Warren County OhArchives Obituaries.....Corwin, Mrs. Sarah  May 6, 1853
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The Western Star
DEATH OF MRS. SARAH CORWIN. 

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This venerable lady, the wife of the late Ichabod Corwin, Sen., died at the
residence of her son, R. G. Corwin, Esq., on Tuesday morning last, the 3d inst.,
at four o’clock. We are indebted to a friend for the following interesting facts
in relation to her life and character.

Mrs. Corwin was born in the year 1772, and was consequently 81 years old. When
but 8 years of age, her father was killed by the Indians near the place now
called Brownsville, Pa. Her mother soon after followed – the shock from the
massacre of her husband being too great for her then enfeebled condition. The
deceased removed about 1787 with her elder brothers to Kentucky, where in 1789,
she was united to Ichabod Corwin, long and favorably known in this community,
and who died from the kick of a horse in 1834.

Mrs. Corwin removed with her husband and three children, to the farm on which
they both died, adjoining and then including the present site of Lebanon, in
May, 1796, soon after which their fourth child was born, and who was the first
white child born within the limits of this county. On this farm, and during most
of that entire period in the same house, Mrs. Corwin lived upwards of 57 years,
forty of which were spent with her husband. They here raised a family of 13
children, 7 sons and 6 daughters, 9 of whom are still living, and were present
at her funeral.

Mrs. Corwin possessed great energy of character and a strong mind, retaining her
memory and intellect to the last. She could ever adapt herself to the
necessities of providential circumstances; and therefore endured the hardships
and dangers of a pioneer life with great fortitude. To show the readiness with
which she accommodated herself to the necessities of the times, it may be
mentioned as one instance which will show something of the condition of pioneer
life in her youth, that the evening on which they landed their goods at a new
cabin just erected on their farm, and which had not yet had doors cut out, she
at once assisted her husband in cutting a door, by working one end of the cross
cut saw; and while others were engaged in necessary arrangements for the
preservation of the cattle, she took a puncheon prepared for a floor to their
cabin, and out of it with axe and auger prepared a table on which the family ate
their first meal in their new home. To show the condition of this country at
that time, it may be also stated that the first season of their residence here,
the Indians stole all of Mr. Corwin’s horses, and almost deprived him of raising
a crop. He, however, went back to Kentucky and procured a yoke of oxen, with
which he made out to raise corn to supply his family.

Mrs. Corwin at an early age made a profession of Religion, and became a member
of the Regular Baptist Church as early, it is believed, as 1794. She was a
member of the first Baptist Church in this county, constituted in 1797 – at
Clearcreek – a branch of which was organized in 1798, and a meeting house built
on the Ministerial Section, a half mile east of Lebanon. In this connexion she
remained during life, and consequently had been a member of the church for
upwards of 60 years.

During all the changes around her – sometimes among the members of her own
church – and especially during the great revival of 1800, which for a time
seemed to carry all before it, and though productive of much genuine piety, was
too often accompanied by extravagant and fanatical opinions, and exercises, Mrs.
Corwin remained the same. In truth, she was emphatically a Bible Christian. It
was to the Bible she looked, especially the new Testament; and her fellowship
for Christians was measured by their conformity in views and practice to the law
of Christ as recorded in the New Testament. Always zealous in the cause of her
Redeemer, his Church on earth was the subject of her chief concern – the burden
of her conversation, and the object of her solicitude. The house of Mr. and Mrs.
Corwin was ever the welcome home of the wearied pioneer, and also of the early
Baptist emigrants to all parts of the Miami Valley.

At the Primitive associational gatherings of the newly constituted Churches in
this county, they often entertained more than one hundred person at one time,
and all were welcome, and gladly received and entertained.

Mrs. Corwin lived to see her large family all settled in the world, and many of
them members of the Church, which, with her, was the great event of their lives,
and one which she looked and prayed for with the deepest solicitude. All of
their thirteen children lived to have families, and at a semi-centennial
anniversary of their first settlement in this place in 1846, there were 98 of
her descendants present, and about 18 absent, making them in all about 116.
Since that time there have been an increase, of course, but how many they would
now number has not been ascertained, probably not less than 130.

Source: The Western Star, Friday, May 6, 1853 [copied from microfilm located at
the Warren County Genealogical Society] 


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