| Charles Mansfield |
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Mr. Charles Mansfield, familiarly known as 'Uncle Charlie,' is numbered among the dead. He breathed his last at 2:15 yesterday afternoon at the resiidence of his son-in-law, Mr. C. G. Pucket, on West Main street. Mr. Mansfield has been a sufferer for several years, in fact, has been afflicted since early childhood, but now his sufferings are at an end. He came to this county in 1832, and pre-empted and cleared a farm two miles south of Muncie, where he has lived a greater portion of the time since, and which he owned at the time of his death, When he came to this county, the countrylying between Muncie and the place where he located, was a dense forest, and he assisted in cutting the trees and underbrush in order to make a road to town. He was a man of noble mind, and was one of the school teachers of ye olden time. He had passed the three score and ten years alloted to man, being in his seventy-ninth year. His funeral will take place from the residence of Mr. Pucket, to-morrow at 10 1/2 o'clock. |