This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Zehwas, Powell Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Sh.2ADI/1865 Message Board Post: Source: Gibbins family Bible of Dearborn County, submitted to me by Shuman researcher Ken Heffley. [email protected] I don't have a date from the newspaper. ZEH-John Zehwas born in Selwitz, Germany, March 29, 1834. he emigrated with his parents to America in 1841, and settled in Dearborn County, Indiana. Where he resided until his death, August 23, 1887. He married Miss Harriett A. Powell, march 31, 1859. She and a son and two daughters remain to mourn their loss. When 13 years of age he joined the Methodist Episcopal Church. His life was that of a faithful christian. For eight months he was an invalid, suffering with a species of paralysis. he bore his sufferings with remarkable patience and fortitude. He died in the triumphs of christian faith, exclaiming at the last, "Jesus is with me." In his death his family has lost a devoted husband and a loving father, the church one of her most faithful and devout members, and the community a citizen of unblemished character. A good man has gone to his rewards. H. Harris