Union County OhArchives Obituaries.....Patch Sr., Harmon August 11, 1896
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Beverly Robertson bearfont@gmail.com March 28, 2010, 10:19 am

Marysville Tribune August 26, 1896 p4 c2
ONE BY ONE
We Are Losing the Early Settlers of this Community

Harmon Patch Sen. Began his earthy career January 28,1812 and terminated it at his
home near Plain 
City, union county, Ohio, August 11 1896, aged 84 years, 7 months and 15 days.


In January 1837 he married Miss Martha Stithem, who survives him at the age of 78
years. To this union 
there were born ten children, nine of whom are living, as follows; Elizabeth Banson,
LaRue, O.; Eslie 
Patch, Findlay; Alemael Patch, Sandusky City; Harmon Patch Jr., Marysville; Matthew
Patch, Tennessee; 
Daniel D and John Patch, Missouri; Jane Stall, New Dover; James Patch, Plain City;
Rebecca Patch died in 
infancy. Forty-seven grand-children and twenty-eight great grand-children also
survive him.

His parents emigrated from Virginia 1811, and settled in Franklin county o., where
deceased was born 
and grew to boyhood surrounded with all the hardships and privations incident to
pioneer life. His 
education was limited having to travel nearly two miles through a dense forest void
of roads, wading 
the streams winter as well as summer. Such were some of the great difficulties he
had to surmount to 
obtain even a poor and imperfect education.

Mr. Patch was a very plain, old-fashioned man and somewhat eccentric. For forty five
years his bed 
remained in the same corner of the room and fire kept continually in the old
fashioned fireplace. He 
was strictly temperate in all his ways and in all his long and eventful life did not
use tobacco in any 
form and not until he was 75 years of age did he use tea or coffee, and then by the
advice of a 
physician. He was very economical having trained himself to that in young manhood.
At the age of 20 
he hired to Judge Perain, of Springfield, for $72 a year, at the close he had the
entire amount. Such 
satisfaction was given that he was employed three months more at $12 per month.
Every dollar of this 
money was invested in land, working extra hours to clothe himself. And thus he lived
providing for his 
large family and the many that partook of his hospitality, and be it said to his
credit the hungry was not 
turned from his door empty-handed.

He was a patriot in the dark days of the rebellion. He not only gave of his means to
clear his township 
from draft but gave three sons and one son-in-law to put down that rebellion to
preserve the union 
and uphold the flag. Politically he was before the was an Abolitionist, believing
that slavery as it existed 
in the South was not only a great injustice to the negro, but also a disgrace to our
nation and sin before 
God.

Mr. Patch was held in high esteem by his neighbors for his honesty, one of the most
aged of them 
making the remark on the day of his funeral, that his word was as good as his note,
and his note was as 
good as the money. From 1835 to 1855 he was a member of the M.E. church but for some
reason it 
disbanded and he did not join elsewhere. He however stated to his friends that he
would like to remain 
longer time with them but was ready and willing to abide the will of his heavenly
Father, and thus 
padded away another one of the pioneers of our country, a kind husband, indulgent
father, and a good 
man.

Funeral services were held at his late residence August 13th. Rev Wm. Haines
officiating, after which he 
was laid to rest in the Mitchell cemetery

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/union/obits/p/patchsr373gob.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ohfiles/

File size: 3.9 Kb