Person:Mary Friend (1)

Evergreen Cemetery Osbun, Samuel father b 5 Aug 1846 d 17 Mar 1915

            Mary  E  (Friend) mother  wife of Samuel  b 18 May 1846  d 13 Mar 1917
            Wife of Henry, 1902  only date given  no stone here
            Child  no dates or other info given   no stone here
           George F.  Rev.  b 1870  d 1945  buried 13  Sep 1945
           Cora May  b 1870  d 1942  buried 28  Mar 1942
           Leila M.   b 1896  d 1976  buried 13 Aug 1976
           Henry,  b 1884  d 1940  buried 2 Dec 1940  Dilgard Marker
            Mrs. Henry, buried 16 Mar 1922  no stone

Biography of Samuel Osborne, page 661. History of De Kalb County, Indiana. Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Samuel Osborne, son of Elias and Mary Ann Osborne, was born in Jackson Township, Aug. 5, 1844. His grandfather, Aaron Osborne was a native of New Jersey, and subsequently moved to Wayne County, Ohio, and thence in November, 1841, to De Kalb County, Ind. He was one of the pioneers of Jackson Township, locating on section 16. He gave each of his sons, Moses, William, Elias and John, eighty acres of land. Moses, now of Michigan, is the only one living. His two daughters, Mrs. Permelia McClellan and Mr Jane Lige, reside in Jackson Township. Aaron Osborne died in February, 1883; his wife many years earlier. Elias, his son, married Mary Ann, daughter of John Watson, a pioneer of 1836. They reared a family of fo children---Samuel, Aaron W. and John W.(twins) and Elizabeth. Elias Osborne died Nov. 24, 1875. His widow lives on the old homestead on section 16 with her daughter. Samuel Osborne was married Nov. 10, 1869, to Mary Ellen Friend, a native of Ohio, born May 18, 1845, a daughter of Michael and Eliza Friend. They have two children---George F. and an infant. Mr. Osborne has a pleasant home on section 16, Jackson Township.