Fayette County, Indiana - Biographical sketches, 1917 (part 15 of 16)

Franklin M. Worsham grew up on the paternal farm west of Connersville and was thus thoroughly familiar with pioneer conditions in this section of the state. After his marriage, in the spring of 1856, he startea farming on his own account on a farm of one hundred and twenty acres he had bought in section 25 of Fairview township and there established his home. He later bought additional land there, becoming the owner of one hundred and eighty-three acres, the original parchment deed for a part of which, granted to William H. Russell in 1821 and signed by President Monroe, is still in the possession of the family, which continues to retain the home farm since the death of Mr. Worsham. Franklin M. Worsham was a Democrat and ever gave a good citizen's attention to local civic affairs, although he never was included in the office-seeking class.

On March 13, 1856, in the adjoining county of Rush, Franklin M. Worsham was united in marriage to Mary S. Newbold, who was born in this county on March 5, 1835, on a pioneer farm on the Rushville pike, about three miles west of Connersville, a daughter of Robert H. and Jemima (Messersmith) Newbold, early settlers in that part of Fayette county. Robert H. Newbold was born in Delaware, a son of Robert Newbold, who came here with his family in pioneer days. The senior Robert Newbold was the son oi another Kulicrt Xewljold and his nicilhcr is said to have iieen a tlaughter uf Caesar Rodney, of Delaware, one of the signers of the Dechiration of Independence. After the survey of the highway l^tween Connersville and Rushville, Robert H. Newbold took the contract for clearing the first three miles of that road west of Connersville and faithfully fulfilled his contract, clearing off the timber and building the mad, and after the cunipictiun of the same acted for some tmie as stage dri\er hctwecn Ciinners\ille and Kuslivilie, later for some time cn,i;ageil in frei.t;lilin;;- iK'tween Cunnersvilk' and Cincinnati.

To Franklin ]\I. and Mary S. (Xewboldj W'orsham nine children were born, namely: Armilda, wife of J. B. Wiles, of Fairview township; Samantha A., who died on January 21, 1917: John T., who died on October 28, 1902; Robert F., who continues to make his h(3me on the old home farm and assist his brother Alva in the management of the same; Martha M., who also remains on the home farm; Albert H. S., who, on November 28, 1894, married Laura Jonas and is now living in Chicago; Alva P. B., who is continuing to operate the home farm in Fairview township; William M., who is a druggist, and Daisy E., who, on November 8, 191 1, married Rowland Murray and now lives at Indianapolis. Franklin M. Worsham died at his home in Fairview township on April 2, 1897, and his widow survived him for nearly twenty years, her death occurring on January 15, 191 7. She was not a member of any church, Init always held to the Baptist faith. The W'orsham brothers are Democrats and ha\e e\er given their interested attention to local civic afifairs.

Willard Robixsox

Willard Robinson, one of Harrison township's well-known and substantial farmers and trustee of that township, was born in that t(j\vnship and has lived there all his life. He was born on December jt,. 1872, smi of Erastus and Frances (Smith) Robinson, both natives of Indiana, the former bom in this county and the latter in the neighboring county of Rush, and the latter of whom is still living at her home in Harrison township, the place where her husband was born and where he spent all his life.

Erastus Robinson was born on a pioneer farm in Harrison townshi]), this county, April 8, 1841, son of Lewis and Mehitable (Ellis) Robinson, natives of New York state and pioneers of this county, where their last days were spent. Lewis Robinson was born on June 10, 1791, near Trumans- burg, between Seneca Lake and Cayuga Lake, in New York, and there grew to manhood. On May 20, 1821, he married Mehitable Ellis, who was born in that same neighborhood on November 21, 1800, and in 1823 came West to what then were regarded as the "wilds" of Indiana and settled in Favette county, where he established his home. Upon coming to this part of the country, Lewis Robinson came by flatboat down the Susquehanna and Ohio rivers to North Bend, Ohio, where for a time he worked for Gen. ' /illiam Henry Harrison, afterward governor of Indiana and President of the United States, presently coming on up into Indiana and locating on a homestead farm in the vicinity of the Yankeetown school in Harrison township, this county, where he spent the rest of his life, his death occurring in May, 1844. His widow survived him a little more than thirty years, her death occurring on July 14, 1874. Lewis Robinson was a shoemaker and a farmer. He and his wife were earnest members of the Baptist church, he having been for years a deacon in the church, and their children were reared in that faith. There were seven of these children, of whom Erastus Robinson was the lastborn, the others being as follows: Mary, who married Lorenzo Carver; Elias, who was born on April 9, 1825, and who died in Madison county, this state; Rachel M., who married Daniel T. Taylor; Minerva, who married Jonathan Ward: Martilla, wlio married Lemuel Leffingwell, and Eunice, who married Hiram Hiltibidle.

Reared on the home farm in Harrison township, Erastus Robinson spent all his life there. He was not yet three years of age when his father died and after the other children had grown up and moved away he remained on the farm with his mother and later came into possession of the farm, where he continued his farming operations until his death. He was a man of high character and of much native ability and served as administrator or executor of a number of estates lying in the locality of his home. In 1863 Erastus Robinson married Frances E. Smith, who was born at Raleigh, in Rush county, this state. May 30, 1840, a daughter of Eli and Minerva (McCann) Smith, the former a native of Kentucky and the latter of this state. Eli Smith was but a child when his parents, John and Margaret (Groves) Smith came from Kentucky to Indiana, locating in the Fairview neighborhood in this county, and tliere he grew to manhood. He married Minerva McCann, who was born and reared at Raleigh, over in Rush county, a daughter of William and Minerva ( Monger) McCann, and made his home at Raleigh until the death of his wife in 1843, when he moved to Little Rock, Arkansas, where he lived until the California gold craze broke out in 1849. He joined a party headed for the gold fields of California and never again was heard from by his family. His ilau.i;lit(.T. h'ranco. <;rc\v iij) in grandparents at Little Ruck and in iS()0 came ha^ kinsfolk. Here she met l'>astns Udl.inscm and ret in 1863, as noted above. Mr. Kol.inscin died at his Imme in I larri-^Mii township in March. 1906. He was a member of the l!ai)tist ehnreh. as is bis widow, and their children were reared in that faith. Tiiere were six ni these children, <?f whom the subject of this sketch was the fourth in (irder nl birth, the others being as follow: Eli, who died in 1S98, leaving a widow ami two children, who live near the old Robinson homestead; I'Jiima E., who married Herbert Taylor and lives in that same neighborhood; Lessie Belle, who died when twenty-two months of age; Lewis, of Connersville, and Donovan S.. who is farming near the old homestead place, and owns part of the old place.

W'illard Robinson grew to manlKJod nu the old home place, where his father spent all his life, and received his schooling in the public schools in that neighborhood. From boyhood he was a valued assistant in the labors of improving and developing the home farm and remained there imtil his marriage in 1894, when he bought the old Hawkins Hackleman homestead fiirm of one hundred and thirty acres in the northwest (|uarter of section 14 of Harrison township, just west of ("onnersx ille, and there made his Imnie for six years, at the end of which time, in the sjjring of 1903, he sold the jilace and bought the farm just west of the Hackleman place, a very well-iniprcived place of sixty-eight acres, where he since has made his home and where he and his wife are quite pleasantly situated. Mr. Robinson is a Republican and from the days of his boyhfwd has taken an active interest in party affairs, giving close attention to local politics. In the fall of 1914 he w-as elected trustee of Harrison township and is now serving the public in that important capacity. He and his wife are members of the Christian church and take a pr< per interest in the various beneficences of the same, as well as in the general social activities of the community in which they live, helpful in pmn.oting all agencies designed to advance the common welt'are.

On December 25, 1894, W'illard Robinson was united in marriage to Adelia Hackleman, who was born on the old Hackleman homesteail, now the ThieLaud farm, alx)ve referred to, a dau.ghter of Hawkins and Sallie (Wolfe) Hackleman, members of old families in this county, the former of whom died on October 10. 1894, and the latter. July 12. 1904. The Hacklemans of Fayette county are descended frum .Michael Hackleman, who was born in Germany about 1720 and who cmignited to .\merica when seventeen vears of age. being bound li. a Maryland or I'ennsvlvania farmer for three years to pay his passage. He finally cleared twenty-si.x acres of timber land and thus squared his account. In the spring of 1751 Michael Hacklemaji married Mary .Sailors and settled on a farm overlooking the Susquehanna river, near the line separating Pennsylvania from Maryland. He died in the Abbeville district of South Carolina in 1808, leaving five children, one of whom, Jacob Hackleman, on September 20, 1773, married Mary Osborne, who was born in Maryland, a daughter of Thomas Osborne. Soon after his marriage Jacob Hackleman moved to Lincoln county. North Carolina, where he was living during the Revolutionary War period. He ser\-ed as a soltlier of the patriot army during tliat war until he was so badly wounded in the arm that he could no longer serve and he then hired John Grant to ser\e the remainder of his term of enlistment. In 1784 Jacob Hackleman moved with his family to the Abbeville district of South Carolina, where he remained about twenty years, at the end of which time, in 1804, he moved to Boone county, Kentucky, settling on the river opposite North Bend, Ohio. Two or three years later he came over into Indiana Territory and settled on the White Water, three miles above Harrison, where he remained five years, at the end of which time he came on up into Fayette count) and located in the foutlieast rjuarter of section 1 1 in Harrison township, where he remained until 1821, when he moved to Rush count}', where he died on January 16, 1829.

Jacob Hackleman had a large family, among his sons being Isaac Hackleman, born on March 26, 1780, who, July 2, 1801, married "Elizabeth Hawkins, who was born on May 22, 1783. Immediately after his marriage Isaac Hackleman and his wife came out to Indiana Territory and located in Dearborn county, about two and one-half miles from Harrison, and it was there that Hawkins Hackleman was born on January 6, 1810. Five years later,*in 18 15. Isaac Hackleman and his family moved on up the White \\'ater valley and located on a farm in Harri«on townsbii), this county, near the present village of Harrisliurg, thus b.aving been rmong the very earliest settlers in that part of Fayette county, and it was there that Hawkins Hackleman grew to manhood. There Isaac Hackleman and his wife spent the rest of their lives, the latter dying on July 3, 1835, and the former surviving until December 10, 1844. Hawkins Hackleman early took an active part in local afifairs in the pioneer neighborhood in which he was reared. His first schooling was obtained in a primitive log school house that had oiled pajier instead of glass for window panes, and he recalled the time when the present important city of Conncrsville con-irted of a block hou.=e and a small cluster of log cabins in the woods. Durino- his vouno- manhood, as was customary in those davs, h: attended tlie "imister>" three times a year aiul he belonged to llie "Mat l-'<»it Company." I'nmi the lime he was se\enteen years of age he usually made four or tive trips to Cincinnati eaeh tall, driving hogs, receiving for such service Iwenty-tive cents a day. Ifuring the summer of i8jS, he then being eighteen years of age. he worked two months at making shoes, at a wage of si.K dollars a month. On December 29, 1^31, Hawkins Hackleman married Sallie A. Wolfe, who was born near (ieorgetown, in Scott county, Kentucky, November 14. 1814, a daughter of David Wolfe and wife, who came U]) into Indiana in 1824 and'settled in tiiis county. Tnassistcd, Hawkins Hackleman made his own wedding shoes and his bride made her own weilding dress, a frock of white. Their wedding was cnnducted in true ])ii)neer f;rshi<in, with the subse(|uent "infare." to which tliey mde horseback. In 1S32 Hawkins Hackleman engaged in mercantile business in Rush county, but presently abandoned that business and returned to Fayette county, w^here, from 1837 to the time of his death, he made his home in the southeastern jiart of Harrison township, a substantial and influential citizen of that coninniniiy. his influence ever being exerted in behalf of public improvement and all good agencies.

]\Irs. Robinson taught school aliout eight years before her marriage and she and her husband are members of the Labyrinth Club; she is also a memlier of the Sesame Club and a charter and associate member of the Review Club.

I'red W. l"i>hcr. one of Connersville's Ijest-known and most progressive merchants and the proprietor of an up-to-date and well-stocked grocery store on Summit a\enue in that cit\ and another grocery store in the village of Harrisburg, is a native of the old Buckeye .state, but has been a resident of this state since the days of his young manhood and of hayette county since 1901. He was born in the city of Hamilton, Ohio, .\ugust i"/, 1867. son of John and Mary (Young) Fisher, natives of the kingdom of Bavaria, who had come to this country with their respective parents during the days of their infancv, both families locating at Hamilton. Ohio, where they grew up and were married and where they s])ent the remainder of their lives. John Fisher was a shoemaker.

Reared at Hamilton. I'red W. I'isher received iiis schooling in the schools of that city and thcve learned the trade of niolder. When eighteen years of age, in 1885, he came to Indiana and located at Richmond, where he began working at his trade and there a few years later was married. He continued working as a molder at Richmond until 1901, when he moved to Connersville, where he began working in the factory of the P. H. & F. M. Roots Company and was thus engaged for four years, at the end of which time, in 1905, he moved to Harrisburg and there engaged in the grocery business. In October, 19 13, Mr. Fisher bought a grocery store at 310 Summit avenue, in the city of Connersville, and has since conducted the same, as well as his store at Harrisburg, and has been quite successful in business. Upon taking over the store at Connersville Mr. Fisher moved to that city with his family and has since made that place his home, he and his family being very pleasantly situated.

In 1887, at Richmond, Fred W. Msher was united in marriage to Mary Mason, who was born and reared in that city, a daughter of John and Gertrude (Heinzleman) Mason, the former a native of Scotland and the latter of Germany. John Mason was engaged in the bakery business at Richmond, as was his father before him, and there he spent his last days. His widow later made her home with Mr. and Mrs. Fisher and spent her last days at their home in Harrisburg. To Fred W. and Mary (Mason) Fisher seven children have been born, namely: Theodore, who died at the age of two years and six months, and Carl, Ralph, Reginald, Roland, Gertrude and Mary. Carl Fisher married Hazel Berkheiser and lives at 310 Summit avenue, Connersville. Fred W. Fisher is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and takes a warm interest in the afifairs of that popular organization. He is an energetic business man and gives his earnest attention to all movements designed to advance the general material welfare of his home citv.

Omer Doniker

Omer Doniker, one of Posey township's well-known and substantial farmers and the proprietor of a tine farm where he now lives, two miles south of Bentonville, besides other land in the county, was bom in Posey township and has li\ed there all his life. He was born on October 4, 1869, son of Martin and Levona (Shipley) Doniker, both of whom spent their last days in Posey township.

expiraticin of liis term of military service, he came to tliis country and located at Cincinnati, where he found work at his trade as :\ tailor, later coming up into Indiana and locatinj^- at Connersxille. There he worked as a tailor until iiis marriage, after which he moved onto the Templeton Beeson farm, two and one-half miles west of Bentonville, where he farmed until after the death of his wife a])out ^Sy;^, he being left with three small children, whom he was compelled to place in the hands of kind neighbors for rearing. After the death of his wile Mr. Doniker remained on the Beeson farm, in the employ of Mr. Beeson, and w'as thus engaged until after his children had grown up and established homes for themselves, when he began making his home alternately with the children and thus spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring at the home of his son, Omer, the subject of this sketch, on January i6, 1902. His wife, who was born Levona Shipley, daughter of Adam Shipley, was born on a farm in the northwestern part of Posey township, this county, and was twice married, by her first husband, S. \V. Hendricks, having had two children, namely : Mrs. Phoebe \'are, widow of Ora \'are, who is now making her home with her daughter, Mrs. Bright, at Indianapolis, and San ford Hendricks, who lives in Berrien county, Michigan. By her marriage to Mr. Doniker she was the mother of three children, those besides the subject of this sketch being Jennie, who married Benjamin Copeland and now li\es on a farm four miles north of Connersville, and Anna, who married .\l<inzo Wallace and after his death married his cousin. Linville Wallace, and li\es at Milton, over the line in Wayne county.

Omer Doniker was but four _\ears of age when his mother died and he was taken in charge by Mrs. Hester bdorea, who lived in the southwestern part of Posey township and who died when he w'as seven or eight years of age. Two of her sons, Thomas and .Albert Florea, remained on the farm and Omer Doniker remained with them and continued making his home on that farm, later working fi r Dr. J. M. Patterson, whose wife, a niece of Mr. I'lorea, became the owner of the ])lace and thus continued luitil he was nineteen years of age, when he began "working out" for others, .\fter his marriage in 1892 Air. Doniker began farming for himself on the old Leven Ferguson farm in the southeastern part of Posey townshij). now the I'>ank Florea farm. .\ \car later he moved to the Carver farm that had belonged to his wife's father and lived there until \()Oj. when he moved to the farm on which he is now residing, two miles south of Bentonville, and there has made his home ever since. In addition to the well-im])roved farm of ninety acres on which he makes his home Mr. Doniker als(j is the owner of f)ne liundred and forty acres of the old Carxer farm and is doing very well in his farming operations. In his political faith he is a Republican and takes a proper interest in the general ci\ic affairs of the community, but has not been a seeker after public office.

Mr. Doniker has been twice married. On February 24, 1892, he was tmited in marriage to Myrtle E. Caldwell, who was born on a farm in section 30 of Posey township, a daughter of Enoch and Sarah Jane (Scott) Caldwell, the former of whom was born on a pioneer farm in the northwestern part of Harrison township, a son of Joseph and Salena (Ferguson) Caldwell, pioneers of that community and further and fitting reference to whom is made elsewhere in this volume. Enoch Caldwell grew up on the old Caldwell farm where Scott Caldwell now lives, and after his marriage bought the farm now owned by Cleve Caldwell in the northwestern part of Harrison township. From that place he moved to what is now known as the Carver farm on the southern edge of Posey township^ a place of one hundred and forty-six acres, where his daughters. Myrtle and Sylvia, were born. From that place he moved to the Train Caldwell farm, two miles south of Benton- \ille, this giving him the ownership of three farms. In 1880 he moved back to his first farm and he and his brothers, Horace and Alexander, and their father there conducted a dairy farm. Enoch Caldwell there spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring there in March, 1885. His widow survived him just ten years, her death also occurring on that farm. In his earlier manhood Enoch Caldwell was one of the best-known school teachers in Fayette coitnty. He later served as a justice of the peace in and for his home township and as assessor of the same and in many ways did well his part in behalf of the community in which he spent all his life. He and his wife were the parents of five children and the family were earnest members of the Christian church. These children were Cora. Sylvia. Myrtle, Alice and Scott. Cora Caldwell, now deceased, was the wife of L. K. Tingley. Alice Caldwell is the wife of Fred M. Hackleman. Scott Caldwell lives on the old home farm. Myrtle Caldwell, first wife of Omer Doniker. died on December 18, 1905, and on September 17, 1907, her widowed sister, Sylvia, married Mr. Doniker. By his first marriage Mr. Doniker is the father of three children, Russell Harold. Lester E. and Ruth Levona, all of whom are at home. Mr. Doniker and his family belong to the Christian church and he is a member of Eodge No. 84 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

Mrs. Sylvia Doniker was first married on September 16, 1896, to W^ellington Beeson, who was born near Beeson's Station, over the line in Wayne county, a son of Mark and Ellen ( Harvey) Beeson, both of whom were born in that same neigliburlKKHl. 'I'lie llceson family, (Hic ..f tlie olik-st in tliis part of the state, tinds furtlier and littiiii^' mentidii elsewliere in tlii> vohniie, the family havin.t;- been ])r(>niinently representeil in this cmnmunitv since pioneer days. Wellint^tim I'leescin -rew up on the old lieesdn home place and lived there until his marriage tn Sylvia ("aldwell, after which he moved to a farm one mile south of the present home of the Donikers and there he spent the rest of liis life, his death occurring there on Xovcmljer 5, 1899. He left a widow and two daughters, Eva and [""ern. His widow and daughters continued living on that farm until her marriage to Mr. Doniker. .She still owns the farm of one hundred and seventy-five acres. Tiie Donikers have a very pleasant hi me and fke an intcresteil part in the general soci.al activities of their heme community, helpful in all gddd causes.

Gabriel Ginn Powell, one of the best-known and most sulistantial farmers of Eayette count\- and the pro[)rietor of a line farm of two hundred and forty acres, the old Powell homestead in the northeast corner of I'airview tow^nship, rural mail route No. 15 out of Rentonville, was born on that farm and has lived there all his life. He was born on August 13, 1848, a son of Isiac and Mary \'iola (Ginn) I'owell, the former a native of Kentucky and the latter of this county, whose last days were spent on the farm on which their son, the subject of this sketch, is now living.

Isaac Powell was binii in Xichohis c<iunt\-, Kentucky, in 1810, and was about fifteen years of age when his parents Zeiias and Charity ( P.aker) Powell came up into Indiana with their famil_\- in 1825 and settled in this countv, where their last days were spent. Zenas Powell was a well-to-do farmer of the Carlisle neighliorhood in Kentucky, Init when the settlement up here in this part of Indiana began to expand so promisingly in the early twenties he determined to put in his lot with that of the settlers here and in 1825 he and his wife and all of their children save their eldest son, Nathan, came here seeking a permanent location. Zenas Powell entered the southeast (|uartcr of section 34 in IIarri>(jn township, a little more than a mile northeast of Harrisburg, and there established his home in the then wilderness. Xot long afterward his wife, Charity, died and- he married again and for a time thereafter lived at Milton, but presently moved to a farm two miles west of his old home and there he spent bis last days, hi.s death occurring on April 2-j. 1857. His son, Zenas Powell, Jr., bought the interests of the others heirs in the place and there he farmed the rest of his life. Zenas Powell, Jr., was born near Carlisle, Kentucky, October 12, 1805, and was twenty years of age when he came to this county with his parents. Here he married Lydia Caldwell, who was born on the farm now owned by Scott C''.ldwell, northwest of Harrisburg, the southwest quarter of section 34, adjoining the old Powell home, a daughter of Joseph and Miriam (Chadwick) Caldwell, the former of whom, a native of Maryland, was one of the earliest settlers in this county, having been one of the occupants of the old blockhouse back in the days when the Indians were troublesome. Miriam Chadwick was born in North Carolina and also was among the early arrivals in Fayette county, her parents having come here in pioneer days. Zenas Powell, Jr., died on September 17. 1883, and his widow survived him until January 23, 1899. They were the parents of nine children, namely: Pewis F., long since deceased; Mary Jane, who married Horace H. Elwell and is now deceased; Emmaline, who married I. Zeller and is now deceased; Charity, also deceased, who was the second wife of L Zeller; Eliza, who died when two years of age ; Malinda, who died unmarried ; James, who died in childhood; Margaret, who is still living on the old home farm, and Sarah Catherine, wife of L. L. Broadus. of Connersville.

When twenty years of age, about five years after his arrival in this county, Isaac Powell married Elizabeth Dale, who was born on a pioneer farm one mile west and one mile north of Harrisburg, a daughter of Alexander Dale and wife, pioneers of Fayette county, who later moved to Wabash county, and to that union seven children were born, namely: Stjuire, who went to Philadelphia and married there, but came home with consumption and here died ; Harriet, who married Hugh A. Dickey and now lives in Grant county, this state ; Enos, who moved to Wabash county and died in the city of Wabash; Nancy, who married James Ross, of Wabash county, and died there; Alfred, who died in childhood; William Joseph, and another who died in infancy. The mother of these children died in 1846 and in 1847 Isaac Powell married Mary \^iola Ginn, who was born in 1821 on a pioneer farm in the Nulltown neighborhood in Columbia township, this county, a daughter of Gabriel and Hannah (Wood) Ginn, early settlers in <,hat community, who liafl come up here from Kentucky. Hannah Wood was born near Havre de Grace, Maryland, and was but four years of age when her parents moved to Kentucky, where she grew to womanhood and where she married Gabriel Ginn, later coming up into Indiana and settling in this county. About 1836 Gabriel Ginn moved from the Nulltown settlel\^l-.lll-. C()l.\l\, INDIANA. 'I33 ment to Connersville and (.'.stalilislicd liis hnrnv at llic iioinl now occupied by The Big Four freight depot and was living there during eanal davs. His wife taught school for some time in their home there, (iahriel ( iinn look an active part in public atiairs in those days and for seven years served as clerk of the court.

To Isaac and iNlary \'iola (Ginn) Powell were horn hve children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the hrst-horn, the others being Thomas Jefferson, Mary Elizabeth, Samuel K. and Sarah Desdemona, all of whom are living save the two last named. Thomas Jefferson Powell is a wellknown farmer of this county, who lives on the Dan Lewis farm, a mile east of Fairview. Mary Elizabeth Powell married George Looney and is now living at Rushville. Sarah D. Powell married John Matthews, of Arlington, and died about two years ago. In 1880 Samuel K. Powell married Ida Murph}- and began farming in the north edge of Fairview township. He was killed in an accident on Christmas night in 1891, and left a widow and three children, Mary Estella, Donald G. and Homer. Mary Estella Powell married Oliver Manlove, a farmer in Posey township, and has two children, Elsie Louise and Robert G. Donald G. Powell lives on the farm just west of the old Powell homestead in the north edge of Fairview township. He married Meta Chance and has two children, Lowell C. and Helen Lorene. Homer Powell, who married Ruby Dickey, is farming the old Powell farm and lives in a separate house on that farm. For eight years or more during the days of his young manhood, Samuel K. Powell was a school teacher, teaching in the schools at Fairview and at Falmouth and the P>aker school at "Yankeetown." He was an active Republican, was interested in the Patriotic Order of the Sons of America and in the local lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and was a member of the Christian church, as is his widow, who is now living on the old Isaac Powell farm, keeping house for her brother-in-law. the subject of this sketch. She was horn at Hamilton, Ohio, in i860, daughter of Cornelius and Katherine (Mason) Murphy, both of whom also were born in that cit)-. and who came to this county when their daughter, Ida, was about four years of age and settled in the Bentonville neighborhood. There Cornelius Murphy died in 1879. His widow is now living in Cincinnati.

Isaac Powell became one of the most sulistantial farmers in the wesicrn part of the county and had a wide acquaintance throughout the county, this acquaintance being enlarged by his years of activity as an auctioneer and particularly as a crier at live-stock sales, he thus coming to know nearly everybody in the county. For some time he served as cnunty assessor and in other ways contributed to the public service. After his marriage in 1830 he and his wife started keeping house in a cabin on his father's farm, but shortly afterward bought the farm in the northeastern corner of Fairview township, where he spent the remainder of his life and where his son, the subject of this sketch is now living. Very little, if any, of that land was cleared at the time he bought it and he had a difficult task in clearing the place and bringing it under cultivation. One field near the house he cleared while the timber was still green and the fertility of that particular field was permanently impaired thereby.

Gabriel G. Powell has always lived on the farm where he was born and is a lifelong farmer. For years he has given close attention to the raising of high-grade horses and hogs, and has a fine lot of draft horses and purebred Duroc-Jersey hogs. He is the owner of two hundred and forty acres of excellent land and is accounted one of the most substantial farmers in that part of the county. Like his father, Mr. Powell is genial and hospitable in his demeanor and is widely known throughout the county. Though he has never married he is not wanting in natural affection, for he remained with his parents in their old age and ever since the death of his brother, Samuel K. Powell, has been like a father to the latter's children.

Burl Eddy

Burl Eddy, a former well-known business man of Gonnersville, now living on a well-improved farm that he owns on the western edge of Golumbia township, this county, was born in that township on April 14, 1867, and has lived in this county all his life. He is a son of George Willis and Louisa (Cox) Eddy, both now deceased, the former of whom also was a native of Fayette county and the latter of the neighboring county of Franklin.

George Willis Eddv, former trustee of Columbia township, was born on a pioneer farm in that township, in 1828, a son of Jonathan and Jane (Hall) Eddy, early settlers in that community. Jonathan Eddy was born in Massachusetts about the year 1798 and in the days of his young manhood, about 1819, came to Indiana with the Perrin family and others and bought land in Columbia township, this county, where he spent the most of the remainder of his life. He was a quite well-to-do farmer for that period and in addition to his home farm in this county was the owner of a farm in Marion county, occupying the present site of Irvington, the eastern annex to the city of Indianapolis. He and his wife were the parents of three children, James, ]\Irs. Nancy Jane Allen and George Willis.

Reared on tlie homesteail farm in Columbia township. George W. luUly grew up familiar with the trials and hardships of pioneer living and in turn became a farmer on his own account, spending his entire life as a farmer in his home township. He was an excellent farmer and an active, representative citizen of the community in which he li\ed. for some years serving most acceptably as trustee of his home township. He died on April 10, 1904, and his widow survived him for more than twelve years, her death occurring on July 23, 1916. She was born, Louisa Cox, on a farm in the neighborhood of Andersonville, in Franklin county, this state, a daughter of Joseph and Anna (Paisley) Cox, natives of Virginia, who had lived in both Kentucky and Ohio before coming to this state and who moved from here to Illinois, where their last days were spent. George W. Eddy and his wife were the parents of five children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the second in order of birth, the others being as follow: Ellsworth, who lives on a farm near Columbia; William, who died on September i, 1873, at the age of nineteen years; Anna, who married Timothy Carroll, after whose death she married George McCombs, of Connersville, and died at her home in that city on I\lay 5, 191 1, and Viola, who married James Carroll and died in 1886.

Burl Eddv was reared on the home farm in Columbia township, receiving his schooling in the local schools, and early learned the tinner's trade at Connersville, where he presently established a tin-shop of his own and for years did a general business in tinning, roofing and in installing furnaces, following his trade in that city for about twenty-five years, at the end of which time, in June, 1913. he retired from business in the city and moved back to the old Eddy homestead in Columbia township. Two years later he bought his present farm of one hundred and fourteen acres on the west edge of that same township and has since made his home there, engaged in general farming, in which he has been quite successful.

On March 30, 1898, Burl Eddy was united in marriage to Margaret Leona Stevens, who also was born in Columbia township, this county, a daughter of William J. and Ellen (Stephen) Stevens, the latter of wdiom died more than sixteen years ago and the former of whom is now making his home with his daughter, Mrs. Eddy. William J. Stevens was born at I^aurel, in the neighboring county of Franklin, August 6, 1853, a son of Abner and Elizabeth (Hires) Stevens, the former of whom was born in this county and the latter in the state of Pennsylvania. Abner Stevens was born and reared in Harrison township, this county, a son of Charles and Letitia (Thorp) Stevens, early settlers in that part of P'ayette county. Charles Stevens was bDrn ill \'irginia and when a child moved with his parents to Kentucky, where he was reared. As a young- man he came up into Indiana, locating in Harrison township, this county, about two miles north of Connersville, in 1820. While living there he married Letitia Thorp, a member of one of the first families to settle in Fayette county, and after his marriage took up a tract of "Congress land" in the southwestern part of Columbia township, where he lived until his retirement in old age, his last days being spent with his daughter, Mrs. Cotton. Abner Stevens was but a child when his parents moved from Harrison township to Columbia township and on the home farm in the litter township he grew to manhood. After his marriage he located at Laurel, in the neighboring county of Franklin and there made his home until after three of his children were born, when he returned to this county and located on his old home farm in Columhia township, where his wife died in 1900. She was born, Elizabeth Hires, in Pennsylvania, and was but a child when her parents, John and Sarah Hires, came to Indiana and located at Laurel, where her father was for years engaged in the grocery business. After the death of his wife Abner Stevens retired from the farm and thereafter made his home with his children, his death occurring at Connersville in 1908. He and his wife were members of the United Brethren church and their children were reared in that faith. There were six of these children, five sons and one daughter. Mary Ellen, the only daughter, died at the age of seven years. The five sons, Charles, William J., Alonzo, Curtis and I'^ranklin, all lived to maturity.

William J. Stevens remained on the home farm until his marriage in 1875 to Ellen Stephen, daughter of Levi and Elizabeth (Walker) Stephen, and then jjegan farming on his own account and has remained a life-long farmer. His wife died on November 30, 1900, and since then he has been making his home with Mr. and Mrs. Eddy. To him and his wife four children were liorn, those besides Mrs. Eddy, the first-born, being Clara, wife of Harry Smith, superintendent of the county infirmary; Clifford G., a farmer in the southwestern part of Columbia township, who married Nora Revalee and has four children, Ethel, Marie, Evan and Frances, and Benjamin, a furnace setter, living at Indianapolis, who married Sarah Spears and has one child, a daughter. Fern. Mr. and Mrs. Eddy have two children, sons both, George William and Theodore Chime. Mr. Eddy is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of the Knights of Pythias and takes an active interest in the affairs of both of these organizations.

Henry P. Doenges. of Connersville. one of the most liit,'hly skilled patternmakers in this part of the country, was hern at Lawrenceburg, Indiana, August II, i860, son of Simon and Amelia ( Kring) Doenges. and is a brother of Simon Doenges, postmaster of Connersville, whose biographical sketch presented elsewhere in this volume gives a full account of the Doenges family in this part of the country.

Until he was sixteen years of age Henry P. Doenges continued to live at Lawrenceburg, where he received his schooling and where he learned the rudiments of the cabinet-maker's trade. He then for some time lived with his mother's folks in various places in the West and also for a time at Indianapolis, most of the time while thus moving about continuing his employmentas a cabinet-maker. In 1882, he then being past twenty-one years of age, he located at Connersville and went to work for the Connersville Furniture Company and was thus engaged for the greater part of the time dufing the next five or six years. He then for a time was engaged at his trade in Wheeling and Parkersburg, West Virginia, and about 1888 returned to Connersville, where he went to work in the blower factory of the P. II. & F. M. Roots Company as a pattern-maker, a branch of craftsmanship which he had acquired in addition to his knowledge of cabinet-making and general wood-working. Ever since then Mr. Doenges has been engaged as a patternmaker and has done very well. He is an artist in his line of craftsmanship and his services are in constant demand, now making patterns for both the automobile factories at Connersville, as well as for some of the other local factories. He takes a just pride in his labors and gives his most studious attention to the plans entrusted to him.

In 1884, two years after locating at Connersville, Henry P. Doenges was united in marriage to Barbara Gauck, who was born near the village of Morris, in Ripley county, this state, a daughter of Fred and Lena (Hildebrand) Gauck, the former a native of New Jersey and the latter of Indiana. Fred Gauck was but a child when he accompanied his parents from New Jersey to this state, the family settling in Ripley county. His father and mother spent their last days at Oldenburg, in Franklin county. Fred Gauck married Lena Hildebrand, who was liorn in Ripley county, this state, daughter of John and Barbara (Schontz) Hildebrand. natives of Germany. John Hildebrand upon coming to this country first settled in Cincimiati, but later came on up into Indiana and settled in Ripley county, where he tx)ught a (7^)

Mr. and Mrs. Doenges have three children-, Flora, Martha and Ahlma. Mrs. Doenges is a member. of the Catholic church and takes an earnest interest in parish affairs. Mr. Doenges is a member of the local tribe of the Improved Order of Red Men and takes an active interest in the afifairs of the same.

George D. Messersmitfi

George D. Messersmith, one of Columbia township's well-known and substantial farmers and proprietor of a well-improved farm of one hundred and eighty acres a short distance northwest of Nulltown, where he and his family are very comfortably situated, was born in that township and has lived there all his life. He was born on a pioneer farm in that township, September 11, 1857, son of Peter and Elizabeth (Ward) Messersmith, wellknown residents of that community, both now deceased.

Peter Messersmith also was born in Columbia township and lived there all his life. He was born in 1834, a son of Peter and Mary (Grosslow) Messersmith, who were born and married in Germany and who had one child born to them in the old country, later coming to the United States and proceeding on out to Indiana, locating in this county and becoming early settlers in Columbia township, where they spent the remainder of their lives, industrious farming people. The junior Peter Messersmith was born after his parents came to this county and farmed all his life on the old homestead in Columbia township, where he was born and where he died in 1867. His wife, Elizabeth Ward, was born in Preble county. Ohio, in 1831, and was but a girl when her parents, William and Mary (Smith) Ward came over into Indiana and located on a farm just northwest of Nulltown. in this county, where they remained the rest of their lives. William Ward and his wife were born in Rockingham county, Virginia, and were there married, later moving to Ohio and after a sometime residence in Preble county moved to Cleves, in that same state, whence, in the spring of 1837, they came on up the valley of the Whitewater and settled on a farm near Nulltown, in Columbia township, this county, where William Ward died in the following October, leaving his wife and four small children. The Widow Ward kept her children together and by the exercise of courage and industry maintained her little familv until the children were of a self-supporting age, among her labors having been the keeping of a hotel for Ixtarding the laborers on the canal when the canal was being dug through that part of the country. She lived to a good old age. her death occurring in 1894. l':iiz:ibcth Ward early evinced an unusual interest in her studies at school and up.m completing her schooling in the local schools became a school teacher and was thus engaged for some years before her marriage to Peter Messersmith. To that union five children were born, of whom the subject of this sketch was the second in order of birth, the others being as follow: Ida May, who died when four years of age; Franklin, who has been dead a number of years; Marietta Geneva, who is li\ing on the old home farm, and George, who is also living on the old home place and farming the .same.

George D. Messersmith was ten years of age when his father died and he grew up on the home farm near Xulltown, from boyhood an able assistant to his widowed mother in the labors of maintaining the home place. .After his marriage he and his wife established their home on the old Ward homestead in Columbia township and have ever since made that a place of residence. Mr. Messersmith is farming one hundred and eighty acres and is doing very well, in addition to his general farming, giving considerable attention to the raising of high-grade live stock, with particular reference to Poland China hogs, raising registered stock. Pie is a member of the local lodges of the Knights of Pythias and of the improved order of Red Men and in the affairs of these organizations takes a warm interest.

In 1901 George D. Messersmith was united in marriage to Stella Holmes, who was born in Fairview township, this county, a daughter of John P. and Ellen ( Reese ) Holmes, both natives of Indiana, the former born in I'Vanklin countv and the latter in this county. John P. Holmes was born on a farm near the village of Andersonville in 1843. a son of William and Elizabeth (Hogue) Holmes, the former a native of Kentucky and the latter of \'irginia parentage, who had lived in the Andersonville neighborhood for some years before their son. John P.. was born. When the latter was a boy in his teens thev moved to Illinois, where both died about two years later. John P. Holmes then returned to Indiana and l<icated in the neighborhood of Glenwood, where, in 1867, he married Ellen Reese, who was born in this county, in the vicinity of Glenwood. daughter of Lorenzo and Rachel Ann (Moffett) Reese, the former a native of Ohio and the latter of Pennsylvania. Lorenzo Reese was born in 18 18 and was but a child when his parents, John and Nancy (Barrett) Reese, came over into Indiana from Ohio and settled in the neighborhood of Longwood, in this county. There Lorenzo Reese grew to manhood and there he married Rachel Ann Moffett, who was born in Lan- caster county, Pennsylvania, and who was but two years of age when her parents, Thomas and Salome Moffett, came to Indiana and settled in the neighborhood of Longwood, in this county. After his marriage Lorenzo Reese located on a farm near Glenwood, where he died in 1846. His widow married Lorenzo Springer and lived in that same neighborhood to old age. After his marriage John P. Holmes established his home on a farm in the Glenwood neighborhood and farmed there until in November, 1888, when he retired from the farm and moved to Connersville, where he spent his last days, his death occurring in 1891. Since his death his widow has spent much of her time in the homes of her children. Stella Holmes was about seventeen years of age when her parents left the farm and moved to Connersville and she was living there at the time of her marriage to Mr. Messersmith. To that union one child has been born, a son, Forrest, born in 1905. Mr. and Mrs. Messersmith are members of the Methodist church and take a proper interest in the various beneficences of the same, as well as in the general good works and social activities of the community in which they live, helpful in advancing all movements designed to advance the common welfare.

Joseph A. Moore

Joseph A. Moore, one of Jackson township's well-known and substantial farmers and who also for years was engaged as a carpenter and builder at Everton, now living on the farm on which he was born in Jackson township, was born on September 24, 1869, son of Daniel W. and Caroline (Beckett) Moore, both of whom were born in the Everton neighborhood in this county and there spent all their lives, influential residents of the community in which they lived.

Daniel W. Moore was born in Jackson township, this county, January 23, 1840; a son of Anderson and Isabel (Gordon) Moore, both of whom were born in this state, the- former in Fayette county and the latter in the neighboring county of Franklin, and who spent all their Hves hereabout. Anderson Moore was born on November 20, 1816, a member of one of the first families that settled in Fayette county, and he grew up in this county. He married Isabel Gordon, who' was born in Franklin county on March 9, 1820, and who died on November 9, 1859, and their family was reared in this county. On March 14, 1863, Daniel W. Moore was united in marriage to Caroline Ross, who was born in 1839 and who died in 1865. On Sep- tember 20, 1866, he married, secondly, Caroline Beckett, who was born on December 7, 1844, on a farm two miles east of Everton, a danghter of Azariah T. and Emily (Ross) Beckett, further mention of whom is made in a biographical sketch of their son, Azariah T. Beckett, Jr.. presented elsewhere in this volume. Daniel W. Moore established his home on a farm in section 22 of Jackson township, the place now occupied by his eldest son, the subject of this sketch, and there spent the rest of his life, becoming the owner of a fine farm of three hundred and thirty-two acres. He took an active part in local civic afifairs and was twice elected trustee of Jackson township, the first time in 1878. He also held other offices of public trust and gave his earnest attention to the public service. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity and a member of the Fayette County Protection Society, and he and his wife were members of the Methodist church. His wife died aljout eighteen years ago and he survived until May i, 1916. They were the parents of five children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the second in order of birth, the others being as follow: Nora B., who married W. H. Snider and is now deceased; Emma, wife of Dr. A. P. Helvie, of Connersville; Lafayette, a farmer of Jackson township and present trustee of that township, a biographical sketch of whom is presented elsewhere in this volume, and Alice, who married Roy Jerman and lives on a farm near Biilingsville, in the neighboring county of Union.

Joseph A. Moore was reared on the farm on which he was born and where he is now living and there he lived until his marriage at the age of twenty-four years, when he began farming on his own account on another farm in Jackson township, where he remained nine years, at the end of which time he moved to Hamilton, Ohio, where for some time he was engaged working at the carpenter trade. He then returned to this county and located at Everton, where he engaged in business as a carpenter and builder and was thus engaged, making Everton his home, until August 19, 1916. when he returned to the old home farm where he was lx)rn and where he is now living, he and his family being very comfortably situated. Though giving his chief attention to his general farming operations. Mr. Moore, who is one of the best-known carpenters and builders in that part of the county, continues his operations as a builder and accepts contracts for building generally throughout that section.

On February i. 1894, Joseph A. Moore was united in marriage to Catherine Hornung, who was born at Everton, a daughter of Andrew and Caroline (Raber) Hornung, both of whom were natives of Germany, l)orn at

Hanau, Prussia, and who came to America with their respective parents about 185 1, the two famjhes locating at Cincinnati. Carohne Raber was born in 1836 and was about fifteen years of age when she came with her father to this country, her mother having died in the old country, At Cincinnati, on February 25, iSsg, she married Andrew Hornung, who came up into Indiana the next year and located at Everton, in this county, where he made his home for some years and then moved to Connersville, where he spent the rest of his life, his death occurring there on January 3, 1889. His widow survived him for more than eighteen years, her death occurring on July 10, 1907. Although reared a Catholic, she was a faithful member of the Methodist church and ever saw that her children attended the services of the church. There were eight of these children, two of whom died in infancy and all of the others of whom are still living save Peter, the eldest son, who died in 1913, Mrs. Moore, who is the youngest of the family, having three brothers, George, Andrew and Frank William, and a sister, ]\Irs. ^Margaret Veach, living.

To Joseph A. and Anna Catherine (Hornung) Moore eight children have been born, one son and seven daughters. The only son, Edwin L., died when three years of age. The daughters are all living, as follow ; Caroline, who married Paul Kidd and lives near Everton; Lura May, who is living at Connersville : Ethel, who is teaching a school, and Mary Catherine, Nora Isabel, Freda Marine and Neva Eavonne, who are at home with their parents. The Moores have a very pleasant home and take a proper part in the general social activities of the community in which they live. Mr. Moore is a member of the local lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and takes a warm interest in the affairs of that organization.

Richard A. S. McMullen, one of Fayette county's best-known and most substantial retired farmers and landowners, proprietor of a fine farm in Waterloo township, now living in the nearby city of Richmond, is a native son of Fayette county and has lived here, actively engaged in farming, until his recent retirement and removal to Richmond, where he built a modern house on south Nineteenth street, where he now resides. He was born on May 10, 1845, in ^n old stone house which is still standing, on the farm which he now owns and on which he made his home until his recent retirement and retnov.'il to Ixicliniond, a son (if Hcnrv Kendall and Ann (Cave) McMullen, early settlers in that part nf this county, who spent their last days in Richmond, this state.

Henry Kendall McMullen was horn near Stannardville, X'irjjinia, October lo, 1808, a son of James and Rdy (Kendall) McMullen, the former of whom was born in October, 1771, and the latter, February 25. 1775. He grew up in Virginia and there married l'"dizabeth Taylor, by whom were born four children, two of whom died in \irginia and two of whom came to Indiana, grew up in this county and here feared families. It was about the year 1836 that Henry K. McMullen came, to Indiana with his family from Virginia, settling in Wayne county, where his wife died.* On April ig, 1838, he mafried Ann (Cave) McMullen, widow of his deceased brother, William McMullen. She was born in Orange county, Virginia. March 19, 1807, daughter of Abner and Ann Cave. In 1839 Henry K. McMullen mo\ed over into Fayette county and settled on a farm in the northeastern part of Waterloo township, the place where the subject of this sketch was born, and there he remained, an active and prosperous farmer, until 1887, when he moved to Richmond, where he spent the rest of his life. his death occurring about two years later, in August, 1889. His widow survived him for more than twelve years, her death occurring in February, 1902. Henry K. McMullen ever took an active part in local public affairs and held various local positions of trust, in the performance of the duties of which he ever had the best interest of the public at heart. He was progressive in his principles, voted for Fremont because of his detestation of the institution of slaverv and in his later years warmly espoused the cause of the Prohibition party. He and his wife w-ere earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal church and he for years was a leader in the local church of that denomination.

Richard A. S. McMullen grew to manhood on the farm in the southwestern part of Waterloo township, where he w^as born, and after his marriage in the fall of 1887. his father retiring from the farm about that time, established his home there and remained there until early in 191 7, when he moved to Richmond, where he had built a comfortable home and where he now resides. Mr. McMullen is an able farmer and during his many years of residence on the farm came to be recognized as one of the most substantial citizens of that part of the county. He is the owner of about five hundred and seventy acres of e.xcellent land and in his farming operations has done very vvcll. His land is well improved and unincumbered and his farm plant is fully up to the standards of modern methods of agriculture.

On November 26, 1887, Richard A. S. McMullen was united in. rnarriage to Sarah Gertrude Wood, who was born in the neighboring county of Union, a daughter of Alexander and A'TeHnda (Lower) Wood, well-known residents of that county, and to that union five children were born, namely: Henry A, Fiske, who died in February, 1889, at the age of five months; Harriet Ann, who married Walter G. Knollenberg, of Richmond, and has one child, a daughter, Gertrude Agnes ; Frances Melinda, twin sister of Harriet, who married Hollis Ward Hanson, of Connersville ; Dorothy Alexandria, who is at home with her father, and Mary Alice, who is at school at Glendale. The mother of these children died on June 23, 1916. She was a lifelong member of the Methodist Episcopal church, in the faith of which church Mr. McMullen also was born and reared, and was for years one of the leaders in the work of the congregation to which she was attached, so that in her death she was greatly missed in the community in which she had so long been an active influence for good.

Dr. A. P. Helvie, well-known veterinary surgeon at Connersville, was bom at Muncie, this state, February i, 1872, a .son of S. H. and Jennie Helvie, who later settled in Fayette county. S. H. Helvie was born in Delaware county and after his marriage made his home in Muncie until 1881, when he came to this county and located on a farm in Jennings township, remaining a farmer here until his death.

Having been but about nine years of age when he came with his parents to this county, A. P. Helvie completed his common-school education in the schools of Connersville. He then attended the Central Normal School at Danville for a couple of terms, at the end of which time he returned to the home farm in this county and remained there until his marriage in 1892 to Emelia Moore, after which he engaged in farming on his own account and farmed for five years. He long had been a close student of live stock and the ailments of the same and finally concluded to turn his attention to veterinary surgery as a profession, and with that end in view then entered the Indiana Veterinary College at Indianapolis, from which he was graduated in 1900, with the degree of Doctor of Veterinary Surgery. Thus qualified for the practice of his profession. Doctor Helvie opened an office at Connersville and has since been engaged in practice there. Doctor Helvie keeps closely abreast of the ailvaiices \mui^ iiKulc in liis Inuiiaiie protession and is a member of the Indiana State \'eterin:iry Association and of tlie I'ayette County \'eterinary Association, in tlie deliberations of which bodies he takes an active interest.

Doctor Helvie is a Republican and has ever taken a ,t;()od citizen's interest in local political affairs, but has not been a seeker after office. Fraternally, he is affiliated with the local lodges of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and with the Knights of Pythias and in the affairs of these jx^pnlar organizations takes a wanu interest.

Dr. C. W. Cooper, one of Connersville's well-kudun physicians, is a nitive Hoosier and has lived in this state all his life. He was born on a farm in Hendricks county, this state, September i, 1S74, a son of the Rev. Shelby Cooper, for manv years one of the best -known ministers of the Methodist Episcopal church in Indiana, having had charges in varii>us parts ni the ttate during his long and successful ministry.

Completing his common schooling in the high schocil at Cartersl)urg. B. W. Cooper entered the Central Normal School at Danville and after a comprehensive course there entered the Medical College of the University of Kentucky at Louisville, from which institution he was graduated, four years later, in 1907, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Upon receiving his diploma Doctor Cooper opened an office for the practice of his profession at Muncie, this state, and after a short time thus engaged there located at .Straughn, where he practiced for about seven years, at the end of which time he moved to Connersville, where he opened an office and where he ever since has been engaged in practice. Doctor Cooper keeps fully abreast of the advances being made in modern medicine and is a member of the Indiana State Medical Association and of the American Medical Association, in the deliberations of which bodies he takes a warm interest. The Doctor is a Mason and a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles and of the Knights of Pythias and in the alTairs of these several organizations takes an active interest. In his political views he affiliates with the Republican i)arty.

The Tate family is one of the oldest in Fayette county, having been represented here since the year 1812, four years before the admission of Indiana to statehood, and for many years the late James Hankins Tate, referred to here as the first, because his son, of that same name, is still living in this county, was one of the best-known and most influential farmers of Connersville township. He was born in this county and had been a witness to the development of the sanie since pioneer days, taking his part in that development, and had served the public in various capacities in a most acceptable manner.

The family of the Tates really had representation out here in the \-alley of the Whitewater previous to 1812, for in that year, when William A. H. Tate, then a boy of sixteen, came out here from Virginia, making the trip alone on horseback, he had an uncle here, a Mr. Reagan, who had settled some time before at a point about two miles south of where the important city of Connersville now is Iccated, the Reagan place having been just west of where the caml later was put through. When young William A. H. Tale arrived here he liked the looks of things so well that he straightway returned to his Virginia home and induced his father. Major John Tate, to dispose of his interests in \"irginia and with the other members of the family move out to the new country in the Indiana territory, and thus the family was estabHshed here in Fayette county.

Major John Tate, the pioneer, hacl his title by right of his service in the Virginia militia and was a fairly well-to-do person in his native state. He married a Poston, member of a family -that had its origin in England, the first representative of that family in this country having settled in Maryland, the family later becoming established in \"irginia and representatives of the same becoming later pioneers in Indiana, notable among these latter having been "Sandy" Poston, a unique and well-known figure in the pioneer life of this part of the state. "Sandy" Poston was a brother of Major Tate's wife and he came out here early and settled among the Indians, becoming presently widely known as a horse trader and a man of huge capacity for the joyful things of life. Major Tate drove over from X'irginia to the new Indiana country with his wife and their younger children, bringing their belongings in a wagon, and bought land in the southern part of Connersville township. Not long afterward he sold that tract and moved to the little hamlet that had grown up around John Conner's saw-mill, now the city of Connersville, and of the peace in and for Coiinersville townshi]). hein,n' widely known over the county as Squire Tate. He married Loui.sa Cunningham, who was horn a short distance east of Connersville, daughter of the Reverend Cunningham, a pioneer minister of the Baptist church, who had come out here from the Carolinas. In a Ing cabin about four miles southwest of Connersville. William .\. H. Tate and wife began hoiisek-eeping and in that lug cabin. July 20. 1830. James Hankins Tate, the subject ni this meninrial sketch was burn.

James Hankins Tate grew to manhood mi the hniiie farm in Connersville township, fully accpiainted with the methods and iiKuiners uf pioneer living. When hut nine years of age he was entrusted with the responsible task of carrving the mail from Connersville on a route including T^aurel. Dublin and Bentonville, and for twenty years or more continued carrying the mail on that and an extended route, braving the storms of winter and the blazing heat of the summer. For about sixteen years he also served as assessor of Connersville township and in other w:iys gave of his time and his energies to the public service. He became prosix^rous in his farming operations and gradually enlarged his land holdings until he became the owner of four hundred and eighty acres of choice land in his home township and was long accounted one of the most substantial farmers in that neighborhood. He and his wife were members of the Christian church and were long accounted among the leaders in good works in their ncighlxirhood. For the last five or six years of his life. James H. Tate was an invalid, requiring his faithful wife's almost constant care. He died on October C\ iqi6. and his widow survives, continuing to ni;ike her home on the old home f;u-ni in Connersville township.

On December 23, 1858, James H. Tate was united in marriage to Louisa Halstead, who was born in Columbia township, this county, on a farm about a mile north of Columbia, Decemlier 3. 1840, daughter of Hickson and Eliza (Jones) Halstead, the latter of whom was born in this county, member of a pioneer familv. Hickson Halstead was born on a farm that is now covered hv a section of the great city of Xew York, a son of Thomas Hajstead. and when a young man came to Indiana, locating at Metamora, in Franklin county, and later coming over into Fayette county, where he married Delilah Martin, who lived in the northwest part of Connersville township, but was not related to the Martins now living there. After his marriage Hickson Halstead located on a farm in the south part of Connersville township, where his first wife died. He then married Eliza Jones, who was born on a pioneer farm in section 6 of Connersville township, daughter of William Jones, who had come out here from Virginia in the days when the Indians still held possession here and had later bought from the government a tract of land on which he established his home and reared his family. After his second marriage Hickson Halstead made his home on the Jones farm and there he spent the rest of his life and it was there that his daughter, Louisa, married James H. Tate, although much of her youth had been spent in the home of an aunt in Orange township.

To James FI. and I^ouisa (Halstead) Tate eleven children were born, two of whom died in infancy and one of whom, Eugene Preston, died when eleven years of age. The surviving members of this family are as follow: John E., a farmer, living on the northwest quarter of section 5 of Connersville township; Emery Edinburgh, who lives in Orange township; Minnie, wife of Levi Ballard, of Lidianapolis ; William H., who lives on Grandfather Halstead's old home farm in Columbia township; Curtis L., who lives on a farm on the Rushville pike, four miles west of Connersville ; James Hankins (second), who lives on a farm southwest of Connersville, in the east part of section 32; Orlia Francis, who lives in Montana, and Grover C, who lives in Connersville. The Tate family are a hospitable people and are held in high respect in the several communities in which they live, helpful in promoting all movements ha^-ing to do with the advancement of the coiiimon welfare.

John L. Doenges

John L. Doenges, secretary-treasurer and general manager of the Connersville Ice Company at Connersville and long regarded as one of the substantial and public-spirited business men of that city, was born at Lawrenceburg, Indiana, luit has been a resident of Connersville since the year i88j. He was born on Feliruarv 21, 1863, son of Simon and .\melia (Kring)

Doenges. natives of (leriiianv. who st-ttlcd at Lawrencchiirg. tliis state, upon coming; to this country and there reared their family, Simon Doenges being engaged there as a stationary engineer. Simon Doenges and wife were the parents of nine children, seven of whom are .still living, those the subject of this sketch i)eing as follow: Simon Doenges, postmaster of Connersville, a biographical sketch of whom is presented elsewhere in this volume; Minnie, wife of Charles Richter, of Indianapolis: Henry, of Cincinnati; Louisea, wife of Henry Cramsey, of Indianapolis; Fred, of Connersville and Anna, wife of I'Ved Sholtz, of Indianapolis.

After completing his boyhood schooling at Lawrencclnirg, John L. Doenges Iiegan working as a farm hand and was thus engaged for some time, presently taking up the trade of stationary engineer, later taking up the trade of cabinet-making, which he followed for about twenty-five years. It was in 1882 that he moved to Connersville and there found employment in the plant of the Connersville Furniture Com])any and was engaged with that concern for many years, presently becoming a stockholder in the concern. He also became interested as a stockholder in the Connersville Ice Company, of which his Jirother, Simon Doenges. now postmaster of Connersville. was the president and general manager, and was made secretary and treasurer of the same. When his brother left the active management of the company tiT enter upon his duties as postmaster, Mr. Doenges assumed the general management of the affairs of the Connersville Ice Company and is now occupying that position. Mr. Doenges is a Democrat and has ever taken an active part in local political affairs, but has not been a seeker after public office.

On April 21. 1883, John L. Doenges was united in marriage to Mary Reifel, who was Ijorn in Ri])ley county, this state, daughter of Philip Reifel and wife, natives of Germany and botii now deceased, who were the parents of eight children, those besides Mrs. Doenges being George, Martin, Philip, Minnie. Kate, Lou and Anna. To Mr. and Mrs. Doenges two sons have been born, Ernest and Edward. Mr. and Mrs. Doenges are members of the German Presbyterian church at Connersville and for about twenty years Mr. Doenges was a member of the board of trustees of the same. He is a member of Warren Lodge No. 15, Free and Accepted Masons, and of Guttenberg Lodge Xo. 31C), Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and in the affairs of these organizations takes a warm interest.

James Monroe Hamilton

James Monroe Hamilton, proprietor of an excellent farm in Waterloo township, this collnt3^ where he makes his home, was born in that township and has lived there practically all his life, save for a short period during which he lived just over the line in Union county. He was born in 1859 on a pioneer farm in Waterloo township, in the same house in which his father was born, a son of Charles Henry and Rachel (Strong) Hamilton, both natives of that same township, members of pioneer families and for years prominent and influential residents of that community.

Charles Henry Hamitlon was bom on a pioneer farm in Waterloo township in 1834, in the same house, as noted above, in which his eldest son, the subject of this sketch, was born, a son of Capt. James Scott and Eliza (Courtney) Hamilton, who were among the early settlers in that part of Fayette county. Capt. James Scott Hamilton came out to Indiana from Virginia, where he had served during the War of 18 12 as captain of a company stationed at Norfolk. He was born on the ocean while his parents were en route from Ireland to this country and was reared in Maryland, in which state his father died. His mother, Mrs. Jane (Scott) Hamilton, later, in 1833, came to Indiana and settled in section 3 of Waterloo township, this county, where she spent her last days. Capt. James S. Hamilton previously, in Virginia, had married Eliza Courtney, who was born in Ireland and who was but ten years of age when her parents came to this country, locating in the Old Dominion, and he and his family also came to Fayette county, settling in Waterloo township, where he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives, honored and useful pioneers of that community. Captain Hamilton was a man of ability and was a successful farmer, gradually accumulating quite a bit of property in his new home out here in the "wilds'" of Indiana. He and his wife were earnest members of the Methodist church and took an active part in the general social life of the settlement during the formative period of this now well-established and prosperous farming community. She died in 1872 and he survived her for six years, his death occurring in 1878. They were the parents of eleven children and a numerous progeny, in the present generation, trace to that sterling pioneer pair.

Reared on the pioneer farm on which he was born and where his parents settled in 1833, Charles H. Hamilton grew up to the life of the farm and upon reaching manhood began farming there on his own account. In 1859 he married Rachel Strong, who was torn on a farm in the southeastern part of that same township, the place where William Maze now lives, a daughter of Richard ami Susanna (Gaby) Strong, both members of pioneer families in this county and further mention of whom is made elsewhere in this volume. Richard Strong was born in \'irginia on June 9. 1802. and was but ten or twelve years of age when his parents came out to Indiana and settled in this county in 1813 or 1814. Here he grew to manhood and married Susanna Gaby, who was born in Pennsylvania, of Pennsylvania-Dutiii sink. >n\ June <j, 1802, and who was but a girl when she came to this county witii iiur parents in pioneer limes, .\tter iiis marriage Riciiard Strong settled on tlic farm wiiere William Maze now lives, in the southeastern part of Waterloo township, and there he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives, the latter living to be past eighty years of age, her death occurring on November 9, 1883. They were the parents of thirteen children. Charles H. Hamilton remained a farmer all his life and was the owner of a well-improved and profitably operated farm. For some \ears he served as assessor of his home township and in other ways contributed his share of time and energy to the public service. He died on, April 4, 1901, and his wife died on Decemljer 21,' 1885. They were the parents of ten children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the t'lrst-born, the others being as follow: .\nna Belle, who died on January 28, 1878; Mrs. Laura Helen BuUard, of Indianapolis; Charles Henson Hamilton, who died on December 11, 1915; John William Hamilton, who died on November 7, 1896; Mrs. Maude Riggs, of Connersville; Oliver Lafayette Hamilton, who died on October 4, 1870: Mrs. Rebecca Jane Garrett, of Wayne county, this state; Mrs. Catherine Funk, of Waterloo township, and Robert Washington Hamilton, who died on June 16, 1S76.

James M. Hamilton was reared on the paternal farm in Waterloo township, receiving his schooling in the schools of that neighborhood, and has lived in that township all his life with the exception of short periods, a part of the time living over the line in Union county. He married in 1880 and in 1889 bought the farm on which he is now living, in Waterloo township, and has ever since made his home there, he and his family being very comfortablv situated. He has a farm of one hundred and forty acres and his place is well kejot and well imi)rove<l, his farm plant being ujo-to-date and operated in accordance with modern methods of agriculture.

.As noted above, it was in 1880 that James M. Hamilton was united in marriage to Sarah Elizabeth White, who was born on the old White homestead in the southwestern part of Waterloo township, this county, a daughter of John and Catherine (Miller) White, the former of whom also was born on that farm, a son of Daniel and Elizabeth ( Royd) White, the former of whom also was born on that farm, a son of Joseph White and wife, who were among the very earliest settlers in that part of Fayette county, the Whites, in their respective generations being successful farmers and substantial citizens. John White, who died in September, 1904, was twice married. His first wife, who was Jane Dugan, died, leaving two children, Emma L. and Daniel O., and in 1862 he married Catherine Miller; who was born in Pennsylvania and who came to this county about 1853, she then being about sixteen vears of age, with her parents, Isaac and Sarah (Myers) Miller, the family settling in Waterloo township. To that second union three children were born, Mrs. Hamilton having two brothers, Emmet Theodore and Isaac Omar White. Mrs. Catherine White died in 191 1.

To James M. and Sarah Elizabeth (White) Hamilton six children have been born, namely: Rozzie Belle, who married David Funk, now living on the old White farm where her maternal ancestors were born, and has four children, Edna Isabel, J. D. Willard. Eugene Wendell and Henry Ellis; Claude Austin, now living in Wayne county, who married Edith Schroy and has three children, Irvin L., Herbert J. and Ruth; Otto Arlington, who married Ruth Baker and is now living at Springersville; Ethel W., who married Albert Crawford and is now living in Union county; Alta L., who is at home with her parents and Florence, also at home. Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton are members of the Christian church and their children were reared in that faith. The Hamiltons have a very pleasant home and have ever taken a proper part in the general social activities of the community in which they live, helpful in promoting all movements having to do with the advancement of the common welfare thereabout. Mr. Hamilton is a member of the local lodge of the Improved Order of Red Men and takes a warm interest in the affairs of that organization. Politically, he is a Democrat and has ever taken a o-ood citizen's interest in local political affairs.

Charles R. Wieliams

The traditions of the Williams ancestry cross the ocean to Cromwellian times in Wales, whence, after the restoration of the Stuarts to the English throne in 1668, four brothers of the Williams name sought religious freedom in America. Three of these brothers, who were persecuted in Massachusetts colony, accepted the scant toleration of a forest obscurity back from Long Island Sound.

Thomas who was the father of Timothy, who was tlie father of Jonas, tlie Hoosier pioneer of the Williams family. Matthew lived to he one hmuired and three, Thomas one hundred and two. and Timothy nearly one hundred years okl. Like their ancestor, Thomas. Timothy and jon;is were H.'iptist ministers.

Jonas was horn Deeeniher _'6. 1751. and in li<iyhood was ca])tured hy the Indians, who hound his ankles >o ti,>;lnl\- with thon.t^s that his feet froze while his captors slept. I'-ecause of lameness he became a currier in .\'ew York City, and then a miller, and to hll in the waiting,' hours wiien <>rindin,s,'. a shoemaker. He married k'leanor Ward of New \nrk City, lie removed to the W'yominor \'alley and there operated one of the largest mills in the valley. In 1778 their propert\- was destroyed and they escaped from the Indians in the terrible massacre, .\fter their ruin at Wyoming, the family went to Orange county, Xew ^'ork. and later to Cayuga county, where he built and ran a mill, where is now the town of Geno;i.

-About 1812 Jonas W'illiams came to huliana. where he was the first settler on, and gave his name to, the principal branch of the ^\'hite \\'ater river. His son, Charles, was horn in Cayuga county, Xew York, November -3' 1793' ^"d Ijecame the first pioneer farmer in what is now Fairview township, developing a fine farm about eight miles northwest of Connersville. He was also an excellent carpenter, the first contracting carpenter in his neighborhood and in that capacity erected most of the houses and barns built in that part of the county in an early day. He was an energetic and enterprising citizen and prospered in his aft'airs. He served in the W'ar of. 1812 and had some thrilling experiences at that time. He was twice married. His first wife, who was a Smith, was the mother of five children. His second wife, Lydia Jobe, who was born in Pennsylvania on .April 16. 1800. survived him many years, her death occurring on January 30, 1899, she then being nearly ninety-nine years of age. She was an earnest and consistent member of the Methodist church and was the mother of seven children, four sons and three daughters. Charles Williams died at his home in Fairview township in 1868, honored and respected Ijy all.

Charles R. \\'illiams was the eldest of the four sons of Charles and L\dia (Jobe) Williams. He was reared on the home farm in Fairview township, receiving his elementary education in the schools of that neighl)orhood and supplementing the same by a course in old .Asbury ("now DeFauw) Universitv. At the age of eighteen he began teaching school, teaching during the winters and farming during the summers, and was thus engaged in

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Fajette and Madison counties for eighteen years, beginning his teaching service at a wage of eighteen dollars a month and closing the same at a wage of seventy-five dollars a month, this latter being during the Civil War period. He concluded his long teaching service in 1869. In 1864 he was three times drafted for service in the Union army. Following the first two drafts, he furnished substitutes, but on the third draft went to the front as a member of Company C, One Hundred and Thirtieth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and with that command served for five months, being mustered out in August, 1865. For eight years Charles R. Williams farmed in Harrison township, this county, and in Madison county. In 1868 he was elected surveyor of Fayette county, a position which he held very acceptably for a period of twenty years. In October, 1874, he was elected auditor of Fayette county and was re-elected in 1878. Upon the completion of his service as auditor he for some time served as deputy auditor and was thus for many years one of the most familiar figures about the court house and one of the best known men in the county. In 1875, upon assuming the duties of county auditor, he moved to Connersville, which ever thereafter was his home.

On August 3, 1851, Charles R. WilHams was united in marriage to Caroline Ellis, who was born in Harrison township, this county, November II, 1833. She was the daughter of Lewis and Samantha (Thomas) ElHs, earnest and influential pioneers of that community. Richard Ellis, the early pioneer, was an officer in the commissary department of the Colonial service in New England and New York and was among the first settlers in Massachusetts. His son, Reuben Ellis, was an ensign in the Colonial service in 1 754-1 757, and his ,?on, Benjamin, was a Revolutionary soldier of distinction. To Benjamin was born Moses Ellis, who lived in Cayuga county, New York, until 1 818, when he moved to the vicinity of North Bend, Ohio, where for eight years he lived on the farm of Gen. William Henry Harrison. From North Bend, in 1826, they came on up the White Water valley and settled in Harrison township, this county. He was the first postmaster established at Plum Orchard in 1827, the year after his location in that neighborhood, and he in numerous ways contributed of his energy to the public welfare thereabout. He and his wife were earnest members of the Christian church and were tireless in church work. Betsy Judd Ellis died in 1841 and Moses Ellis in 1848.

Lewis Ellis was about fifteen years of age when he came with his parents to Fayette county. He grew to manhood on the pioneer farm in Harrison township. On December 30, 1832, he married Samantha P. Thomas, daughter of Elder Minor Thomas, of this county, a pioneer preacher throughout this part of the state, a jjower tor ,c;oocl herealxnit in pioneer days and further and fitting mention of wliom is made elsewhere in tliis work. Lewis ElHs became a substantial farmer in Harrison township and a man of much influence there. He and his wife were members of the Baptist church and were long among the leaders in good works in the northern part of the county. Caroline Ellis Williams, their daughter, was the eldest of sixteen children. It was said of her at her death that slie liad mothered forty-five children, including eleven children of her own, eight grandijhildren and twelve greatgrandchildren and six of practical adoption into their family. Her life was truly a life of service to others. In their later years both Charles R. \\'illiams and his wife were cheerful, helpful Christian workers. They were lioth members of the First Baptist church of Connersville and prominent in official capacities.

In politics, "Uncle Charlie." as he was known throughout the county, was a Republican - a progressive Republican. In 1884 he engaged in general contracting with special reference to, bridge work and street and sidewalk paving, later associating his sons with him in that business and was thus engaged until his retirement from business in 1906, after which time the contracting business was continued by his sons, Charles, Roy L. and Frank T.. who have carried out large engagements in that line, not only in this state, but in Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Tennessee, Missouri and Louisiana.

It was this firm that in 1887 tore down the old bridge at East Connersville, pictured elsewhere in this work and built the foundations for the present bridge, the elder \\'illianis and his sons, Roy and Charles, being shown in that picture.

Charles R., like his ancestors, was a soldier and belonged to the local post of the Grand Army of the Republic. He died on Xoveml)er 5, 1908, and his widow survived him but little more than two months, her death occurring on January 9, 1909.

The children born to Charles R. Williams and Caroline (Ellis) Williams were Frank T., Rose Ellen, Alice, Olive and Minor, who died of diphtheria in childhood and are buried in the same grave ; Laura, who died in her young womanhood: Lida. Harriet, Roy L., Bert and Charles, Jr.

Frank T., the eldest son, was born in 1852. He was reared a farmer, but in May, 1876, he bought a store in Harrison township and was there engaged in the mercantile business until he became connected with his brother, Roy L., in the paving contracting in 1884, and has ever since been thus engaged. On June 4, 1878. he married Morcnce M. Williams (of another family), who was born in Connersville on May 31, 1857, daughter of Henry and EHzabeth (Benton) Williams, who came here from Kentucky, and to this union was born one child, a son, Carl, who died in infancy.

Rose Ellen Williams; the eldest daughter, was twice married. Her first husband, Donovan Shipley, was thrown from a horse and killed three weeks after their marriage. She later marrTed Bert Caldwell. She died leaving two small children. Fern and Volney, who were raised and cared for by their grandparents until they married and had homes of their own. Fern Caldwell married Will K. Stoops, who lives on the Stoops farm south of Connersville. To them have been born three sons, Edward, Wayne and Robert. Volney Caldwell has for a number of years been connected with the postal service - first on the railway mail service and at present in the local postoffice. He married Neva Watson, of this city. They have one daughter, Virginia.

Alice Williams married Leander W. Jordan. To them were born three children, Oliver, a merchant tailor, married Maud Fowler. They have two daughters, Helen and Margaret, having lost their only son, Paul: Ola Jordan, the widow of John Jordan, is a capable stenographer who has been with the Lexington Automobile Company since they were installed at Lexington, Kentucky. She has a son, Elmo, and a daughter, Evelyn. Elsie Jordan married Lemuel Ludlow, of Harrison township. They reside on their farm.

Lida Williams married Charles Swain, of Muncie, Indiana. He is now a paving contractor in Xew York. She died in 1907, leaving two daughters, Laura and Zella. Laura is the wife of Lemuel Masterson, of Maysville, Kentucky. They now reside in Cleveland, Ohio, where he has a profitable position with the Sherwin-Williams Company. They have a son, William Ellis, and a daughter, Carolyn. Zella married Emmett O'Brien, for her first husband, and they had one son, Charles. She is now the wife of Marvel Sutton, a farmer of Lyonsville, Indiana.

Harriet E. Williams, the youngest daughter, has been a teacher in the Fayette county schools since her graduation from the Connersville schools. As the valedictorian of her class, she received a scholarship to the State University at Bloomington.

In 1916 Miss Williams wrote and directed the pageant given, in Connersville in behalf of Fayette county in connection with Indiana's Centennial celebration. She is an active member of the First Baptist church of Connersville.

Roy lias l)ecn in tlie cimtraclinj;- business since a yount;- man. He calls Connersville his iionie, hut at present they reside on llieir farm in soutlieastern Missoufi, known as the "Woodsdale Farm," from which place he directs his various paving jol)s and oversees his fifteen-hundrcd-acre farm. Mrs. Williams is a memlier of the I'.aptist ciiurcli in ("nnnersviiie. -Mr. Williams is a member of the Elks lodge.

Bert Williams, who died after rciching maturity, was one of the first librarians of Connersville. He was a musician, especially fine on the flute. He loved his work in the I'lue Ribbon Orchestra. He was a member of the Methodist church.

Charles Williams, Jr., was the youngest son. He was a graduate of the Connersville high school and finished a corresixjndence course in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He has left a valuable plat of Connersville, which is in constant use at the present time. He was a soldier in Company D, United States Volunteer Engineer Cor]:)s during the Spanish-American War. He was also a paving contractor and held various offices in Fayette county.

James Hankins Tate, the secdiul, so referred to here because there is presented elsewhere in this volume a memorial sketch relating to his late father, James Hankins Tate, first, is a native son of this county, as was his father before him. and has lived here all his life. He was born on a farm about five miles southwest of Connersville, in section ^2 of Connersville township, the same being in the immediate vicinity of his present home, May 10, 1874, son of James H. and Louisa (Halstead) Tate, both of whom were born in F"ayette county, members of pioneer and well-known and substantial families, further and more detailed reference to whom, together with a n.irrative having to do with the beginnings of the Tate and Halstead families in this county, is made elsewhere in this volume of biography.