John Earl
Birth 28 Sep 1798
New Jersey, USA
Death 30 Sep 1895 (aged 97)
Montgomery County, Indiana, USA
Burial Waynetown Masonic Cemetery
Waynetown, Montgomery County, Indiana, USA
AGED: 97Y 2D
Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, 26 April 1895
Nearing the Century Mark
John Earl, who lives one-half mile west of Waynetown, will be 97 years old next September. He was born in New Jersey, emigrated to Ohio, and sixty years ago came to Indiana and settled on the farm where he still lives, originally consisting of 180 acres. His first wife died about forty years ago and his second wife about twenty years ago. He has three children, all married, and all well advanced in life. The old gentleman is hale and hearty, though his hearing is slightly defective. Otherwise he is in perfect health and his mental faculties are remarkably vigorous. He has been an active member of the Christian church for the last sixty years, and has lived up to his profession as near as it is possible for man to live. He was originally a Whig and then a Republican and still takes an active interest in all political questions. He bids fair to round out a full century.
John Earl, aged 97 years, after a short illness, died at the residence of his son, Enoch Earl, on Monday evening. He was the oldest person living in the township, and probably had lived longer in this county than any one who survives him. He came here from New Jersey seventy years ago and entered the land upon which he has continuously lived ever since, and died within one hundred yards of the cabin which he first erected. He was a consistent member of the Christian church and an ardent worker for the ^Republicans Elder Plunkett, of Crawfordsville, conducted the funeral services Wednesday afternoon, after which interment took place in the Masonic cemetery.
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