Thomas Sinex, Sr.
June 5, 1870
New Albany, Indiana Newspaper

DEATH OF ANOTHER OLD CITIZEN

We are called upon to-day to record the death of another old pioneer of our city, Mr. Thomas Sinex, Sr., who died this morning at 8 o'clock. There was not another citizen of New Albany more generally or favorable known than Mr. Sinex. He was born in the State of Delaware in 1793, consequently at the time of his death he had more than passed the allotted three score years and ten. He emigrated to Indiana in 1816, and settled in this city, then a very unpretending village, and in the following year was married to the daughter of one of the most prominent citizens of the county. In the year 1818 he joined the Methodist Episcopal church, and all the subsequent years of his long life he was a devoted member of that society, and an active Christian gentleman, taking part in all the religious enterprises that had for its object the upbuilding of the cause of the Master in whose service he had enlisted. He was beloved and honored by his fellow citizens and was frequently called upon to serve them in official capacities, serving one term as Associate Judge of the Circuit Court. For the last few years he had retired, from the active pursuits of city life, to a farm in Washington county, and a few months since came back to the city that he might receive that medical attention that his failing health demanded, and has been gradually sinking beneath the weight of accumulated years and of disease until this morning, when the spirit winged its flight to the shores of that beautiful land "over there". His funeral will take place from Centenary Church tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock, and will doubtless be attended by a large number of our old citizens who had learned to love, honor, and respect Uncle Tommy Sinex.

See the Thomas Sinex Family Vault which he established in 1850