Parke County IN - Obit of Patsy Puett, 1893

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  ROCKVILLE TRIBUNE JUNE1, 1893:

DIED AT HER HOME IN ROCKVILLE, INDIANA MAY  24, 1893, PATSY PUETT AGED 82
YEARS.
PATSY NOEL WAS BORN IN MERCER COUNTY KENTUCKY, FEB. 11, 1811, BEING THE
DAUGHTER OF COLEMAN NOEL, WHO IN 1818 MOVED TO CARLISLE, IN SULLIVAN COUNTY,
AND THE NEXT YEAR TO MONROE COUNTY, HIS WAS THE ONLY WHITE FAMILY, WITH ONE
EXCEPTION , IN THAT PART OF THE COUNTRY AT THAT TIME,THE LARGEST PORTION OF
THE
INHABITANTS OF THE FORESTS BEING INDIANS. IN 1824 MR. NOEL MOVED TO PARKE
CO.
AND TWO YEARS LATER PATSY MARRIED JOHNSONPUETT, T WHO SHE WAS A CONSTANT AND
FAITHFUL HELPMATE UNTIL HIS DEAATH I  1890 . A FAMILY OF NINE CHILDREN WERE
BORN OF THIS UNION. HER SURVIVING RELATIVES ARE ONE SISTER, MRS SALLIE
BURFORD,
AND THREE BROTHERS, SAMUEL, COLEMAN AND SEDFRICK NOEL, FOUR SONS, FIFTEEN
GRANDCHILDREN, TWENTY EITHT GREAT GRAND CHILDREN AND ONE GREAT, GREAT,
GRANDCHILD, FOR SIXTY YEARS SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE BAPTIST CHURCH HER
FATHER
DONATING THE LOT UPON WHICH THE FIRST CHURCH OF THAT DENOMINATION WAS BUILT
IN
ROCKVILLE.
MRS PUETT HAD LONG BORNE THE AFFECTIONATE APPELLATION OF AUNT PATSY AND HER
KINDLY FACE AND CHEERFUL VOICE TOUCHED THE TROUBLED SOUL LIKE == A
BENEDICTION
FROM HEAVEN. HER'S WAS  THE CALMNESS THAT BELONGS TO THOSE WHOSE FAITH HAS A
FIRM FOUNDATION, AND WHOSE TREASURES ARE IN A SAFE PLACE WHERE NEITHER MOTH
NOR
RUST DOTH CORRUPT. FAITHFUL WIFE, MOTHER, SISTER, FRIEND HER LIFE , THROUGH
ITS HISTORY MAY NEVER BE  WRITTEN IN A GILT BOUND  VOLUME HERE, IS RECORDED
BY AN ANGEL'S PEN  IN THE BOOK OUT OF WHICH THE DEAD ARE JUDGED ACCORDING TO
THEIR WORKS. HER DAUGHTERS LONG GONE BEFORE, THEIR PLACE AT HER BEDSIDE WAS
TAKEN BY THE WIVES OF HER SONS WHO TENDERLY CARED FOR HER TO THE LAST. THUS
WITH THE LOVE OF HER FRIENDS AND THE RESPECT OF ALL WHO KNEW HER, SHE FELL
ASLEEP TO WAKE WHERE THERE IS NEITHER  SORROW OR CRYING.

SHE ALONG WITH HER FAMILY MOVED TO SULLIVAN CO. AND THE NEXT YEAR TO MONROE
CO. THEIRS WAS THE ONLY WHITE FAMILY IN THE AREA WITH ONE EXCEPTION, THE
LARGEST
PORTION OF THE INHABITANTS BEING INDIANS. IN 1824 MR. NOEL MOVED TO PARKE CO
AND
THE FOLLOWING YEAR PATSY MARRIED JOHNSON PUETT. MRS. PUETT HAD LONG BORNE
THE
AFFECTIONATE APPELLATION OF "AUNT PATSY" AND HER KINDLY FACE AND CHEERFUL
VOICE
TOUCHED THE TROUBLED SOUL LIKE A BENEDICTION FROM HEAVEN.


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