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Note: OBITUARY (This is a transcript ---- I hold the original clipping, I do not know what paper it is from, as the heading is gone)
BENJAMIN HANN was a native of Bridgetown, Cumberland county, New Jersey, where he was born August 17, 1816. With his parents he emigrated to near Washington, Indiana, in 1819. Three years later both his parents died, leaving him homeless and friendless. His education was neglected, and he was bound as an apprentice at cabinet making. Because of the cruelty of his master a body of Friends
obtained his release, and procurred him a place at Richmond, Indiana, where he finished his apprenticeship. Here he at first stopped at the tavern. Mrs. Morgan, for whose husband he worked, found him there and said: " I fear thou art in bad company here, Come with me; I have already seven boys but there's still room for thee." With the family of this noble woman he lived until February 13, 1836, when he was married to Mary Ann Dougherty. Five years later he settled on the banks of Eel River, near Chili, Indiana, In 1847 he moved to near Bunker Hill. He entered a quarter section of land, the only improvement to which was a deadening of one half acre. Here he toiled to secure a home and reared his family of six children. In 1882 he left the farm, and lived in Bunker Hill till 1893, when death claimed his companion of fifty seven years. Since then he has made his home with his daughters, Mrs. Lafe Flagg and Mrs. John Haggerty, He died at the home of the former January 2, 1898, of heart failure,
having endured life's hardships and enjoyed it's pleasures for eighty one years, four months, and fifteen days.
While living near Chili he together with his wife united with the Baptist church. For over forty years he has served the Church as deacon, and has ever been an earnest, energetic member. Father Hann, as he was commonly called, was a typical "old man." During the last days of his life he relived, in memory, the scenes of his earlier days. He delighted to recount the stories of his boyhood to children, who always loved to listen to him.
He leaves six children, thirty grandchildren, thirty-two great grandchildren and one great great grandchild to mourn not his loss, but theirs. True, he was not without his faults, but his life has taught us many lessons of honesty, of devotion. of patience, of righteousness. He was always self-helpful,and dreaded the idea of being a burden to his friends, He was blunt in conversation, fearless of condemnation of what he considered wrong, and loyal to the cause of Christ as he understood it. Long ago death lost all terrors for him. He waited for it, and courted it as the portal to his Father's mansions and to life eternal. The funeral occurred from the Baptist church on Tuesday, Rev. Wm. Bender officiating, and his remains were laid to rest beside those of his beloved wife, in Springdale cemetery.
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from: History of Wayne Co (1872) by Andrew Young, pages 369-370, City of Richmond--Cabinet Makers
"Nathan Morgan from New Jersey was an early cabinet maker and for many years the principal undertaker in the town and vicinity. He conveyed in his plain Dearborn wagon the reamins of rich and poor to their burial places. He owned a stone house on Pearl Street which is yet standing, and is said to be the only stone building in Richmond."
Bob Hann who sent me this item adds: "If this is the cabinet maker who rescued Benj. it is not too difficult to imagine the type of 'cabinets' he produced."
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My father John Rush Hann (b 1917) told me one time, that Benjamin Hann moved from Wayne Co IN out to the northern part of Miami Co IN in order to work on the canal that was being dug at that time. When that project went bust, he moved to southern Miami County which was just being opened up after the removal of the Indians, and he bought a farm there where he lived for the rest of his life.
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History of Miami County Indiana, John H. Stephens, Printed and Published
by The John H. Stephens Publishing House, Peru, Indiana 1896
page 242
In 1843 there were five families in the township (Pipe Creek), living south of
Big Pipe Creek. There are now four persons in the township that were living
there in the spring of 1843, namely: Mrs. VanDoren, Jacob Rife, Wm Rife
and Jamiana Foust.
The township was rapildy settled in 1844 and �45 by a sturdy class of
pioneers. among the number may be mentioned John and Eli Oliver, James
McGinnis, Henry Crabb, Gennis, Noah Twonsend. Wm. Parker, Cornelius
Cain, Jacob Kellar, thomas Kenworthy, Thomas Dillard and BENJAMIN
HANN. During the next two Years came David and John Cain, Nathaniel
Nicoles, Hoover, Allen Jones, Samuel and Cornelius Sullivan and others.
Among the earliest settlers after that are the names of Isaac Haynes, George
Wright, JOHN HANN, Reuben Shoneberger, Stephen Metzger, David and
Samuel Bryson, John and Daniel Duckwall, Samuel Muray and Samuel
Duece.
Page 246
Churches
Baptist Chruch
The first church building erected in the town was by the Baptists in 1860 and
on a lot donated by John Duckwall and James Myers. The present large frame
building is a part of the original structure. It is now the largest church building
in the place and is said to have a seating capacity of five hundred. among the
pastors were the folowing: Revs William Cool, Leonard Cevol, Mr Coon,
John Blodget, B R Ward, N. Harper, C. Boaz, L D Robinson, E J Delp, H.
McDonald, R Moore, J B Blair, J H Schenck and O M Merrick. J B Blair is
the present pastor. John Bowser is Sunday School Superintendent. The
present trustees are JAMES HANN, Cyrus Baker, and William Krouder.
Prominent among the members are BENJAMIN HANN, who has held a
continous membership in this demonination for more than a half a century,
almost the entire time in this township. He and JOHN HAGGERTY, and wife
are the only surviving pioneer members to whom the organization owes much
for it�s present prosperity.
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Miami County, Indiana Will Records 1843 - 1900 page 109
Hann Benjamin, Book 4 pp 296 - 299 (d 2 Jan 1898) Dated 26 May 1897 Received 8 Jan 1898.
Children--- Emily - w of John Fowinkle, Phebe Ellen - w of John Haggerty, John R Hann, James D Hann, Alonzo C Hann, Eliza F. - w of Lafayette Flagg. Exec-- James D Hann - s. Wit-- Joseph L Nordike, J M Brown
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