The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-02-03
OBITUARY.

Mis-. JANE II. HENDRICKS.
In the death of Mrs. Jane T. Hendricks.
the mother of the governor of this state,
who departed life yesterday morning, the
community has lost one of the pioneer
matrons, whose lite is intimately identified
with the growth of Indiana from the prime
val wilderness to her present magnitude as
great commonwealth in an era of enlight-
eminent and civilization. This lady, who
has passed from earth after a life-time of
four score years, the scriptural limit of
human existence, has seen the state devel-
oped from the days of the tomahawk and
scalping knife to the time when the march
of Christianity has removed the rude work
of barbarism to make place for the efforts
of enlightened civilization. She passes to
the tomb as one honored and to be
remembered. Mrs. Hendricks, whose maiden
name was Jane Thomson, was born on the
18th day of October, 1898, near Chambers
burg, Franklin county Pa. She was de-
scended from Scottish family which set
tied in that locality prior to the revolution
airy war. She was married in Westmoreland
county, Pa. to Major John Hendricks on
the 9TH day OF March, 1914. This union
was productive of eight children. The first
was the Rev. Abraham T. Hendricks, who
died at Petersburg, Ind, July "a, 1866. He
was good man, and greatly beloved. As a
Christian minister he performed his work
nobly, and passed from earth, lamented not
only by his flock, but by all who knew him
in his daily labors. Alexander Hendricks
died in his young years. He was the second
of the family. A fourth son of the same
name, also died in childhood. Thomas An
drew Hendricks, the third son. is the
est daughter of the lady who is the subject
of this sketch, was married to DR.. Winslow
S. Pierce, of this city. She was a woman of
great talent and cultivation. Her untimely
death was a cause of mourning among all
who knew her. DIR. Pierce subsequently
married Miss Ann Hendricks, another
daughter Of the venerable lady who has
passed away. Two sons of the deceased,
John and James Hendricks, survive, besides
Governor Hendricks. 1t is remarkable that
the Hendricks family is very intimately
connected with the history Of Indiana. |
William Hendricks was the second governor |
and for twelve years a senator of the United |
States. Abraham w. Hendricks is a dis |
tinguished lawyer of this city, and once
a candidate for supreme judge of the |
state. The governor now acting is believed |
son of the deceased. If all the family his |
tory, no blot is to DO found that will Eully |
the family escutcheon. Surely such a record |
may make an easy couch for the venerable |
lady who has now ended q useful life. |
Like that mother Of ancient days, she might |
point to her offspring and say, "these are
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of the deceased, was well known to all early /
settlers in Indiana. He was brave old |
Roman. The early settlement OF Indiana is
due to such true hearts as he possessed. /
WOuld to God that he still survived. But /
Providence called him to rest in due season,
and now the wife OF his bosom has followed
him. The Hendricks family were resi-
dents OF Ohio at one time, where the
present governor was born, October Z, 1919,
and lived in Muskingum county. In 1920
Major John Hendricks removed to Madison,
and resided there but two years, but settled
finally in Shelby county, where he lived to
the day of his death 1t was there that Mrs.
Jane Hendricks, now departed, made her
mark in life. Making her home in what was
then almost an unbroken forest, she devoted
her education, more than ordinarily good, TO
the benefit of the class by which she was sur
She was a kind neighbor. a true
friend and devoted mother. A Christian lady |
by profession, she manifested her faith by
her earnest walk in life. In her early life
she did much toward the establishment of
schools in the wilderness OF the Great West.
She was earnest in her efforts to spread the
gospel among the early settlers, and the mis-
sionaries found in ner . cordial co-laborer.
Mrs. Hendricks has gone. The disease that
FASTENED her end-rheumatic fever-has not
robbed us of the beauty of devoted chris
tisn life, much less Of a holy christian death.
At ripe old age-past eighty years, she has
gone to her reward.
"Green be the turf above thee, /
Good friend OF oiden days; Il
None knew thee but to love thee;
None named thee but in praise"