Samuel & Priscilla Trueblood / Matthew Coffin Home
About Samuel & Priscilla Trueblood
Perhaps there has never been a better example of marital felicity than that of Samuel and Priscilla Trueblood. Samuel and Priscilla declared their intent to wed on the third of June 1845 in front of the Blue River Monthly Meeting. Samuel Trueblood was the son of Caleb and Mary Trueblood. Priscilla (Wilson) was the daughter of Henry and Deborah Wilson. The couple were married for nearly 61 years. They lived on this farm for 60 years and Samuel was a preacher at the Quaker Church for over 60 years. Samuel was eighty-five years of age and Priscilla was eighty-two years of age when they died. Their lifelong companionship was not even broken by their death, as they died on the same day and they were laid out together in the same tomb. Samuel passed away in the morning and after his death, Priscilla refused nourishment and medicine to ward off a case of pneumonia and said "I want to die and be with my husband in that better land". She died later that day and their bodies rest in the Quaker cemetery.About Matthew Coffin
Matthew Coffin migrated to Salem from North Carolina in/around 1810, years before Indiana was founded as a state. In 1820 Matthew Coffin erected and operated the first tannery in the county. Matthew Coffin’s daughter was the author of “A Memoir of Priscilla Cadwallader” published in 1864. Her remarkable memoir records her time as a minister of the friend’s church during the early years of the Blue River Quaker Settlement. Matthew Coffin was a businessman and also a trustee for the Salem Peace Society that was organized in 1819. The Society included more than 50 members including Beebe Booth, Nathan Trueblood, Benjamin Albertson, William Hobbs, Jonathon Lyon and Zachariah Nixon. Matthew Coffin home…..settled the same year as the Lindley brothers and donated the ground for the Quaker Hicksite Meeting and Cemetery.Listing Details
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Private Residence
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Standing
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