Obituary:

Samuel Test

Spouse: Sarah Maxwell
Born: January 16, 1774
Died: September 18, 1856
Publication: Friend's Review Vol. 10, p. 78
Date: 1856

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Died, in Richmond, Ind., on the 18th of last month, in the 83rd year of his age, Samuel Test, formerly of Salem, New Jersey. He moved to the West in the year 1805, and settled first in the town of Waynesville, Ohio. On his way thither he passed through Cincinnati, which at that time consisted of only a few log huts; and he has often remarked since that he would not then have had the place as a gift. He lived for sometime in Waynesville, and its vicinity, encountering the usual hardships and privations of pioneer life. Of the Quarterly Meeting of Friends held there he was one of the first clerks.

After several changes of residence to different parts of Ohio and Kentucky, in which latter State he built the first house ever put up in Covington, he finally in 1816 settled in eastern Indiana, where, with a few changes of neighborhood, he continued to reside up to the time of his death.

Throughout his long life he manifested a warm attachment to the principles of the Religious Society of Friends, and in his latter years was increasingly solicitous for the consistent maintenance by all its members, of its distinguishing views and practices. The testimony against Slavery, in particular, lay near his heart, and for several of the last years of his life, he abstained from slavegrown products.

His last illness was of a painful nature, and his sufferings at times were extreme; but he bore them throughout with Christian patience and resignation. A few days before his death, speaking in reference to his condition, he said he had nothing to trust to but the mercies of a gracious Redeemer--adding that he felt that the loved the Saviour too well to be cast off. And in this peaceful and comfortable state of mine he seemed to continue to the last.