Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Carnahan, William 1785 - 1869
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   William Carnahan, born of Scotch-Irish ancestry June 25, 1785, in Cumberland
county, Pennsylvania, emigrated to Indiana June 25, 1835, and settled in Shawnee
township. He united with the Coal Creek Presbyterian church in August of the
same year at a camp-meeting. At a subsequent period he assisted in the
organization of the Rob Roy Presbyterian church, of which he was elected one of
the ruling elders. This office he held until the day of his death, which
occurred January 25, 1869, in the eighty-fourth year of his age. He was one of
the many christian pioneers who, moving west with the first emigration to the
new parts of our country, carry the love of Christ with them and plant the
gospel in the wilderness. He was in every way a most excellent man. With a clear
mind, well stored with intelligence, and well versed in the doctrines of the
gospel, with a heart fully in sympathy with Christ and His cause, he was at all
times a safe and valuable adviser to his younger brethren. At the same time he
was a peculiarly humble christian. Living to a ripe old age he retained his
mental vigor to the last. He died in fall consciousness, and, as might have been
expected from such a life, in perfect peace: gathered home "like as a shock of
corn cometh in his season." In October, 1818, he married Mary Huston, who died
in September 1823. In May, 1825, he married Margaret Cooper, who yet survives
him. Mrs. Margaret C. Carnahan, relict of William Carnahan, born July 4, 1796,
of English and Scotch-Irish ancestry, in Newville, Cumberland county,
Pennsylvania, is now in her eighty-fifth year. In early life she united with the
Presbyterian church, of which she is now a member, as were also her ancestors
away back in the seventeenth century. She is in possession of a church-letter
given her great-grandfather and his wife, dated in the kingdom of Ireland and
parish of Antrim, June 9, 1737, just before they emigrated to America, of which
the following is a copy:

   "That John Cooper & wife & family and his son Wm. Cooper and his wife Sarah
Cooper all of ye Kingdom of Ireland County and parish of Antrim & hath lived
within ye bounds of sd parish, all of them from their Infancy untill ye 'Date
hereof, & all of them while here with us behaved themselves Soberly and honestly
free of any publick Scandal or Church Censure known to us & therefore may be
received into Christian Communion in any Christian Society where God in his
providence may be pleased to cast their lots. Certified at Antrim this ninth Day
of June Anno Domini 1737. Seven
                                  "By WILLM HOLMES"


Additional Comments:
Shawnee Township

HISTORY OF FOUNTAIN COUNTY,

TOGETHER WITH
HISTORIC NOTES ON THE WABASH VALLEY,

GLEANED FROM EARLY AUTHORS, OLD MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS
PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC, THOUGH, FOR THE MOST
PART, OUT-OF-THE-WAY SOURCES.

BY H. W. BECKWITH,
OF THE DANVILLE BAR; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF
WISCONSIN AND CHICAGO.

WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHICAGO: H. H. HILL AND N. IDDINGS, PUBLISHERS.
1881.


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