Another Pioneer has gone from among us and leaves the member less of those stirling, noble men, who were the first to lay the foundation of civilization in the beautiful Vally of the Wabash.

The subject of this sketch was born in Burks county, Pennsylvania, December 1st, 1799, and at the age of 10 years emigrated with his father to Virginia, and from thence at the age of 21 to Vermillion county, Indiana, stopping first near Clinton, he went from here to Coleman's Prairie, and thence to said Prairie and located two and one-half miles south west of Perrysville, and was the first man to break sod on the prairie. There were then ten Indians to one white man, and he was therefore, one of those men to whom the present generations owe so much; whose strong arms, invincible courage, and patient, poidding industry transformed a wilderness into flowing fields and gardens and replaced the wigwam of the savage with churches, school houses and comfortable refined houses of civilization. His aged companion, who is left behind, mourns deeply the loss one with whom she had tread the journey of life for near fifty years, but finds much consolation in a large and respectable family of children who are grown in manhood and womanhood, who will, doubtless, render the remainder of her journey as pleasant as possible.

The deceased closed his eyes peacefully, and with a hope that was cheering to his friends, on the 15th of March 1876, at the ripe age of seventy-six years, three months and fourteen days, and was laid away by kind and appreciative neighbors, in Smith-Cemetery, where he helped in dig the first grave, and which he had lived to see it become an extensive city of the dead.