Huntington County Obituary: Don't Leave..... [1888]

To day if ye will hear his voice, 

harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. 

Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. 

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. Hebrews 3:15/James 4:14

 

"LEMUEL L HOSKINSON
The Warren Weekly Year: 1888 Month: March Day: 2
 Death of Major Hoskinson.
Lemuel L. Hoskinson was born in Licking county, Ohio, June 7, 1821, and died in Warren Indiana, February 24, 1888, aged 66 years, 8 months and 17  days. 

The deceased responded to his country's first call for volunteers while at Columbus, Ohio, in 1861, by enlisting in the Third Ohio Regiment for three months. At the expiration of this service he immediately joined the army again and served through the balance of the war. ....he was a commissioned officer and ranked as major when finally discharged. 

An Old Tailor & Clothing Store of Warren, Indiana

 

At the close of the war he came to Bluffton, Ind., and began business as a merchant tailor. While in Bluffton he was married to Miss Sibbie Phillips, January 19th 1868, she being his second wife. ....he removed to Dayton, Ohio, where he lived three years, and then came to Warren three years ago last December, and remained here following his trade until death suddenly brought his life to a close. 

 

He had been complaining of feeling badly for about three weeks, and a few days before his death had a premonition of his approaching end. This impressed him so much that he told it to a few of his intimate friends, and emphasized the  statement with a gesture of his hand that in three weeks he would not be living. 

 

On the day of his death he was feeling worse than usual and lay upon the lounge in his work shop. Between three and four o'clock a customer called and tried on a suit of clothes. Mr. Hoskinson got up and examined them and found them to be all right. The customer went out to get some change and while Mr. Hoskinson was sitting in the chair waiting for him to return he remarked that he felt quite sick and laid down upon the lounge again. He was immediately attacked with vomiting and while his wife was holding his head the cold sweat ran off his forehead. On laying him back he requested her not to leave him and in a few moments more his spirit had fled.
 

He was a member of Monroe Laymon Post G. A. R., and of the Knights of Labor Assembly at this place. He was a man of much more than ordinary ability, was ready in debate and a good public speaker. A wife and two children (son and little daughter) besides four daughters and three sons by his first wife, are living, together with a number of brothers and sisters in different parts of the country."