years. Triey leave six children, three sons and three daughters, as follows. J. E. Erwin, of Wheatfield; T. J. Erwin, of Marion township; J. B. Erwin, of DeMotte; Mrs. Mary A. Strobridge, of California; Mrs. Anna Shaffner, of Wheatfield and Mrs. R. A. Epsy, of Tennessee. Three brothers aud three sisters survive the deceased The deceased was at one time a member of the Order of Free Masons, at Rensselaer, and one of the charter members of the same order at Remington.