Fayette County, Indiana - Biographical sketches, 1917 (part 14 of 16)

On his return to Connersville, Mr. Williams continued to make Fayette county his home, and here he was united in marriage on January 6, 1870, to Rebecca Reibsomer, a native of Pennsylvania, and who had settled in Fayette county with her parents when she was but a girl. To this union two children were born. Elizabeth and Newton C. Elizabeth is the wife of Thomas Ketchen, a respected resident of East Connersville; Newton C. is a well known mechanic of East Connersville. He is married to Catherine Fritz, and they are the parents of four children, Helen, Blanche, Orville and Frances. Mr. and

Mrs. Williams were long active members of the Lutheran church, and until the time of her death on April 9, 1916. Mrs. Williams was a regular attendant and took the keenest interest in all church work. She was a devoted wife and mother, and a kind and helpful neighbor. Her death was mourned by a large circle of friends, who held her in the highest regard and esteem. She took the greatest interest in the moral development of the community. With her family she had lived in l-".ast Cnnnersville since 1870, where Mr. Williams was employed in the saw-mill, and fur many years he was employed in the manufacture of furniture.

Though not a resident of l*"ayette count)', John M. Beaver has property interests in this county, half of his well-kept farm of one hundred and sixty acres lying in this county, and his home is just across the road, over the line between Fayette and the adjoining county of Rush. He formerly lived in Fayette county and both he and his wife are members of pioneer families in this part of the state. He was born on a farm in Xoble township. Rush county, about two miles south and a little west of the village of Orange, January iq, 1842, son of Elijah and Ann Elizabeth (Rhodes) Beaver, the former a native of Kentucky and the latter of \'irginia, who became useful and influential pioneers of Rush county, where the\- spent their last days.

Elijah Beaver was born in July, 1808, near Georgetown, Kentucky, and was but eight years of age when his father, Michael Beaver, of Irish parentage, came up into Indiana with his family in 181 6. the year in which Indiana was admitted to statehood, and settled in Xoble township. Rush county, where he procured from the government a tract of land at one dollar and twentyfi\e cents an acre and there established Iiis home. There Elijah Beaver grew up amid pioneer surroundings and helped to clear the farm in the forest. His father spent the remainder of his life on that pioneer farm, living to be more than ninely-one years of age. and he alscj spent the remainder of his life there, living to the age of eighty-eight years, a continumis resident of Xcjble township for eighty years. His wife, Ann Elizabeth Rhodes, was born in Virginia in 1816 and was about fifteen years of age when her parents, John and Margaret (Knox) Rhodes, came to Indiana and settled in Xoble township, Rush county, neighbors to the Beavers. The Rhodes family came down the Ohio river in a flatboat to Cincinnati and thence overland to Rush county, establishing their home about a half mile from the present village of

Orange, then known as Fayetteville, where they spent the remainder of their lives, with the exception of a short time spent in Wabash county, this state. John Rhodes lived to the great age of ninety-two yearsi

John M. Beaver grew up on the home farm in Noble township and remained there until his marriage in 1867, when he located in Wabash county, this state, where he spent a couple of years, at the end of which time he came back to this part of the state and located on a farm in Fairview township, this county, not far from his boyhood home, and there he lived for seven years, or until 1876, when he moved to his present home on the west side of the county line in Rush county and has lived there ever since. Mr. Beaver has an excellent farm of one hundred and sixty acres, half of which lies in Fairview township, this county, and the other half, in Rush county, and he has long been quite successfully engaged in general farming, stock raising, fruit growing and grows some tobacco. Two of his sons live nearby and the respective interests of the father and sons remain very closely allied.

On October 23, 1867, John M. Beaver was united in marriage to Mary E. Stewart, who was born in the neighboring county of Franklin, in the neighborhood of Mt. Carmel, in 1850, a daughter of James M. and Elizabeth Ann (Waites) Stewart, the former of whom was born in Ohio and the latter in Missouri. James M. Stewart was born in 1817 at a place now called Goshen, in Ohio, and was twelve years of age when his father, Samuel Stewart, came to Indiana and settled in Franklin county. His mother, who was a McClearney, died in Ohio and his father later married Margaret Earhart. James M. Stewart moved to Wabash county, this state, in 1855, and there spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring in 1888, at the age of seventy-one years. His wife. Ann Elizabeth Waites, was born near Lexington, Missouri, and was left motherless at the age of twelve years. Her father later moved to Atkinson county, Missouri. She survived her husband nine years, her death occurring in April, 1897.

Mr. and Mrs. Beaver have four children, namely: Orpha E., who married O. J. Cook, of Richland township. Rush county, and has four children, Willard O., Wallace, Mrs. Emma Lorene Compton and Mary Evelyn; Hugh E., who married Addie Gray and lives on a farm a half mile south of Fairview; Chester, living on the west side of the Rush county line, just south of his father's place, who married Blanche Murphy and has five children, Lucile, Paul, Belva, Calvin and Emma Elizabeth, and Raymond S., farming just across the road from his father's place, who married Etta Tinder and has two children, a son, Robert Harold, and a daughter, Margaret Jeannette. Mrs. Emma Lorene (Cook) Compton, granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Beaver, has one child, a daugluer. Mary Estelle, thus niakiii';- .Mr. and .Mrs. Beaver great-grandparents before their golden-wedding anniversary. l'\)r many years Mr. and Mrs. Beaver have l^een members of the Glenwood Methodist Episcoixd church and have given their earnest attention to cliurch work, as well as to other neighborhood good works and have been heli)ful in many wa\s in advancing the common welfare of the community of which thev so long have liecn residents.

Daniel W. Caldwell, meniber of the board of county commissioners of Fayette county and the proprietor of a fine farm in Harrison township, where he now resides, was born on that farm and has lived there all his life. He was born on July 25, i860, youngest son of Samuel and Mary (Parrish) Caldwell, further and e.xtended mention of whose history and ancestry is made elsewhere in this volume.

After his father's death in June, 181/), Daniel W. Caldwell bought the interests of the other heirs in the paternal estate and is now the owner of a well-improved farm of one hundred and eighteen acres in section 34 of Harrison township, about two miles north of the village of HarrLsburg. He has been a lifelong farmer and has l^een ((uite successful in his operations. In addition to his farming, for the past thirty years he has been the owner and operator of a threshing-machine rig and is widely known throughout this part of the country. Though he still owns the threshing outfit, he has not personally operated the same for the past three years, turning the same over to his nephews, who are running it for him. Mr. Caldwell has been an active Democrat from the time he could vote and has ever given his earnest attention to local political affairs. In 19 13 he was elected a member of the board of county commissioners from his district and is now serving in that capacity. During Mr. Caldwell's incumbency in that ofince fine new buildings have been erected at the county infirmary and much has been done by the county in the way of bettering the highways. Commissioner Caldwell is an energetic and public-spirited citizen and believes in i)romoting public improvements in every proper way.

Daniel \\". Caldwell was united in marriage to Mary P. Cole, who also was born in Harri'^on township, this count\-, daughter of .\lfred C. and Marv (69)

P. (Emerson) Cole, further mention of whom is made elsewhere in this volume. Alfred G. Cole was born on April 5, 1838, while his parents .were on their way from Maryland to Indiana and his early childhood was spent in Wayne county, this state. His parents, Joseph and Patience Cole, later moved down into Fayette county and settled on a farm in Waterloo township, where he grew to manhood on the old Cole homestead, east of Waterloo. He was thrice married, his first wife having been Rhoda Harlan, to which union two daughters were born, Mrs. L. G. Henry and Mrs. Shaffner. A few years after the death of his first wife, Alfred G. Cole married Mrs. Mary P. (Emerson) Roby, of Brownsville, and to that union two children were born, Joseph Cole, of Indianapolis, and Mrs. Caldwell. Following the death of the mother of these children Mr. Cole married Matilda Fiant and to that union five children were born, Kate, Bertha, John, Charles and one who died in childhood. About twenty-five years ago Alfred G. Cole moved from this county to Casey, Illinois, where he spent the rest of his life, his death occurring on June 2, 1913, he then being seventy-five years of age.

To Daniel W. and Mary P. (Cole) Caldwell three children have been born, namely: Russell Ward, who died at the age of two years and six months; Elsie M., who married Walter Ray, of Connersville, and has two children, Esther and Mary, and Glenn Alfred, who is at home. The Caldwells have a very pleasant home and have ever taken a proper part in the general social activities of the community in which they live. Mr. Caldwell is a member of the local aerie of the Fraternal Order of Eagles and of the local lodge of the Loyal Order of Moose and in the afifairs of both of these organizations takes a warm interest.

Hugh E. Beaver

Hugh E. Beaver, a well-known and substantial farmer of Fairview township, was born in that township on March 13, 1873, son of John M. Beaver and wife, who are still living in that vicinity, for many years residents on a fine farm just over the line in Rush county, and further and extended mention of whom is made in a biographical sketch relating to John M. Beaver, presented elsewhere in this volume.

Hugh E. Beaver was about two years of age when his parents moved from this county over into Rush county and on the home farm in the latter county he grew to manhood and upon attaining his majority began farming tliere on his own account. In 1900 he thought tlie farm on which he is now Hving-, a halt mile south of Fairview, in Fairview township, this county, and after his marriage in 1902 established his home there. When he took possession of the place, a tract of eighty acres, it had no improvements on it with the exception of a little shop building, which is still standing. He Iniilt a good house and farm building and now has a very well-appointed farm plant. His house is fitted with a hot-water heating plant, has a bath room and is piped for hot and cold running water, one of the most convenient and up-to-date farm houses in that section. He has always used progressive methods in his farming operations and is doing very well.

On May 7, 1902, Hugh E. Beaver was united in marriage to Addie Gray, who was born in Union township, Rush county, this state, a daughter of James and Martha (Nichols) Gray, the former of whom was born on the farm on which he still lives in that county, more than eighty-three years ago. He is a son of James and Mary (Nickel) Gray, who came from Monroe county, \'irginia, to Indiana in 18 16, the year in which Indiana was admitted to statehood, and settled on a tract of "Congress land" in Union township. Rush county, the farm for so many years owned and occupied by their son, the venerable James Grav, who has lived there all his life.

William H. Tate

William H. Tate, one of the best-known school teachers in Fayette county and the proprietor of a well-developed farm in Columbia township, is a native son of this county and has lived here all his life. He was born on a farm in the immediate vicinity of Bunker Hill, west of Connersville, June 7, 1869, son of James H. and Louisa (Halstead) Tate, further and extended reference to whom is made elsewhere in this volume. The Tates have a long and honorable ancestry, the same being traceable back to Nahum Tate, poet laureate of England, born in 1652, who died in 171 5. The name originally was Taite, then Tait, but is now generally spelled Tate. Of this same family was Archibald Campbell Tait, archbishop of Canterbury, torn in 181 1, who died in 1882. \\'illiam H. Tate has inherited the poetic instinct of his ancestors and has written a number of very creditable poems, an example of which is set out in the chapter in this work relating to the literary history of Fayette county. He also has written much prose and his services are in demand as a public speaker on various subjects.

Until his marriage, when he was twenty-five years of age, Wilham H. Tate made his home on the paternal farm in the Bunker Hill neighborhood. He supplemented his schooling in the schools of his home district by a course in the Indiana State Normal School at Terre Haute and then took up teaching and from that time to the present has spent his winters as a teacher in the public schools, his summers being occupied in the cultivation of his wellimproved farm north of the village of Columbia, in Columbia township. Including the term of 1916-17, Mr. Tate has taught twenty-six consecutive terms of school and the children of some of his earlier pupils have been his pupils in the second generation. During that period he taught three terms of school in Rush county, but the remainder of his service as a teacher has been . rendered in Fayette county,, extending to the schools of Waterloo, Harrison, Connersville, Jennings, Orange and Columbia townships. His longest period of service in one school was in Orange township, where he presided over one school for twelve years. As noted above, Mr. Tate is frequently called to the lecture platform and is widely known throughout the county as a public speaker. In his farming operations he has Ijeen successful and has a well-impfoved farm near Columljia. where he and his family are very comfortably situated.

On June 6, 1894, Wrlliam H. Tate was united in marriage to Pareppa R. Bryson, who was born at Laurel, in the neighboring county of Franklin, daughter of Thomas C. and Mary C. (Alzeno) Bryson, the former of whom at that time was the proprietor of a stone quarry at Laurel, but who in the spring of 1885, moved with his family into this county and settled in Columbia township, where he became a substantial sawmill man and farmer. To Mr. and Mrs. Tate four childern have been born, one of whom, Mary Louise, died in infancy, the others being James Russell, Thurlow Duane and Garnet Lucile. Mr. and Mrs. Tate are members of the Central Christian churcli at Connersville, and fraternally i\Ir. Tate is afifiliated with the local lodge of the Knights of Pvthias. in the affairs of which he takes a warm interest.

Elwood Hussey

Elwood Hussey, one of the best-known and most substantial farmers of Posey township, and the proprietor of a fine farm and a pleasant home on rural mail route A, out of Milton, was bom on that farm and has lived there

Jonathan Hussey was Ixirn in (Uiilfurd county. North L'arnlina, Jul\' 20. 1812, a son of John and .Mar\- ( Thornhuri; ) Ilussey. hnth ni whun.i also were natives of that same count}'. Jnhn Ilussey spent all his life in his native county, his death occurring there in 1816. lie left three sons, jnnath:m, Henry and Joseph. His widow suij.sequently married Robert Pitman and in 1833 came to Indiana, whither her brother, Henry Thornburg. and two of her sons, Jonathan and Joseph, had come some years previously, and after a sometime residence in Fayette county moved up into Wayne county, v^here she died in 1864. By her second marriage she w-as the mother of three children, John H.. Milton and Mary I'itman. It was before he had reached his majority that Jnnathan Ilussey had come out here from Xortli Carolina to join his uncle, Henry Thornburg, who had settled in I'osey township, this count\. ami ulien he was twenty-one _\-ears of age he walked back to his old home in North Carolina to claim his inheritance. He then returned here, bringing with him his brother, Tose])h. The l)rothers had but uue horse and as Joseph Hussey was not so well aiile to walk as was his brother, J(3nathan made almost all of his way liack by fimt. Cpim his return here Jonathan Hussey resumed his place on his uncle's farm and there remained until after his marriage, in the spring of 184 1, when he established his home on the farm he had bought in the northeastern part of Posey township, the place on which his son, the subject of this -ketch, is now living, and proceeded to improve and tle\elop the same, later becoming the owner of two hundred and forty acres of fine land. There he matle his home until about five years after the death of his wife, when, in 1885, he retired from the farm and moved to the village of Milton, where he spent the rest of his life, his death occurring there on June ii, 1897, he then being nearly eighty-five years of age.

On March 11, 1841, Jonathan Ilussey was united in marriage to Louisa Frazier, who was born in Pose\- townshiji. this county, December j. 1824, daughter of John and Rachel ( Beard ) Frazier, pioneers of that township, wh(5 had settled on section 6, the place now occupied by William Rayle. Both John Frazier and his wife were natives of North Carolina, the former born on June 3, 1796, and the latter, October 24, 1799. They were married in Wayne county, this state, and afterward settled near Milton, where they remained until 1821, when thev came down into Ivayette countv and set- tied Upon the above mentioned farm in Posey township, wliere they spent the remainder of their Hves, John Frazier dying on May 3, 1856, and his widow surviving until June 2^,, 1871. They were earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal church and were among the leaders in good works in the community which they had helped to develop from pioneer days. They had ten children, Malinda, Sarah, Jane. Louisa, Elizabeth, John B., Elias, Jesse, Samuel and Thomas E. Mrs. Frazier's father, Thomas Beard, was a leader among the pioneers throughout this section in the early days. He settled in the neighborhood of Beeson and during the Indian troubles he and his family, together with the other pioneers of that settlement, were driven to live in the blockhouse which afforded protection in that section. Thomas Beard was of Irish descent and was a wonderfully effective extemporaneous speaker, his services on the hustings in that day being of great value to his party. His brother, John Beard, who served for years as a member of the Indiana Legislature from Montgomery county, owed much of his success to the brilliant campaigns conducted in his behalf by his brother. Representative John Beard was an able coadjutor of Caleb Mills, then president of Wabash College at Crawfordsville, during the effectual campaign in behalf of public schools conducted by Mills before the Legislature and did much to put through legislation in that important behalf, the important action he took in that movement earning for him the title among his friends of "the father of public free schools in Indiana." Patrick Baird ( Beard ) , a delegate from Wayne county to the first constitutional convention held in Indiana, was also a member of this family and took an important part in the deliberations of that convention, having been particularly active in the movement that placed the convention on record admitting Indiana as a "free" instead of a slave state.

To Jonathan and Louisa (Frazier) Hussey ten children were born, namely: Elias, deceased, who was married and had a family; Henry, a farmer living near Milton; John, who died when about two years of age; Jesse, who died when about twenty-one years of age; Eunice, who lived to be sixty-four years of age ; Lindley, who is living on a farm south of the old home place; Rachel, widow of Joseph Evans; Elwood, the subject of this biographical sketch ; ]\Iary Jane, wife of Elwood Moore, and Sarah Olive, wife of George W. Baker. The mother of these children died on September 23, 1880.

wliere he is now living and has H\-ed there all his life. He received his education in the local schools and from the days of his boyhood was an al)Ie assistant to his father in the labors of improving and developing the place. Shortly after his marriage in 1884 his father retired from the farm and he since has occupied the old home, owner of ninety-six acres of the tract formerly owned by his father, and is doing very well in his farming operations and he and his family are very pleasantly and comfortably situated. - In 1884 Elwood Hussey was united in marriage to Mrs. Anna (Ohmit) Males, widow of Benjamin Males and daughter of Emanuel and Sarah (Filby) Ohmit. She was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, and was but five years of age when her parents came to Indiana and located at Cambridge City. Emanuel Ohmit was a carpenter and followed his vocation at Cambridge City until his death on October 20, 1900. On January 30, 1865, he enlisted in Company H. One Hundred and Forty-seventh Indiana Infantry, in which he was promoted to corporal and served to the close of the war. After his death his widow moved to Milton and still later made her home with Mr. and Mrs. Hussey, at whose home she died on Christmas day, 19 12. Emanuel Ohmit and wife were the parents of eight children, of whom ;\[rs. Hussey was the second in order of birth, the others being as follow : William, of Milton: Carson, of Cambridge City; John, also of Cambridge City: Walter, who died leaving a widow, but no children; Cora, who died in infancy; Sarah, who died when eleven years of age, and Frank, a well-known merchant at Cambridge City, where he is engaged in the grocery, furniture and hardware business. Anna Ohmit was married in 1871 at Cambridge City to Benjamin Males, who was a painter by trade and who made his home at Milton until his death on June 15, 1881, he then being thirty-one years of age. To that union four children were born, namely : Lillie. who married Edward Wasson and lived in Indianapolis until in December, 1916, when they took up their residence with the Husseys, where Mr. Wasson died on February 13, 191 7, leaving his widow and one child, a son, Everett; Evelyn, born in 1874, who died when two years of age; Charles William Males, born

To Elwood and Anna (Ohmit) Hussey five children have been born, namely: John L., who is living at home, a valued assistant to his father in the management of the farm; Ernest E., who married Cecile Johnson and lives on a farm near Bentonville; Anna Florence, at home; Sarah Olive, at home, and Ina Mav, who married Arthur T. ]\Ianlove, a farmer living near Ben- tonville, and has one child, a son, Russell Ehvood. The Husseys have a very pleasant home and take a proper interest in the general social activities of the community in which they live and of which Mr. Hussey has been a resident all his life, ever helpful in promoting movements having to do with the advancement of the common welfare in that part of the county and throughout the county at large.

Frederic I. Barrows

Frederic I. Barrows was horn in Xelson township, Portage county, Ohio. October 7, 1873. His ancestry is mentioned in the account of his father, Alvin E. Barrows, found elsewhere in this work. \Vhen about seven years old his parents brought him to Connersville, Indiana, and though he had attended school for two years in Ohio, he went entirely through the Connersville schools, being graduated in 1S90. He taught public schools in Fayette county in 189 1 to 1894 and 1897 to 1900. He was graduated from DePauw University, with the degree of Ph. B., in 1897, ^"^ from Georgetown University Law School, with the degree of LL. B., in 1901. He was admitted to the bar of Fayette county in 1899, and to the bar of the supreme court of Indiana in 1902. From 1902 to 1907 he was a member of the law firm of Elliott & Barrows, during which time he also served as captain of Company L, First Indiana National Guard, and county chairman of the Fayette county Republican central committee. He was elected mayor in 1905, serving until January, iqio. He became cashier of the Central State Bank, March 9. 1907, and continued until elected vice-president, in 1913. He was also the organizer and a vice-president of the Falmouth Bank until 1916, . when he sold his interest. In 1912 he became the secretary and treasurer of the Lexington Motor Car Company, representing the committee of creditors engaged in winding up the affairs of that concern, and was the secretary and treasurer of the Central Car Company and, later, of The Lexington- Howard Company, which po.sition he still occupies.

On October 5, 191 5. Mr. Barrows was united in marriage with Miss Ruth M. Hull, of Connersville, whose ancestry is mentioned in the article referring to her father, Charles C. Hull, and found elsewhere in this book.

Fred Blake Perkins, a well-known farmer and landuwncr of Colnnibia township and a veteran of the Spanish-American War. was born in the township in which he is living and. with the exception of three jears spent in Connersville. has lived there all his life. He was horji on January lo, 1880, son of Oran and Agnes ( I'.lake) Perkins, both <>{ whom also were born in Fayette county and whu spent all their lives here. u>eful and inlhiential residents of Columbia township.

Oran Perkins was born in Columbia township, this county, December 28. 1845, son of William and Mary A. (Klum) Perkins, both members of pioneer families in this county. William Perkins was born in New England and came to Indiana with his parent^ in the days of his youth, the family settling in this county in pioneer days, iiecoming substantial residents of ColuiTibia township. His mother, before her marriage, was Susanna Rogers. William Perkins became a large landduner and was a man of con.siderable local influence in his ciimniunity. He married Mary .\. Klum. a member of the well-know.n Klum family, which came from Xew \'ork slate to Indiana and settled on Garrison creek, in Columbia township, this county. Oran H. Perkins farmed all his life in Columbia township and was the owner of a farm of one hundred and seven acres, which he bought there in 1870. On Ma\ 3. 1868, he married Agnes E. Blake, also a native of Fayette countv, who for a time lived at Bentonville. She was born on June 11, 1847, ^"cl from her early childhood lived on the Michener f;irm. She attended Brookville Academy and for three \ears before her marriage was engaged in teaching school. The Blake family came from Gloucester county, X'irginia, Lewis Blake coming here in 183 J and locating in the norlliern part of this county, later moving to Columbia township. Oran H. Perkins and wife were active meml)ers of the Methodist church and the former was a member of the Knights of Pythias lodge. He died oh February 24, 1907, at the age of sixty-one years, and his widow survived him a little more than two years, her death occurriilg on March 29, 1909, she also being sixty-one years of age at the time of her death. Tlie\' were the ])arents of ele\'en children, two of whom grew to maturity and seven of whom are still living, those besides the subject of this sketch being William, Lewis. Frank. Glen. Mrs. Kate Elliott and Mrs. Elizabeth Murray.

Fred B. Perkins grew up on the home farm in Columbia township, receiving his schooling in the local schools, and on August 9, 1899, enlisted in the regular army for service in tlie Philippines and was attached to Company G, Thirty-fifth Regiment, United States Volunteer Infantry. This company was organized at Vancouver Barracks, Washington, August i6, 1899, and sailed from Portland, Oregon, on October 4 following, disembarking at Manila on the following November 9. Air. I'erkins served about eighteen months, serving under General Lawton until the latter was killed and then serving tmder Gen. Fred Grant. During that period of service Mr. Perkins participated in the following engagements : Skirmish at San Miguel on December II, 1899; skirmish at Barrio Holang, June 24, 1900; Engagement at Culodnag Canayan, December 20, igoo; engagement at Banagdan, January 10, 1901 ; engagement at Camananan, February i, 1901, and a skirmish at Bindos Binagdan, February 23, 1901. He was mustered out of service at the Presidio, San Francisco, California, May 2, 1901. Mr. Perkins is a member of the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias and of the Improved Order of Red Men.

On June 30, 1903, Fred B. Perkins married Florence Wines, who also was born in Columbia township, this county, daughter and only child of John J. and Julia (Custer) Wines, both also natives of Indiana and the former of whom is still living, making his home with Mr. and Mrs. Perkins.

John Jackson Wines is a native Hoosier, born in Decatur county, this state, December 24, 1847, a son of David and Sarah Jane (Pavey) Wines, the former of whom was also a native of Indiana, born in Switzerland county, and the latter, of Hawkins county, Tennessee. David Wines was a son of Capt. John Wines, who was commissioned by Governor Noble to lead a company during the War of 1812, serving in the army of General Jackson and participating in the battle of New Orleans. Captain Wines died at the age of sixty-four years and is buried in Shelby county, this state. Sarah Jane (Pavey) Wines was a daughter of the Rev. John Pavey, a minister of the Baptist church, who moved from Switzerland county, this state, to Decatur county and in the latter county spent his last days. When John J. Wines was about one year of age his parents moved from Decatur county to Shelby county, where his father bought a farm and where the family remained until 1864, when they moved to Tipton county, where David Wines and his wife spent their last days. In 1870 John J. Wines was married in Tipton county and he remained there until February 8, 1876, when he came to Fayette county, where he ever since has made his home. For about twenty years, in connection with his general farming, Mr. Wines gave special attention to the breeding of Shropshire sheep and had a fine lot of pedigreed stock. On September 8, 1901, his home was destroyed by fire, the contents of the house, even to the family apparel, goiui^- up in the tlanies. Inckulcil in this luss was the pedigree book of Mr. Wine's tlock and since then he has given up the raising of pedigreed stock, and has raised sheep simply for puri)()ses of utility. Mr. Wines is the owner of a well-improved farm of due Inunlrcil and eighty acres in Columbia town^bi[) and his son-in-law, .Mr. Tcrkins, and wife own a farm of seventy-eight acres nearby, Mr. Wines making his hcime with them.

Mr. Wines has been twice married. In 1870, wdiile living in Tipton county, he married Alice Kitchen, who was born in Hancock county, this state, a daughter of Rev. Andrew and Jeannette ( White ) Kitchen, natives of Indiana. The Rev. Andrew Kitchen, a minister of the Methodist church, was reared in Rush county. To that marriage one child was Iwrn, a daughter, Zella, born on August 11, 1S7J, who tlied on April Ji, 1890. Mrs. .Mice Wines died in November, 1878, and in February, 1880, Mr. Wines married Julia Custer, who was born in Columbia township, this count)-, a daughter of Hiram and Polly (Limpus) Custer, the former of whom came to this county W'ith his parents from Bourbon county, Kentucky, in the davs of his youth and here spent the remainder of his life, b'rom the time she was three vears of age until her death, on July 19. 19 12, Mrs. Julia Custer Wines lived on the farm on which Mr. Wines is now living. Mrs. Perkins is the only child of this second marriage. Mr. Wines is a member of the Methodist church and, fraternallv, is affiliated with the Knights of Pvthias.

Edwin yi. Stone, one of Fayette county's l)est known and most sul)- stantial farmers, a former menil)er of tlie Connersville cit\- council, former county assessor, an honored veteran (jf the Ci\il War and the proprietor of a fine farm in Harrison township, is a native son of F'ayette comity and has lived here all his life. He was born on a pioneer farm a short distance east of the village of Harrisburg, at a point where the Christian church in that neighborhood now stands, ]\Iarch 18, 1845, son of the Hon. Charles .M. and Lovisa (Carver) Stone, the former of whom was born in this count\-, a member of one of the pioneer families, and the latter in the state of New York, who were for many years accounted auKjng the most influential residents of the Harrisburg neighl>orhood.

Iioo Fayette Col'Nty, Indiana

Charles M. Stone was born on a pioneer farm a short distance west of the village of Alpine, in this county, in 1821, his father, a native of Rhode Island and a soldier in the patriot army during the Revolutionary War, having settled there at an early day in the settlement of this county. When Charles M. Stone was twelve years of age his father was killed by a log rolling on him while working in the timber. His mother married again and he remained on the home farm until his marriage, when he took over the management of the farm of his wife's father, the old Carver farm just east of Flarrisburg, and there he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives. In 1 86 1 Charles M. Stone built the substantial brick residence on that place, now owned and occupied by Charles Bell, and which house still stands as one of the best houses in that part of the county. Charles M. Stone was an active Republican, for years looked upon as one of the leaders of his party in this county, and for two terms represented this district in the Indiana state Legislature. He died at his home in Harrison township on May 9, 1889, ^"cl his widow survived him many years, her death occurring in 1907. She was born, Lovisa Carver, at Cayuga Lake, New York, a daughter of Elijah Carver and wife, who came here in pioneer days and settled on the farm above referred to just east of Harrisburg, the farm on which the subject of this sketch was born. Elijah Carver was a descendant of Gov. Jonathan Carver, who came over in the "Mayflower," and was for years r.ne of the influential residents of Harrison township, his death occurring there many years ago. Charles M. Stone and wife had three children who grew to maturity and who are still living, namely: Edwin M., the subject of this biographical sketch; ]\Irs. Eliza A. Florea, of Te.xas, and Mrs. Katherine Elorea Broaddus.

Edwin M. Stone was reared on the farm on which he was born, receiving his schooling in the neighboring school, and remained there tmtil his marriage, in the spring of 1870, when he located in Connersville, where he engaged in the livery business and later engaged in the retail meat business, remaining there until the spring of 1881, when he moved to his present home, a farm three and one-half miles northwest of Connersville, where he has since lived and where he and his family are very pleasantly and very comfortably situated. In addition to his general farming, Mr. Stone has given much attention to the raising of pure-bred cattle and a picture of a bunch of his fine stock is presented on another page in this volume, as an example of the fine quality of cattle raised in Fayette county. Mr. Stone is a Republican and has ever given his earnest attention to local political affairs. During liis residence in Connersville he served for some time as a member of the city council from liis ward and after moving to his farm was elected county assessor, being tlie first man elected to tliat oflice in I-ayette county after the enactment of the law creating the office in ihc early nineties. Mr. Stone is an active member of the Grand Army of the l\ei>uhlic and takes an earnest interest in the aft'airs of the local post. Wiieii about eigiitcen years of age, November 9^ 1863, he enlisted as a pri\ate in (.'oniiiany .\. One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantrv. and was mustered out with that command on August 31, 1865, after having participated in much active service under the command of Gen. George TI. Thomas in the Army of the Cumberland.

Mr. Stone has been twice married. On May 5, 1870, he was united in marriage to Indiana \\'hite. who was born on a farm near Bunker Hill, west of Connersville, in this county, a daughter of Hamilton While, who was reared in this count}- and who had moved onto that farm after a sometime residence in Comiersville, where he had been engaged as a painter. To that union eight children were born, two of whom died in infancy and six of whom are still living, namely: Lillie, who married Wilfred Frazee, of Hendricks county, this state, and has one child, a daughter, Mary; Charles, who lives on a farm one mile north of his father's place, and who married Mary Powell and has two children, Josephine and Helen ; Flomer P., who married Ella Johnson and is how ranching in Texas: Minnie I., who married Amos Kerr, by which marriage she has a son, Ralph Kerr, and after whose death she married W'ebb Ensminger and is now li\ing on a farm in the western part of Harrison township: Clinton Stone, of Connersville, who married Lillie Frazier and has one child, a son, Fxlwin M., and Evaline, who married Scott Caldwell and has two children, Joseph and Helen Louise. Mrs. Indiana Stone died on February ^o, 1895, and on March 2. 1897, Mr. Stone married Mrs. Frances E^ Shera ( Fattig) Ridge, who was born near Oxford, Ohio, a daughter of John' and Mary ( Duke) Fattig, the former of whom was born in and who came to Indiana with his parents, Jacub and Frances I^^attig, when lie wa^ a child, tlie family settling in Henry county. When he was about eighteen years of age John P'attig located at Conners- \ille, where he presently married Mary Duke, who was born near Oxford. Ohio, daughter of John and Eliza (Shera) Duke, nati\es of Ireland, who had come to this country and had located on a farm in the vicinity of Oxford, in Butler county, Ohio. John Fattig was a cari)enter and he and his wife spent their last days in Conner^-ville. where their daughter, Frances, grew to womanhood and where she married Horace Ridge, a native of Ripley county, this state, a well-known school teacher of this county, who had also taught school in Union county, and who died in 1S92, leaving one child, a son, Albert Ridge, who died in childhood. Mr. and Mrs. Stone have . very pleasant farm house and take a warm interest in the general social ar---ities of the community in which they live, ever helpful in promoting all u 'icies naving to du with the advancement of the common welfare thereabout.

William H. Thompson

William H. Thompson, a well-known and substantial farmer of Posey township, this county, for many years assessor of that township, former postmaster of Bentonville, where for years he was engaged in the mercantile business and before that time a blacksmith in that village, is a native son of Fayette county and has lived here all his life. He was born in the village of Harrisburg on June 7, 1848, son of Charles and Mary (Caldwell) Thompson, the former of whom was born in Marion county, this state, and the latter in this county.

Charles Thompson was "born in 1828 in Marion county, Indiana, where his parents had settled upon coming to this state from Kentucky, and in his youth came to this county and at Harrisburg learned the blacksmith trade in the shop of Stephen Thomas, where he worked until about 1854, when he moved to Bentonville and there started a blacksmith shop of his own, which he continued to operate, off and on, for fifty years; in the meantime buying a small farm in that vicinity, farming when not actively engaged in blacksmithing, and spent the rest of his life at or near Bentonville, dying there on October 13, 1901. His wife, Mary Caldwell, was born in Harrison township, this county, November 12, 1825, and died on May 23, 1895, and was a daughter of Judge Train Caldwell (born February 17, 1778), and his wife, Elizabeth Dehaven (born August 31, 1781), the latter of whom was a Dehaven. Judge Train Caldwell was the first circuit judge in Fayette county and he had a son, James Caldwell, who for some time served as clerk of the court. Charles and Mary (Caldwell) Thompson were the parents of five children, two of whom died in infancy and the others of whom are still living, the subject of this sketch having a brother, George Thompson, and a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Rea, widow of Benjamin F. Rea.

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About 1S7J, shortly after his marriage, he began working at the blaeksniith trade \xith liis father at Bentonville and later became a partner of his father in that business and still later a partner, in the same line, with Edward Barker,^, continuiijg thus engaged at blacksmithing for about fifteen years, at the^e^id of which time, in the fall of 1887, he embarketl in the mercantile busintj^^^^at Bentonville and was shortly afterward made postmaster of that village, continuing as merchant and postmaster there until the spring of 1897, when he moved to the farm on which he is now living, in the northern part of Posey township, and has lived there ever since, quite successfully engaged in farming and stock raising. Mr. Thompson is a lifelong Democrat and has ever taken a warm interest in local political affairs. In 1900 he was elected assessor of Posey township and by successive elections has held that office ever since, a period of nearly eighteen years. He is a member of the local lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Falmouth, Indiana, and has for years taken a warm interest in the affairs of that popular organization.

Mr. Thompson has been twice married. On September 14, 1870, he was united in marriage to Lucinda Hatfield, who was born near the city of Ft. Wayne, in Allen county, this state, a daughter of Owen Hatfield and wife, and who died on March 29, 1876, leaving two children, Charles and Oscar. Another son, Harry, born to that union died when about one year of age. Charles Thompson, who lives on his farm one mile north of Bentonville, married Clara Kemmer and has one child, a son, Russell. Oscar Thompson, who owns a farm about three miles north of Richmond, in the neighboring county of Wayne, where he makes his home, married Sadie Hicks. On September 5, 1877, Mr. Thompson married, secondly, Anna E. Lamberson, who was born on a farm in the northwest part of Posey township, this county, a daughter of Samuel and Demaris (Overturf) Lamberson, the former a native of Kentucky and the latter of Ohio, who were pioneers in this county. The Lambersons and the Overturfs were originally from Maryland and came into this state from Kentucky. To this second union three children have been born, namely: Walter, now living at Falmouth, who married Emma Bowles and has two children, Lorraine and Wayne; }klamie L., who married John Mallory, a farmer living near the village of Dublin, and has two daughters, Effie and Georgia, and Samuel, living near Germantown, who married Catherine Mueller and has one child, a daughter, Margaret Helene. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson have a pleasant home and are very comfortably situated. They have ever given proper attention to the good works of the community in which they live and are helpful in promoting all worthy local causes.

Edward P. Hawkins ^x-as born November lo, 1881, in Connersville, Indiana, and up to the present time ( 191 7) he haS spent his life in his native city. His parents were Edward A', and Margaret (Pratt) Hawkins. His mother was liorn in the state of New York, but the father, Hke the son, is a native Indianian, and a sketch of his Hfe appears elsewhere in this history.

The junior Hawkins received his common and high school education in the Connersville public schools. After he was graduated from the high school in 1898, he, at once, went to work in his father's factory. For nineteen years he has devoted his energies to the upbuilding and the extension of the business which his father had established in 1882, under the name of the Connersville Furniture Company. In 1901 he was made secretarv of the company, and in 19 10 he became assistant general manager. At the present time, he holds both positions and accomplishes the work of each with characteristic promptness and industry.

During the winter of 1916-1917 Mr. Hawkins founded the National Moorish Tile Flooring Factor}- and became the first president of the company. It opened for business in February, 1917, and promises to become one of the city's most substantial institutions.

Though Mr. Hawkins has been very earnestly and continuously occupied with industrial activities, he has never neglected to do his part in the working out of the civic problems which present themselves to the attention of every public-spirited citizen. As president of the Commercial Club for the past two years, he has accomplished much in furthering the general welfare of the city of his birth. Being a man of action, he throws his power and personality into everything he undertakes and stays with it to the "finish". A striking example of this fact is his remarkably successful management of the Fayette county centennial celebration of 1916. For five months in the spring and summer of that year he devoted practically all his time to planning and putting into execution the hundred and one details which resulted in the community having the best county celebration in the state.

It is proper in this connection to mention that on account of his intelligent and conservative management of public affairs, he was chosen as one of the governors of the Hoosier Dixie Highway Association. In general, it is thoroughly understood by all who know him that any and everything which he feels will be of benefit to his city or to the public at large, will receive from him a hearty, enthusiastic and intelligent support.

Politically, Mr. Hawkins is affiliated with the Republican party. Ilis fraternal relations include membership in several national organizations - the Odd Fellows. Elks, Moose, Travelers' Protective Association, Eagles, Red Men and Knights of Pythias. He is also a member of the Greek-letter fraternity of Phi Delta Kappa, the Columbia Club of Indianapolis, the Indiana Press Cluli, the Cincinnati Auto Club, the Cincinnati Country Club, the Newcastle Country Club, the Hoosier .Automobile Association and several other similar organizations. In keeping with the spirit that prompts those in powcr to give just recognition to meritorious energy. Governor Goodrich appointed Mr. Hawkins as a member of his staff, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel.

Mr. Hawkins was married, October 5, 1904, to Miss Marie Kimball. She is r daughter of Judge Eben W. and Frances (Bender) Kimball and was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. Her father was a native of Massachusetts and her mother of Michigan. Judge Kimball is still living; his wife passed away in April, 19 16. Mrs. Hawkins has one brother, Fletcher Kimball. Mr. and ]\Irs. Hawkins have one .son. Edward K. The family are members of the ^Methodist Episcopal church.

In every community there are men who are leaders. It has always been thus and it will always be. They may possess no more native ability than those with whom they mingle and associate, but somehow, someway, thev are gifted with special qualities that win for them honor and preferment. Such a man is Edward P. Hawkins.

Oliver Porter flyers, a well-known and substantial farmer of Posey township, this county, and the proprietor of a fine farm of ncarl\- two hundred acres at the south edge of that township, where he and his family are very comfortably and very pleasantly situated, is a native son of Fayette county and has lived here all his life. He was born on the old Huston homestead farm in Posey township on Xovember 4, 1884, son and only child of Cabin and Mary Laura (Manlove) Myers, the latter of whom is still living on her well-kept farm south of Bentonville.

The late Calvin Myers also was a native of this section of Indiana, having been born on a pioneer farm two and one-half miles south of Cambridge City, in the neighboring county of Wayne, .\ugust 4, 1855, second son of Michael (70)

K. and Elizabeth (Ferris) Myers, the former of whom was born in that same neighborhood, a son of Gideon and Catherine (Crull) Myers, early settlers of that community. Gideon Myers came to this state from Pennsylvania and established a tannery and harness-making shop in the lower part of Wayne county, where he spent the rest of his life. His son, Michael K. Myers, became a farmer and live-stock dealer and lived on a farm south of the village of DubHn until 1879, when he moved to Ouinemo, in Osage county, Kansas, moving thence presently to Ottumwa, in Coffey county, same state, where he farmed and spent the rest of his life, his death occurring there in October, 1908. His widow, who was born EHzabeth A. Ferris, near the village of Milton, in Wayne county, this state, a daughter of Joseph and Deborah (Atwell) Ferris, died on February 9, 191 1. Their son, Calvin Myers, was reared on the home farm and there lived until after he had reached his majority. On October 9, 1877, he married Mary L. Manlove, who was born on the old Manlove farm, two and one-half miles southeast of Bentonville, only daughter of William and Margaret (Munger) Manlove, both members of pioneer families in that section of the county and further and fitting mention of which families is made elsewhere in this volume. On December 10, 1877, he and his wife began housekeeping on the old Myers homestead place, and there remained until November 20, 1880, when they moved to a farm one mile south of Bentonville, where Calvin Myers spent his last days, his death occurring there on February 17, 1906, he then being fifty years of age, and where his widow is still living, the owner of a fine farm of one hundred and sixty acres one mile west of the place where she was born.

Oliver Porter Myers lived on the farm on which he was born until after his marriage in 1905 and shortly afterward took possession of the farm of one hundred and ninety-eight acres in the southern part of Posey township, where he established his home and where he has ever since lived. Mr. Myers is a progressive farmer and a member of the Connersville Commercial Club, ever giving his thoughtful attention to any movement designed to advance the common welfare of the community at large. He and his wife have a delightful home and are regarded as among the leaders in the general social activities of the community in which they live. Mrs. Myers is a member of the Christian church at Bentonville and is active in the work of the Missionary Society of that church, as well as in the work of the W^omen's Club of the Bentonville community and of the Mothers' Club in that vicinity, helpful in advancing all good movements thereabout. Mr. and Mrs. Myers have two children. Garnet Elnora, born on February 5, 1907, and Willard Calvin, March 19, 1913.

As noted above, it was on October i8, 1905. that Oliver Porter Myers was united in marriage to Mary Elizabeth Overhiser, who was born on a farm one mile north of Bentonville, this county, en May 9, 1887, a daughter of Willard and Ellen ( Kemmcr ) Overhiser, both of whom also were born in this county and who are still living on their farm north oi Bentonville, where Mrs. Myers was born and where she lived until her marriage. Willard Overhiser, an honored veteran of the Civil War and former trustee of I'ose\' township, is a native of this county, as noted above, lx)rn in Eairview township on November 1, 1841, son of George and Elizal^eth (Storms) Overhiser, the former of whom, born in Otsego county. New York. August Ji. 1804, was a son of John Casper and Mary (Near) Overhiser and a grandson of Conrad and Mary (Story) Overhiser. John Casper Overhiser was twice married and by his first marriage was the father of two children and by his second, eighteen. In 1826, in Xew York state, George Overhiser married l'~lizabeth Storms, who was born in that state on June 30, 1807, a daughter of Peter and Dorcas ( Ballard ) Storms and a granddaughter of Thomas and Asenath Ballard, and in 1838 he and his family came out to Indiana and settled in Fairview township, this county, remaining- there until about 1842. when he nuived to Fiance )ck county and then, a couple of years later, to Blackford count)', where his father-in-law, Peter Storms, had entered a tract of government land, and in that county he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives, her death occurring in i860 and his in 1862. They were the parents of thirteen children, nine of whom are still living, but of whom Willard Overhiser is the only (jiie residing in this county.

Willard Overhiser learnetl the carpenter trade in his youth and was working at that trade when the Civil War broke out. He enlisted as a private in the Thirty-fourth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, attached to tlie Thirteenth Army Corps, and with that command served until mustered nut on bebruary 3, 1866, During that long period of service he i)articipated in sdUie of the most stirring engagements of the war, including the siege of X'icksburg, and in Texas took part in the last battle of the war, fought on May 13, 1865, after Lee had surrendered. Upon the completion of his military service. Mr. Overhiser resumed his work as a carpenter and worked in various parts of Fayette and Wayne counties, until after his marriage in 1873, when he located at Cambridge City, where he remained until in Xuxcnibcr nf 1879, when he returned to this county and settled on the farm one mile nnrtb of Bentonville, where he has made his home ever since. Mr. Overhiser was three times elected trustee of his home township, serving in that capacity for a ])eriod of ten years. He is an active member of the Grand Army of the I\ei)ublic, the present com-

In 1873 Willard Overhiser was united in marriage to EHzabeth E. Kemmer, who was born in Posey township, this county, February 1 7, 1854, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Campbell) Kemmer, the former a native of Kentucky and the latter of this county. Samuel Kemmer was born in Bracken county. Kentucky, September 27, 1823, son of John and Sarah (Overturf ) Kemmer, the former of whom was a son of Nicholas and Sarah (Pholer) Kemmer, whose last days were spent in this county. Nicholas Kemmer, a native of Germany, emigrated to this country when about eighteen years of age and was living at Boston when the famous "Boston tea party" marked the beginning of the struggle of the colonies for independence, he having been one of the patriots dressed as Indians, who threw the tea overboard from a British vessel in the harbor as a protest against what the colonists declared to be unjust taxation. He later served as a soldier during the Revolutionary War and was at Yorktown when ComwaUis surrendered to Washington, his position in the ranks during that historic incident being such that he was able to observe the two generals in conference. After the close of the war he settled in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, and there married Sarah Pholer. Later he moved to Kentucky and in 1833 came from that state up into Indiana and settled in Posey township, this county, where he died in 1839.

John Kemmer, one of the eight children born to Nicholas Kemmer and -wife, married Sarah Overturf in 1820 and in 1831 came from Kentucky to this county. He bought a tract of eighty acres in Posey township, where he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives, his death occurring on August 29, 1864, and hers in 1886, she then being eighty-four years of age. They were the parents of nine children, Mary Ann, Matilda Jane, Samuel J., Melvina, Sarah, IMehitabel, Sanford, Harvey and Lewis. Samuel J. Kemmer was eight years of age when his father came up here from Kentucky and he grew to manhood in Posey township. On January 13, 1849, he married Elizabeth Campbell, who was born in Posey township, daughter of Charles and Jane ( Gillan) Campbell, pioneers of the southeastern part of that township and natives, respectively, of Pennsylvania and of Ireland. Jane Gillan came to this country from Ireland with two brothers and proceeded on out to Indiana, where she entered a tract of government land in Posey township, this county, where she continued to live after her marriage to Charles Campbell. On her death on February 17, 1862, she left her land to her grand- children. Sanuiel Kenimer was a man of wide reading and at the time of his death, in May, 1910, was said la liave had the most extensive farmer's hbrary in Fayette county. Five tlaughters were horn to Samuel Kemmer and wife, those besides Mrs. Overhiser hein^ as foll.iw: Sarali J., wife of Benjamin Crane: Luzcna .Mice, deceased, who was the wife of William Hanby; Mary F., wife of Emory Sloan, and Emma 1-"., wife of llenrv Mason. To Willard and Elizabeth (Kemmer) Overhiser five ciiiidren have been born, namely : Emory A., a Connersville mechanic, who married Ethie Knipe and has two children, Ellen M. and Elizabeth M. : Corwin G.. a rural mail carrier out of Bentonville, who married Mrs. Eunice (Manlove) Curtis; Bessie Mabel, who married Harry G. Cole, of Houston, Te.xas, and has two children, Mildred E. and Alorrison B. ; Fannie, who married Benjamin Ertel, of Rush county, and lias two dau,y;hters. Ruby and Gertrude R.. and Mary Elizabeth, wife of Mr. Myers, the subject of this biographical sketch.

Carl C. Smith, undertaker and funeral director at Connersville, was l)orn in that city and has lived there all his life, with the exception of some years during his youth, when his parents were residents of the city of Cincinnati. He was born on April 23, 1871, son of Thomas L. and Delia J. (Moyer) Smith, both members of well-known families in this county.

Thomas J. Smith was born in this county and here grew to manhood and married. He began working for the Big Four Railroad Company and for some years while engaged in that employ was located at Cincinnati. Later he returned to Connersville and there engaged in the hardware, furniture and und-ertaking business, continuing thus engaged the rest of his life, becoming one of the l>est-known and most substantial business men in Connersville. When his son, the subject of this sketch, reached his majority he admitted the young man to partnership in the business, which was tliereafter conducted under the firm name of Thomas L. Smith & Son.

Carl C. Smith was but a child when his parents moved to Cincinnati and in that city he received his schooling. When his father embarked in business in Connersville he took an active part in the store and when eighteen years of age was made manager of the hardware department of the same. In 1892, he then being twenty-one years of age, he was admitted to partnership with his father in the general hardware, furniture and undermo FAYETTE COUNTY, INDIANA.

taking line, under the firm name of Thomas L. Smith & Son and continued thus connected until his father's death. In 191 3 he sold the hardware and furniture departments of the business and has since then given his undivided attention to the undertaking line, long having been recognized as one of the leading undertakers and funeral directors in eastern Indiana; Mr. Smith has one of the most thoroughly equipped undertaking establishments in this part of the state, his equipment including all modern appliances and devices for the effective direction o-f a funeral along up-to-date lines, an auto-hearse and six other cars being a part of this equipment.

On October 14, i8gi, Carl T. Smith was united in marriage to Mary Emily Fuchs, daughter of Herman and Eliza Fuchs, and to this union three children have been born. Mr, and Mrs. Smith are members of the Christian church aiid Mr. Smith is a member of the board of trustees of the congregation to which he is attached. Fraternally, he is affiliated with nearly every secret society and fraternal organization in the city of Connersville and takes a warm interest in' the afifairs of all.

Richard Harrison Rowe

Richard Harrison Rowe, trustee of Columbia township, who is successfully engaged in the woven-wire fence business at Nulltown, is a native of Kentucky, but has been a resident of Indiana the greater part of the time since he was a boy. He was born in Scott county, Kentucky, February 22. 1865, son of Hiram Newton and Rachel Ellen (Estill) Rowe, both of whom were born in that same county, the latter a daughter of Berry Estill and wife, both of whom lived to extraordinary ages, the former dying at the age of ninety-seven years and the latter, at ninety-three.

Mrs. Rachel E. Rowe died when her son, Richard H., was five years of age, leaving her husband with seven children. He kept the children together as well as he could, but from the time Richard H. Rowe was thirteen years of age he was practically thrown upon his own resources for a livelihood. After working out a short time on a farm in Kentucky, he came to Indiana in the January before he was fourteen years of age, in company with his brotlier, William Edward, two years his elder, the boys having heard much of the Hoosier state and regarding it as a land of opportunity. They made their way to Rushville and upon inc(uiry there found that there was work to be obtained at Gings Station. There they found employment cutting wood for a tile factory and were thus engaged until spring, wiicn Riciiard H. Rowe obtained employment with I'ihenezer Smith, where he remained for some years and where he was treated with as much consideration as a member of the family, Mrs. Smith giving the lad excellent training and ad\ ice and exerting an influence upon his receptive mind which had much to ilo in molding his life. From Smith's place young Rowe went on up into Grant county and was there engaged at farm work for a year, at the end of which time he returned to Rush county, where he remained until 1889, when he went over into Illinois and was for a year employed at farm work in Champaign county, that state. He then returned to Rush county, this state, and in 1890 was united in marriage to Mary Sawyer, of Columbia township, this county. For seven years after his marriage Mr. Rowe continued working ing as a farm hand and then undertook to farm on his own account on the farm of his father-in-law in Columbia township, and was thus engaged for three years, at the end of which time he found himself heavily involved in debt, his financial disaster being largely due to an outbreak of cholera in his drove of hogs and to farm losses of one character and another.

Upon finding himself thus deeply involved in debt, Mr. Rowe left the farm and in 1899 moved into the village of Nulltown, where he became engaged in the woven-wire fence business and has since continued in that line, being very successful, and has paid off all his financial obligations, with interest. Mr. Rowe in recent years has given considerable attention to local political matters and in 1914 was elected trustee of Columbia township, as the nominee of the Progressive party, and is now serving in that locally important office, giving his most thoughtful attention to the public service. He is a member of the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias and he and his wife are members of the Christian church. To them eleven children have been born, namely : Clarence Parker, Rachel Belle, Mary Marie, Lydia Delilah, Walter Seymour, Ethel, Theodore Roosevelt, Catherine Willina, Robert Melvin (who died at the age of nineteen months), Dorothy Mildred and Margaret.

Mrs. Rowe was born at Cincinnati, a daughter of Thomas Parker and Annabelle (James) Sawyer, former residents of this county, who are now living retired at Eaton, in Delaware county, this state. Thomas P. Sawyer was born in Boston and upon the outbreak of the Civil War enlisted for service in the I'nion army and served until the close of the war, among the notable battles in which he was engaged having I)een the first and second battles of Bull Run and the battle of Gettysburg. During his service he received a very severe gunshot wound in the hip and was reported as dead.

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Upon the completion of his military service, instead of returning to Boston, he located at Cincinnati, where for twenty-five years he was employed as a traveling salesman. He then moved to Louisiana, where he spent a year, at the end of which time he moved to Kentucky. Seven years later he came to Indiana with his family and bought a farm in Columbia township, west of Alpine, but continued traveling, selling chinaware, and was thus engaged until his retirement from business, when he sold his farm and moved to Eaton, where he and his wife are now living.

Joseph Emery Huston

Joseph Emery Huston was born at West Alexandria, Preble county, Ohio, January 24, 1861. His ancestry comprised names famous in New England history. The line of descent is direct from John Alden, the hero of Longfellow's poem, and one of the "Mayflower" pioneers. The succeeding generations are Captain Jonathan Alden, his son, Jonathan Alden, Austin Alden, Josiah Alden, Salome Alden (Davis), Josiah Alden Davis, Mary ( Davis) Huston, who was the mother of Joseph Emery Huston, ninth generation of the Aldens in America. Mr. Huston's ancestors, Austin Alden, Robert Smith. Edward Gale and Josiah Davis, each had distinguished Revolutionary War records.

His parents, John Van Winkle Huston and Mary Davis Huston, resided at West Alexandria at the time of his birth and until John V. Huston died, leaving two sons, the subject of this sketch and Robert T. His widow married Joseph Mills, after whose death she came to Indiana in 1908, and there lived until her death, July 3, 1915.

Mr. Huston received his collegiate training in the Ohio State University. In his young manhood he owned and conducted a job printing business. .\fter some experience in this line, he sold his interest and came to Connersville, becoming secretary and treasurer of the Connersville Buggy Company. He was a cousin of James Nelson Huston, at that time one of the foremost business men of Connersville, at whose request he sold his interests in the Connersville Buggy Company to become one of the managing officers of Mr. Huston's bank, at about the time , that Mr. Huston was treasurer of the United .States. In 1892-3, in connection with J. N. Huston, J. T. Wilkin, John B. McFarlan, S. W. and C. D. Beck, and others, he organized the Con- ncrsville Blower Cunipany. dropping out of the other J. N. Huston companies at the time. The enterprise, in its inception, was somewhat handicapped by the sudden financial embarrassment of one of the principal members, wiio promptly withdrew, leaving- the others to organize and carry forward the business. There are in the United States only two or three other concerns manufacturing rotary positive pressure blowers, and one of them had been established a great many years prior to Mr. Huston's company. Due to the character of the management, and the work done in the comparatively short period of its existence, the Connersville Blower Company has become a very great factor in the line of manufacture it follows, having now a capital stock of seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars and a substantial surplus. Its machines are recognized by engineers the world over as of the highest standard and their use is general in every grand division of the world.

many years Mr. Huston has been associated with the Fayette National Bank, for a numl^er of years as vice-president and, since the death of Preston H. Kensler, as president of that institution, the largest strictly commercial bank in the community.

Air. Huston was married, Septemlier 29, 18S7, to Lilly M. Davis, at Richmond, Indiana. To them were born the following children: Marguerite, Joseph Emery and Leland Davis, the first dying in infancy, the third when about ten years old. The second child survives and is among the prominent younger business men of the community, elsewhere mentioned in this work. Mr. Huston and his wife are active in the work of the Presbyterian church, Mr. Huston having for many years had official responsibilities therein. He is a director and officer in the United Vacuum Appliance Company, the Connersville Land and Improvement Company and the Lexington- Howard Company.

No mention of Mr. Huston's activities in this community would be complete without some reference to the qualities that have contributed to his very remarkable business success. Those who know him best appreciate him for the extreme care and caution with which he undertakes anything with which he is connected, but especially for the fact that his whole business career has been dominated by a determination to live his business and personal life in strict conformity to his best ideals. A Puritan ancestry is well represented by a business career such as that of Josejih F.mery Huston has been. His bitterest opponent would frankly admit that there never was a time when his actions were not dictated by the strongest sort of adherence to his conception of his duty - and more than once to his own personal dis- advantage. It is much to have been instrumental in the estabhshment of sucH great commercial enterprises from such small beginnings, but it is more to have built them up to solidity and importance by a policy which at all times was grounded on the highest moral and ethical principles.

Willis R. Lake

Willis R. Lake, one of Fayette county's best-known farmers, the proprietor of a fine farm in Jackson township, now living in the pleasant village of Everton, was born in Jackson township and has lived there all his life. He was born on July 5, 1861, son of Willis and Ehzabeth (Ray) Lake, members of old families in this section of the state, further mention of whom is made elsewhere in this volume.

The elder Willis Lake was born on a pioneer farm in Dearborn county, this state, across the river from Harrison, a son of 'William and Mary (Rounsavell) Lake, who came from New Jersey to Indiana in territorial days, settling in Dearborn county and coming thence up the White Water valley to Fayette county and settling in Jackson township, in the settlement then known as West Union, now know as Everton, about the year 1835. Willis Lake grew to manhood in that community and farmed in Jackson township the rest of his life, one of the most substantial and influential citizens of that community. He and his brother, Phenas 'Lake, further mention of whom is made elsewhere in this volume, worked together before their marriage and for some years afterward, and also operated a saw-mill at Everton in partnership. Willis Lake's wife, Elizabeth Ray, was born in Laurel township, over the line in Franklin county, a daughter of Lewis T. and Margaret Jane (Lee) Ray, who came to this state from Ohio and settled in Franklin county, later moving up into Fayette county and locating in the Mt. Zion neighborhood in Jackson township. Later they bought another farm in Franklin county, but late in life sold out there and moved to Delaware county. Willis Lake died at his home in Jackson township on November 10, 1903, he then being eighty-three years of age, and his widow survived him about four years, her death occurring in 1907. They were members of the United Brethren church and their children were reared in that faith. They were the parents of nine children, of whom four are still living, Lewis T., Mrs. Louisa Adams, Zachariah and Willis R.

Willis R. Lake lived with his parents until his marriage, when he began farming on his own account, establishing his home on a farm southwest of Everton, and has farmed nearly all the time since in Jackson township, but since 1907 has been making his home at Everton. He is the owner of a well-improved farm of one hundred and fifty-six acres southwest of Everton and he and his son, Claire, have ninety-one acres in another tract nearby, where they work in partnership, farming and raising and fattentening hogs for the market. Willis R. Lake is a meml)er of the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias at Everton and takes a warm interest in the affairs of that organization.

In 1881 Willis R. Lake was united in marriage to .Mma Johnston, known to her friends as "Dine," who was born in the house in which she is now living, in Everton, daughter of William and Harriet (Sjjencer) Johnston, for years prominent residents of Everton. William Johnston was born in Ohio, a son of Pennsylvania-Dutch parentage, his father a tanner. The family moved to Cincinnati, where the father died when William was a boy. The latter later went to Lebanon, Ohio, where for some time he made his home with the Shakers and where he learned the tailor trade, later coming to Lidiana and locating at Brookville, where he was living at the time of his marriage. He later moved to I'airfield and thence, about 1855. came up into Fa3-ette county and located at Everton, becoming there the owner of a general store, in partnership with Mr. Irwin, and for years was engaged in business on the site now occupied by the Dawson store. He also engaged in the merchant-tailoring business and was engaged in business until a few years before his death, which occurred on August 26, 1895, he then being seventy-five years of age. He w-as a member of the Methodist church, a Mason and an Odd Fellow and took an active part in church and lodge work. In an early day William Johnston was the owner of a tract of four acres of land, now crossed by Vine street, in the city of Cincinnati. His wife, Harriet Spencer, was born, it is believed, on a farm in the near vicinity of Oxford. Ohio, where her parents, John and Alma Spencer, had located upon coming West from New Haven, Connecticut. John Spencer was born either in England or Scotland and his wife was an orphan, who grew up at Xew Haven, Connecticut. Harriet Spencer came over into Indiana with her i)arents from Ohio, the family settling in Franklin county, where she was living when she married Mr. Johnston. To that union four children were born, James and Winifred, who died in childhood, and Charles, who was in business at Everton with his father and who died on January 13, 1889, at the age of thirty-four years, Mrs. Lake thus being now the only survivor of the family. Her mother

Mr. and Mrs. Lake have one child, a son, Claire, who is mentioned above. Claire Lake was born on the home farm near Everton on August 18, 1882, and from boyhood has been an able assistant to his father in the labors of the farm, now being in practical management of the same, farming in partnership with his father. In October, 1906, Claire Lake was united in marriage to Maude Lake, who also was born in Jackson township, a daughter of Ellis R. and Flora (Murphy) Lake, further mention of whom is made elsewhere in this volume, and is now living on the old home farm, where he was born and where he and his wife are very pleasantly situated. Claire Lake is a member of the Masonic lodge at Connersville and of the Everton lodge of the Knights of Pythias.

Jesse O. Henry

Of the native sons of Fayette county, Indiana, who have reached a marked degree of success, as farmers and stockmen, and who have won positions of honor and influence in the county, is Jesse O. Henry, of East Connersville, who was born on November 16, 1863, and is the son of Jesse S. and Elizabeth A. (Cross) Henry.

Jesse S. and Elizabeth A. Henry were also natives of Fayette county, where they received their education in the local schools and where they were reared to manhood and womanhood. Mr. Henry was born on December 25, 1836, and as a young man engaged in farming, in which work he continued for the rest of his life. He began his life's work as a poor boy and, by hard work and close application to business, he became one of the successful men of the county. He was a man of much patience and had a high regard for the rights and opinions of others. His life was a worthy one and he was held in high regard. He was a most kind husband and an affectionate father.

Jesse S. Henry took the deepest interest in all local affairs and his ability was recognized by the people of his home township. For several terms he held the important position of township trustee, during which time he administered the affairs of the office in a most capable and honest and fearless manner. He was associated with the Democratic party, yet he was not a partisan in the narrow sense of the word. While he was loyal to his party, he was ever striving for the best interests of the district in which he lived and the county in general. His entire life was lived in Harrison and

Waterloo townsliips and lie liad imich to do witli the moral and development of those communities. Elizaljeth A. Henry was a <levoted wife and mother and, by her pleasing personality and womanly traits, she won for herself many friends, who mourned her death on July 14, iHS^. S<ime time after the death of his wife, Mr. Henry niarried Mrs. lluldah J. .Montgomery, who died on March 17, 1885.

To Jesse S. and Elizabeth A. Henry were born the tollowint^ children: William L., Jes.^^e O.. kobert W., Ktiie .\l., iva, I.. C.. and .\lfred. William L. grew to manhood in the county and later engaged in the grain and elevator business at Louisville, Indiana, where he has met with success: Rol)ert W. is a general farmer and engaged in the coal business at Huber Station, Fayette county; Efifie M. is the wife of J. B. Jones, Jr., one of the wellknown and successful men of W^aterloo township; Iva is the wife of J. Lew Small, a highly respected resilient of lilwood, Indiana; L. G. married Sarah Cole, and was for many years before his death an efficient operator and train dispatcher at Broken Bow, Montana: Alfred N. married Estella Showalter, and until the time of his death was one of the successful farmers and stockmen of the county. .\t the time of his death, on March jj. 1914. Jesse S. Henry was the grandfather of twenty-one grandchildren and four great-grandchildren, and one of his greatest pleasures was in the society of his children and their children.

Jesse O. Henry received his education in the common schools of Harrison township, and grew to manhood on the home farm, where as a lad and young man he assisted his father with the many duties on the place. He remained at home until he was twenty-one years of age, at which time he was united in marriage, on May 25, 1887, to Mary M. Dungan, who was born in Waterloo township, Fayette county, and is the daughter of Bcnjann'n F. and EUzabeth (Strong) Dungan. The parents were also born in Waterloo township, the father having been born in 1836, and died on October jj;. 1916. Since the death of the husband and father, Mrs. Dimgan has lived with her daughter, Mrs. Henry. Mr. Dungan was a successful farmer and stockman and was known as one of the prominent and influential men of the county. He and Mrs. Dungan were active members of the Christian church and for many years took much interest in all church work. They were the parents of two children, ]\Iary M., and William. The latter is a well-known carpenter of Indianapolis, Indiana.

To Jesse O. and Mary M. Henry have been born four children: .\rthur Vernon, Emery Ellis, Jesse B. and .\. Irene. Arthur X'ernon was born on February 11, 1888. He received his education in the local schools, was reared on the home farm and since the year 19 13 he has been engaged in the coal business at East Connersville, the firm being known as the East Side Fuel Company. Emery Ellis, who was born on July 11, 1890, was also reared on the home farm, and is now engaged in business with his brother in the coal business at East Connersville. He is married to Flossie Enos and to them have been born two children, Beatrice E. and Janet Ruth. Jesse B. was born on July 23, 1897, and is a machinist and A. Irene was born on November 4, 1907.

Soon after their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Henry moved to a farm in Waterloo township, where they established their home, and where they remained for one year, after which they located on a farm south of Connersville, where they lived for eleven years before locating in East Connersville, where tliey have lived for the past fifteen years. Mr. Henry has a splendid farm of three hundred and. twelve acres in Waterloo township, which he operates in addition to three hundred and fifty acres thit he rents. He has served on the city council and has long been prominent in the affairs of the communitv.

Abram Lyons

In the eastern part of Fayette county in pioneer days there were few names better known tlian that of .\1iram Lj-ons, the pioneer after wliom the village of Lyonsville (formerly Lyons Station) was named, and in the second generation of that descent in tliis county there also was an Abram Lyons, son of the pioneer, who, in his day, was equally well known and held in equally high repute in this comnumity in which he was Ijorn and in whicli he spent all of his life.

The senior Abram Lyons was a X'irginian, who came to Indiana b}' way of Kentucky, with his wife, Parmelia, a native of Kentucky, and located in Fayette county in pioneer days, first settling on a farm in Waterloo township, north of Springersville. Later he bought a quarter of a section of land, where Lyonsville is now situated, and there he spent the rest of his life. On that pioneer farm he estabhshed a distillery and a store for the sale of general merchandise and as the village grew up around these initial enterprises it came to be named Lyons Station (now Lyonsville) in honor of its founder.

assistant to his father, driving a wagon from his home to Cincinnati twice a week, taking produce bought at the village store of his father to the city and returning with merchandise. When twenty-three years of age the junior Abram Lyons married and thereafter tie voted his attention to farming, continuing a farmer the rest of his life, farming a part oi the time in Jennings township, but the most of the time in Waterloo township, owner of tlie farm where his sons now live, and where he died in 1889.

In 1853 the junior A1)ram Lyons was united in marriage to Sarah Scholl, who was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in January, 1830, a daughter of John and Polly (Reed) Scholl, antl who was seven years of age when her parents moved from Pennsylvania to Indiana, bringing their household goods out in a covered wagon, liesides which the little Sarah walked almost all the way to her new home in the then "wilds" of Fayette county. John Scholl located in A\^aterloo township, on the place where Louis Scholl now lives, and there his daughter, Sarah, grew to womanhood and married Abram Lyons. To that union seven children were born, six sons and one daughter, namely: John A., born in 1854, now living on the old home farm and w^ho has always lived in the neighborhood where he was born, for eleven years following threshing and saw-mill work, though most of the time farming; Charles Jefferson, born in 1857, who died in infancy; Robert, born in i860, who died in i88g; another son, who died in infancy; Albert L., who is married and is living on the old home farm; James E., l)orn in 1867, now living in Jennings township, who married Margaret Van Blaracum and has four children, Elsie, \'irgil E.. \'ivian L. and John E., and Carrie, who died in infancy.

Albert L. Lyons was born in 1864 and has lived all his life in Waterloo township. On October i, 1899, he was united in marriage to Mary Eliza Van Blaracum, daughter of John and Sarah Van Blaracum, and a sister of the wife of his Ijrother James. Mrs. Lyons died«on May 6, 1916, when a little over thirty-five years old, leaving three children, Arthur R., InezL. and Willard A. There were two other children, Harold and Norman, who died in infancy. Mary E. Lyons was born on January 30, 188 1, in \\'ayne county, this state; her mother died when she was seven years of age and she grew to womanhood in this count}'. Mrs. Lyons was a member of the Christian church and ever active in the good work'^ of that congregation and in the auxiliary .societies attached to the church. Her life was one of simplicity and Christian characteristics, and she was ever ready to befriend those in need.

Emery Huston

Emery Huston, advertising and assistant sales manager of the Lexington-Howard Company, manufacturers of the Lexington automobiles, at Connersville, in which company he is a stockholder, was born in Connersville and has lived there all his life. He was born on January ii, 1891, son of Joseph Emery and Lilly (Davis) Huston, the former of whom was born in Ohio and the latter in Indiana, who are still living in Connersville and further and extended reference to whom is made elsewhere in this volume.

Joseph Emery Huston was born at West Alexandria, in Preble county, Ohio, son of John VanWinkle and Mary (Davis) Huston, the former of whom was a general trader and merchant at that place. John V. Huston died at West Alexandria, leaving two sons, Joseph E. and Robert T., and his widow married Joseph Mills, after whose death she came to Lidiana, in 1908, and spent the rest of her life in Connersville, where her death occurred on July 3, 191 5, she then being past seventy years of age. Joseph E. Huston was reared in the Ohio village in which he was born and there became engaged in the job-]M-inting business. He presently sold his print shop and took a course in the Ohio State University, after which he came to Indiana and became connected with the J. N. Huston private bank at Connersville, as assistant cashier of the same: later becoming connected with the Connersville Buggy Company, which latter connection he retained until 1893, when he and several others organized the Connersville Blower Company and became engaged in the manufacture of rotary and positive-pressure blowers, one of the three such manufacturing concerns in the United States. The Connersville Blower Company manufactures blowing machines for the acceleration of the pressure in gas mains and for similar use in irrigation mains and is also engaged in the manufacture of pneumatic tubes. Joseph E. Huston and wife are members of the Presbyterian church. Three children have been born to them, the subject of this sketch having had a sister, Marguerite, who died in infanc}', and a brother, Leland Davis, who died at the age of nine years.

Following his graduation from the Connersville high school in 1909, Emery Huston entered Wabash College at Crawfordsville, Indiana, and was graduated from that institution in 1913. In that same fall he became connected with the Lexington-Howard Company at Connersville, as advertising and assistant sales manager, and has ever since occupied that position. This company manufactures the well-known Lexington automobile and Mr.

Hnston is one of ih in the Conners\ille attention to the co pohtical views Mr, Huston is "independent" and skives liis tiiouglitful attention to local civic affairs, bnt has not been a i)arlicularly active participant in political matters.

On Xo\eniher iS, ii)[4. lunery Huston was united in marriaijc to Xellie Ansted. who was born at Indianapolis. January lo. iSyi. daughter of Edward Willard and Catherine (Pnirk) .\nste(l. who later became residents of Connersville, where Edward W. .\nsted has lonj,^ taken a leading- position in the cotrimercial and industrial life of the city. Mrs. Huston is a member of the Catholic church. .Mr. Huston is a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity, in the afifairs of which he took an active interest during his college days and in which he still retains the liveliest interest. He and his wife have a very pleasant home at Connersville and take a pro])cr interest in the general social activities of the city, helpful factors in the promotion of their home town's best interests.

Fraxklix M. Worsham

The late Franklin M. Worsham. for years one of Fairview township's most substantial farmers, was a native son of Fayette county and lived here all his life. He was born on a pioneer farm on the banks of the NVhite Water, two miles south of Connersville, April 9. 1829, son of Jeremiah and Nancy ( Fullin ) Worsham. who were among the earliest settlers of this county.

Jeremiah Worsham, a Virginian, came up here from Brookville in 181 1 and became a permanent resident of Fayette county, useful and iiiHuential in the early days of the settlement around Connersville. He was born in Washington county. Virginia, in 1786, and in 181 1 came over into Indiana Territory, stopping for awhile at the settlement at Brookville and coming on up into Fayette county in that same year, entering land and settling on the banks of White Water, two miles south of the Connersville settlement. Not long after coming here he married Nancy Fullin. who was born in Tennessee in 1795 and who had come to Indiana with her parents in 181 1. the family locating in Fayette county. To that union were Ijorn thirteen children, William W., Elizabeth, Ruth. Malinda, Samuel, Robert, lohn ].. George (71)

W., Franklin M., Jeremiah. Charles W., Joseph T. and Sarah. Jeremiah VVorsham, the pioneer, remained on the farm on which he first settled for about ten years, at the end of which time he moved to another farm he had purchased over west of Connersville and on that latter place spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring on October 20, 1861. His wife had preceded him to the grave more than two years, her death occurring on July 16, 1859. Jeremiah Worsham was a good farmer and an excellent business man and at the time of his death was the owner of more than five hundred acres of land in this county. He was one of the most active pioneers in the western part of the county and did much for the early development of that section. Jeremiah Worsham is accredited with the arrest of the first man ever hung in Rush county, Swanson, who was tried and convicted of the crime of murder. Following the murder of his victim, Swanson got away and the hue and cry went out over this part of the country. Mr. Worsham found the fugitive sleeping in a clearing on his farm with his rifle over his arm. Standing over the sleeping murderer, with a handspike raised for action, Mr. Worsham woke the fugitive, with the remark, "Swanson, I've got to take you.'' Swanson replied, "^^''ell, you've got me," and he accompanied his captor without resistance, being taken to Rushville, where his trial, conviction and execution shortly followed.