William Nathan TRUEBLOOD\Sarah JONES (MRIN:885)

The Trueblood Family In America
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dbeeler/Trueblood.html

Notes taken from

"The Trueblood Family in America" by Bula Trueblood Watson, copyright 1964.

"...William Nathan Trueblood's life spanned almost the entire nineteenth century and he may be considered a typical Quaker child, young person, and mature man of the westward movement and all that it involved. He was only six years old when he emigrated from N. C. to Washington Co. in 1815, and probably remembered very little of the first years in Indiana. He was soon old enough to help his father, as he was expected to do so. William N. was reared in the tenets of the Society of Friends, and he was old enough to feel the sorrow and perhaps righteous indignation when the close fellowship of the Quakers was broken by a split between the Hixites and the Orthodox branches of the society. William N. lived through the cholera epidemic of 1833, and several small pox and diphtheria that brought death to nearly every family in those days. He grew up with the early shadow of slavery and war, and his beliefs on both topics were the unpopular ones. He, like many Quakers, must have been torn between the hatred of slavery and the hatred of war. William lived on through that war and the freeing of the slaves and on into the twentieth century. What would be his thoughts now if he could speak today?
The "scrapbook" of Alma E. (Morris) Pollard adds to the picture of William N. Trueblood (abridged):

William N. Trueblood was afflicted with deafness and used an ear trumpet until about 1891, when he became totally deaf. After that he made all communications by writing. He outlived three wives and six of his children. He and four of his brothers and sisters lived to be over 80 years old. (Joseph and Margaret are the only ones my records indicate. Mary Ann was 75 when she died.) He had been ailing and was stricken with apoplexy on Sunday, Feb. 24, 1901, and passed to his reward March 6, 1901.
He followed farming and the milling business at his home on Blue River, near canton, retiring from active labor as old age approached. he was an ardent Whig Abolitionist and Republican and voted for 18 candidates for President. During slavery, he was a member and worker in the "Underground Railroad," and pages could be written of his adventures. He was an upright citizen, sociable, and hospitable to all. His funeral was conducted at friends' Church by that venerable Friend Samuel Trueblood, assisted by Melville Hobbs.
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