Sunday, July 26, 2026

Randolph County, IN Obituary Lesson: Just a buggy ride [1912]

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. 
Q: For what is your life? 
A: It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
Hebrews 3:15/James 4:14
Just out riding in his buggy---then.....
Battle of  SULTANA

"STRACHAN, Clem R.VETERAN OF SULTANA DEAD AT HUNTSVILLE
[United Press Leased Wire]
Winchester, ind.. An sr. 14.—Clem R. Strachan, 85, one of the few men rescued from the steamboat Sultana when it was sunk near Island No. 14 in the Mississippi river, during the Civil war, is dead a this home in Huntsville today. Strachan dropped over dead while riding in a buggy."
[Date: Wednesday, August 14, 1912, Paper: Elkhart Truth (Elkhart, IN), Page: 2]