Warren County OhArchives Obituaries.....Corwin, William Dunham  1921
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1921 newspaper thought to be The Western Star
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William Dunham Corwin (1836-1921) 

WM. D. CORWIN
The veteran William D. Corwin passed into a life of peace and quiet on last
Saturday morning. For almost 85 years - since Nov. 8, 1836 - he had lived
continuously in this vicinity - a radius of 25 miles from Lebanon would have
reached his home at any time. His birth place was in farm now owned by Corwin
Drake on the Waynesville pike.

Born of sturdy stock, the son of James H. and Mary Dunham Corwin, he belonged to
that class of which Lincoln said, "The Lord must have loved them for he made so
many of them."

Like the majority of pioneers, Mr. Corwin was a patriotic man, a lover of
humanity, a supporter of bovernment. When the South threatened secession and the
whip of the slave-master was snapping defiance at the government at Washington,
Mr. Corwin enlisted in a cavalry regiment in Illinois. Of his company every man
owned his own outfit, which the government afterward purchased. He then came to
Ohio, and in January of 1861, with other patriotic boys, numbering in all
eighteen, he joined the 4th Ohio Cavalry commanded by Colonel John Kennett of
Cincinnati. Of this band of 18, Capt. Albert Brant is now the lone survivor.

While on parole their Company having been taken prisoners at Lexington, Ky., by
General Morgan's men, the Lebanon boys came home and while here, Mr. Corwin
married Susan J. Brown. As the prisoners were soon exchanged he left his bride
and returned to the battlefields to serve until the war was over. His comrade
Albert Brant says of him, "Always happy and jolly when no in an engagement, he
was a sternly disciplined soldier under fire. There were none better than
William Corwin."

To Mr. and Mrs. Corwin were born 12 children, of whom 9 are still living and
with their mother mourn the passing of one who had always been kind and loving.

The children surviving are ex-county commissioner, W. D. Corwin, Frank S.
Corwin, Mrs. Lucy Settlemyre, Clint D. Howard, Thos. Robert and Forrest Corwin
and Mrs. Florence Tucker, all residents of Ohio, and with the exception of Mrs.
Tucker who lives at Cuyahoga Falls, living in or near Warren County.

Source: 1921 newspaper thought to be The Western Star [copy obtained from
obituary collection at the Warren County Genealogical Society] 



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