Randolph County, Indiana - Biographical sketches (3 of 3 so headed), 1882 (part 19 of 24)

Shite Sue Bentley Masslich

BENTLEY MASSLICH. Bentley Masslich (of whom a brief notice has already been given in connection with the article on the press) was born at Litiz, Lancaster Co., Penn., July 28, 1887, but he has been a resident of Union City, Ind., ever since April, 1859. Having learned the trade of a printer in his native State, he abandoned it on account of ill health, and came to Montgomery County, Ohio, engaging while there in. surveying, music teaching, etc. Early in 1859, he returned to Pennsylvania, where he was married April 5, 1859, to Miss Louisa E. Bachman, teachér of French, German and music, in the Litiz Female Seminary: They came almost immediately to Union City, where, for some years, he succeeded in acquiring a scant livelihood, contending constantly with misfortune, sickness and death, losing in six years three children, as also his wife, who died June 1, 1865. During this eee he was employed in the jewelry trade, in ileal - ing, etc., buying, in March, 1864, an interest in the office of the Union Cit Eagle, only a few months after it was established; but s0 many newspaper enterprises having failed here, people had little faith in its permanency, and some time elapsed before oe was remunerative and the paper on a payin, basis. Karly in 1866, Mr. Masslich, who up to this time had had successively L. G. es, B. F Diggs and George H. Bonebrake as partners, became sole proprietor of the Eagle, to enable him to advocate the claims of Col. Isaac P. oy. as a candidate for the Republican nomination for Congress, Mr. Bonebrake favoring Hon. George W. Julian. March 17, 1867, he was married to Mies Peninnah Watkins, a school teacher, resident near Fort Recover: Ohio; but, in less than eighteen months, death claimed her as his prey, and a month later snatched away, also, her infant child, leaving Mr. M. once more bereft of hope and comfort. October 19, 1870, he was married to Mis3 Lueia E. Farson, of Ohampaign, Il., by whom he has two sons and a daughter - Chester B., George B. and Nellie H. For twelve auspicious and Pos years, happiness and contentment have marked their lot in life. 6 editor of the Hagle, he has not been given to dashing editorials, but he enjoys the satisfaction of believing that he has oposed, with considerable success, many schemes afd enterprises which seemed to irs of at least questionable utility, or absolutely hurtful tendency. Among these have been lottery schemes and gift enterprises, ''graveyard" insurance, marriage dowry associations, etc. He has contributed his share, in influence and in money, toward creating and maintaining the Union Agricultural and Mechanical Fair Association; toward the construction of railroads, turnpikes and all other public enterprises adapted to promote the general welfare. The Hagle has always been and still is a stanch and reliable Republican paper, steadfastly on the side of morality and temperance, and, for some time past, has been an advocate of Prohibition and Female Suffrage. Mr. M. has taken a leadin part in the establishment an management of Building and Loan Associations during the last ten years; owning stock in all five of such companies organized here a to September 1, 1881. e has been Secretary of four of them, and has assisted in securing from time to time, several new features in their workings. He is the author of the plan of the Fifth Building and Loan Association (of which he and Pierre Gray, rey have secured a copyright). This ''Plan" provides for issuing stock monthly, per- Diits the withdrawal of steck on demand or at ninety days' notice, and can allow a higher rate of interest than 6 per cent on such withdrawals; gives interest upon dues paid in advance, refunds dues paid on forfeited stock, ess fines; provides various methods to secure the re-payment of loans, and in other ways favors the borrower, at the same time protecting the non-borrowers. Mr. M. was formerly a Moravian, but united, in 1840, with the Methodist Episcopal Church of Union City, being the first taken into membership in the new church building. He has been Organist a large part of the time, and Secretary of the Board of tees about seven years. He ha been an active member of the Y. M. C. A. from the beginning of its existence in the city; helped to organize the 8. 8. V. & E. L.'s, and as Secretary of both these societies, and for their benefit he projected the two lecture courses referred to under the head of '' Lectures" in this work. He is a charter member of Turpen , F. & A. M., No. 401, and is at this time Secretary of Union City Lodge, No. 152, I. O. O. F.

Mrs. Lucia E. Masslich

Is the second daughter of John T. and Harriet O. Fareon, and was born in Newcastle, Coshocton Co., Ohio, December 2, 1847. Her father, whose biography is given among the list of clergymen, came to Union City in 1852, and lived for a few months in a ao near the site of what is now the handsome and comfortable residence of daughter. She spent the happy days of childhood and youth attending school, some of her early teachers being Mrs. Osborne, Messrs. Dady, Hitchcock, Case, Farson (her father) and Wiley. In 1861, she removed with her parents to Urbana, Ill., where she attended the graded school for about three years, and before she was eighteen was given a position as teacher in the school in which she had been a pupil, where she taught for about three years, a few months of which time she attended school at the Normal Uni- Forel: Bloomington, Il. Her father, meantime, removed to Champaign, Il,, and Lucia taught what was known as the '' Cloyd School" for one year. The following summer, she visited her old home, Union City, and wes offered a aituation as teacher in the puplic achool here, which she accepted, and which was her last year as schoolma'am. In October, 1870, she was married to Bentley Masslich, and she is now the mother of three bright and affectionate children.

Mrs. Masslich united with the Methodist Episcopal Church when about nine years of age, and has been an active and useful member. She is a fine alto singer, always a member of the choir, and now chorister of the Sunday school, also teacher of # youn; ladies class. Mrs. Masslic has been a helper...and coworker with her husband in his office work, and all his labors in every worthy enterrise - except, as he says, emale § , for which she is not a strong advocate - in every department a safe counselor, and an efficient assistant. In truth, the words of Solomon may be fitly employed to describe her infiuence and her life - '' The heart of her husband doth safel; her blessed; her husband, also, and he praiseth her." Retiring in disposition, she is yet firm and steadfast to principle, and earnest and persevering in byery work of mercy and love, desirous on]

Church, of which body he has been for twenty-four years a member, and an office bearer for about twenty years. Mr. Worthiagton is an active and earnest Republican, a public-spirited citizen and altogether a valuable member of the community. Quiet, gentleand unassuming in his manners and habits, he is nevertheless, energetic and successful in business; and, by patient and assiduous application and a wise and careful economy, from being a poor lad of twenty years, and having but $40 in the world, he has become prominent and respected, possessing a competence in this world's goods, and commanding the respect and confidence and esteem of his fellow-citizens.

Saran M. (Ross) Worturnarton, the wife of Mr. William T. Worthington, was born in Holmes County, Ohio, February 6, 1840, being one of ten children, six girls and four boys. Her father, Reynolds Ross, dying when she was only four years old, her mother, Eliza (Boone) Ross, supposed to have been a distant relative of Daniel Boone, the famous Kentucky pioneer hunter, was left on a farm to train and rear her numerous flock, a task which she performed worthily and well, as their subsequent lives have abundantly shown. Of the four sons, three were soldiers in the Union army, and one, a Captain, was severely wounded. Five of the daughters are living, all of whom have become estimable women and beloved and affectionate wives. Learning the business of millinery at the age of sixteen at Millersburg, she came to Union City, Ind., about 1863, and, after following her chosen vocation during a single year, she became the wife of Mr. William T. Worthington, her present husband. After a year's intermission, she again resumed her favorite occupation, and during twelve prosperous and successful years she continued therein, adding largely, moreover, by her industry and skill, to their otherwise considerable possessions. Their first child was born September 16, 1870, a daughter, Myrtle E., whose life, however, soon faded away, to bloom afresh in Paradise. May 1st, 1873, two others were born - William Harris and Nellie M. The daughter died in July of the succeeding year, hut Harry, though feeble and sickly for a time, bids fair to recover. Mrs. Worthington having for years been a worthy and acceptable communicant in the Presbyterian Church, transferred her relation to the M. HK. society, of which her husband had long been an efficient member. Blessed with a good stock of common sense, with activity, foresight and skill, Mrs. Worthington is recognized as a leader in social life, being highly esteemed, both in the church and out of it, for her active co-operation in all good things. Especially is she untiring in rendering assistance to the sick and afflicted, whether rich or poor. To-day scores of families have reason to bless her gentle ministrations and her loving sympathy. Mrs. Worthington is a faithful companion, a devoted mother, a reliable friend, an earnest Christian and an efficient colaborer in every praiseworthy enterprise. Long may she survive to be an honor to her sex and a steadfast helper in all that is useful and excellent.

WILLIAM WRIGHT, undertaker, was born in Butler County, (hio, in 1831; was brought to Wayne County, Ind., in 1831; moved to Randolph County, Ind. (near Spartansburg), in 1863; came to Union City, Ind., in 1865; married Jane Kerlinger, who was raised in Maryland, and they have had three children. He has been carpenter, stock-dealer, hotel-keeper, undertaker, furniture dealer, and is now employed in the two last mentioned. Mr. Wright is a member of the Disciple Church, a Republican, and a steady, industrious, thriving, estimable, reliable citizen. One of his sons, in the spring of 1882, became a member of the grocery firm of Stewart & Wright, and they appear to be doing a safe and satisfactory business.

John W. Williams

James Williams, the father of this gentleman, was an early settler and prominent citizen of Erie, Penn. He was born at Carlisle, Cumberland Co., Penn., in March, 1800, and died at Erie, in the same State, in March, 1861, having been identified for many years with the mercantile interests of that city. He was the son of Isaac Williams, a survivor of the Wyoming massacre. His wife, whose maiden name was Mary Davis, was the daughter of George Davis, Esq., Mercer County Penn.; she survived her husband six years, dying at Erie in 1867.

John W., the subject of this sketch, was born December 2, 1841, at Erie, Penn., and received his early education in the schools of that city, completing the course of study at the Erie Academy. At the conclusion of his studies, he entered the office of John B. Johnson as a student of law. Finishing his course of study in two and a half years, he left home to locate in the West; but. at this juncture came the outbreak of the great rebellion, changing somewhat the plans he had formed. During the first year of the war (1861), he was connected with Capt. R. M. Brown, of the Fifteenth United States Infantry, at the recruiting and mustering rendezvous at Erie, Penn., his early home. In March, 1863, at the solicitation of Col. William Truesdail, Chief of Army Police, under Gen. Rosecrans, he connected himself with the Army Police, Department of the Cumberland, Gen. W. S. Rosecrans commanding, holding the position of Provost Judge of the Provost Marshal General's Department. 'This branch of the service (the Army Police) had control and supervision of all things connected with the Secret Service - sending out spies and scouts, and detecting crime and other misdemeanors within the army proper. Ile continued in that branch of the service until December, 1863, when he was tnken ill with fever at Chattanooga, Tenn., and removed to the hospital at Nashville. At the latter place he lay ill for several weeks, and voluntarily retired from the service for the purpose of recuperating his health. Upon partially regaining his strength, he repaired to St. Louis, Mo., to unite himself again with the same branch of the service, under Gen. Rosecrans, who was then commanding the Department of the Missouri; and from St. Louis went to Fort Leavenworth, Kan , where he was appointed Chief Clerk of the Provost Marshal General's Office, Department of Kansas, Gen. S. Rt. Curtis, commanding. He continued to act in this capacity until about the Ist of September, 1865, by which time the war was ended, and all volunteer troops mustered out. 'This branch of the service had supervision and control of the entire scout system across the plains throughout Kansas and the Territories, and as Chief Clerk, Mr. Williams had charge of the assignment of scouts to their respective posts of duty. During the fall and winter of 1865 and the spring of 1866 he traveled extensively through the South and West, and in April, 1866, connected himself with the Omaha (Neb.) Republican as editor, occupying this position until July, 1866. He returned to Kansas at that time to engage in the practice of the law at Junction City, in Davies (ounty, where he resided until 1872, practicing his profession and holding the office of United States Commissioner for the Western District of Kansas. In 1872, he located at Marion Center, in Marion County, Kan., where he practiced his profession until the summer of 1881, removing at that time to Union City, Ind., where he still resides. While a resident of Marion Center, Kan., on the 3d of May, 1876, he was uniled in marriage with Mrs. Margaret Casper, daughter of Chris and Mary Kinsler, of Ohio, and widow of William Casper, deceased.

Mr, Williams was what might be called one of the pioneer citizens of Western Kansas, and at the date of his removal to Junction City, that point was the farthest point west on the Kansas Pacific Railway (the first railway in the State), which had then barely reached that place. To a iarge extent, Junction 'tty was the principal shipping point for supplies to New Mexico, Colorado and che Western borders. During his residence here he held various positions of elective trust, and was recognized among the leading citizens. During his identity with the State of Kansas in its early history, the position in which he was placed gave him an acquaintance with many of the prominent and leading frontiersmen who have become famous and are now widely known, among them being Kit Carson, James Bridger, James B. Hickock, John Harvey, Blunt, and others of equal note; and a useful store of knowledge was acquired by not infrequent mingling with the various tribes of Indians who inhabited the western border of Kansas, and now occupy the Indian Territory. Mr. Williams may fairly be called a Western man. He has traveled largely through the Indian Territory, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, and all the Territories lying east of the Rocky Mountain range, and is familiar, from actual observation, with that country in its general outline. He imbibed largely of that spirit of daring and love of adventure which characterizes the citizens of the West, and has often run dangerous risks to gratify this propensity. Once, with a few companions, he traveled a number of miles in the saddle to witness a pitched battle between the Cheyenne and Kaw tribes of Indians, and was one of two white persons who witnessed the pitched fight between the Otoes and the Kiowas at a later date. Since his removal to Union City, he has practiced his profession very successfully, while he has established himself firmly in the estimation of all who know him, and is counted among the best citizens.

within its limits. Cedar and Poplar Run Meetings are both in Stony Creek, and very many o£ the honored pioncers of that section worshiped in these sanctuaries. and now lie awaiting the

Hodson, then a young man, still living, but young no longer. his home being in Delaware County, four or five miles from Windsor. The schoolhouse stood between Joab and John Thornburg's. There were perhaps twenty pupils. Armfield Thornburg, that tells the story, was one of them.

Solomon Wright tells some queer tales " out of school" concerning the pupils and the teachers of " auld lang syne," one in particular, how the girls on the last day of school tore down the dirt back-wall of the stick chimney belonging to the cabin schoolhouse, and scattered the clay all over the puncheon floor.

Like other new and pioneer regions, Stony Creek has its traditions of odd and queer things taking place amid the mighty shadow of the giant forest. Of one early settler it is related that he had a family of fourteen children, and that another settler, a neighbor, going in early one morning found on the hearth youngsters crawled out from the straw upon the cabin floor one by one, and, taking each a pewter plate, went singly to the smoking mush for a bountiful share, aud partook joyfully of a hearty breakfast. But what difference does it make? These tales told of early times are, many of them, fabrications, and more are greatly "stretched" from the original fact. But even if true as told, who cares? It is to be feared that, if their effeminate descendants were thrown into the same hard and rough condition, they would do even not so well as that; that they would have neither roof over their shiftless heads, straw to crawl out of nor a kettle of mush to eat from, pewter plate to handle it on, nor spoon with which to carry it to their mouths.

Stony Creek is bounded north by Monroe, east by White River and West River, south by Nettle Creek, west by Delaware County. In politics, Stony Creek is strongly Republican.

There have been only two towns within the bounds of Stony Creek Township, and one of these has long been extinct. The two are Windsor and Georgetown, the latter " winked out" long years ago. (Neff Post Office is also in this township, but it

Windsor. - Loeation, Section 29. Town 20, Range 12. on Winchester & Muneie pike, at the Delaware County line; Jo seph Bond, surveyor; John Thornbure, proprietor: recorded January 30, 1832: forty lots; streets are, north and south, Mulberry, Oak; east and west. Main. First addition, Smith & Dye's, Jere Smith, Stephen Dye, proprietors; Jere Smith, surveyor; twenty lots; recorded September 7, 1837. Seeond Addition, Reece's, Thomas W. Recee, proprictor; eight lots; recorded Angust 9, 1S77. Distances: Bloomingsport, twenty miles; Deerfield, twenty miles; Fairview, ten and a half miles; Farinland, five and four-fifths miles; Huntsville, thirteen and one-third miles; Linn, twenty-one and four-fifths miles; Losantsville, pine and a half miles; Morristown, two and a half miles.

The town was laid out by Joseph Thornburg in 1832, during what may aptly be termed the "era of town-platting," since many of the villages in Randolph were projected not far from that date. Windsor seems to have been aspiring, and to have had high prospects as well, for only five years after the record of the first survey of forty lots, twenty more (half the original number) were annexed to the growing town by Smith & Dye, thus afford - ing fresh room to spread beyond the original limit. And it is undoubtedly true that, had the old order of business continued to prevail, Windsor might to-day have been an important and prosperous inland town, But the sad fact, sad for Windsor and its ambitious denizens, can neither be ignored nor. changed, so the fates declared, and who can successfully rebel against fato ? If there had been power in the beginning of railroad construetion, to have drawn the Bee-Line route south of the river, instead of locating it on the north side through the unknown wilderness, then, indeed, might Windsor have come to be, not, indeed, like its illustrious namesake in a foreign island kingdom, a palatial residence for Her Majesty. the Mnglish Queen, but a wide-awake, bustling, prosperous commercial and manufacturing center, known and noted throughout the county and the reyion. But men cannot lose what they never had, so Windsor has not lost the greatness which she never possessed. And her people, instead of mourning over fancied unrealized possibilities, may be sincerely thankful that life, health and substantial comfort, and the means of solid happiness they still possess equally with the people of the proudest metropolis on the footstool.

The first business in Windsor was a shoeshop, by Isaiah Templin, and a small store by a man from Richmond, name forgotten. Soon was set up a smith shop by Andrew Knapp. The mill by John Thornburg was built in 1827. There was no other on White River but Judge Sample's and Cox's Mill, east of Winchester. There was also another shoe shop. The first wagon shop was by William Ludworth. Windsor at one time had a large business, having three good stores and a grocery, and other things to match. The activity of the place began some years before the town was recorded. It proved its right to be by its actual being. Business is like beauty- - it is its own excuse for being. The merchants have been Garretson, Joseph and Moses Cranor, a good stock; Stephen Dye, grocery, with a good stock; Chandler, a big business, with two clerks; Andrew G. Dye, a nice stock; Pennington, Lindley Thornburg, John M. Terrell, Nathan and Joel Thornburg, Joseph Johnson and &. M. Dye, Armfield Thornburg, twelve years; William Davis, J. J. Clayton.

The first hotel was built by George Helin, from Pennsyivania, some years after the town started. That hotel was burned in 1856, and has never been built again. Helm had put up a dwelling-house, and he sold it to Cranor, for a hotel; Cranor sold to Armfield Thornburg, he to Kinard, he to Andrew Dye, and so on to the present time.

Present business: There is a goodly number of houses and business rooms, and, were the place to fill up to its capacity of furnishing facilities for work, it would even now be an active, busy town. But the real business is now small enough. There are two smith shops, one dry goods store, two millinery shops, one wagon shop, one shoe shup, one tan yard, one saw-mill (water and steam), one grist mill (water and steam), one physician, a good one, one post office, two churches (Methodist and Christian), one schoolhouse, one lodge of I. O. O. F., thirty to forty houses and 134 people (census of 1880).

The Postmaster is William Davis. The previous incumbents it would take too much time to tell. The first one, however, was Benjamin Garretson. Others have been Messrs. Kinard, Thornburg, etc. Thornburg held the office twelve years.

The most flourishing era for Windsor was just before the railroad was built, about 1850, though it kept a considerable amount of business till since the war. A good store was burned in 1878, owned by the Thornburgs. Windsor is a quiet, orderly town, with a people disposed to good things, and it seems a pity that the tide of fortune has kept so sternly against their commercial future. is

The town is located on the west side of Stony Creek just above the mouth, and exactly on the county line, that being the western limit. It stands upon the pike running from Winchester to Muncie, nearly midway between the two, and it is connected by pikes to Winchester, Farmland, Maxville, Muncie, Losantsville, Union City and most of the outside world generally. A very large and important bridge crosses Stony Creek just east of the town. It was washed away, bnt has been rebuilt in a still more substantial manner than at first.

Georgetown. - J. M. McNees, proprietor; C. S. Goodrich, surveyor; location, Section 24, Town 20, Range 13, on Windsor pike, one mile west from Maxville; eighteen lots; recorded April 24, 1840; streets, north and south, Washington; east and west, Main. The town is located on the Winchester & Windsor Turnpike, one mile west of Maxville. It was laid out in the year 1835 by John M. McNees, and occupies land on the south side of White River. H. D. Huffman kept the first store in 1835. J. M MeNees kept hotel in 1835, and years before. Hmsley Humphries had a smith shop. lLewallyn kept the last. store in 1853. The merchants there at various times were Messrs. Huffman, Clayton, Cunningham, Marine, Miller & Ford, Lewallyn. The smithy have been Messrs. Humphreys, Harris, Segraves. J. M. McNees; kept hotel fourteen years. There were never more than six houses in Georgetown. The village is now wholly extinct. Several of the old lots are owned and built on separately, but there is no town. Dr. Keener resided there as a physician, asalsv Dr. Marine. How there should have been any town at all, or the hope or prospect of any, is a mystery, since Maxville was within a mile or even less than that. The record of the plat of the latter appears not to have been made unti] 1850, but the town itself was established many years before - as far back as about 1830. Though probably Max. ville and Georgetown commenced their race for life not far from the same time, and it may have been the hope of each one of the rival "embryo cities," that she should outstrip and rival, or even swallow up the other. But old Father Time has been too mighty alike for both. Georgetown has already been numbered among the things that have been, and the other also, lingering on perhaps some years longer in appearance, has lost well-nigh all the reality and activity of business life.

When these towns - Maxville, Georgetown and Windsor - stood on the great thoroughfare between the East and the West, where scores, or even hundreds of travelers; where hundreds, and sometimes thousands, of animals, in immense droves and herds, passed daily; where thronging emigrants were constantly pressing eagerly westward, westward, always westward, there seemed a prospect that all three, especially the former and the latter, might find room and business for a substantial or even a vigorous growth; but when the rail track was laid, and the steam whistle set up its roar, and the engine began to roll, a woe was pronounced upon all towns, no matter how ambitious or aspiring, which lay away from the path of the "iron horse."

Neff. - Is a post office and store on the Losantville pike, north. There is no town, not even a "four corners." It is just one house and a store. The post office and the store were estab-

The country around seems a fertile, prosperous region. The store . to) is located on Section 10, Town 19, Range 12, two miles west of Pleasant View, and five miles north of Losantville. It is now kept by Alfred Canfield, who is also Postmaster. Some of the pt dy ' persons who have kept store there have been John Terrell, Avila Thornburg, - - Thornkurg, John Oakerson, William Oakerson, Alfred Canfield. A very good stock is maintained for a country

Isaac Amburn was the son of Samuel Amburn; he was born in Carolina in 1789, and he married Rebecea Hodgson, who was born in Virginia in J795. They came to Ohio in 1816, and to Randolph County, Ind., in 1829. They were the parents of ten children, all of whom have been married and had families. They are as given herewith: Mary, five children; Elizabeth, eleven children; Samuel, ten children; Catharine, ten children; Jacob, eight children; Hester, one child; Hannah, nine children; Rebecea, seven children; Cynthia, six children; Rachel, six childreu. Grandchildren, seventy-three. Isaac Amburn resided with his son Samuel till his death, September 23, 1881, he being ninety-two yearsold. He was buried at Union Cemetery, south of Windsor, the funeral being attended by a concourse perhaps the largest of the kind that ever assembled in the region. He had resided in this region fifty-two years.

Samuel Amburn was born in 1765, in Pennsylvania; moved to North Carolina, married Elizabeth Jones, who was born in 1761, as also a second wife. He had eight children, and died in 1860, aged ninety-five years. They came to Stony Creek Township in 1829. He was somewhat in years when he moyed into the forests of Stony Creek Township, but he dwelt there more than a generation, and fell asleep at last with almost a century of years resting upon him. The Amburn family seems to be long-lived, his son Isaac dying at the age of ninety-two.

Samuel Amburn, Jr., was born in 1818, in Ohio; came to Randolph County, Ind., in 1829; married Maria Smith in 1840; has had ten children; is a farmer; owns 240 acres of land; isa prominent and successful man of business and an active and influential citizen. When he moyed to the county, William Moore, John Holloway, William Holloway, Joab Thornburg, Amos Smith, were already here. William Dixon and Jethro Hiatt came when Mr. Amburn's people came, in 182. He had to go three miles to school when he was a lad, and thought it no hardship, often having to " wade the flats" knee deep. Wading the water in coon hunting, ete., through the woods was nothing but fun.

Joseph Bond, son of Samuel Bond, was born in North Oarolina in 1779; married Rachel Herold, born in 1781, in 1802; came to Wayne County, Ind., in 1811, and to Randolph County, Ind., mouth of Cabin Creek, in 1839. They had twelve children, eleven grown, ten married, five now living. He died in 1840, and his wife in 1842. They were farmers and Friends. He was a steady, mild-tempered, genial, Christian man, beloved by all who knew him, and his record is on high. His father, Samuel Bond, was born in North Carolina in 1753, and his mother, Elizabeth Beals Bond, in 1755.

Zimri Bond, brother of John H. Bond, was bora in Wayne County, Ind., moved to Randolph County, Ind., and afterward to Kansas, the latter movement being made in 1872. He died in Kansas in 1877, having had five children. He had a fine farm on Cabin Creek, but he went to stock-buying, etce., and failing in business, lost his farm, and like bundreds of others, moved on farther West to the region of cheap lands. He was an Anti- Slavery Friend, an Abolitionist, an Underground Railroad operator and a Republican. His family have returned to Randolph County to the region of their former home. His widow is an intelligent and active Quaker lady, who is trying in meekness to serve the Lord in purity of heart and to train up her orphaned family in the fear and love of God.

1836, and to Stony Creek in 1838, and they have resided on the place ever since. They had tenchildren, four girls and six boys. All grew up and were married, and six are living now. Mr. Butler died in 1861, and Mrs. B. is living still, sixty-nine years old. They belong to the Christian Church. She has seven or eight great-grandchildren, and resides north of Pleasant Grove Church, in Stony Creek Township.

John Diggs was the brother of Mark Diggs, who is also dead, and of William Diggs, who is still living. He was born in Carolina August 8, 1802. He came from Carolina to Randolph County, upon White River, in 1821, and settled on Stony Creek in 1827. He had five children, and died January 22, 1863, aged sixty years five months and fourteen days. His wife, Catharine Diggs, died October 29, 1867, aged sixty-three years six months and thirteen days. He was a prominent and respected member among the Friends, and was buried in Poplar Run Cemetery, as is also his wife who survived her husband more than four years. He was a Whig, an Abolitionist and a Republican, but he remained with the "Body of Friends" at the " Separation," not deeming the alleged reasons for dividing the "' Body " sufficient to justify the course pursued by the Anti-Slavery Friends.

Joseph Hewitt, born of Irish parents, came to Ross County, Ohio, in 1808; married Sally Putnam in 1831; came to Randolph County in 1841, and has had ten children, all grown and married, and nine living still. He now resides at Farmland, and is a farmer and stock-dealer. His children are: Catharine (Gilmore), has seven children, lives near Neff, Ind.; Jiucinda (Thornburg), has seven children, resides in Randolph 'County, Ind.; Sophia (Adkins), has eleven children, lives in Missouri; Sarah Ann (Oakson), has seven children, lives in Farmland; Marion, has seven children, lives near Neff; Philip, has seven children, lives in Missouri; William, has three children, lives near Neff; Joseph, Jr., has six children, lives in Delaware County, Ind.; Peter Owen, has one child, lives in Farmland; Mary (McIntyre), dead.

Mr. Hewitt is a man of good judgment, and has been greatly confided in by his neighbors, being often chosen as arbitrator in disputes, as administrator in the settlement of estates, etc. He has been for many years, and is still, an active and exemplary church member and Christian worker.

William Hewitt was born in Ross County, Ohio, in 1840; came with his parents to Randolph County, Ind., in 1841; married Margaret E. Helm, of Henry County, Ind., in 1861, and He owns 270 acres of land, and carries on farming extensively and.successfully. He isa Methodist and a Republican. He enlisted' in the Thirty-sixth Indiana; had bleeding at the lungs, and was discharged after nine months' service, on account of disability, and he has never been hearty since. His brother, Joseph, was in the same regiment and company (Company K, Thirty-sixth Infantry), and he was discharged, too, for loss of hearing.

' Hosea Lamb was born in North Carolina, and came to Richmond before it was laid out as a town; cleared the ten acres on which Richmond was first built, and entered 160 acres in Nettle Creek, but settled in Stony Creek. He had nine children; was a farmer and 4 Friend, and died in 1855. His wife died in 1877, being a very old woman, and having lived a widow twenty-two i Restore Lamb, son of Hosea Lamb, diéd in 1878, aged about sixty years. His brother Isaac was accidentally shot and killed while duck-hunting. A gun was handed to him, muzzle foremost. It wasdropped, and the gun went off. He was shot in the breast, causing his instant death. This sad casualty took place more than twenty years ago.

_ Joab McNees was born in 1781; lived in Tennessee; came to Randolph Co., Ind., settling in Stony Creek, near Georgetown, in 1829, and married Sarah McCollom in 1803. They had sixteen children, twelve grown and ten married. He moved eleven to Randolph County. Mr. McNees died in 1833, aged fifty-two years. His wife was born in 1783, and died in 1870, aged eighty-seven years. She lived a widow thirty-seven years. A rather remarkable life - thirty years a wife, the mother of sixteen children, and thirty-seven years a widow!

[Norr. - The writer of these sketches knew a woman who was a wife at fifteen, lived with her husbund sixty years, was the mother of nineteen children, raising about twelve, lived a widow eighteen years, and died at the full ageof ninety-three years. |

John M. MecNees, born in Tennessee in 1805, married Mary Ann Greenman in 1825 (who was born in 1801); came to Randolph County, Ind., in 1829; entered eighty acres of land, and lives on it still. Mr. McNees laid out Georgetown, one mile west of Farmland, in 1835, and kept hotel there fourteen years. There was very much travel on that road in those times, wagons, and men on horseback, and droves of horses, passing west; and, after some years, great droves would pass eastward. Sometimes 700 or 800 head of cattle would go by inasingle drove. Georgetown never got to be much of atown. There never were more The village is now totally extinct as such. Four houses stand there yet, but the lots are town lots no longer. Mr, McNees is a farmer, though now getting too old to perform much labor.

William Merryweather was born in England; emigrated to America and settled in the State of Delaware, but came to Randolph County in 1842, and resides there still. His wife also is a native of England') They have five children. Mr. Merryweather owns 200 acres of land, being an excellent farmer, an estimable citizen, and an intelligent and worthy man, nearly seventy-two years old. Mr. Merryweather and his wife are highly esteemed among their acquaintances for integrity and solid worth.

Henry Moore was born in Wilmington, Del., in 1804. He came to Wayne County, Ind., in 1816; married Mary Wright in 1831 (who was born in 1808), and settled in Randolph County in 1838, buying 160 acres of land in Stony Creek Township. He was a farmer, a Friend, a Whig, an Abolitionist and a Republican. He was the father of five children, and died in 1879, leaving a widow to mourn his loss, as also several children.

George Moore was the brother of Henry Moore, being born in 1806, and he emigrated from Delaware, on the Eastern seaboard, to Randolph 'County, in 1839, marrying Mary Hiatt in the same year. They have five children. Mr. Moore and his wife are an excellent and worthy couple, and they are thrifty and prosperous, he being the owner of 200 acres of excellent land. He was in early days u Whig, and has been, since 1856, a Republican.

Reuben Medlar was born in Pennsylvania in 1812; married Elizabeth Medlar in 1836; came to Montgomery County, Ohio, in 1837, and to Stony Creek, Randolph Co., Ind., in 1840. He made the journey from Pennsylvania in a one-horse wagon in twenty-one days. The cost was as follows: Toll-gates, $5.594; other expenses, $28.52. They have had thirteen children, and six of the number are now living. Mrs. Medlar died in 1874, in her sixty-first year. Mr. Medlar is a thriving farmer, owning 210 acres of fine land in that fertile region; belongs to the Reformed (German) Church, and in politics is a Democrat.

Joseph Rooks was born in 1772, in Kentucky; came to Ohio; married Elizabeth Jackson; moved to Randolph County, Ind., about 1822, with fourteen children - five boys and nine girls.

[Mrs. Patsy Branson, of Muncie, Delaware Co., Ind., says Joseph Rooks had fourteen children in family, all at home at one time, and that she ate dinner there with the whole group of fourteen children. |

Mr. Rooks was tall and stout, and very strong. His standing weight is said to have been 220 pounds for sixty years. He was a giant in strength, and his boys were the same way.

The children were John, Uriah, Thomas, Samuel, William (five sons), Hannah, Sarah, Mary, Charity, Phoebe, Rebecca, Betsey, Sibyl, Lydia (nine daughters). Joseph Rooks and his family moved to Missouri in 1839. He died in Northwestern Missouri in 1869, aged ninety-seven years. His wife died August 17, 1880, aged ninety-four years. He cleared up two farms in Randolph County. First he settled on the Clevinger farm, east of Neff, and then on one northwest of Neff, in the forks of Little White River and Stony Creek, He owned there 300 acres. He sold out in 1838; moved to Missouri in 1839, and became a large land-owner in that State, haying been said to be in possession, at one time, of 100 eighty-acre lots. Some odd stories are told of Mr. Rooks and his family, which fact, indeed, is not very strange for so immense a family in those hard old times. But what matter? Among these enfeebled generations it is impossible even to imagine what, in those rough and rugged days, was undergone, without even thinking it to be anything curious or unusual. They were at least not effeminate nor helpless. They boldly hewed their fearless way, rngged and stern, through trouble and difficulty appalling to gentler times. All honor to their heroism! The Indians else had still roamed the wilds over the ground where now fertile farms shine in beauty, and magnificent cities rise in gorgeous splendor to rejoice the sight.

Amos Smith was born in Highland County, Ohio, in 1799, and came to Randolph County, Ind., in 1829; married Margaret Thornburg in 1830, and has had five children. His wife died in 1879, aged seventy-six years, and the bereaved husband now lives with his son-in-law, George Clevinger, on the Windsor pike. He originally entered eighty acres. He belongs to the Christian (New-Light) Church. His race is almost run, yet he stands waiting in patient, exultant hope the issuing of the final order, "Open the erystal gates and let my faithful servant enter in!"

A large number of the aged veterans, settlers in this region in "auld lang syne," still linger on the shores of mortality, feeble, decrepit, but mostly cheerful and patient, awaiting in joyful hope the weleome summons, "It is enough; come up higher!"

Iva Ei. Smithson is a native of "Old Virginia," the proud " Old Dominion," the haughty " Mother of Presidents," the land of the " I'. I. V.'s." He was born there in 1800. But he left his native soil and emigrated to Clinton County, Ohio, that oldtims half-way house to weary emigrants, that stopping-place for thousands, whence again, a fresh start being taken, pushing their onward way toward the setting sun, a final halt would at length be called in the fruitful Hoosier land. And from Clinton County, once more resuming the impatient line of march, they stopped not, they stayed not, till they had found their oldtime friends in the woods of Randolph. In 1839, this latter trip was accomplished, and this was the last march; for hither he had come to stay. And stay he did; and for full forty years Randelph County has furnished this pilgrim a domicile; and, thouch his wife has gone on before, and some of his children among men in the "land of the dying." Mr. Sinithson married Mary More in Ohio, and he has heen the father of nine children. His wife is dead, and he, a feeble old man, an octogenarian, remains on the earth, residing with his soa on the old homestead. His son Ira was born in Ohio in 182); came with his parents to Randolph County, Ind., in 1839; is married, and has six ehildren. He is a fanmer and a Republican, and belongs to the Christian (New-Light) Church.

rying Sarah Farlow, and afterward Rachel Leonard. He has had twelve children, six of whom are still living. The family came to Randolph County, Ind., in 1S61, arriving at last, safe, after many troubles and hardships, at Mark Diggs', in Nettle Creck Township, fleecing from the Southern country to get away from slavery and the war. Some reminiscences from his lips appear under that heading in this work.

Isaac Thornburg was born in 1775, in North Carolina: came to Highland County, Ohio, in 18138, and to Randolph County, Ind... in 1880. He married Rebeeea Hodson in 1798, and had twelve children, nine grown and married. Nine were sons and three daughters. They were as follows: John, dead. had eleven children; Joab, living, has had nine children; Elizabeth, dead, six children; Joseph, dead, ten children; Job, living, seven children; Margaret, dead; Isaae, Jr., dead, five children; Edward, living, twelve children: Alexander, living, nine children: Jouathan, dead, eleven children: Thomas Wesley. dead, six children. Isaac Thornburg settled two miles east of Windsor; entered 160 acres of land: died in 1862, aged eighty-nine years. He was a Friend, a Whig, an anti-slavery man, a Republican; an excellent, careful, gentle, mild, faithful man. May the world sce many like him as the ages roJi. (Bunker) Ring. seendants.

Joab Thornburg was born in 1795, in North Carolina; came to Ohio in 1811; married Elizabeth Holloway in North Carolina, 'on Christmas Day, 1817; came to Stony Creek, Randolph Co., Ind., in 1825, entered eighty acres of land, and has resided there | ever since - tifty-seven years. They have had nine children. He is a farmer and a Friend: was a Whig and an Abolitionist, and is a Republican. The aged couple are feeble, but not more so than would be expected, considering their age. There is something venerable in an ancient homestead, hallowed by the | loves, the joys, the sorrows, the dear, the sad, the holy remembrances of almost sixty years of family life. Those who spend their lives in changing from place to place, having never a home, but only a temporary abode, occupying, in their whole lives upon earth, not a foot of land which they could call their own, know little of the real substance of home life. They live, indeed; their children grow up to full stature; but their residence is only half a home. Hesurely has abundant cause for rejoicing whose lot is cast where he can dwell from youth to old age, in a dear and blessed spot, to which sweet and precious memory clings with a close and perpetual tie. Let it be the ambition of every family to acquire that excellent earthly blessing, the ownership of a permanent home.

William Armfield Thornburg, Windsor, was born in North Carolina in 1816, and came to Randolph County, Ind., in 1825; married Maria Clevinger in 1835, and has had twelve children - ten grown and married, and nine living now. One, a son, resides at Union City, two in Illinois, five in or near Windsor, and one four miles southeast of Windsor. He was brought up a Friend, but has, belonged mostly to the Methodists or United Brethren. Jn political faith he was a Whig, and is now a Republican. His business has been largely farming. He has sold goods twelve years, and kept a hotel at Windsor and at Williamsburg; operated a mill south of Windsor, and now resides in that town. Mr. Thornburg and his worthy companion seem thus far to have made their cheerful way through the hardships of their time, and to be passing peacefully onward toward that "bourn whence no traveler returns," and toward the blissful mansions prepared on high for the faithful, trustful, obedient ones who patiently accomplish their allotment in the world below.

David Vestal was born in North Carolina, coming to Randolph County perhaps in 1823; settled on Stony Creek, two and a half miles south of Windsor; was chosen Justice of the Peace very soon after; sold out to John Thornburg about 1830 or 1831, and left the county in the latter year, moving to White Lick, below Indianapolis, at which place he is understood to have died. They had five children at the time of removal. He was kind, genial and obliging, and his wife was an excellent woman. While he resided in the county, he was a prominent citizen of that region.

Winchester Herald, Oetober 11, 1882: Ata gravel pit near Ridgeville, a dozen human skeletons were unearthed, some of them in a remarkably good state of preservation, and specimens of them can be seen at the office of Dr. Shoemaker. They evidently belonged to Indians, and probably a century or more has elapsed since their interment. They were found at a depth of from six to twelve feet from the surface.

Solomon Wright was born in Green County, Tenn., on Holston River, in 1802; came to Clinton County, Ohio, with his father, in 1804, and to Randolph County, Ind., in 1817. His father moyed here in 1817 or 1818, but Solomon came sooner. | [See reminiscences.]| Paul W., Jobn and Henry H. Way, and | some of the Diggses, had come already. His uncle, William | Haworth, and also one of his older brothers, had preceded him to Randolph, and Solomon and still another brother came by themselves, with one horse between them, all the way from Clinton County, Obio. Returning after some months to Ohio, he finally accompanied his father to his future home, probably in 1S17. and for about sixty-five years the Hoosier State has reck- | oned him as one of her worthy denizens. Jesse Green, John Ballenger. Stunner Lee, Thomas Gillum and others came in com- pany from Ohio, and settled on White River. Solomon's father took up his abode on what has since been known as the Brooks farm, two and a half miles west of Winchester. He married Margery Diggs in 1824, fifty-eight years ago. She was for many years of her later life much afflicted and very feeble, and, in the spring of 1881, she exchanged a habitation of clay for the .ubes of celestial beauty in the heavenly mansions. They were the parents of ten children, eight of whom survive - George W., ten children, resides near his father's; Hannah (Garrett, Thornburg), six children, resides in Iowa; Mary (Clayton), no children, lives near her father's home; William, lives near home, has twelve children; Lydia (Dick), lives near home, no children; Rachel (Hunt), lives nine miles south, eight children; John, resides near his father's, five children; Fanny (Taylor), resides at Fort Wayne, one child. Solomon Wright moved to Stony Creek Township many years ago (1829), and still resides near the mouth of Cabin Creek. He is eighty years old, but is strong and vigorous. His wife was an invalid, having become wellnigh helpless. She died in the spring of 1881, having filled the measure of her days and gone kome to the mansions prepared on high. Solomon Wright is in religion an Anti-Slavery Friend, in politics, a Henry Clay Whig and a modern " Liberty man," and still later a Republican. His first vote was given for Jobn Quincy Adams, and his last for James A. Garfield, fifty-six years having intervened between tke first vote and the last. He seems strong and vigorous to last long enough to vote for several Presidents more; still, only God knoweth, and Friend Wright is fourscore years old!

SAMUEL AMBURN. The subject of this sketch is one of the substantial farmers and citizens of Randolph County. He is the son of Isaac and Rebecca (Hodgen) Amburn, and was born in Clinton County, Ohio, November 18, 1818. He is the third of a family of nine children, of whom three are now living ; his father was born in North Carolina June 4, 1789, and his mother was born in the same State September 15, 1795; his parents removed from North Carolina to Clinton County, Ohio, and came to this State in the year 1828, and located in this county. At that time there were but few improvements in the part of the county where they settled, the nearest neighbor being three miles distant. Samuel was busily engaged assisting his father to clear a farm from the wilderness until he was twenty-two years of age; his father being in very limited circumstances rendered Samuel's career as a youth peculiarly trying ; his life was beset with hardships more severe than most sons of pioneers; his father being a hard worker and not given to speculation, believed that what he obtained in the way of property should be secured by the severest labor. Samuel's education was almost entirely neglected, and what little he did obtain was in a subscription school, where he paid his tuition by cutting and splitting rails. At the age of twenty-two, he bought forty acres of unimproved land situated one mile east of where he now resides, and set to work making a farm of his own. He was married to Maria Smith, daughter of Amos and Margaret Smith, of this county, August 27, 1840. After marriage, he and his wife settled on the forty acres he had previously purchased in the woods; he is now owner and proprietor of 280 acres of excellent land, with 175 acres under a high state of cultivation; his farm is one of the most beautiful and best improved in the county, being of an excellent quality of soil, gently rolling and tolerably well watered. Mr. Amburn has been eminently successful as a farmer, accumulating property very rapidly, and provided comfortable homes for five of his children. Mr. and Mrs. Amburn are the parents of ten children, eight of whom are now liying - Amos W., born June 24, 1841; Elizabeth J., born June 25, 1843; Isaac L., born April 1, 1846; Lydia M., born July 25, 1848; John E., born November 3, 1850; Enos L., born June 28, 1858 ; Francis M., born February 9, 1856; Anthony W., born March 15, 1858; Rosa J., born October 4, 1861; Martha A., born.June 18, 1864. Seven of their children are married, and comfortably situated in life. His son, Isaac L., enlisted in the Eighty-fourth Indiana Regiment, in the fall of 1861; he remained in the service for about six months, when his father took him home, he being under age, seventeen, and not able for active service. Mrs. Amburn is an acceptable and honored member of the Christian Church. Mr. Amburn usually affiliates with the Democratic party, but does not always draw party lines in casting his vote for county officers ; he has always voted for Gen. Thomas Browne, a stanch Republican, for Congress and other offices. Mr. Amburn is pleasantly situated, having erected most excellent and comfortable buildings. His dwelling house is a beautiful twostory brick, and a model in architectural beauty and convenience, situated on @ commanding eminence, surrounded with beautiful shade trees. He has been & most industrious, enterprising and liberal-hearted citizen, surrounded with an abundance of the necessaries and luxuries of life. Leads a quiet and frugal life, and is an honored citizen of the county.

FRANCIS M. AMBURN, farmer, P. O. Windsor, was born February 9, 1856, in Randolph County, Ind. He was married to Matilda A. Myers, June 3, 1874, who was born April 17, 1855. Her father, Henry Myers, was a native of Pennsylvania, and deceased in 1868, in this county. They have four children - Roy L., born September 30, 1874; Perly O., born January 4, 1877; Nellie May, born January 5, 1878, and Jossie A., born August 17, 1880. Mr. Amburn is a member of I. 0. O. F., No. 517, Windsor Lodge ; was educated in the common schools of the county, and is an energetic, industrious farmer.

JOAN H. BOND, farmer, 1'. QO. Farmland, born in North Carolina, December 6, 1807; he emigrated to Wayne County, Ind., in the fall of 1811, where he was married to Emily Hockett, in September, 1828. Mr. B. came to this county in 1831 and settled on the farm where he now resides. Ile cleared the farm by his own industry, and soon made it change from the wilderuess to that of a beautiful home. His wife was born April 13, 1811,in North Carolina, and immigrated with her parents to Wayne County, Ind., about the year 1815. Mr. B. is of Quaker descent and 2 member of the Church of Friends. He has held the office of Township 'Trustee, to which he was elected in 1840; owns a good farm of 126 acres of land; Republican in polities, and is kind, generous and of undoubted integrity.

ALBERT CANFIELD, merchant and Postmaster at Neff, this county, was born in Cambridge City, Wayne County, Ind., August 19, 1852. Ile is the son of Silas and Susan (Graham) Canfield, and is the third of a family of five sons, four of whom are now living. His father was born in the town of Reading, Steuben County, N. Y., March 22, 1817. His mother was born near the Natural Bridge, in Virginia. [lis father came to this State in the fall of 1845, and settled in Cambridge City, and was married to Susan Graham in the year 1848. After marriage they settled in Cambridge City, where they remained until their deaths. His mother died June 16, 1859, and his father November 8, 1879. Albert lived with his parents in Cambridge City until the fall of 1863, when he came to Randolph County and made his home with A. N. Thornburg until he was twenty-one years of age. While here, he was engaged in working on the farm during the spring and summer, and attending the district schools in the winter. In 1873 and 1874, he made his home with Judge W. KR. West, of Anderson, his uncle, for the purpose of attending the Anderson High School. While in attendance at this school, he applied faithfully to his studies and advanced rapidly. After leaving the high school, he engaged in teaching in the common schools of Madison County for four months. At the expiration of his term of school, he engaged with a publishing' house of Indianapolis as traveling salesman. He served this house acceptably for about six months, when he acted as traveling agent for about one year for two other firms. At the expiration of this service, he returned to this county and was engaged as ateacher in the public schools during the winter for about two years, and working on the farm during the spring andsummer. In the spring of 1878, he engaged in a general mercantile business at Neff, this county, with James Dougherty as partner, under the title of Dougherty & Co. 'This co-partnership continued until January 20, 1879, when Mr. Canfield bought Mr. Dougherty's interest and has been alone in the business ever since. Mr. ('anfield carries a well-selected stock of goods, embracing dry goods, groceries, hardware, boots and shoes, ete., and does a thriving business, his annual sales amounting to about $12,000. Netf is one of the best, if not the best, country business points in the county. Mr. ©. was appointed Postmaster at Neff in 1878, and has held the oftice ever since. Ife was married to Miss Naomi M. Branson, daughter of Joseph B. and Catharine (Miller) Branson, of this county, May 11,1879. Mr. and Mrs. Canfield are acceptable and honored members of the (hristian Church. Mr. ('. is alsoan honored member of Windsor Lodge, No. 517, I. 0.0. F. Heis a stanch and active Republican, an energetic and frugal business man, 1 genial and affable gentleinan, and he and his good wife are favorites in the circle of their friends, and have a bright future before them.

NELSON T. CITENOWETH, physician, Windsor, born in Darke County, Ohio, October 8, 1837; he went to Illinois in 1857, from there back to Ohio in 1858, where he enlisted in the Eleventh Ohio Infantry, and afterward served as Captain in Company HE, Sixty-ninth Infantry. After the war, he came to Wayne County, Ind., and entered the Miami Kclectic Medical ('ollege of Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1866. from which institution he graduated, with honors, in the following year. THe located at Windsor, in this courty, in 1468, and was united io the holy bonds of wedlock to Laura EB, Haynes, March 25, 1869. The Doctor's father, 'Thomas F. (henoweth, was born in Ohio in 1808, and at this date is still living and quite active for one of his age. Dr. ('. was educated in the common schools of Ohio, which were good at that time. He also attended a seminary and graded school, which more fully developed his mind and ability. In early manhood, he followed, successfully, farming and teaching. The Doctor is actively engaged in the practice of medicine, which annually reaches $2,000. He wasa charter member and first Noble Grand of Windsor Lodge, No. 517, 1.0. 0.F., and is W. M. of F.& A. M., Farmland Lodge, 308. He is Republican in politics, a courteous gentleman, a skillful physician and an esteemed citizen. Two interesting children blessed his marriage union - Flora, born January 30, 1870, and Thomas W., April 18, 1872.

PHILIP K. DICK, farmer and miller, P. O. Farmland, born November 23, 1824, in the State of Ohio: he came to this county in the spring of 1848. His father, Philip, was a native of Virginia, where he was born February 22, 1795; deceased in Ohio, 1877. Mr. Dick was married the first time to P&gpy Wallace, Seven children, living, blessed this union - Mary E., born July 12, 1851; Nancy J., February 25, 1853; Barbara E., February 10, 1855; Martha V., November 30, 1858; William L., March 6, 1861; Francis M., January 22, 1864, and Robert B., June 4, 1867. He was married the second time to Lydia Wright, who was born March 80, 1833. Mr. D. was educated in the common schools of Ohio, and has been a close student from boyhood. He has held the offices of Township Treasurer, Aesessor and Justice of the Peace, giving entire satisfaction to his constituency. He is a member of the church of Friends, and an energetic worker in the temperance cause. Mr. D. owns a good farm of 120 acres of land. and a half-interest in a grist-mill on Cabin Creek, which has a capacity of fifty bushels of grain per day. His brother, Francis M. Dick, was in the war for the Union; he enlisted in Company K, One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Indiana Infantry, serving through the war.

JOHN E. HEICKES, born in Adams County, Penn., May 14, 1830; he came to this county in April, 1868. His father's name was Emanuel Heickes, and was born in Pennsylvania October 12, 1785, died there 1862. Mr. Hickes was married to Leah Widner, of Pennsylvania, who was born May 22, 1820). They bave five children living - Mary L., Arista, George C., Cora J. and Nelson M. He was educated in the common schools of his native State, and has gained much information by observation and traveling. the One [Hundred and T'wenty-seventh Vennsylvania Infantry and the Third Artillery. He had charge of the rebel President's baggage while a prisoner at Fortress Monroe, and carries letters of recommendation trom Gens. Butler, Ord and Miles. He is a member of the United Brethren Church, also of 1. 0. O. F., No. 1, of Fort Monroe, and is Republican in politics. He was the Postmaster of Windsor for three years, Notary Public for four years, and collects claims for soldiers and private citizens. Ife is considered to be a trustworthy citizen and those who have business in his line will find him prompt in discharge of whatever may be intrusted to his care. His address is Windsor, Ind. SAMUEL HUPP, farmer, P. O. Parker, born May 5, 1825, in Virginia; he came to Ohio in 1830, to Delaware County in 1852, and from thence to this county in 1875. He was united in marriage to Mary Watt, who was born in the State of Ohio, December 10, 1830. Mr. Hupp received a common school education, and is a great friend to that cause. The father of Mr. Hupp, Emanuel, was in the war of 1812, and deceased in Ohio, about 1830. Joseph Watt, the father of Mrs. Hupp, was a native of Kentucky, where he was born 1805, and is still living at this date. Mr. H. is a member of the M. B. Chureh, and Parker Grange, No. 404. He is engaged in farming and stock-raising; owns a farm of eighty acres of fertile land, and seems contented in his chosen occupation. Nine children blessed this union - Hmily E., married, born July 4, 1853; Florence B., married, born July 24, 1859; Mary A., married, born January 3, 1860; Martha E., married, born January 7, 1862; Caroline, born October 10, 1864; William E., February 28, 1866; Nora A., April 6, 1867; Charles W., January, 1870, and Joseph W., December 20, 1874. ENOS A. LUKA, firmer, P. O. Farmland, born in Clinton County, Ohio, June 6, 1833; came to this county with his parents in the winter of the same year; he was married, December 28, 1853, to Sarah A. Clevenger, who was born February 25, 1837. These parents have five children living - William L., born May 24, 1856; Christian L., November 13, 1857; Elihu I'., June 18, 1861; Anna M., November 21, 1865, and Curtis L., February 20, 1868. Mr. L. was educated in the common schools of this county, and has followed farming successfully. He is a member of the New Light Church, and of Windsor Lodge, I. 0. 0. F., 517. His father, George Luka, was a native of Virginia, and born July 14, 1806, deceased July 28, 1877. His wife's father, Lewis Clevenger, was born May 18, 1806, in North Carolina; he came to this county at an early date, and deceased January 20,1851. Mr. Luka is a Republican in politics, but not a party man; he is a successful farmer, ard generally esteemed.

William Merryweatiher

William Merryweather, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Merryweather, was born in Froddingham, Yorkshire, England, January 11, 1811. He is the youngest of a family of six children, of whom he is the only one known to be living. His father was a native of Wales, and his mother of England. Ilis father's occupation was that of a dredger. His mother died in 1816, and his father in 1832.

William lived with his parents until he was eleven years of age, when he was compelled to earn his own living. He hired out at first as a farm hand, receiving for his first year's work his board only.

After his arrival in this country, he first settled at Wilmington, Del., where he had a brother living, and remained here until 1836. During his stay with his brother, he worked a part of the time in a spice mill, and part of the time on the farm.

He came to Richmond, Wayne Co., Ind., on the 10th of May, 1836. After hiring out as a farm hand for one year, he rented a farm, receiving one-third of what he raised, and continued to rent upon the same terms for five years.

He came to Randolph County in the year 1842, and settled on a farm one mile from where he now resides. He leased eighty acres of land with nine acres cleared and remained here for three years, when he purchased eighty acres of the farm he now owns, with two acres cleared, a log cabin and a few fruit trees as improvements. His farm now consists of 160 acres, with 130 under cultivation. A portion of his farm is quite rolling, healthfully and beautifully located, with a fine quality of soil. He has selected a beautiful site for his farm buildings, being a commanding knoll in close proximity to a fine spring, and surrounded with abundant shade. His buildings are large and convenient, and present a picturesque scene. Mr. Merryweather has one of the best stock farms in this county.

He was united in marriage to Hannah Tharp, daughter of George and Rebecca Tharp, of England, in Philadelphia, August 16, 1831, who still survives, and has been a true and faithful companion to her husband.

Mr. and Mrs. Merryweather are the parents of nine children, of whom five are now living. Three of these children are married, and comfortably situated in this county. 'The unmarried ones reside at the old homestead. These children are all honored and useful citizens.

Their son, John, enlisted as a soldier in 1862, in the Eighty-fourth Regiment, Company A. He was a gallant soldier, and was engaged in all of the battles of his regiment with the exception of Chickamauga. Ile was wounded at the battle of Lovejoy, and was, for a time, in the hospital at Nashville. He served until the close of the war, and was mustered out with his regiment.

\ : : : » well situated, being surrounded by all that is necessary to make them comfortvble and happy. 'They are honored and useful members of society, and are

Mr. Merryweather has an excellent memory, and takes great delight in recounting his experience in his younger days, both in England and the United States.

JACOB R. MILLS, farmer, P.O. Farmland, born December 18, 1853, in this county. Ile was married, April, 1872, to Mary Robinson, who was born July, 1856. This union has been blessed with four children - Minnie N., born Mareh 8. I874; Joseph, March ZL, 1876; Dovie L., March 9, 1878, and Clatie, born March $, 1882. Mr. Mills had the advantages of the common schools and improved them as much as was in his power. Ile is Republican in politics, and engages in farming and buying poultry.

County, Ind. His father, Henry W. Moore, was originally from Delaware, where he was born in 1804, came to Wayne County in 1816, from thence he settled in this county in the year 1837, with his family. Mr. Moore was united in the holy bonds of matrimony, the first time to Eliza Hubbard, September 16,1858; the second time to Sarah (. Hubbard, sister to his first wife, July 13,1878. Ile was educated in the common schools of Wayne and Randolph Counties, and has followed the occupation of farming from boyhood. He is of German and English descent, owns a well-cultivated farm of 127 acres of land. Republican in politics, and is a worthy member of the Friends Chureh. Mr. Moore had three children by his first. wife - Henry If., born August 15, 1859 ; Mary E., August 21, 1862, and Charity B., May 22, 1864. He has two children by his present wife - Lulu M., born April 80, 1877, and Onie C., August 26, 1878.

JOIN OZBUN, Farmland, born May 19, 1828, in this county. Tlis father John, was orginally from North Carolina, where he was born about 1795. Mr. Ozbun was married to Miss ©. Uockett, who was born August 28, 1845. Mr. Ozbun received » good common school education, considering the early disadvantages of the pioneer period. Ile has seven children living - Lydia J., Lindley M., Emma, Eli, William C., Charles Il. and Wesley. Le has followed tenching school for a number of years during the winter season, farming in the summer, and a minister inthe Church of Friends. Ile is considered an honest, upright, true man and friend.

JOUN H. ROGERS, miller, Farmland, born August 19, 1851, in Columbus, Ohio, and came to this county in the winter of 1859. Ile was united in marriage to Nancy J. Dick, October 21, 1871. Mr. Rogers was educated in the graded and common schools of Ohio, and is a man of good mind. He has followed milling during life, and is consilered to be a good one. He is » member of the l'riends Church and an enterprising citizen in all the noble works of manhood. He isa member of the firm of Rogers & Dick, proprietors of the Houring miil, situated on Cabin Creek. His parents were born in England, his father, Edward, about 1832; his mother, 1830. His father came to Ohio from England in 1849, to Columbus, Ohio, and deceased in La Porte County in 1859. His mother lived in this county till 1879, when death removed her from these earth scenes. Mr. Rogers has four interesting children - Alonzo E., born December 30, 1872; Gertrude M., May 2, 1875; Edgar A., August 9, 1877, and Mary E., October 4, 1879. 'Those who call on the firm of Rogers & Dick will find them attentive to business, and courteous to customers.

ELIZABETH SAMPLE, farming, ?. O. Windsor, was born December 4, 1808, in Adams County, enn. She was married to John B. Sample January 17, 1836, who was born in 1791 in Pennsylvania, deceased August 28, 1854. They had six children - Sarah W., born November 20, 1836; John A., January 1, 1858; James B., June 9, 1841; Adam, December 25, 18433; William F., October 31, 1846, and Harriet N., December 17, 1850. Mrs. Sample sent one son to the late war, John A., who enlisted in the One Hundred and Twentyfourth Indiana Infantry. She is of German descent; a Presbyterian; owns a farm of fifty-one acres of good land, manages it well, and is a woman of sterling integrity.

ISAAC J. SMITH, farmer, P. O. Windsor, was born December 8, 1832, in this county. His father, Amos Smith, was born in Virginia June 28, 1799; immigrated to Ohio, and from thence to this county in 1827; he died October 9, 1882, at the advanced age of eighty-three years. Mr. Smith was married to Sarah M. Miles August 18, 1859. She was born June 24, 1840, and was of a kind and loving disposition. 'The union was a congenial one, and the years of wedded life passed happily until September 27, 1880, when death entered the home circle and took from its midst the amiable and beloved wife. Mr. Smith deeply feels his loss, and the exit of that pure life from the stage of action which had rendered his home so pleasant has filled his mind with sorrow. She was a consistent member of the Methodist Church, and was beloved by all who knew her. Mr. Smith was educated in the commen schools of early days, but has made good use of this in business and in the accumulation of property. He owns 381 acres of valuable land, and engages extensively in buying and selling stock; he frequently has on hand fifty head of cattle and one hundred head of hogs. He is an ardent Republican, a member of the A., F. & A. M., No. 308, of Farmland, and an enterprising, courteous gentleman. The mother of the subject of this sketch died November 3, 1879, at the age of seventy-eight years.

HENRY STUDEBAKER, Farmland, was born July 3, 1842, in Miami County, Ohio; he came to this county in the spring of 1873, and was married to Mary Barnes February 10, 1862. Mrs. Studebaker was born in Clinton County, Ohio, January 20, 1846. They have one child, Edgar Q., born July 10, 1863. Mr. Studebaker was educated in the graded schools of Troy and Dayton, Ohio, which were the best in the county at that time. He has been engaged in the manufacture of woolen goods, and for seven years last past has been the proprietor of the flouring-mill where he now resides. Mr. Studebaker was in the navy during the war for the Union, taking part in the famous Red River expedition. He was assigned to the gunboat Mound City, and afterward to the Neosho. His father, John Studebaker, was originally from

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Pennsylvania, where he was born in the year 1812; he now rexides in Ohio. The father of Mry. Studebaker, James Barnes, was born in Mighland Country, Ohio, January 30, 1821; he came to this county in 1868, Mr. Studebaker owns valuable mill property, worth $5.000, with a capacity of grinding 12,000 busiely annually, and the people will find him 2 courteous business man and attentive to all whoinay favor him with their patronage.

ABRAILAM SYMONS, farmer, P.O. Farmland. The subject of this biography was born in Menry County, Ind., November 8, 1528, and settled in this county in the year 1855. He has been married twice, the first time to Mary ©. Horn, February 17, 1852, whe was born May 8, 1834, deceased April 16, 1865; the second time to his present wife, originally Mary FE. Townsend, September 25, 186%, born April 3, 1842. Four children blessed the first union - William E., born March 28, 185%, deceased in infancy; Julian Q., born August 8, 1495, died April 22. 1482; Wilson E., bora December 14, 1857, and Luther B. F., September 2, 1861. Two children blessed the second marriage - John K., born July 1, 1871, and Sarah #.. October 8, IS74. Mr. Symons had two brothers in the war for the Union - Jocl, who served in the Fifly-ninth Indiana Regiment, and Benjamin F., who serve in the Viftyfourth. He was elucated in the schools of pioneer days, und has followed the occupation of farming. Tle was reared under the kind influence of the Quaker Church, to which he belongs. He owns a good farm of sixty-five acres of Jand, and is at present Justice of the Peace of the township in which he resides, having served one term before.

JOSHUA SWINGLEY, far aer, P.O. Windsor, was born in Clinton County, Ohio, February 2, 1835, amd came to this county in the fall of 1653. Ifis father, Peter Swingley, originally came from Virginia, where he was born in 1810, deceased in Clinton County, Ohio, in IX¥#2. Mr. Swingley was united in marriage to Judith A. Thornburg February 5, 1857, who was born May 9, 1839, Mr. Swingley received a common-school education, and has devoted his time exclusively to firming and stock-raising. We is 2 member of the Christian Church and of the 1.0.0. FL, No. 517, of Windsor. He owns a well-cultivated farm of 100 neres of land, valued at $60 per acre. Republican in politics, and an esteemed citizen. They have four chillren living - Josephine, born September 5, 1860; John W., September 0, 1862; Martha J., February 10, 1868, and Edith, July 28, 1876,

WILLIAM TERRELL, tirmer and minister, P.O. Windsor, born July 15, 1820, in Stony Creek Township, this county. He was married the first time to Rebecea Thornburg, November 22, 184%: two chillven blessed this union - - Lucinda J., born December 8. 1850, and John W., November 19, 1852. Mr. Terrill was united in marriage the second time to Mary A. Thornburg, March 27. 1X50; she was born December 12, 1838. They have eight: children living - Margaret i.. born October 22, 1858; Sarah b., May 10, P86); George B.S. January T8, 1866. William, May 350, 1860; Susannah ., May 30, 1871: Mary M., May 7, IS73, and Della, May 30, 1875, and Lydia BE... December 20, 1878. Mr. Terrill was edueated in the old log schoolhouse of pioneer days, and fora nuinber of years engaged in farming. He has been a doveted minister of the Christinn Church for twenty-six years and dias devoted nuach of his time to building up the denomination of his choice, He is a member of Whitney Lodge, No, BOX ALM. His father, George Wesley, was of English descent, cune to this county in TS2S, deceased PESTS. Mr. Terrill is an active Republican; owns v valuable farm of P71 acres of land, and is hospitable and kind to all who meet him.

JOB THORNBURG. This venerable pioneer of Randolph County is the son of Isanc and Rebecen (llodgen) Phoraburg, and was born in Guilford Coun ty, N. ., September 29, 180]. He is the fifth of a family of twelve children, of whom three are now living; his father was bora in Pennsylvanian July 4, 1773, and mother in the same Siate July 24, 1778, They moved trom Pennsylvania to North Carolina, where they were married, and remained until the year INSTT, when they moved to Clinton County, Ohio, where they remained until 1827, when they came to this county and remained until their deaths ; his mother died July 28, E852, and his father June 2k, 86z, Job lived with his parents on the farm until he was twenty-five years of age, when he, with a brother, removed to Indiana, and settled in' Randolph County. After living with his brother for about one year, he returned to Ohio. and was united in marriage with Lydia Smith, daughter of James and Atlantic Smith, \pril 17, 1826. Heand his wife returned to Indiana the following October, when he entered ¢ighty acres of the farm upon which he new resides, Tle has spent the best portion of his life in clesring a fara from the unbroken forest. No one but those who have had the experience fully realize the amount of toil and hardship connected with the development of this country. 'The subject of this sketch has accomplished more of this kind of work than most men of this age : he early learned the lesson whieh insures success to every young man indus. try and frugality. These qualities being leading motives in his life, he rapidly accumulated property, tle has heen the owner and proprietor of 157 acres of land, with about 500 acres improved, This land is excellent in quality, and well adapted to stock-raising as wellas wrain: he has disposed of all of his land, deeding it to his children and otherwise, with the exception of fifty acres. He is the father of ten children as follows: Atlantic, born January IS, 1826; Abijah, horn February 8, IS28, deceased January 3, P8482 Jonathan J.. born April 2, T8350. Thomas, bora May 7, 1852, deceased October 2S, T8465 lames, born Mareh 27, 1S8hb: Ana. born September 19, Psst: Edward Ro. born December 4, TS58, deceased September (8, 1867, Tilnias, born November 27, ISt0; [sane D., born October 28, 1812. Rehecea, born September 38, 1545. tis living ehildren are all married and comfortably situate Lin life, Job's early education consisted of about three weonths' schooling, in the old pioneer log schoolhouse, with greased paper for windows, puncheon floor, hewed benches, etc. Notwithstanding the primitive condition of the schools, he has a fair common school educazion. Tle and his wife were raised members of the Society of Friends, and have ever remained faithtal to theiradopted church. Mr, Chornburg has served this county as jurar more or Jess for thirty years. - tu polities. he is astanch Republican, and has always alliliated with that party ever since its organization: he wasa Whig, and strongly anti-slavery in sentiment. \t the dewh of his father there were over 100 direct and indlireet descendants of the family, and but three Democrats in all of that number. Mr. Thornburg makes his home the most of the time with his son, Tilnias, and has done so ever since the leath of his wife, He is teleribly well preserved in health for one of his age, with the exception of a pardial leatpess caused by a slight stroke of paralysis, he seems to enjoy life very well: he has had a remarkable constitution to endure the toils and hardships of such a long life: hetakes great delight in recounting his experience of pioneer times, and, having a clear and distinet memory of these times, his accounts are erlcilated to interest every one; he has been a useful umn, both to society and the church ; a kind husband and an affectionate father, and honvredl and respected hy all who know him.

Jonathan J. Thornburg

Jonathan J. Thornburg, is a native of this county and son of Job and Lydia Thornburs, was born April 2, 1830, Ile is the third of a tainily of ten children, seven of whom are living; he was raised ona farm, and received a limited education from the common district and subscription schools, which were very inferior, and open but a short period during the winter season; his youthful experience did not differ materially from that of inmost boys of pioneer times. He and his brother assisted their father (who was a very hard-working man) to cleara large amount of land from the unbroken wilderness. Ile was united ina first marriage, to Hannah Holloway, April 24, 1851. She was a most amiable Christian wonin, and shared the joys and sorrows of life with her husband until 1869, when the fell destroyer removed her from the embrace of her loving family and kind friends. Ag fruits of his first marriage, Mr, 'l'hornburg is the father of nine children, of whom six are'living as follows: Lydia J., Mary §.., Benjamin F., Sarah B., Martha A., Job S., Ellis, William and Rebecea H. Ife was united in a second marriage to Nancy Meier, September 7; UXT]. Ilis present wife, 2 most estimable and worthy lady, is the daughter of David and Nancy Morris, and was born in Fayette County, Ohio, July 27, 1829. She was previously married to John F. Meier, of Clinton County, Ohio, April 15, 1858; her first husband died in Ohio March 13, 1868; he was a man of the strictest integrity, a devoted husband and an honored citizen. Mrs. Thornburg received a limited education in the common schools of Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Thornburg are owners and proprietors of an excellent farm situated in Stony Creek 'Township, consisting of 240 acres, of which 180 are in a good state of cultivation. This farm is beautifully located and well improved, heing supplied with excellent huildings, an exact representation of which is given in this work. Mr. Thornburg gives attentive attention to the raising of blooded stock in addition to raising wll kinds of grain, Mr. and Mrs. Thornburg are acceptable members of the Society of Friends at Cedar, this county. Mr. Thornburg'has alwas acted and yoted with the Republican party, and has always manifested a leep interest in the welfure of the party. His excellent wife is a lady of rare executive ability, and bas been of great service to her husband in the managemeot of his business. They are both excellent citizens, surrounded by all of the necessaries and comforts of life, and valuable members of society.

JOAB THORNBURG, farmer, P. 0. Neff, born in North Carolina in 1795 ; he was inited in the holy bonds of matrimony to Elizabeth Holloway, Decemher 25, 1817; she was horn September 17, 1794, in the State of Virginia. They have five children living - John L., Isaac, Asenath, Elisha and Jonathan YT. Mr. 'l. was educated in the schools of North Carolina and was reared under the mild and gentle discipline of the Friends of that county. He and his aved companion have traveled life's pathway as members of the Friends' Church, and at this advanced date are waiting the summons of that Master whom they have served so faithfully to call them to rest. The winter's storms may beat fiercely above the grave so soon to claim them, the gentle rain of springtime fall upon their narrow earthly home, the beautiful flowers and green swurd of summer grow upon the mound raised above them, yet all these will not effect. the purity of their devoted Christian character which they leave behind as an example to those who follow after them.

Thomas Wallace

Thomas Wallace, husband of Frances Wallace, and son of William and Mary Wallace, was born in Tennessee, March 21, 1807. Ile removed with bis parents to Miami County, Ohio, about the year 1814, where he resided until the year 1858, when he came to this State and county. He was the third of a fumily of nine children, of whom three are now living. His pareats were both born and raised in 'Tennessee. He lived on the farm with his parents until he was twenty-one years of age. Having' comparatively no opportunity of attemline sehool, his education was very meager. After he came of age, he worked out by the month on v farm until the year 1835, when he was united in marriage to Frances Mays, daughter of James and Citharine Hays, of Minmi County. Ohio. 'This union took place on December 30. After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Wallace lived in Ohio for about three years, when they inoved to this county and settled near Windsor, where Mr. Wallace entered eighty-eight acres of land, being a portion of the farm where Mrs. Wallace now resides. They continued to live here until the death of Mr. Wallace, which occurred February 7, 1870. They were the parents of but one child, James Newton Wallace, who died at the age of two years. Mr. Wallace was an acceptable member of the M. &. Church, and remained faithful until death. In political preferment he was a stanch Republican; although he never sought for any office, he took a deep interest in the welfare of the party. He was a most industrious and frugal man, and accumulated property very rapidly. Ile developed a fine farm from the unbroken forests. He was quiet and retiring in his habits, but a man who had strong conyictions on all current topics, and did -fearlessly what he conceived to be his duty, Thus lived and passed away an honored and useful citizen of Randolph County.

Frayces Wantace, widow of Thomas Wallace and daughter of James and Catharine (Summly) Ways, was born in Miami County, Ohio, September 24, ISI14. She is the third of a family of tive children. Iler father was born in South Carolina, August 31, 1789, and her mother was born in North Carolina in the year 1792. er parents removed to Miami County, Ohio, about the year 1408, und remained there until the death of her mother, which occurred March, 1816. Her futher came to Indiana in the year 1851, and made his home with his children until his death, which occurred September 16, 1874. Mrs. Wallace lived at home in Qhio until she was twenty-one years of age, engaged in the various and multiplied duties of a farmer's daughter, when she was united in marriage with Thomas Wallace. Ifer education is very limited, having but poor opportunities of attending school in her earlier life.

had the responsibility of raising four, three of whom lived with her until marriage. war and died in hospital at Chattanooga, May 24, 1463. He served his country well until his death. Mrs. Wallace is owner of 368 acres, of which 160 acres are ina high state of cultivation. She disposes of her land to tenants, but keeps the management in her own hand. She has been an acceptable and honore:l member of the M. &. Church for thirty-five years. She has been an murmur. memory. She looks after her business in detail, and is possessed with extraordinary executive ability. She is beloved as a neighbor and friend and will ever be honored by all who have known her.

WILLIAM WRIGIT, Farmland, was born September 17, 1831, in this county. [He was married to Rebecca A. Thornburg, who was born July 25, 1835. hey have eight children living - Fauny R., born March 29, 1859; Solomon M., January 6, 1864; Rolly R., March 6, 1866; Elizabeth M. H., Maren 24, 186%; Leoto O., March 9, 1871; Edward W., April 6, 1874; Noah V., February 14, 1480, and Bertha A., April 1, 1881, He was educated in the common and graded schools of the State.

JOHN D. WRIGHT, farmer, P. O. Farmland, was born March 6, 1837, in this county. His father, Solomon R., was originally from Tennessee, where he was born in 1801; from thence settled in this State about the year 1818. Mr. Wright was united in marriage to Miss Lydia A. Jackson, who was born September 28, 1X47. Five children blessed this union, of whom four are living - Eva M., born October 15, 1866; Everett E., October 19, 1869; Maud E., February 27, 1873, and Lydia A., January 26, 1875. He was educated in the common schools of the State, attending Liber College one term. He is of (Juaker descent and a member of that church. Mr. Wright has followed farming and stock-raising from boyhood, and owns a fertile farm of 179} acres. Republican in politics, and an honest, industrious citizen. ;

GEORGE W, WORL, farmer, P. O. Neff, was born August 30, 18386, in Wayne County, Ind. His father, Robert Worl, was born in Kentucky about the year 1810. Ile immigrated to Wayne County at an early date, and deceased on the road to California in 1852. Mr. Worl was united in marriage to Lyda A. Ripley July 19, 1857. She was born in Montgomery County, Ohio, August 1, 1841. Mr. Worl was educated in the common schools_of this State, and is a gentleman of good information and intelligence. He was elected Township Assessor in 1871, serving two terms, and Trustee of Stony (reek Township in 1875, in which capacity he also served two terms*of two years'each. In hoth of these offices he was noted for his ability and fidelity, which fully demonstrated the fact of the confidence and esteem in which he was held by his neighbors. He, with three brothers, served in the war for the Union. He enlisted in Company B, Thirty-sixth Indiana Infantry, serving through the war, and being wounded at the battle of Chickamauga. He is a member of the Christian Church, the A., F. & A. M. Lodge, No. 308, of Farmland, a Republican in politics, and a gentleman of the best social standing. Four chilraising, and was in the hardware and grain trade at Farmland for some time. : dren have blessed the marriage - Mary E., born May 6, 1858; Emma A., to west. It lies wholly west of the Twelve-Mile boundary, and the land was surveyed about 1820 or 1821. It inelades parts of Towns 18 and 1), Range 12 east, wpon the upper course of Little White River. Settlement began later, of course, there than it did east of the boundaries." The township lies chiefly in the

Mueh of it is gently rolling, presenting pleasant landscapes. The soil is woll adapted to all kinds of farming, and fine crops aro produced. Being settled later, improvements are not so much advanced as they are farther cast, yet there are many fine farms, with good buildings, ete.

The earliest settler of whom we have heard is William Shullabarger, who came in 1820, settling south of Losantville. He was killed by the falling of a tree. The next settler (so far as we know) was John Burroughs, 1822, and also his brother, Thomas Burroughs, 1822. The following came soon afterward. Where they settled we do not know; Svlomon Sparks, Mahlon Bronson, Isaac Branson, John Massey, Ichabod Tharpe, Phineas Maey, Mason Powell, Mnoch Sayles, Jacob Tharpe, Henry Mossby and perhaps others.

The following came in the years named: John Cleyinger, ISVS: Anthony Jobnson, 1829; Isaac Thornbure, 1830; Hamilton Suodyrass. T8380. Wilham Snodgrass, 1530; John Snodgrass, IS30. John Bookout, 1831; Jordan Halsted, 1831; Henry

Tho settlers in this region had peculiarly severe hardships in the early time. Someof them were very poor, and all of them were vreaily " put to it" to make their way. One pioneer in this

In a scope of two miles square there were owned but two wagons. One day, six horses were hitched to one of these wagons to go to mill. Twelve bushels were ioaded in, and off the teams started. The horses would not pull together, got fast in a big mud-hole, and stopped. Six men unhitched each a horse, took each a sack of wheat and away to the mill, leaving the wagon to get out of the mud when it got a " goodready." Thus did the hardy pioneers of Nettle Creek bravely push their way, and some of them still survive to look back upon those rough and troublesome times and those awkward ways.

Isaac Branson was in Nettle Creek in 1824, in the time of the " Falling Timber," since one settler relates that her sister at that time was at Isaac Branson's, and tuat Mr. Branson's horse was hemmed up in the stable, but not hurt.