b June 25, 1844 in Boyle Co, KY
d Dec 5, 1924 in Pike Co, IN.
Obit:
Obituary from the Pike County Democrat Friday, December 12, 1924
Bannister Drew
One more of our county's oldest as well as one of its best, has answered Death's summons, Bannister Drew, of Clay township. No man in western Pike county stood higher in the estimation of its people than he, for his measurements as a God loving and honorable man were standard. The following is a Union item concerning him:
Bannister Drew, aged eighty years, retired farmer and civil war veteran, died at his home here at 9:05 o'clock Friday night after an illness of about a year. He was one of the best known men of this community, and, practically, all his long life has been spent in Pike county.
The funeral was held Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the home here, conducted by Rev J. E. Herndon, pastor of the Methodist church. Interment was made at the Union IOOF cemetery.
Bannister Drew as born May 15, 1844 and in his boyhood came to Pike county to reside. In early manhood, soon after his return from the war, he was married to Miss Frances Carmen, and of this union, one daughter survives, Mrs. Mary J. Black of West Terre Haute. The first wife passed away and on October 23, 1870 he was united in marriage at Oakland City to Miss Nancy C. Black of this county. This union was blessed with eight children, five of whom survive along with the widow, two sons, Ruby C. Drew of princeton; Merle Drew of Terre Haute; and three daughters, Mrs. Lillian Young and Mrs. Bessie Lohman of Evansville; Mrs. Fay Bryant of Indianapolis. There are also a number of grandchildren. A daughter, Ella Mae Thurston of Bicknell died September 23, last.
When his country called in the early days of the civil war, Mr. Drew as a youth volunteered with Company I of the 58th Indiana regiment, the Gibson county organization, whose historic monument erected in 1865 while the regiment was still in the field, stands in the southwest corner of the courthouse yard. With the 56th he was in Sherman's march to the sea that marked the more than three years' service until the close of the war. He was a member of the General Baptist church and an excellent citizen who will greatly be missed in the community that so long has know him.
d Dec 5, 1924 in Pike Co, IN.
Obit:
Obituary from the Pike County Democrat Friday, December 12, 1924
Bannister Drew
One more of our county's oldest as well as one of its best, has answered Death's summons, Bannister Drew, of Clay township. No man in western Pike county stood higher in the estimation of its people than he, for his measurements as a God loving and honorable man were standard. The following is a Union item concerning him:
Bannister Drew, aged eighty years, retired farmer and civil war veteran, died at his home here at 9:05 o'clock Friday night after an illness of about a year. He was one of the best known men of this community, and, practically, all his long life has been spent in Pike county.
The funeral was held Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the home here, conducted by Rev J. E. Herndon, pastor of the Methodist church. Interment was made at the Union IOOF cemetery.
Bannister Drew as born May 15, 1844 and in his boyhood came to Pike county to reside. In early manhood, soon after his return from the war, he was married to Miss Frances Carmen, and of this union, one daughter survives, Mrs. Mary J. Black of West Terre Haute. The first wife passed away and on October 23, 1870 he was united in marriage at Oakland City to Miss Nancy C. Black of this county. This union was blessed with eight children, five of whom survive along with the widow, two sons, Ruby C. Drew of princeton; Merle Drew of Terre Haute; and three daughters, Mrs. Lillian Young and Mrs. Bessie Lohman of Evansville; Mrs. Fay Bryant of Indianapolis. There are also a number of grandchildren. A daughter, Ella Mae Thurston of Bicknell died September 23, last.
When his country called in the early days of the civil war, Mr. Drew as a youth volunteered with Company I of the 58th Indiana regiment, the Gibson county organization, whose historic monument erected in 1865 while the regiment was still in the field, stands in the southwest corner of the courthouse yard. With the 56th he was in Sherman's march to the sea that marked the more than three years' service until the close of the war. He was a member of the General Baptist church and an excellent citizen who will greatly be missed in the community that so long has know him.
b June 25, 1844 in Boyle Co, KY
d Dec 5, 1924 in Pike Co, IN.
Obit:
Obituary from the Pike County Democrat Friday, December 12, 1924
Bannister Drew
One more of our county's oldest as well as one of its best, has answered Death's summons, Bannister Drew, of Clay township. No man in western Pike county stood higher in the estimation of its people than he, for his measurements as a God loving and honorable man were standard. The following is a Union item concerning him:
Bannister Drew, aged eighty years, retired farmer and civil war veteran, died at his home here at 9:05 o'clock Friday night after an illness of about a year. He was one of the best known men of this community, and, practically, all his long life has been spent in Pike county.
The funeral was held Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the home here, conducted by Rev J. E. Herndon, pastor of the Methodist church. Interment was made at the Union IOOF cemetery.
Bannister Drew as born May 15, 1844 and in his boyhood came to Pike county to reside. In early manhood, soon after his return from the war, he was married to Miss Frances Carmen, and of this union, one daughter survives, Mrs. Mary J. Black of West Terre Haute. The first wife passed away and on October 23, 1870 he was united in marriage at Oakland City to Miss Nancy C. Black of this county. This union was blessed with eight children, five of whom survive along with the widow, two sons, Ruby C. Drew of princeton; Merle Drew of Terre Haute; and three daughters, Mrs. Lillian Young and Mrs. Bessie Lohman of Evansville; Mrs. Fay Bryant of Indianapolis. There are also a number of grandchildren. A daughter, Ella Mae Thurston of Bicknell died September 23, last.
When his country called in the early days of the civil war, Mr. Drew as a youth volunteered with Company I of the 58th Indiana regiment, the Gibson county organization, whose historic monument erected in 1865 while the regiment was still in the field, stands in the southwest corner of the courthouse yard. With the 56th he was in Sherman's march to the sea that marked the more than three years' service until the close of the war. He was a member of the General Baptist church and an excellent citizen who will greatly be missed in the community that so long has know him.
d Dec 5, 1924 in Pike Co, IN.
Obit:
Obituary from the Pike County Democrat Friday, December 12, 1924
Bannister Drew
One more of our county's oldest as well as one of its best, has answered Death's summons, Bannister Drew, of Clay township. No man in western Pike county stood higher in the estimation of its people than he, for his measurements as a God loving and honorable man were standard. The following is a Union item concerning him:
Bannister Drew, aged eighty years, retired farmer and civil war veteran, died at his home here at 9:05 o'clock Friday night after an illness of about a year. He was one of the best known men of this community, and, practically, all his long life has been spent in Pike county.
The funeral was held Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the home here, conducted by Rev J. E. Herndon, pastor of the Methodist church. Interment was made at the Union IOOF cemetery.
Bannister Drew as born May 15, 1844 and in his boyhood came to Pike county to reside. In early manhood, soon after his return from the war, he was married to Miss Frances Carmen, and of this union, one daughter survives, Mrs. Mary J. Black of West Terre Haute. The first wife passed away and on October 23, 1870 he was united in marriage at Oakland City to Miss Nancy C. Black of this county. This union was blessed with eight children, five of whom survive along with the widow, two sons, Ruby C. Drew of princeton; Merle Drew of Terre Haute; and three daughters, Mrs. Lillian Young and Mrs. Bessie Lohman of Evansville; Mrs. Fay Bryant of Indianapolis. There are also a number of grandchildren. A daughter, Ella Mae Thurston of Bicknell died September 23, last.
When his country called in the early days of the civil war, Mr. Drew as a youth volunteered with Company I of the 58th Indiana regiment, the Gibson county organization, whose historic monument erected in 1865 while the regiment was still in the field, stands in the southwest corner of the courthouse yard. With the 56th he was in Sherman's march to the sea that marked the more than three years' service until the close of the war. He was a member of the General Baptist church and an excellent citizen who will greatly be missed in the community that so long has know him.
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