Death and taxes

American, Feb. 1850

Obituary

Died in Fairfield on Friday, Feb. 8, Rev. E. Rutledge, pastor of the Fairfield Circuit, and a member of the Indiana annual Conference.

His disease was small pox. For some weeks before his decease, Mr. R. had been indisposed, which perhaps tendered him ore susceptible of the dreadful disease of which he died.

How he was exposed or from whom he received the contagion, we believe is not certainly known. The fact that he was exposed, however, and its consequences are now known to his family and Charge.

Mr. R. united with the Indiana Conference at its session in Indianapolis in 1837, in company with 26 others, several of whom have also ceased their labors and entered into rest.

Mr.  R., though not a brilliant preacher, was a man of very respectable preaching abilities, to which he added personal and ministerial dignity and deep solid piety.

He remained two years in charge of several circuits, and had entered upon his second on Fairfield circuit, when the summons came for him to lay down the cross and take up the crown.

Amen

Liberty Herald, Dec. 1863

Turnpike to Liberty

There is a good turnpike from Fairfield to Brookville, while Liberty and Fairfield are connected only by a common dirt road. 

At present the farmers of Fairfield and vicinity bring their grain to Liberty on account of her railroad facilities, but when Brookville becomes a railroad market, the Fairfield trade will certainly leave us, unless a good road is built to that place.

Such a road, we understand, could be made at very little expense, gravel being easily obtained all along the route, and it certainly would be a great advantage to our businessmen.