OBITUARY
Henry Garlock, who departed this life Jan. 30, 1894, was born in Washington County, Maryland, May 24, 1807. He leaves an aged companion and nine children, the eldest son passing over eleven years ago, besides many grandchildren to mourn but not without hope. He was left an orphan when about two years old, thus to battle with the cold charities of the world but not without friends.
Father Garlock when a young man and in company with a comrade made a trip to the wilds of Ohio when the Indians had possession of that country. They camped one night with over three hundred Indians in their wigwams, thus sharing the dangers and hardship of a frontier life.
He was converted at a camp meeting near Dayton, Ohio about sixty years ago and joined the United Brethren Church and has lived a very consistent Christian life ever since, making all necessary sacrifices, bearing his part of the burdens, and faithful in the discharge of his Christian duties until the last, (Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee the crown of life. Rev. 2.10).
He returned from Ohio to Pennsylvania, near Bedford, where he formed the acquaintance of Esther Cuppett whom he married Mar. 16 1834. Moved to Ohio again, Shelby County, where a daughter was born to them, remaining there a year or two, returned to Preston County, Virginia, where he lived until 1855, and where seven sons and two daughters were born, making ten children in all.
He came to Kirksville, Adair County, Missouri, Nov. 16, 1855 and in 1856 purchased the farm on which he has lived ever since with the exception of one year. He shared with his neighbors the disadvantages of a new country and the scourges of the late war in which four of his sons engaged on the Union side. -written by ANDREW J. GARLOCK