Parke-Fountain-Montgomery County IN Archives Obituaries.....Elkins, Samuel Clarence May 21, 1967 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/in/infiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sandra Lee Elkins Juhl gsjuhl@peoplepc.com September 27, 2006, 8:25 am THE TERRE HAUTE TRIBUNE MAY 22, 1967 "A TRIBUTE PUBLISHED IN THE PAGES OF THE TERRE HAUTE TRIBUNE TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA MAY 22, 1967 MEMORIAL OBITURARY: Entered Into Eternal Rest Sunday, May 21, 1967 SAMUEL C. ELKINS Montezuma, Ind. (Special) -- Samuel C. Elkins, 69, died at 5 p.m. Sunday at his residence. He was a retired farmer and laborer. Surviving are the widow, Gladys; seven sons, Joe, Kansas, Ill., Orville, Danville, Ill., James, Montezuma, and Donald, Ronald, Kenneth, all of South Bend; four daughters, Mrs. Vera Paddock, Newman, Ill.; Mrs. Helen Wall, South Bend; Mrs. Evelyn Lunog, Hawaii, and Mrs. Doris Walter, Rosedale; 26 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren. Arrangements are pending at the Barnes Mortuary, Rockville." [Transcribed 14 Jan 2005, SLJuhl, granddaughter & compiler] Additional Comments: "SAMUEL CLARENCE ELKINS, 2nd child of Franklin Asbury and Clara Mae Tyler Elkins. Samuel C. Elkins, was born in Judson, Indiana, Washington Township in Parke County, Indiana. He remembered going by wagon with his family to visit his grandfather, William H. Elkins, a direct descendant of the first settlers to Jackson/Brown Counties, Indiana, who was a big man and having huge hands. He was only nine years old when his grandfather passed away so it probably would have seemed so to him. He told as a young man having rode the rails and worked on the railroad out to the West and back. He met his wife to be (Gladys Helen/Ellen Farner) at a church in Bloomingdale, Indiana. They courted by wagon and were married two years later in Fountain County. He was a farmer most of his life and they lived in Fountain County when first married and their first child of fourteen children was born there, Dorothy Mae, Vera Ellen, Helen Louise, Clarence Richard, Evelyn Ruth, Nellie Alverta, Joseph Ray, Orville Lee, Doris Marie, Paul Robert, Ronald S., Donald C., and Kenneth Ray Elkins. The rest were born in Parke County, Indiana where Samuel and Gladys spent the rest of their lives." , per Joyce Lorraine Clore Elkins. [Transcribed 14 Jan 2005, SLJuhl, granddaughter & compiler] The families genealogy with sources listed is at www.RootsWeb.com World Connect File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/parke/obits/e/elkins7nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/infiles/ File size: 2.8 Kb