Marshall, Illinois, Clark County Herald, Thursday, April 19, 1900.
Samuel France, an old soldier of Darwin, died Thursday at 1 p.m. of heart disease. He had been afflicted for a long time, but on Wednesday he seemed to feel much better and made some arrangements to attend to some business the following day. He seemed to feel pretty well when he went to bed that evening. Thursday morning he could not be waked, and continued unconscious till death came as noted above. The funeral was held at 10 a.m. Saturday.
[Samuel France (1839-April 12, 1900). The "old soldier" was about sixty years old -- my great great grandfather. In 2016, the population of Darwin Township, Illinois, is about 350. A tornado struck the old village in the late 1800s.]
[Samuel France is buried in Darwin Cemetery on the west bank of the Wabash River. His US government-issued military marker reflects his service as a volunteer private and veteran volunteer corporal, Company E, 31st Indiana (1861-1865); injured at Shiloh and wounded at Stones River (Murfreesboro), mustered out, Victoria, Texas, December 8, 1865. His brother Jeremiah C. France served in Company G, 42nd Indiana, fought at Helena and in later Arkansas campaigns, died of disease in Indianapolis on January 17, 1865, buried Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis (Plot 10, #71), under a misspelled marker that reads "JERE. FRARRER."]
[Samuel France (1839-April 12, 1900). The "old soldier" was about sixty years old -- my great great grandfather. In 2016, the population of Darwin Township, Illinois, is about 350. A tornado struck the old village in the late 1800s.]
[Samuel France is buried in Darwin Cemetery on the west bank of the Wabash River. His US government-issued military marker reflects his service as a volunteer private and veteran volunteer corporal, Company E, 31st Indiana (1861-1865); injured at Shiloh and wounded at Stones River (Murfreesboro), mustered out, Victoria, Texas, December 8, 1865. His brother Jeremiah C. France served in Company G, 42nd Indiana, fought at Helena and in later Arkansas campaigns, died of disease in Indianapolis on January 17, 1865, buried Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis (Plot 10, #71), under a misspelled marker that reads "JERE. FRARRER."]
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