Indiana County PA Archives Obituaries.....Rinn, Samuel E March 1, 1930
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Indian Weekly Messenger Mar 13 1930
Samuel E Rinn, aged 67 years. who died suddenly at his home near Longmont 
Colo., March 1, was a native of this county, where he has a number of 
relatives living. He was reared to manhood in the vicinity of the Purchase 
Line and attended the Purchase Line academy. Forty years ago he located in 
Colorado and during the last 30 years resided near Longmont where he owned and 
conducted an extensive wheat, sugar beet and corn ranch for many years.He was 
the founder of Rinn, a town located on his acres and named after him and here 
he conducted a general store and was postmaster for several years. He was a 
leader in all worthwhile community activities and erected and largely 
contributed to the support of the Rinn community church.Although he had 
retired from active work in recent years he supervised the management of his 
extensive farm to the last. He was in his usual health when he was stricken 
with an attack of apoplexy and died within a few hours. The deceased was one of
pioneer residents of the Longmont section where he was admired for his many 
fine qualities of citizenship. For 34 years he was a deacon of the Longmont 
Baptist church and for 31 years he had served as superintendant of the Sabbath 
school of the congregation. Two years ago he visited this county and just 
before he passed away had completed plans to return east to visit relatives 
here and at other points in the county. In 1991(sic - pprobably should be 1891)
he was married to Miss Mary Furman, a native of the Purchase Line section, who 
survives with two brothers, James, of Berthoud, and Louis, of Denver Colo. The 
funeral services were conducted in the Longmont Baptist church and interment 
followed in the cemetery at that place.



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