Tazewell County IL Archives Obituaries.....Eagleson, Henry  September 26, 1862
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Presbyterian banner & advocate. (Pittsburgh, Pa.) 1855-1860: October 18, 1862
Died of typhoid fever, in Tazewell County, September 26th, 1862, Mr. Henry Eagleson,
in the 56th year of his age. Mr. Eagleson was the son of Andrew Eagleson, of
Harrison Co., Ohio, and brother of Rev. John Eagleson, D. D., of Buffalo, Pa. At the
age of seventeen, he was chosen by, the congregation of Beech Springs, to lead their
singing exercises, and for about twenty-five years he stood up before the pulpit,
and lead their music, while Dr. Rea occupied the pulpit behind him. For nearly the
same length of time he was a Ruling Elder in that church. In 1831 he was married to
Miss Eliza Hoss, who still survives him. In May, 1858, himself, his son, and
son-in-law, three families, removed to Illinois, and soon after located in the
bounds of the congregation of Deer Creek, where he died. Here also he was chosen and
installed a Ruling Elder. He leaves a wife and six children—three sons and three
daughters to mourn his loss—one of his daughters, Mrs. Merchant, having died one
week before him... 

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