• General Notes

  Malinda's obituary as found in the "Bloomfield News" dated September 1908:
  
          Malinda (Medaris) Breeden was born Aug. 19, 1838, in Ohio, moved to Spencer, Indiana, in 1839.
  
          Malinda Medaris was converted in a Methodist revival conducted by Reverend William Zarling, and joined the Methodist Protestant church at the age of fifteen. She placed her membership in the M. E. church at the Greene County Chapel at the time of her marriage where it remained until her death.
  
          She was married to Rev. John T Breeden June 5, 1862. To them were born five children, two sons and three daughters and fourteen  grandchildren survive her. She was also a mother to two children by J. T. Breeden's first wife, likewise a mother to Perry Edwards for whom she cared since he was a child three weeks old.
  
          Deceased died at her home in Beech Creek township Sunday, August 30, aged seventy years and eleven days. She was a long and patient sufferer, having been an invalid for almost eight years.
  
          During her long illness she read a chapter in the bible every day that she had the strength to do so and the day of her death she read the fourth chapter of James.
  
          For many months she has been anxious to go home and had prayed often that Jesus would come and take her home where there is no sickness, sorrow, pain or death. Just before she died she lifted her hands and eyes heavenward and said "Glory to God" and peacefully, calmly and sweetly went to sleep to wake no more on earth.
  
          The remains were laid to rest at Greene County Chapel. She leaves a host of friends to mourn her loss.
  
          Stanford Aug. 31, 1908

Details of Malinda's family with Rev. John Thomas Breeden