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Another Pioneer Gone.
Mr. Charles Mansfield, familiary [sic] known as “Uncle Charlie,” is numbered among the dead. He breathed his last at 2:15 yesterday afternoon at the residence 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 ttime since, and which he owned at the time of his death. When he came to this county, the county lying between Muncie and the place he located, was 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 allotted to man, being in his seventy-ninth year. His funeral will take place from the residence of Mr. Puckett, to-morrow at 10 ˝ o’clock.
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