In Memory

Charles Trawin - Class Of 1891

 

Word has been received of the death of Charles L. Trawin, former Delphi boy and graduate of Delphi high school.  He was living with wife and oldest son, Eugene, at Salinas, California, when death came on December 19th at the age of 88.  Other members of the family are a son, Ralph, with three daughters in Portland, Oregon, and a daughter, Grace Addison, with three sons in Salinas, California.
  Mr. Trawin was for more than 60 years a well known Baptist minister, a graduate of Franklin college, Indiana, and Crozer Seminary, Pennsylvania.  In 1893 he married Miss Anna Webb, of Franklin, whose faithful companionship continued through nine pastorates.  Two of these were in West Virginia and two in Pennsylvania before they moved to Boise, Idaho.  Eleven years followed at the college and university churches of McMinnville and Eugene, Oregon, where new buildings were erected.  During this time Mr. Trawin was honored with the degree of Doctor of Divinity and for two summers served as pastor of the Englewood Baptist church of Chicago while pursuing graduate work at the University.  Pastorates at Fresno and Salinas, California, closed his regular work as a pastor and were followed by a dozen years of ad interim and supply ministry. 
  The home-going of this, the last of nine children, recalls pioneer days in Carroll county.  In 1844, Dr. Robert Webber came to Delphi from Virginia and very soon thereafter his sisters, Catherine Webber and Mrs. Mary Webber Trawin, widow of the Reverend Samuel Trawin, missionary.  This missionary couple was sent out by the London Missionary Society to India in 1818.  Upon the death of her husband in 1827, Mrs. Trawin, with two small children returned to England and later came to America to join her brother.  Here she founded and for years had charge of a Young Ladies Seminary in Winchester, Virginia.  Later, as noted above, her children became heads of pioneer families; the daughter as Mrs. Abner Bowen, well known banker, the son, Samuel on April 13th, 1848 became the husband of Cassandra Lewis.  To the later union, nine children were born: Henry, Robert, Alonzo, Mary Jane, Clarinda, William, George, Grace and Charles Lewis.  Today all have answered the heavenly roll call.  Eleven grandchildren survive, 15 great-grandchildren and five great, great-grandchildren. Of the second generation the following are well known in this community, Harry and Larry Trawin, Wilbur Trawin, Mrs. Beryl Trawin Leatherman, and Mary Trawin McHardle, all of Delphi.
 
Obituary notice taken from the Delphi Journal, Thursday, January 7, 1960