McCULLOCH, Thomas 1795 - 1858

MCCULLOCH, LOGAN

Posted By: Charlene Hixon
Date: 3/21/2006 at 13:16:00

"The Fairfield Ledger"
Thursday, February 4, 1858
Page 2, Column 7

DIED – At the residence of his son, at Abingdon in this county, on the 18th of January 1858.....Col. Thomas MCCULLOCH, Judge of the County Court of this County, in the 63d year of his age. Judge McCULLOCH was a native of Washington county, Virginia, and is well remembered by most of the old and prominent citizens of that county. He emigrated to Iowa in the fall of 1847, previous to which time he had been for upwards of 20 years, a prominent citizen of his native County and State. He was Sheriff for a term of years, and for three years was a member of the Virginia legislature. He had also been a member of the Iowa legislature. For upwards of two years previous to his death he held the office of Judge of the County Court of Jefferson County in the State of his adoption, and was re-elected and entered into his second term in the summer of 1857. Col. McCULLOCH was a man of sound judgment – excellent common sense – sterling integrity and great moral worth, and possessed the happy faculty of gaining hosts of friends wherever he was known. He leaves a large and respectable circle of relations and numerous friends and acquaintances to mourn his loss. His last days were perfectly calm and serene, and even death seemed to deal gently with him. His noble mind retained its strength and vigor to the last hour, and he expressed himself, as he had done from the time he was taken dangerously ill, as ready and willing to go.

[Ed. note: Buried in Abingdon Cemetery. His wife was Dorcas LOGAN, who died in 1855 and is buried there as well.]