The Miami Helmet July 31

The Miami Helmet

July 31, 1890

Samuel Pettit

Samuel Pettit, only son of Samuel and Anna Daugherty Pettit, was born in Lancaster County, Pa., February 18, 1797, and died at the home of his daughter at Point Marblehead, Ohio, July 25, 1890, aged 93 years, and five months. He has said in speaking of his religious experience, that he was the subject of religious conviction at an early age and finally gave himself to Christ at a camp meeting near his home in the summer of 1818. About two years later, in 1820, he united with the Methodist Episcopal church at a quarterly meeting in Strasburgh, Pa. In 1823 he went to Reading to reside. He found the place destitute of religious services and was instrumental in planting a church and society there, providing a house of worship at his own expense. He married Eliza Righter, of Chester County, Pa., March 31, 1825, and for nearly fifty-six years she was his helpmate, counselor and companion. They came to Piqua, Ohio, in 1834, and united with what is now Greene Street M.E. Church, at once becoming earnest workers in the little band of early members, all of whom have now passed away. Mrs. Eliza Pettit died February 15, 1881, and four years later his residence was removed to Lakeside, Ohio, but his connection with the church at Piqua was not severed and his name remained on its roll of membership during his life. In earlier years, before the infirmities of age unfitted him for active work, he filled places of trust and responsibility in the church. He was licensed as an exhorter by the Rev. Henry Boehn, when quite a young men, and afterwards became a local preacher; gave freely of his means to every good cause and worked for the Master as he found opportunity.

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