Fulton County IN Archives Obituaries.....Hickman, Rachel Shore September 1880
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The Rochester Sentinel
Saturday, October 16, 1880

Rachel SHORE [HICKMAN] was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, October 1st, 1808. 
She was married in the year 1828 to Abel C. HICKMAN, who some three years ago 
preceded her to the better land. Of this union were born ten children, of whom 
just five remain to mourn the loss of both father and mother. She and her 
husband came to Indiana in 1831 on horseback, carrying with them two children 
[and?] a bed. They rmained only a short time but returned in 1834 to become 
permanent residents. The exact date of her uniting with the church cannot be 
ascertained; but, according to a tradition that remains with the children, she 
became a member of the church long before she was married. Their understanding 
is that she espoused the cause of Christ when a girl of fifteen or eighteen. 
This much can be safely said, that not less than fifty of her three score 
years and twelve were given to the service of God.
She had been making her home for some time with her son-in-law, Wm. J. LEITER, 
in this city. Saturday, October 9th, she went to Argos to visit her son. The 
next Wednesday morning, on going out of the house, she fell from the door-
step, and was taken up in an insensible condition. Until three o'clock in the 
afternoon, she lingered unconscious, when she ceased to live on earth, to live 
forever in heaven.



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Wendell C. Tombaugh



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