Randolph County, Indiana - Biographical sketches (3 of 3 so headed), 1882 (part 9 of 24)

SAMUEL KESLER, farmer, P. 0. Spartansburg, was born in New Jersey January 1, 1819. He is the son of George Kesler, who was also a native of the above State. The subject of our sketch left the parental roof when nine years of age. He first went to Cincinnati, and was employed on a boat plying between there and Louisville, Ky., but, after making a few trips, he became tired of river life and concluded to try farming. He found no trouble in securing the desired employment with Amos Barr, a farmer near Lebanon, Ohio, with whom he remained for a numberof years. Mr. Kesler has been married three times. His last marriage took place April 1, 1861, to Mary Curts, who was born in Ohio April 1, 1831. She isthe daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Royer) Curts. Mr.and Mrs. Kesler have been blessed with three children, viz. : George W. and Henry, who were born April 18, 1862, and Sarah E., born January 26, 1864. Mr. Kesler became a resident of this county in 1862, and has, with the exception of one year spent in saw-milling at Union City, been engaged in farming. He owns a neat farm of sixty acres in Section 35, on which he resides. He is an industrious, enterprising gentleman, respected by all who know him.

LEVI J. LINZY, farmer, P. O. Spartansburg, was born in South Carolina March 22, 1827. He is the son of Levi W. K. Linzy and Epsey Thompson, who were natives of the above State. When eleven years old, he was taken to Mississippi, where he was held in bondage for thirteen years, when he escaped and came to Shelby County, Ind., where he remained for one year. He then became a resident of this county, and was employed at farm work until 1853, when he went to Canada, where he remained until 1855, when he went into the lumbering districts of Michigan, and worked at saw-milling for one year; thence back to Canada. From there to Wisconsin, and was again engaged in saw-milling until July, 1858, when he returned to this county. He was married August 18, 1859, to Nancy Thompson, who was born in South Carolina July 19, 1844. She is the daughter of William Thompson, who was also anative of the above State. Mr. and Mrs. Linzy have had born to them ten chil: dren, six of whom are living, viz.: John F., born October 26, 1860; Charles B., September 30, 1862; Levi J., October 20, 1864; Cassius E., February 1, 1870; William A., October 24, 1874, and Mary J., April 15, 1877. Mr. Linzy enlisted in 1864 in Company G, Thirty-third Indiana Infantry. On his way South, he was taken sick, and remained in the hospital at Chattanooga for several months, joining his command again at Raleigh, N.C. From there, he marched with Gen. Sherman's command to Richmond, Va., where he was again taken sick. From there, he was sent to McDougle Hospital, of New York, where he was discharged May 2, 1865. Mr. Linzy is a member of the M. E. Church, and highly respected by all who know him. He owns a farm of sixtyfour acres in Section 12, on which he resides.

GEORGE W. MANN, farmer, P. 0. Spartansburg, who was born in Butler County, Ohio, October 15, 1827, is the son of Thomas and Sarah (Bush) Mann, who were natives of Pennsylvania. Mr. Mann became a resident of this county in 1841. He was married in October, 1848, to Willie Wiggs, daughter of William Wiggs. This union was blessed with Angeline, who was born May 10, 1849. In 1850, death entered the home circle, and took from it the estimable wife and mother. Mr. Mann then battled the hardships of life alone until January 23, 1853, when he married Lucinda L. Parker, who was burn in Darke County, Ohio, May 14, 1830. Her father and mother, Samuel and Elizabeth (John) Parker, were natives of Pennsylvania, the former born March 7, 1797. Mr. and Mrs. Mann have had born to them nine children, eight of whom are living, viz., Albert H., born July 9, 1854; Samuel L., November 12, 1855; Rhoda B., June 8, 1857; John E., February 15, 1859; Elmira C., October 29, 1860; Minnie L., October 27, 1865; Mary E., May 21, 1868, and Ruth E., born January 3, 1871. Mr. Mann settled where he now resides, in Section 4, in 1875. He owns a well-improved farm of 102 acres. He is a thorough gentleman, highly respected by all who know him.

JOHN F. MIDDLETON, farmer, P. 0. Spartansburg, was born on the farm where he now resides November 26, 1842. Heis the son of Thomas A. and Sarah (Borders) Middleton, the former born in Guilford County, N. C., November 5, 1799, and the latter in Virginia in 1804. The subject of our sketch was educated at the Industrial Academy of Wayne County, Ind. He enlisted August 18, 1862, in Company F, Sixty-ninth Indiana Infantry. Mr. Middleton took part in the battle of Richmond, Ky., where he was taken prisoner, and after three days paroled and sent to Camp Wayne, at Richmond, Ind., where he remained for two months. At the expiration of that time, he was exchanged and sent to the Department of the Cumberland, under Gen. Grant. After participating in the battles of Chickasaw Bluff and Arkansas Post, he went into winter quarters at Young's Point. During the campaign of 1863, he took part in numerous battles, among which may be mentioned Port Gibson, Champion Hill, the siege of Vicksburg, etc. Was transferred to the Gulf Department in the fall of 1863. Spent the winter of 1863-64 at Indianola, Tex. From there, he was sent to assist in the Red River expedition. He was then with a marine corps detailed to guard the river between New Orleans and Vicksburg until November 1. Thence to Mobile Bay, in the vicinity of which he spent the winter of 1864-65. From there to Florida. Thence to the siege of Fort Blakely, after which he returned to Mobile, where he remained during the summer. Was mustered out of service July 5. Mr. Middleton was married, August 20, 1865, to Serena Alexander, who was born in Preble County, Ohio, April 21, 1847. She is the daughter of Clement F. and Rebecca (Parks) Alexander, the former born in Ohio May 2, 1817, and the latter in Indiana December 18, 1816. This union has been blessed with two children - Ida, born May 19, 1866, and Thomas, born February 14, 1871. Mr. Middleton was elected Trustee of Greensfork Township in 1880. He owns a fine farm of 128 acres in Section 2, on which he resides. He is known by many friends and acquaintances as a sterling gentleman.

JAMES ST. MYERS, farmer, P. 0. Winchester. This gentleman, born in Warren County, Ohio, June 22, 1834, is the son of John St. Myers, who was a native of Virginia. The subject of our sketch became a resident of this State in 1887, settling in Wayne County. The event of his marriage took place October 8, 1857. The chosen companion through life, Margaret A. Clark, was born in North Carolina December 16, 1836. She is the daughter of Eli and Malinda (Rayl) Clark, who were natives of North Carolina. Mr. St. Myers settled where he now resides in 1867. His farm consists of eighty acres of wellimproved land in Section 11; his buildings are of a neat, substantial class; he and his worthy lady have been blessed with three children - John A., born November 5, 1458; Sarah E., September 3, 1866, and George E., born September 21, 1878.

GEOEGE W. PERKINS, farmer, P. O. Spartansburg, born in this county March 10, 1841, is the sun of Nathaniel and Mary (Roberts) Perkins, the former born in North Carolina September 29, 1810, and the latter in Ohio April 8, 1820. The subject of this sketch was married, December 31, 1863, to Josephine Austin, who was born in Butler County,Ohio. She is the daughter of Jesse and Sarah (Chana) Austin. Mr. Perkins enlisted March 2, 1864, in Company H, One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Indiana Infantry. He was engaged numerous battles, among which may be mentioned, Columbia, Franklin and Nashville, of Tennessee; he was mustered out of service September 16, 1865, and has since beenengaged in farming. Mr. and Mrs. Perkins have been blessed with five children, viz.: George E., born May 1, 1864; Ulysses G., October 7, 1866; Sarah J., August 29, 1869; Mary L., March 5, 1871, and Emma G., born January 7, 1873. Mr. Perkins is a sterling gentleman, and is highly respected by all who know him.

REUBEN RANDLE, farmer, P. O. Spartansburg, born in Preble County, Ohio, January 28, 1832, is the son of John and Lydia (Sawyer) Randle. The snbject of this sketch has been a resident of this county since 1833. He was married, January 22, 1855, to Elizabeth Thompson, who was torn in South Carolina August 24, 1833. his union has been blessed with four children, viz.: John W. E., born March 6, 1858: Mary L., May 22, 1860; Lydia E., October 12, 1862, and Sarepta J., September 16, 1863. Mr. and Mrs. Randle are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and are highly respected citizens.

JAMES B. RUBEY, farmer, P. O. Spartansburg. This estimable gentleman, born in Union County, Ind., December 26, 1829, is the son of Joseph W. and Ann (Harlan) Rubey, the former born in Kentucky September 25, 1805, and the latter in Union County, Ind., July 14, 1808. Mr. Rubey settled with his parents on the farm where he now resides March 7, 1858. The event of his marriage took place December 30, 1855. 'The chosen companion through life, Miss Christina Middleton, was born in this county September 16, 1835. She is the daughter of Samuel H. and Christina (Tharp) Middleton, the former born in Westmoreland County, Va., March 4, 1794, and the latter in North Carolina May 28, 1790. Mr. and Mrs. Rubey have been blessed with two children - Matthew H., born October 27, 1856, and Mary C., August 3, 1858. Mr. Rubey is a consistent member of the Christian Church, and is an active worker in Pleasant Grove Grange, No. 226. He owns 260 acres of land, and may be classed among the enterprising farmers of this community. His early literary advantages were such as the pioneer youth generally enjoy ; but nature has compensated largely for the lack of early opportunities. He believes in advancement, and is ever found willing to aid in any enterprise that tends to elevate and improve the standing of society.

JOHN. C. RUBY, farmer, P.O. Spartansburg, son of Samuel F. and Jane Ruby. They were married in Darke County, Ohio, September 16, 1836. Father was born in Kentucky April 27, 1812; came with his parents to Union County, Ind. Afterward studied medicine with his brother, James, at Bethel, Wayne County, Ind., and became a very successful physician. About 1842, he purchased the farm now owned by John C., where he died December 31, 1858. Mother Was born in Pennsylvania February 17, 1818; came to Greene County, Ohio, with her parents, while in infancy, and two years previous to her marriage, she settled with her parents in Darke County, Ohio. John C. was born on the farm he now owns December 14, 18438. Mrs. Mary Jane Ruby was born November 1, 1846, on the farm then and now owned by her father, James M. Jackson. They were married, January 7, 1866. The subject of this sketch was deprived, by death, of his father when in his youth, and being the eldest boy living, the care of the family and farm depended upon him and his mother. How well they each done their part, present evidence will show by the many pleasant homes they enjoy. Enlisted in Company F, Sixty-ninth Regiment Infantry Indiana Volunteers, July 30th, and mustered in August 19, 1862. Was taken prisoner at Richmond, Ky., but was immediately paroled, aud went into camp at Richmond, Ind., until they were exchanged, when they went to Memphis, Tenn., where John C. fell ill with the measles; was afterward removed to Mound City. His brother repaired thither, and helped to obtain his discharge. Regaining his health, he again enlisted in his old company July 4, 1864, and joined his regiment at Morganza Bend, La. Was in all the battles and skirmishing that his regiment was engaged in while he was with them. His time did not expire until after the regiment was mustered out, and was transferred to Twenty-fourth Regiment, Indiana Infantry Volunteers, and was mustered out in October, 1865. Since then, has followed the occupation of farming. Mr. Ruby has one of the pleasantest homes in his township, His farm consists of 1823 acres of fine farming land, and the improvements attest the enterprise and thrift of its owner. They have one daughter - Aura Bell, born October 27, 1866. They also have an adopted son - Dilbert (Hunt) Ruby, born June 21, 1869. Mrs. Ruby is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In politics, Mr. Ruby is a Republican. In domestic relations, a kind, devoted and indulgent husband and father.

WILLIAM SASSER, farmer, P. O. Spartansburg. This estimable gentleman, born in Wayne County, N. C., October 13, 1811, is the son of William and Susanna (Starlan) Sasser, who were natives of the above State and county. The subject of this sketch, in company with his mother, came to Randolph County in 1830. They purchased a farm near where he now resides, on which they settled. Mr. Sasser was married October 14, 1830, to Elizabeth Ozbun, who was born in Guilford County, N.C. After marriage, Mr. S. rented land, and was engaged in farming for ten years, At the expiration of that time, he moved to Hamilton County, Ind., and purchased a farm of forty acres, which he shortly afterward sold, and then entered eighty acres, on which he settled and began to improve, but soon after met with an opportunity to sell out to advantage, did so and returned to this county; lived on rented land for two years; then purchased a farm of forty acres near Spartansburg, on which he resided for three years; since then he has bought and sold numerous farms, tified with the early and lasting improvements of this section of the county; he has always been very successful in his undertakings, and is noted for his fair and upright dealings; he settled ou the farm of 120 acres where he now resides in 1877. Christian Church, and is a thorough gentleman in all respects. He is the father of nine children, eight of whom are living, viz.: John, born July 28, 1881; Joel, October 15, 1832; Ollen, May 13, 1836; Susanna, March 28, 1839; Abraham, June 13, 1842; Benjamin F., January 20, 1844; Sarah E., July 80, 1847: .and Martha E., born October 16, 1852. Mrs. Sasser deceased January 1, 1877.

JOSEPH SHAW was one of the early inhabitants of Spartansburg, Greensfork Township; he was the father of Benjamin R. Shaw, of Spartansburg, and Gideon Shaw, of Winchester. Joseph was born in Bucks County, Penn., in 1796, and came to Waynesville, Ohio, when a young man; he was a shoemaker by trade, and being weary of the bench swopped his shop and stock and town residence for eighty acres of land in Ohio and 104 acres in the extreme southeast corner of Randolph County, Ind.; he took up his residence on the last named tract in 1830. The family lived there twenty-five years, and then moved to Hollandsburg, Ohio; then to Bethel, and last to Spartansburg, where he died in 1860. The wife of Joseph was Sarah Ramsey, who was brought up at Milford, Ohio, on the Ohio River. Joseph and Sarah had twelve children, six boys and six girls, who were all living at home at one time. Mrs. Shaw died some time after her husband, The following were some of the Shaw family: Lydia Ann, the wife of Harrison Anderson. Gideon Shaw, wao was born in 1821, who has been twice married, and has five children; he resided first on the old farm, then at Spartansburg, and for many years at Winchester ; he has been an active trader and broker, and*become very wealthy; in politics he inclines toward Democracy. Hester Shaw was married to Joseph Thomas' she died early, leaving a son, who is a teacher. Mary Elizabeth Shaw died young. Jasper Shaw was a merchant and tailor, and died leaving four children. Rachel Manning is resident of Spartansburg, and has ten children. John Thompson Shaw is a merchant tailor of Union City; he has been there sixteen years, and has six children. Martin Van Buren Shaw died young. Martha Polly resides in Union City, and has one child. Benjamin R. Shaw was born January 31, 1823; he married Delilah Mann in 1848; they have five children. Benjamin has been a farmer and by trade a carpenter, but for the last thirty years he has been a note shaver and a pettifogger, and in the latter business has achieved considerable notoriety; he has often been in close combat with stout limbs of the law, and came out first best; he has resided in Spartansburg for twenty years; he was originally a Henry Clay Whig, and in 1860 voted for Lincoln; he is now an active and influential Democrat; he is a member of the Disciples' Church; by his industry and close attention to business he has gathered about him a nice competence of worldly goods, and he owns some of the finest farming lands in Greensfork Township; he is kind and courteous to his neighbors and friends, and is the Democratic sage of the community in which he lives.

WILLIAM SLICK, farmer, P. 0. Arba, was born in Seneca County, Ohio, in July, 1829; he is the son of David and Eleanor (Messler) Slick, the former 3, native of Pennsylvania and the latter of Maryland. Mr. Slick was married October 16, 1854, to Armecy Elliott, who was born in Wayne County, Ind., May 10, 1835; she is the daughter of Miles and Francis (Newburn) Elliott, who were natives of North Carolina, the former born in March, 1795, and the latter in May, 1808. Mr. and Mrs. Slick have had born to them eight children, six of whom are living, viz.: George W., born October 22, 1856; Perry, November 22, 1860; Anna J., March 29, 1863; William H., March 20, 1866; Mary F., September 4, 1867; and Amanda E., September 6, 1870. Mr. Slick became a resident of this county in 1851; he owns 380 acres of land and is an industrious farmer; he and his worthy lady are members of New Light Church, and are respected by all who know them.

JOHN H. TAYLOR, druggist, P.O. Spartansburg. This gentleman, born in North Carolina October 30, 1824, is the son of William and Tellitha (Hedgepath) Taylor, who were natives of the above State. Mr. Taylor became a resident of this county in 1835; his education was such as the pioneer youths generally enjoy. The event of his marriage took place February 19, 1846, to Sarah Horn, who was born in this county November 9, 1827; she is the daughter of Jose and Penina (Fulgum) Horn, who were natives of Guilford County, N.C. Mr, and Mrs. Taylor have been blessed with nine children, four of whom are living, viz.: Ira S., born February 20, 1855; Thomas L., September 24, 1856; John W., February 6, 1859; and Frank R., born August 11, 1861. Mr. Taylor was engaged in farming until 1849, when he began the manufacture of boots and shoes at Spartansburg. In 1854, he extended his business, and opened a salesroom, carrying a full line of boots, shoes and notions, and was thus engaged until 1857, when he sold out and purchased a farm near the village, on which he resided for two years; at the expiration of this time, he was elected Trustee of Greensfork Township, and in order to attend promptly to the duties devolving upon him, he sold bis farm and returned to Spartansburg. At the expiration of his term of office, he again began the manufacture of boots and shoes, and was thus engaged until 1880, when he purchased a full line of drugs and notions, in which business he is now successfully engaged. He is a member of Bethel Lodge, F. & A. M., No. 250.

LUTHER TILLSON, farmer, P. O. Spartansburg. This estimable gentleman, born in Darke County, Ohio, April 18, 1817, is the son of Leonard and Lydia (Cood) Tillson, the former born in Vermont November 11, 1794, and the latter in North Carolina September 10, 1789. The subject of this sketch was married, December 20, 1849, to Catharine N. Rhodes, who was a native of Darke County, Ohio, born March 30, 1827. She is the daughter of Samuel and Jane (Jones) Rhodes, the former born in Vermont January 22, 1787, and the latter in Kentucky October 2, 1793. This union has been blessed with five children, viz., Rosaltha A., born September 29, 1858, and deceased August 20, 1855; Clarissa E., October 14, 1852; William L., September 19, 18655; Harriet E., November 28, 1858, and Walter A., March 14, 1862. Mr. Tillson has, with the exception of the year 1856, which was spent at Hillsboro, Ind., resided in this county since 1854. He purchased and settled on the farm where he now lives in 1878. He owns fifty acres of well-improved land. He and his worthy lady are members of the Christian Church, and are highly respected by a large circle of friends and acquaintances.

JOSEPH H. THORPE, farmer, P. O. Arba, was born in Wayne County, Ind,, August 5, 1832. He is the son of John and Anna (Middleton) Thorpe, who were natives of North Carolina, the former born February 10, 1792, and the latter March 9, 1796. Mr. Thorpe was married November 13, 1858, to Hannah Clevenger, who was born in Montgomery County, Ohio, August 9, 1840. She is the daughter of Thomas and Mary Clevenger, the former born Septem- with four children, viz., Marshal E. S., born August 7, 1859; Stephen O. E., July 5, 1864; Thomas I. C.,-May 20, 1870, and Oliver J. R., December 20, 1871. Marshal E. 8S. died September 4, 1862. Mr. Thorpe became a resident of this county in 1859. He owns 125 acres of land in Section 34, on which he resides. Mr. and Mrs. Thorpe are members of the Society of Friends, and are highly respected citizens.

P. M. B. THOMPSON, farmer, P. O. Spartansburg, son of William and Lucinda Thompson ; father was born and raised in South Carolina; was born May 26, 1796, and died in spring of 1871. His mother was born in Virginia about 1806, and when quite young was taken to South Carolina, where she married Mr. Thompson. They emigrated to Mississippi about 18438, where they remained about seven years, when they came to this county, and settled on the farm now owned by the widow and her son, P. M. B. The subject of this sketch was born in South Carolina February 4, 1843, and emigrated with his parents. He remained with them until April, 1863, when he enlisted in Company F, Fifth United States Colored Troops. Was in the battles of Petersburg, Deep Bottom and Fort Fisher; also several other hard-fought battles ; was mustered out in October, 1865. Then he engaged in teaching school, both North and South, for several years. September 1, 1870, he enlisted in Company D,

Was mustered out September 1, 1875. Since then has followed the occupation of farming. Mr. Thompson procured a furlough in March, 1864, and came to Nashville, Tenn., and married Malinda Joiner, when he immediately returned to his reginient, which was then stationed at Eagle Pass, Tex. They have one child - David T, Thompson - a bright, promising youth. Mr. Thompson obtained a good education, under the instruction of Prof. E. Tucker, at the U. L. Institution of Greensfork Township. By indomitable pluck, energy, perseverance and intelligence, industry, and by economical and temperate habits, he has accumulated a nice property. His wife is a member of the A. M. E. p pecda It is almost needless to state that Mr. Thompson is a strong Repubican.

HENRY WISE, farmer, P. O. Spartansburg, a native of Germany,was born May 6, 1836. He is the son of Melchior and Elizabeth (Feiling) Wise, who were born in Germany. The subject of our sketch emigrated to the United States in 1854, landing at New York February 11. From there he went to Cincinnati, and worked in a foundry for six months. Thence to Greenville, Ohio, where he remained for about two years. Thence to Spartansburg, this county, where he chose as his occupation farming. Mr. Wise was married August 18, 1860, to Hannah L, Bowen, who was born in this county January 27, 1843. She is the daughter of Ephraim L, and Ruth (Dwiggins) Bowen. This union has been blessed with six children, viz., Elnora L., born November 22, 1861; John O., April 21, 1863; Lizzie M., September 15, 1866; Hattie R., January 22, 1868; Ulrey C., April 21, 1870, and Florence O., born March 7, 1874. Mr. Wise enlisted, August 9, 1862, in Company F, Sixty-ninth Indiana Infantry. He participated in numerous battles. Among which may be mentioned Richmond, Ky.,,Arkansas Post, Port Gibson, Champion Hill, the siege of Vicksburg, the Red River expedition, assisting in the capture of Fort Blakely, etc. Mr. Wise, as a soldier, had an extensive experience, and was always found at his post of duty. Mr. Wise owns a fine farm of 120 acres, and is extensively engaged in farming and the breeding of fine stock. He is a member of the M. E. Church, and is known as a thorough gentleman.

DESCRIPTION. It is a curious fact how often certain names occur in the cen- Contains about forty-four square miles, being eight miles | sus of 1880 in Washington Township; e. g., there are 103 Johnnorth and south and five and a half miles east and west. The | 8°08, 98 Hinshaws, 33 Hodsons, 30 Lykinses, 27 Hutchenses, 20 southern part lies upon Green's Fork and its,two main branches | Kellys, 1% Joneses (including children). In; Greensfork, there and various smaller ones, and the north part upon the head- | 2re 49 Bowens, and others still occur with great frequency. waters of White River and Salt, Sugar, Sparrow and Eight Mile Other names, moreover, that were very frequent in pioneer days, Creeks. have nearly disappeared. Butso itis, "sic transit gloria mundi" The valley of Green's Fork is a fine body of land, excellent and (so passeth the glory of the world). fruitful from the very first opening of the country; and, by the successors, that region has become the very garden of Randolph Travis Adcock, N. W. 14, 18, 14, May 14, 1814. County. In fact, the whole township is a flourishing and pros- Travis Adcock, S. E. 10, 18, 14, October 19, 1814. perous region. The settlement of Washington was next after Curtis Cleny, S. W. 11, 18, 14, January 7, 1815. that of Greensfork. The first occupation of Greensfork was dur- Obadiah Harris, S. W. 10, 18, 14, May 8, 1815. ing 1814, It is not certainly known that any settlers came into John Ozbun, S. E. 8, 18, 14, June 1, 1815.

In the midst of imperfect memory and conflicting statements Stephen Hockett, S. E. 5, 18, 14, February 8, 1817. by those most likely to possess correct knowledge, literal accu- Stephen Hockett, N. BE. 8, 18, 14, February 8, 1817. racy is, of course, out of the question. The chronicler can only William Milner, S. W. 14, 18, 14, May 8, 1817. balance the statements and guess at the truth, with the strong Susannah Woodman, N. W. 15, 18, 14, July 7, 1817. probability that he will be wrong at least half the time. Wash- Mordecai Mendenhall, N. $ 17, 18, 14, August 11, 1817.

The following are mentioned as early settlers by various persons who remember the pioneer period, with the date of their land entry when known:

Religion

The preponderating religious element at the first settlement of the township was Quaker. A large body of the pioneers belonged to the Friends, and, in a short time, two meetings were established, viz., Lynn and Cherry Grove, which have been maintained in a vigorous and prosperous existence to the present time. Other societies, also, found early footing in that region.

and after that time, called Liberty Church. Other churches have been formed and maintained with a more or less vigorous growth for many years past.

We have obtained no very definite information as to the commencement of schools in Washington Township. The history of that matter in that region is doubtless similar to other portions in the county. There was no efficient school system, and each neighborhood went on its ''own hook," building something, though only a log cabin, for a schoolhouse, and employing a teacher as occasion offered. In Quaker neighborhoods, schools were held often in the churches, and sometimes schoolhouses were built near the meeting-houses, and schools were maintained by the societies. Frequently, the first schools were kept in private houses, the teacher taking her pupils into her own dwelling. Not seldom, some unoccupied cabin would be used for a schoolhouse.

One of the citizens of the county (not very old, either) relates, that, no longer ago than 1837, he taught his first school in a dilapidated old cabin in a field, with the chimney-piece all open (a great gap in the wall six or seven feet long and as high as one's head).

Washington contains an excellent population - moral, sober, industrious, intelligent and thriving. It has several good pikes and two railroads - the Richmond & Grand Rapids, passing near Johnson's, Lynn, Hawkins' and Rural. Another railroad is in progress east and west, passing near Lynn. Lynn is a thriving place, and a suburb of Lynn has been laid out as a depot for the north and south railroad, which is slowly advancing in prosperity.

Bloomingsport. - Nathan Hockett, proprietor; location, Sections 5, 6, 7 and 8, 18, 14, southwest of Lynn; forty-eight lots; streets, Main, north and south; High, east and west. Recorded September 30, 1829. This town is the second oldest in the county, having been laid out in 1829. Though so old, its growth was never rapid; still, considerable business has been done at the place. The proprietor of the town was Nathan Hockett. Alfred Blizzard built the first house. Mr. Beeson kept the first store. Dr. Paul Beard was the first physician in the region. There was no physician in Bloomingsport for many years. Dr. Gideon Frazier lived in the village a long while ago. Other physicians have been Drs. Gore, Strattan, Kemper, Good, Coggeshall, ete. Merchants have been Messrs. Beeson, Comfort, Ballard, Budd, Hyatt, Wright, Coggeshall, Hockett, etc. There have been a potter's shop, a wheelwright's shop, a saw-mill and a grist-mill. There are two churches - Methodist and United Brethren. There is a pike passing through the town, connecting Lynn and Economy. There is no railroad, the nearest point of importance being West Lynn, except that the new railroad passes not very far from the town. The population is 141. The business of the place at present is about as follows: Merchants, Beeson & Bales; drug store and grocery, Smith & Peacock; smith shop, Albert Hardwick; saw-mill, Hockett & Bowsman; wagon-maker, J. O. Hutchens; shoemaker, W. P. Davison; carpenters, Albert Ingle, John Nichols; physician, Dr. Good; clergyman, J. V. D. R. Johnson (Christian). There are two churches - United Brethren and Methodist Episcopal. The Friends also hold worship in the village. There is also a schoolhouse and a post office. The chief residents in the vicinity are William Engle, Jesse Bales, William Stanley, John Hodgson, Simon Adamson, Cady Osborn, Ezra Vandegriff, William Chamness, Levi Jessup, Joel Mills, Nathan Johnson.

Bloomingsport, like most of the interior towns in the county, is much decayed, and its business has greatly decreased. It is finely located in the midst of an excellent country, and many active and enterprising farmers reside in the region. There are two pikes, one connecting the Winchester & Richmond pike with Economy, and another north and south through the place. The village is quiet, moral and orderly, and, if the old regime had continued, might have been a flourishing town. But the 'railroad era" has changed the entire methods of business and trade, and towns outside their magic power have been obliged to succumb and yield, nolens volens, to their inevitable fate,

The distances from other adjacent. towns are as foilows: Farmland, 18 miles; Huntsville, 7 miles; Lynn, 44 miles; Losantsville, 184 miles; Ridgeville, 192 miles; Spartansburg, 10} miles; Union City, 204 miles; Windsor, 20 miles; Winchester, 104 miles; Rural, 9 miles.

The most prosperous time for the business of the town was, say from 1860 to 1868. "There were then three considerable dry goods stores, two smith shops, one wagon-maker's shop, and an extensive and thriving trade was carried on. But now there is very little business of any kind.

Johnson's Station and Post Office. - Not incorporated; on Grand Rapids Railroad, two and a half miles south of Lynn, on Section 15, 18, 14. There is a station and a post office all in the same building. It was established probably at the opening of the Grand Rapids Railroad. The station is in the immediate vicinity of the residence of Mr. William Johnson, who is a very prominent citizen, and it was probably located by his influence and for his special convenience, not less than for the accommodation of the neighborhoud. It is really no town at all, the station house being the only building.

Lynn. - Location, Sections 34, 35, 19, 14, and Sections 2 and 3, 18, 14, on Richmond & Grand Rapids Railroad, Philip Brown, proprietor; nineteen lots; streets, north and south, Main; east and west, Mill, Brown. Recorded October 4, 1850. Hunt & Jennings' Addition, Royal Hunt (tirm of Hunt & Jennings), proprietor; forty-four lots; Sherman street, east and west. Recorded November 17, 1866.

19,14, and on Sections 2 and 3, 18, 14, about one-half mile from the Richmond & Grand Rapids Railroad. Jacob A. Hinshaw hada store in 1847. William Louder had a smith shop. Dr. Banks was the first physician (1847). The pike from Winchester te Fountain City, through Lynn, was built aarly, perhaps among the first in the county, or nearly so. The Richmond & Fort Wayne Railroad was completed about 1870. The merchants have been Meswrs. Hinshaw, Tansey, Hunt & Harris, Hinshaw & Hodgin, Hinshaw & Beard, Elliott & - - , Freeman & Jones, Hinshaw & Platt, George Bascom, Hinshaw & Hinshaw, McKown, Sterling, Carter, Cox Bros., Hinshaw & Cadwallader, and may be others. Smith shops, Louder, Hinshaw, William Locke, Wolf, Johnson, Sugarts, Jackson, Shute & Locke; drug stores, Simpson, Conner, Wysong, Holliday Bros.; groceries, Freeman, Ingle, Hinshaw; wagon shop, W. Woods; cooper, J. S. Smith; harness shop, Hinshaw & Louder; tin shop, Brown; milliner, Harris; saw-mill and grist-mill, both burned down; tile factory, Hinshaw, Shute & Louder; hotels, Ostler, Way, Stettler, Nichols, Platt, Pearson; teachers, Ives, Anderson, Lasley, Marsh, Green, Hunt, Hogston, Polly, Frist, Nichols, etc.; phy sicians, Banks, Adams, Hamilton, Alf Hamilton, Blair, Meeks, Swain.

The present business is as follows: One dry goods store, Cox & Bro.; one drug and hardware store, Halliday & Bro.; two groceries, Ingle, Hinshaw; three smith shops, Sugart, Jackson, Shute & Locke; one butcher shop, John Thomas; one wagon shop, W. Wood; two physicians, Blair, Hamilton; two hotels, Stettler, Platt; two tile factories, Shute & Dove, Frist & Hamilton; one boarding-house, W. D. Nichols; one shoe shop, Eckerley; one harness shop, J. Thomas; one church, Methodist Episcopal; one schoolhouse, two rooms; one post office, Halliday: one depot, Nichols; one express office, Nichols; two teachers, A. L. Nichols, P. Bond (1881).

Distances: Bloomingsport, 44 miles; Newport, 64 miles; Snow Hill, 3 miles; Rural, 4+ miles; Winchester, 9 miles; Spartansburg, 57%, miles; Arba, 64 miles; Huntsville, 84 miles; Losantsville, 14 miles; Union City, 164 miles.

The principal residents in the vicinity are as follows: L. E. Conner, David Robbins, Alfred Price, George Bascom, north of town; Simon Johnson, Silas Johnson, Ira Johnson, Alpheus Outland, Charles Potter, south of town; Thomas Moody, east of town; Jacob Platt, David Thorn, west of town; Jonathan Blizzard, southwest of town; Thomas Sugart, southeast of town.

There are in Lynn about fifty dwellings, besides business houses and other eclifices, and 239 people. Lynnisnot far from Green's Fork stream,and the country around it is excellent and well improved. Fine residences may be seen in every direction. Pikes lead out from the village north, south and east. The region has been inhabited by white men for more than sixty-seven years, settlers beginning to enter land in the neighborhood in 1814, and to come in 1815.

The Methodist Church was built many years ago. The schoolhouse is neat, commodious and tasteful, being intended for a school with two grades. The edifice has two stories, with one roomand an entry ineachstory. It was erected by the Township Trustees some years ago, at a cost of about $4,000. Two teachers are commonly employed, sometimes during the summer term only one.

For a long time, the growth of the town was buf slow, and its prosperity very slight. Its vitality dates chiefly from the completion of the railroad. Ithas good connection by pikes with the surrounding towns - Winchester, Union City (nearly), Bartonia, Spartansburg, Arba, Fountain City, Williamsburg, Bloomingport, Economy, etc. The school is becoming so large as greatly to need at least three rooms and three teachers.

Distances: Spartansburg, 5 9-10 miles; Arba, 63 miles; Economy, 8 miles; Union City, 19 miles; Rural, 44 miles; Bloomingport, 44 miles; Huntsville, 84 miles; Losantsville, 14 miles; Fountain City, 64 miles; Snow Hill, 3 miles; Winchester, 9 miles; Richmond, 15 miles.

The country is fertile, and the farmers are thriving, intelligent and prosperous, and society has a high moral tone. Sixtyfive years of labor, frugality and thrift, have combined to make

In the fall of 1881 and winter of 1881-82, a new railroad was built through the southern part of Randolph County, touching Lynn, which, when in full operation will add largely, doubtless, to the facilities for business at that point, and, of course, to its material prosperity. July, 1882, the road has been completed, and the cars are running.

The town was started about 1870, on the completion of the railroad from Richmond. The first spike forthe road was driven at Richmond June 10, 1870, and the track was completed before very long. .

Joseph Wood built a shanty, October, 1866, to work on the railroad; went away in April, 1867,.and returned in 1869. In March, 1870, he set up a saw-mill. The mill was in operation six months, and by that time the railroad had been made and the cars began to run. In November, 1871, David Fudge erected a store. The railroad company built a water-tank, and named the stopping-place Wood Station. Mr. Butterworth set up a smith shop in 1875. William Hawkins erected a grist-millin 1877. P. W. Bales built a store in 1878. Mr. Clawson established a smith shop in 1879.: More or less grain is bought at the mill and by the merchants. A post office has been erected by the name of Rural. The business of the town may be stated thus:

Rural has fifteen dwellings and seventy-five people. There is no pike, and not even a cross-road, but only an ordinary public road crossing the railroad. The village is so healthy that no physician can live there. The distance to the nearest graveyard is four and a half miles. Dr. tried it here two years, but got no practice and left.

Residents in vicinity: Riley Lord, Jacob Lasley, Jonathan Edwards, Henry Johnson, west of town; Silas Henshaw, east of town; William Benson (colored), Thomas Watkins (colored), south of town; Thomas Holloway, north of town; Joseph Wood, Alfred Hogston, east of town.

Democratic Row. - There is a place west of Rural called Democratic Row, containing sixteen voters in two miles, with ten houses, fourteen being Democrats.

There is one smith shop, Lewis L. Norton; one dry goods store, P. W. Bales, Republican; one saw-mill, Thomas Cox; one butcher shop, Lewis L. Norton; one sewing machine agent, William Arbaugh, Republican.

The name above seems to have been given by some of the Republicans in the region, as the inhabitants themselves are not aware of the appellation, though the name, indeed, is no disgrace, but may be rightly reckoned by the residents to be an honor conferred, since the meaning of the term, properly understood and applied, is worthy of all praise - government by the people; or, as President Lincoln once expressed the true idea, "A government of the people, by the people, for the people." Such, indeed, is true Democracy; such, in fact, is true Republicanism.

Distances from Rural: Arba, ten and a half miles; Bloomingport, nine miles; Bartonia, ten miles; Farmland, fourteen miles; Huntsville, six miles; Lynn, four and one-fifth miles; Losantsville, fourteen and two-fifths miles; Ridgeville, fourteen miles; Spartansburg, nine miles; Union City, fourteen miles; Winchester, five miles; Stone Station, nine miles.

road. There used to be a store at that point, but there never was any town. The store has been long discontinued, though the building yet stands, flush with the pike, to show that once it had a public nature and importance. The name Snow Hill is still retained. The same name is sometimes applied, also, to the point where that east and west road crosses the railroad, which crossing is also sometimes called Hawkins' Station, and lies about one mile west of old Snow Hill.

Hawkin's Station. - On Grand Rapids Railroad, not incorporated, in Sections 16 and 21, Township 19, Range 14, in Washington Township, one mile south of Rural and three miles north of Lynn, there is a switch and a station, and a cattlepen from which to load stock, but no other sign of a town. It is sometimes called Snow Hill Station, because its location is the nearest railroad point to (old) Snow Hill, and one mile west of the point that formerly went by that name.

Springboro. - Curtis Beals, proprietor. Location, southeast corner of the northwest quarter of Section 29, Township 19, Range 14, between Bloomingport and Winchester, northwest of Lynn four miles (supposed to be Joseph Gess); twenty-eight lots; recorded February 15, 1834; town extinct.

Whether anything and how much of a town ever really existed at the point above designated, the present inhabitants appear to have little knowledge. In the court records is found the granting of a license to sell goods at Springboro, which would indicate the fact that in those olden times somebody undertook to start some business at the infant town.

Rev. Hosea Tillson, in " Reminiscences" of his preaching, speaks of Springboro as though it were a place then (about 1837 or 1838) in existence, which fact shows that the town held its name, and probably at least some semblance of a town, for some years, the plat having been recorded in 1834. Pelatiah Bond states that in his boyhood there was a store anda smith shop and a few houses at the place.

The town was laid out in 1873 by Benjamin Hunt on the Richmond Railroad, half a mile westof Old Lynn. There is but little growth at the new station, the business, of which there is considerable, clinging with much tenacity to theold town. There are a few houses in the new plat and some future time may perhaps behold what has been denied to the men of this generation, viz., the sight of a thriving, prosperous and wealthy city upon the now sparse and scattered hamlet of West Lynn.

Quite a sprinkling of business, however, is done at this same little suburb of old Lynn, that boasts itself to be above its fellow-towns in "snap" and " grit," as the following resume of the transactions of the railroad at the station will clearly show.

James Abshire was born August 1, 1777; came to the West early; was in the Indian wars, being once three days without food, except black-haws; settled in Randolph County, Ind., northwest of Cherry Grove Meeting-House, in about 1821, and resided there till his death, in 1868, a very aged man, ninetyone years old. He had a large family, some of whom, and among them two of his sons, Isaac and Berry, are still living in the same neighborhood.

James Abshire was in pioneer days a famous hunter, and in later life, he delighted greatly in recounting his adventures with the wild creatures of the forest.

Once, in hunting near a pond, he heard some animal rustling among the bushes. Watching for the creature, as he sat there, rifle in hand, out peered the head of the beast, when lo! it was a bear. A bullet from the trusty weapon suddenly put an end to the life of the savage monster, and added one more trophy to those already gained by the veteran hunter.

His acquaintance with the woods was thorough and extensive, and he knew the haunts of every flock of hogs in the region, and when a settler wished to find his porkers, all he had to do was to go and ask old Father Abshire, and the locality would be pointed out at once, or the stalwart hunter would set out as a guide to the identical spot where that particular herd had its habitat and its lodging-place.

Mr. Abshire spent his youth among the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia. At the age of twenty-three, he married Elizabeth Overholtz. Soon afterward, he emigrated to Preble County, Ohio, his goods being brought through the forests in a one-horse wagon.

October 8, 1812, he enlisted in the United States Army, under Capt. Richard Sloan, Sixth Regiment, Fifth Brigade, First Division, Ohio Militia. They were stationed on the frontier, at Fort Nesbitt, in the vicinity of Eaton, Preble County. He served till April 8, 1813.

In the winter of 1821, he moved with his family to Randolph County, Ind., settling one mile northwest of Lynn, on the west side of Mud Creek, where stoud a dwelling having neither floor, windows nor doors. Arriving in the night, during asevere snowstorm, they built huge fires and camped out. The next day, the house was made habitable, and they took possession of their domicile. In the spring, they made their clearing, and, before long, set out an orchard, which is living yet. In 1828, he moved to the farm upon which his residence continued till his death, in 1868, at the ripe age of ninety-one years.

His children were eight - Aarun, Nancy, Mary, Chloe, Isaac, Abner, Elizabeth, James B. Chloe, Isaac, Elizabeth and James B. yet survive. His wife was born in Maryland in 1773, and died in Randolph County in 1841.

Travis Adcock, south of Lynn, east of the Johnson Schoolhouse, entered the first piece of land in that region in May, 1814, shortly after Thomas Parker came into the woods west of Arba; but when Adcock moved to that wilderness we do not know. He may have come the first on Green's Fork. He was one of the first jurymen (in 1818). He had his name changed, for some reason, from Adcock to Emery. In about 1836 or 1838, he emigrated to Iowa, and, not very long ago, he was living there still. His residence was south of' Lynn, on the east side of the pike, opposite the Johnson Schoolhouse. He was a member of Friends, but concerning his life in general we know little.

James Barnes was born in Wayne County, Ind., in 1817; came to Randolph County in 1841; married Harriet Mullen in 1838; has had eleven children, six of them now living. He lives at the same place to which he first moved. James Barnes is a Democrat, and is proud of the fact. He is a fine specimen of the hale and sturdy Western farmer, frank, genial, thriving, huspitable, sincere.

had eleven children, ten living, and all married, as follows: William, four children, dead; James, eleven children; John, six children; Jesse, two children; Daniel, five children; Betsey, six children; Eliza, three children; Caroline, five children; Jane, two children; Sally, eight children.

James Barnes resides on a good farm, with a fine brick dwelling and excellent improvements, some three miles north of Lynn, on the Winchester pike, a little south of (old) Snow Hill. A son of his was in the United States service in the war of 1861, and died a prisoner in Andersonville in the summer of 1864.

William Barnes was born in 1815, in North Carolina. He came to Wayne County, Ind., in 1817. He married Sarah Hogston in 1834, and moved to Randolph County in 1837, first to Greensfork Township, and then to Washington Township, where he now resides. They have had six children, four of whom are living. He is a farmer, a Methodist and a Democrat.

Joseph Baxter was born in 1787, in Pennsylvania; came to Ohio, and, in 1824, to Randolph County, Ind., near Rural. He married Sarah Pegg in 1829. They had six children, as follows: John, boru in 1831, eight children; William, born in 1833, two children, dead; Jane, born in 1836, three children, dead; Sarah, born in 1888, single, living; Joseph, born in 1841, two children; Davis, born in 1844, four children.

Norr. - Mrs. Baxter's father, John Pegg, entered. land in Randolph County November 7, 1816, and probably moved here about that time. The entries do not always, however, determine the time of settlement. The entry was made sometimes months, possibly years before, and sometimes not till months or even years after the settlement; and not seldom it was the case that the person who made the entry never effected a settlement at all.

Paul Beard, Jr., was born in North Carolina in 1812, and came to Randolph County, Ind., in 1817. He is the son of Dr. Paul Beard, who emigrated to this county at that time, and entered land near Lynn Meeting-House.

Paul Beard, Jr., married Mary Cox in 1833. They have had nine children, eight now living andseven married. Their names are Levi, Ezra, Ann, Asa, Eunice, Louisa, Lindley, Ruth, Henry. Lindley joined the Sixtieth Indiana Regiment in his eighteenth year. Mr. Beard is an Elder in the Society of Friends, and a Republican. His wife is also an Elder. They reside on the farm entered by Paul Beard, Sr., near Lynn Meeting-House for Friends. They are intelligent, sober-minded, pious people, walking in industry and sobriety of spirit, and in the love and practice of the truth.

Paul Beard was raised a farmer, and still follows that avocation for a livelihood. He is the uncle of Elkanah Beard, who has become a noted preacher among Friends, having traveled extensively (as also his wife, who is a preacher) in the East, the South and the West, they having been missionaries to India, etc. The wife of E)kanah Beard is Irena Johnson, grand-daughter of Jesse Johnson, one of the earliest pioneers of the township.

Benjamin Bond was born in North Carolina in 1797; came to Wayne County, Ind., in 1811; married Ellen Goldsmith in 1827; she taught the first school in Milton, Wayne Co., Ind. They have had nine children, all sons; six lived to be grown, and all the six were soldiers in the Union army in the war of 1861. Samson was ina Minnesota regiment, and was discharged for disability. Hezekiah was in the First Minnesota, and died in Salisbury Prison. Benjamin was in the Highth Indiana and in the Third Cavalry; died in five months, in the service. Pelatiah was a member of the Highth Indiana (three months), and in the Forty-first Indiana; served three years and one month. Daniel was in the First Minnesota, and served in the Eastern army; was captured at Petersburg in 1864, and spent many sad and weary months in various prisons - Libby, Andersonville, ete. - escaping at last from the guard upon a march from one prison to another; he served four years inall. Edward, in the First Minnesota Heavy Artillery, served nine months.

Three of the boys are living, and all have been teachers of long standing and superior ability. Pelatiah and his wife were for several years missionary teachers for the Friends among the Ottawa Indians, in the northeastern part of the territory. For several years last past, he has resided in Lynn, engaging in teaching, in book agencies, etc.

Daniel Bond, brother of Pelatiah, has been and still is an enterprising and successful teacher. He has taught three years at Spartansburg, several years in Westfield, Hamilton County, besides other places. Daniel Bond is a thorough student, making also himself substantial and rapid improvement while imparting information to others.

He has now (1881) left the business of teaching, and removed to Science Hill, Ky., buying a farm with the intention of raising fruit. He has been twice married, and his second wife is still living.

A cousin of Benjamin Bond (the elder) was the first white child born in Wayne County. His name is William Bond; he was born on the present site of Harlham College, near Richmond, in 1808, and he is living still. When Benjamin Bond came to Wayne County (1811), there were but two or three houses in Richmond.

Benjamin Bond came to Randolph County in 1834; entered forty acres of land on Sparrow Creek; moyed afterward to Washington Township, in 1837, and to Minnesota in 1854, returning to his old farm in Randolph County in 1857.

Preparing a farm in Kansas, and expecting a removal thither, he died 'in that State while on a visit to his son Pelatiah, in 1875, seventy-eight years old. His widow is living still with her son Daniel, at Science Hill, Ky.; she was born in 1802, and is now eighty years old, but is wonderfully vigorous for one of her age. When nearly eighty, she would carry her marketing two and a half miles on foot, and return the same forenoon, without fatigue; and in Kentucky she seems now more sprightly than when in Randolph.

"I was born in Orange County, N. C., in 1783, and am now more than vighty-five years old. I was shifted from place to place when I was a child, and got no learning. I determined to leave Carolina, and came to Elkhorn, in Ohio, near Westville, six miles from Richmond, Ind., in 18038. In 1812,I volunteered in the United States army. We set out for Detroit, but the march was countermanded between Dayton and Piqua, and we were ordered back to the frontier. Our regiment was stationed at, Whitehead, two miles above Williamsburg, Wayne Co., Ind. We had to scout all the time, but were in no battle. I was up Greensfork to the Beard settlement. A deer-lick was found on Paul Beard's land, and I have often shot deer there. I was a soldier three months and twenty days, and was honorably discharged. I bought my land February 13, 1817, before Randolph was a county." :

[Norr. - The tract book gives Curtis Cleny's entry as being January 17, 1815, two years before he dates the transaction himself, and before Indiana became a State. One would suppose Mr. Cleny would be correct. Perhaps he is, but the figures are as here stated. |

"The first year I packed my meat thirty miles on my back. Breadstuff was scarce enough. Salt was $4 a bushel, and wet at that. I could tell many hardships, but I forbear. Most of the pioneers are gone. Ten years may perhaps see the last. aged head laid low in death and behold the last pioneer pass on to his reward. May God prepare us for His glorious rest! Amen!"

Twelve children were born to them, ten of whom grew to manhood, and five are living still. He remained among men, indeed, to a ripe old age, even to fourscore years and ten. Mr. Cleny was a Baptist, belonging to the Concord Church of that faith in Wayne County.

His life was during an eventful time. Born in the year of the peace with Great Britain after the Revolutionary struggle, he came to the heart of the mighty West the year after Ohio became a State, the first-born offspring of the famous ordinance of freedom; took part in the second war of independence while yet in his early prime; helped Indiana to begin her race for renown, having become part owner of her Territorial soil the year before she became an equal member of the glorious sisterhood in the bright galaxy of States that form the American Union, and for well-nigh threescore years remained a citizen, sharing the hardships and the toils, and the hardy pleasures and the rugged delights also, which her noble pioneers knew so well how to draw from the laborious life they were obliged to lead. He even overlived his time. He remained a pioneer till pioneer times and perils and ways were over and done, and forgotten except by a scattered few, who, like him, had outlived their generation.

He was old enough to vote at the election for Jefferson's second term, and he remained a citizen of the Republic until he had voted for Gen. Grant the second time - an interval of seventeen Presidential terms, or sixty-eight years! So short is our national history that a single human life can cover it all!

George W. Daly was born in Cavin County, Cavin Town, Ireland, about 1790, probably of wealthy parents. He came to America when young, and completed his education in New York, receiving a classical training in one of the, colleges there. He studied law, and practiced awhile, but became disgusted at the too frequent trickery and roguery incident in that profession, and forsook the law, taking up the vocation of a teacher for the rest of his life. He traveled extensively in America and Europe for years, afoot and alone, all over New England and the South and West, and in France, Great Britain, etc., afterward practicing law, chiefly in Franklin County, Ind. He was at Winchester in the practiceof the legal profession before the first court house was built. He quit the law about 1823. His wife was Catharine Clayton, daughter of John Clayton, of Virginia. He resided at first, after his marriage, at Franklin, Ohio, on the Miami River removing afterward to Preble County, Ohio, and finally, in 1842, to Randolph County, Ind., three miles northwest of Lynn, settling upon a tract of 120 acres entered by him in about 1825. His teaching was done mostly in Preble County, Ohio, during the fall and winter, going back to that region in the fall, and returning to spend the summer. He had a high reputation as a teacher, and many men, afterward prominent in that section, were indebted to his instructions. His family numbered ten children. Hight lived to be grown; five were married, and six are living now.

Mr. Daly was remarkably reticent, saying very little-of his early life. His history must have been of unusual interest, but a knowledge of it mostly died with him. His character was one of rare and stern integrity. He was a Catholic in religion, and a Democrat in politics, after the old style.

Mr. Daly died in 1866, at the age of seventy-six. His widow is still living, seventy-seven or seventy-eight years old, strong and vigorous for her age. They had eight children when the family settled in the Indiana woods, an active group of wideawake boys, who cleared out the farm while their father taught the young idea how to shoot in the hamlets and towns of Preble County, Ohio. The children were as follows:

W. A. W. Daly, ex-Sheriff of Randolph County, Ind., was born in 1833, in Preble County, Ohio; came to Randolph County, Ind., in 1848; joined Company B, Ninetieth Indiana Regiment (Fifth Indiana Cavalry), enlisting August 25, 1862; was captured July 31, 1864, released March, 1865, and mustered out in June, 1865.

He married Mary Henshaw in 1857; has had nine children, eight living; is a farmer, and an active, energetic and prominent citizen. He has héld the office of Sheriff of Kandolph County for four years (1874-78), discharging the duties of his position with honor to himself and to the satisfaction of the community. Mr. Daly is exceedingly earnest and enthusiastic as a Republican, the memories of his war experience and of his sacrifices for liberty and union clinging to his heart like his very life.

He erected a fine residence, during the summer of 1880, on his farm, two and a half miles north of Lynn. On his birthday in 1880, his wife and family and friends contrived a perfect surprise, managing so adroitly that, without the least shadow of suspicion on his part, a company of some one hundred and fifty relatives and friends assembled at his new and elegant mansion. " Will" owned he was beaten for once. But he gave in like a man, and surrendered the fort without even a show of resistance; and for some three hours that happy company drank deeply of the sweets of social intercourse, and saw with sad regret the hour arrive which bade them separate, departing each one to his home and to his business.

James Frazier came from North Carolina to Cowan's Creek, Clinton Co., Ohio, in 1811, and to Randolph County, Ind. in 1817. settling one mile east of Lynn.

He entered 160 acres of land at Cincinnati. His wife's muiden name was Susanna Stanley. She was born in North Carolina in 1767, and he in 1772. He died in 1822, about five years after coming here. They had ten children, all of whom were born before Mr. Frazier came to Randolph, and seven of whom came with their father to the county. Three were probably married in Carolina and stayed there. The names of the children are given below:

Isaiah, 1814, twice married, six children, Wisconsin. The children became all grown and were married and had families. Seven came with their father to Randolph County. James Frazier was a bell-maker, andso was hisson Francis, who isstill alive (1880), seventy-eight years old, and claims that he can make upon his anvil a better razor than can be bought at the stores.

Nancy Hinshaw, Washington, has had eleven children. All became grown, were married and had families. The youngest was thirty-seven years old when the first onedied. Theold lady is living now not very far from (old) Snow Hill, and ten of the eleven children still survive. She has sixty grandchildren and thirty-seven great-grandchildren. Her husband was an early pioneer of Randolph, being in politics a Democrat of the Jacksonian type, and his aged widow is still enthusiastic in the same faith. She is some eighty-four years old, hale and hearty and sprightly. Her daughter is the wife of W. A. W. Daly, Esq., ex-Sheriff of Randolph County.

Jacob A. Hinshaw came with his mother, Phebe Hinshaw, to Washington, south of Lynn, in 1832. She entered land where Jacob A. Hinshaw now lives. J. A. Hinshaw married Peninnah Scott in 1845, and has had eleven children; ten are now living, and four married.

He was raised a Friend, but afterward joined the Methodists. He has been active in various kinds of business, with reasonable success, having been able to do what many have failed to accomplish - i. e., to secure for himself and his family a comfortable livelihood.

Samuel Jennings was born in 1800, and came to Randolph County, Ind., iz 1825. He married Mary Sexton, and had eight children. He settled one and a half miles east of Johnson's Station; entered eighty acres; was a farmer, and a Democrat. He died in 1865, being sixty-five years of age.

Jesse Johnson was born in North Carolina in 1776. He was married four times - first wife, Elizabeth Chamness, born 11th month, 14th, 1799, died 6th month, 20th, 1827; second wife, Rhoda Swain, married 10th month, 20th, 1828, died 6th month, 3d, 1837; third wife, Nancy Tomlinson, married 8th month , 13th, 1838, died 9th month, 27th, 1847; fourth wife, Sarah Baldwin, married 2d month, 8th, 1855, living still.

Jesse Johnson died 5th month, 19th, 1853, aged seventy-nine years five months and ten days. He emigrated from North Carolina to Warren County, Ohio, in 1807 or 1808, and to Randolph County, Ind., south of Lynn, in 1817.

Jesse Johnson was a prominent citizen in the pioneer period; was the first Treasurer of Randolph County, and held other positions among his fellow-citizens, showing the trust reposed in him. He was in religion a steadfast Friend, and "a Whig in politics.

John Joknson was born in Ohio in 1812; came with his father, Jesse Johnson, to near Lyun in 1817 (probably); married Phebe Thornburg in 1830; then Rebecca Rockhill. He had ten children by his first wife, and twelve by the second. Just half of each set are now living - eleven in all; seven are married. His first wife died some years ago; the second is living now. He died in 1871. His residence was two miles north of Bloom-

Ind., with his father; married three times - first, Ann Frazier, daughter of Francis Frazier; second, Huldah Way, daughter of Nathan Way; third, Jane (Moore) Small, widow of Josiah Small.

He was very earnest in attendance upon religious meetings, rising before daylight in the summer, and working several hours, going sixteen miles on horseback from Cherry Grove to Whitewater to attend week-day meeting.

Joshua M. Johnson was born in 1831, in Randolph County, Ind.; married Amanda Pegg, daughter of Reuben Pegg, and has had thirteen children; twelve are living, and one is married.

He is a blacksmith and a farmer. He has been Postmaster twenty-seven years. He isa Republican. Two of his brothers are New-Light preachers - George and Isaac. called " Alphabet" Johnson, his whole name being I. V. D. R. Johnson - -an extensive name, surely.

Ruth (Moody) Johnson is the wife of William Johnson, of Johnson's Station. She has been a recorded minister among Friends since about 1858. She has traveled through Ohio and Towa, and elsewhere, as a preacher. In 1862, she pursued her work of faith and patience throughout seventeen counties in Iowa, mostly among Friends, and she was everywhere received with kindness and in Christian love. Her work was approved in the Lord by Friends, and she felt many times the tokens of gracious acceptance from the hands of the Master.

Friend Ruth is humble, gentle and faithful, and her soothing words come down as the rain, and distil like the tender dewdops upon the springing grass.

Silas Johnson was born in 1802, in North Carolina; came with his father to Randolph County, near Lynn, in 1817; was married twice - first, to Betsey Cook, and second to Lydia Bond - and is the father of twelve children - three boys and nine girls. He is- still living, hale and sprightly, seventy-nine years old. His second wife is living also.

He is the son of Jesse Johnson, one of the oldest pioneers of that section, being a lad of about fifteen years at the time of their emigration from Carolina.

William Johnson, son of Silas Johnson, was born in 1828, in Randolph County, Ind.; married Ruth Moody, daughter of Isaac Moody, in 1848. They have had twelve children; seven are living, and four are married. One daughter, who died, had been very gay and vain and proud, but she was so changed as to possess a sweet, gentle, submissive temper, bore her painful sickness with the utmost patience and resignation, sang for very joy as she lingered on these time chores, and went home at last exultant in a Savior's love. Her mourning friends preserve her memory as a priceless treasure.

William Johnson is a farmer by vocation, a member of the Friends, and an Elder among them; an active and influential citizen, and in every way a worthy and valuable member of society and of the community. He has a railrosd station at his place, and a post office has been established there (Johnson's Station), of which office he is Postmaster.

He is an enthusiast in whatever he tries to accomplish, and, within two or three years, has undertaken bee culture, which he presses with all the vigor of his nature, and with reasonable success.

Isaac Moody was born in Grayson County, Va., in 1790; came to Ohio in 1814; married Mary Heaston, from Pennsylvania, in 1823; emigrated to Randolph County in the same year, and settled near Lynn, east of James Frazier's. He had only two children, and was a " Body Friend." He was in early times a Whig, and in later years a Republican. He lived a farmer, and died in 1865, sixty-eight years old. His daughter Ruth has become an acceptable and weighty minister among Friends, and has traveled much in the bearing of her messages for Christ, greatly to the edification of believers in Jesus, and to the comfort of His humble, waiting, trusting children.

Samuel Moody was the father of Isaac Moody, and the grandfather of Ruth (Moody) Johnson. He was born about 1760, in Pennsylvania (or Virginia). His father came from Ireland. Samuel Moody came to Ohio in 1814, and to Randolph County, Ind., in 1821, near Lynn. His first wife was Jane Cox, and his second wife was Jane Cadwallader. He had four children; was a Friend and afarmer. He died in Ohio in 1825, about sixtyfive years old. He was faithful in testimony, loving in spirit, and exemplary in the practice of Christian doctrine.

John Moorman was born in Richmond County, N. C., March 23, 1760; married Rebecca Diggs about 1783, and came to Randolph County, Ind., in 1816. They had ten children:

He settled northwest of where Johnson's Schoolhouse now stands, south of Lynn. He died in 1845, eiyhty-five years old. He was a farmer, a Friend, a Whig and one of the earliest settlers.

John Moorman, Jr., son of John Moorman, Sr., was born in Carolina in 1807, and was brought to Randolph County, Ind., by his father, in 1816. He married Agatha Butler, and they had two children. He died in 1866, aged fifty-nine years; and she died in 1875, at the age of sixty-two years.

Henry D. Nichols, Lynn, was born in Randolph County, Ind., in 1832, in Greensfork Township; married Elizabeth Gray in 1854; has had eleven children, nine of them living and thrée married. He moved to Lynn in 1864, and has lived there mostly ever since as farmer, carpenter, merchant, clerk, boardinghouse keeper, hotel keeper, etc. He has been School Trustee four terms, Township Assessor three years, etc. He belongs to the Disciple Church, and is a Republican in politics; his father used to be a Democrat, but changed to the Republican party in 1856. H. D. N. is the son of Malachi Nichols, and the brother of Isaac Nichols, of Greensfork. One of his sons is railroad agent at Lynn; another, A. L. Nichols, is*an enterprising and successful teacher, having been engaged in the work some eight years, attending several terms in the meantime at Terre Haute State Normal School. He was, in 1880 and 1881, employed as Principal of Lynn Graded School, and now resides at Winchester, being engaged in the study of law.

Valentine Pegg, Wayne County, was born about 1743 in Maryland; he had two sons in the Revolutionary army; he moved to North Carolina during that war; he came to Wayne County, Ind., in 1808, and died about 1826, an old man, eighty-three years old. .

John Pegg, son of Valentine Pegg, was born in Maryland in 1770; moved to North Carolina during the war of the Revolution; married Margaret (Davis) in 1792, born in 1773; they had seven children. He died in 1847, seventy-seven years old; his wife died in 1856, eighty-three years old. Their children were Mary (Pearson), born in 1793, six children, died in 1879, eightyfive years old; Ruth (Pearson), born in 1795, four children, died in 1876, eighty-one years; Davis Pegg, 1798, seven children, living in Wayne County; Sarah (Baxter), 1800, six children, living in Randolph County; Valentine Pegg, 1803, nine children, living in Wayne County; Lydia (Massey) 1805, two children, died in 1849; John Pegg, 1809, nine children, living in Wayne County. John Pegg, Sr., son of Valentine Pegg, us above given, entered land in Randolph County November 7, 1816, and moved to the county not far from that date.

Valentine Pegg, son of John Pegg above named, is now an old man of seventy-nine years; has a family of nine children He and they are noted for their mechanical genius; they build their own houses, do their own blacksmithing, etc. One invental | ed a superior threshing machine. Mr. P. is eccentric in his thoughts and words, quaint but clever, old-fashioned but genial and hospitable, greatly confident of his own opinion, and a stickler for personal liberty.

Thomas Phillips came in 1821, being born in about 1790; he died in 1872, about eighty-two years old; he was an intelligent and enterprising citizen, an enthusiastic Republican, an ardent Methodist and a friend of every good work. His widow is still living, im her eighty-ninth year, sprightly and active, able to cook and wash dishes, and altogether a notable specimen of pioneer strength and hardiness. Thomas Phillips came from New Jersey; he married Rebecca Hammett; they had nine children, six boys, three girls; eight grown and married; seven living still; one son, John Wesley, was killed at Milford, Kosciusko County, Ind., us he was on the cars returning from a political rally addressed by Hon. Schuyler Colfax, as the result of throwing stones by a gang of villainous rowdies at the cars crowded with people. Thomas Phillips' son, William Phillips, resides at Bloomingport, and is a wide-awake, thoronghgoing citizen, a life-long Methodist, a brave and efficient soldier, and an enthusiastic and reliable Republican.

William Rash, born in the Carolina region in 1786; came to Wayne County, Ind., among the very first; was married there under the first license ever issued in the county; served in the war of 1811-13 against the Indians; moved to Randolph County, west of Bloomingsport, in about 1817, and resides there still, being about ninety-six years old, nearly or quite the oldest man in the county. An eventful life, truly, has that of this aged veteran proved to be. We should be glad to give a more detailed statement of the family and the history of this hardy pioneer, but we have not the requisite information at hand.

Eli Reece, Cherry Grove, was born in North Carolina April 10, 1804; he has been married three times; his first wife was Matilda Greenwood, married in Randolph County in 1828; she died in 1854. His second wife was Elizabeth Arnold, of Arba, in 1856; she died in 1867. His third wife is Mrs. Cynthia (Maulsby) Pickering, married in 1868. He had seven children by his first wife; six of them became grown and were married, but only one is living now. He settled first on Green's Fork, three miies southwest of Lynn (town); then a mile south of Cherry Grove; then, in 1866, he moved to his present home, near Cherry Grove Meeting-House.

Mr. Reece was not a Friend by birthright, but joined them when about twenty-eight yearsold; he has been an Elder among Friends for about thirty years. He returned to Carolina upon a visit to that State in 1841, and again in 1857. The Friends in Carolina form a yearly meeting in that State of pretty good size. Before the war, the Southern Friends had left in great numbers, so as almost to break up their " yearly meetings" there, but since the war they are increasing, and the Carolina Quakers are a growing body. Mr. Reece, although almost eighty years old, seems young and fively; to appearance, he is no more than sixtyfive. When he emigrated to this State, Mr. R. was poor, and had to ''rent" land, being obliged to earn money here to buy a homestead for himself and his loved ones. But, like many another, industry, economy and the blessing of God that maketh rich, have enabled him to obtain a competence of this world's goods, and he endeavors, thankfully, to employ what Providence has bestowed upon him in the humble service of the Lord.

Isaiah Rogers, Bloomingport, was an early settler, coming from New Jersey to Randolph County in 182] or 1822; he has had eight children, seven of whom were grown and married, one having died in the army. Mr. Rogers is eighty-five or eighty-six years old, stout and spry and nimble as a cat; he is a life time Methodist and a true-blue Republican; his residence is aoe Kansas, having left Indiana for the Western prairies in 1880.

Edward Scott was born in North Carolina in 789, and came to Randolph County, Ind., about 1820; he settled in Washington Township at first, and afterward changed his residence to White River; he died on White River, June 30, 1871, aged eighty-one years nine months and one day; his widow is living still, eightyfive years old and very feeble and infirm, both in mind and body.

They had twelve children; eleven grew up and ten are living at this time; five of his children reside in Randolph County, and five have moved to Kansas; he lived in Randolph County fiftyone years, and his wife and widow has been a dweller in this fair Western land and in Randolph about sixty-one years. He was a member of the Baptist Church and a most excellent and worthy man, beloved in his life, and sorely lamented in his death.

ew up: seven were sons and one was a daughter. He died about 1830, aged fifty-five; he was born in the fall of 1775, and hence was just too young to vote at the election which raised John Adams to the Presidential office in 1796.

Samuel Smith, father of Temple Smith, Stone Station was born in West Virginia in 1772; married Elizabeth Calboun, in West Virginia, in 1794 or 1795; came to Champaign County, Ohio, in 1802; Kentucky, 1803; Highland County, Ohio, 1811; Randolph County, Ind., 1819 (one-half mile west of Bloomingport); he died in 1856, and his wife in 1857; they had six children - Reuben (Mary Hockett), two children: Martha (Joseph Hockett), twelve children; Avaline (Jeduthun Havenden), twelve children; Jefferson (Lydia Pickering), seven children; Temple (Priscilla Crossly), twelve children. Milton died at six years old. Temple Smith only is left of the six.

James H. Stine, Washington, D. C., late of Washington Township, born in New Jersey in 1837; came to Darke County, Ohio, in 1839; Wayne Township, Randolph Co., Ind., near Union City, attending schoo] on the Ohio side; Washington Township, 1851; Winchester Seminary, 1853; taught Maxville Public School in 1854, and several times since; Liber College, Jay County, 1856; Madison College, Pennsylvania. While there, two professors and eighty-five students left the college for the South, which movement closed the college; knowing that war would soon come, his room-mate, C. H. Causey, of Hampton, Va., said to him: '' Stine, the South means war, and we shall erelong be found in hostile armies; let us care for each other if possible." The agreement was made, and they parted. Stine joined Company C, Nineteenth Indiana; he was twice wounded at the Second Bull Run, once by a severe shell wound.

In - - , he was appointed to the patent office, but was dismissed for refusing to indorse President Johnson. In - - , he was given a position in the Treasury Department, which he still holds. He was one of the founders, and later, the commander of United States Grant Post, G. A. R., having such members as Senator Wilson, Gens. Banks, Schenck, Crittenden, Shanks, Mills, Packard, Bullock, ete. In the famous Fitz John Porter case, he was appointed an attorney for the Government, to select and examine witnesses, and, among others, Messrs. Campbell, Macy and Murray, from Randolph County, were summoned to the trial. Mr. Stine is understood to be preparing a valuable history of the Government. He has been faithful in watching for the advantage of ''Old Randolph," and never omitted to favor her interests. He has purchased a farm near Union City, which has been named Bloomingdale, upon which farm an extensive and valuable collection of foreign shrubbery is in progress. Having been long at the National Capital, Mr. S. is happy to have been able to assist many Randolph County citizens having business with the Government. Mr. S. has been from the very first a zealous Republican, and has achieved an enviable reputation as efficient and trustworthy in the discharge of public official duty, and as accommodating and generous in serving his fellow-citizens of Randolph. Mr. S. has become somewhat prominent as a speaker in the political field, approving himself as efficient and successful in this respect.

The Thornburgs, of Washington. - The Thornburgs have been and still are numerous in Randolph County. A strong branch of the family settled in Stony Creek Township and another in Washington. Those who resided in the latter township in pioneer times were Nathan, Edward and Isaac Thornburg. Nathan had four children- - Isaac, Jesse, Nathan and Ann. The Thornburgs there were all Friends, and went with the Antislavery branch in the ''Separation" of 1843. Wehave no es- pecial account of this portion of the Thornburg connection, though a considerable statement concerning those who settled in Stony Creek may be found in its appropriate place. F

Joseph T. Wood, Wood Station - Rural - was born in 1819, in Wayne County, Ind.; married Sophia Fender, in 1841; has had six children, five living now, and all the five married. They came to Randolph County in 1866, and settled at Rural in 1869; he is a carpenter and farmer, a Methodist and a Republican. His grandfather, Henry Wood, went, in 1804, from near Richmond, Va., to Kanawha County, Coal Creek, Western Virginia, and died there in 1814, sixty years old. Joseph Wood's father, born near Richmond, Va., came to Wayne County, Ind., in 1814; he had twelve children, and died in 1863, seventy-two years old.

ALBERT R. ABSHIRE, teacher, P. O. Snow Hill, was born in this county March 12, 1850; he is the son of Isaac Abshire, who was born in Preble County, Ohio, April 26,1815; his mother, Sarah (Ballard) Abshire, was a native of Ohio, born October 27, 1823; his father and motmer were married June 6, 1842; his sister, Maria, was born October 2, 1851; his mother died January 18, 1874; his father was married December 16, 1876, to Sarah G. Shinn, who was born in Virginia August 30, 1848. The subject of this sketch was educated in the district schools and at the high school of Winchester; he has taught fourteen terms in the district schools of this county; owns a neat farm of fifty-five acres. and is a gentleman who commands the respect and confidence of all who know him.

NEREUS B. BALDWIN, teacher, P. O. Snow Hill, was born in Wayne County, Ind., April 6, 1854; he is the son of Jesse F. Baldwin, who was born in North Carolina in Febrnary, 1828; his mother, Phceba A. (Bales) Baldwin, was born in this county. Mr. Baldwin was educated in the district schools and at the graded schools at Lynn. Since 1872, he has spent the larger part of his time in teaching. Mr. B. was married April 17, 1875, to Martha E,. Gordon, who was born in this county July 8, 1855; her father, James Gordon, was born in Ohio April 30, 1828; her mother, Sidney (Slaughter) Gordon, was born in North Carolina. This union has been blessed with Gillett A , who was born March 2, 1879. Mr. B. is a member of and an earnest worker in the Christian Church; he owns a neat little farm of thirty-five acres, in Section 81, on which he resides. Mr. Baldwin is a sterling gentleman.

Isaac N. Bales

This gentleman, one of Randolph County's honored and respected citizens, is the son of Pleasant and Mary (Abshire) Bales, and was born in this county March 5, 1837; he is the fifth of a family of eight children, of whom aix are now living; his father was born in Clinton County, Ohio, September 21, 1810; his mother was born in Virginia September 27, 1809; his grandfather, Curtis Bales, was one of the pioneers of this county, having become a resident about the year 1824; his grandfather on his mother's side, James Abshire, was among the very first settlers of the county; he was also a soldier of the war of 1812.

Isaac's parents entered eighty acres of land in Washington Township, this county, about the year 1838. 'This tract lies adjoining the farm upon which Isago now lives. They remained upon this farm, enduring all of the toils, hardships and deprivations of pioneer life, until the year 1864, when they temporarily removed to Merom, Sullivan County. They did not remain here long; on account of Mrs. Bales' failing health, they returned to their home in this cyunty, where she died December 31, 1864. Mr. Bales very soon returned to Merom, where he died February 8, 1865; his remains were brought to this county, and deposited by those of his wife in New Liberty Cemetery. They were acceptable and honored members of the Christian Churoh, and were among the first organizers of that church in the county.

The subject of this sketch spent his boyhood upon his father's farm, assisting him in clearing & homestead from the forest; his experience was severe, having to toil very hard in his earlier life; his educational advantages were very poor, having no free schools; he attended from six weeks to two months during the winter for a few years only. He was married to Martha J. Platt August 16,1856. After marriage, he and his excellent wife settled upon the farm where they now reside. At that time, there were but forty acres, which he rented for two years, and then bought it, going in debt $800. The farm he lives on now consists of 100 acres of well improvetl land, with seventy-five acres cleared; he also owns a tarm of eighty acres in Jay County: his farm is under a bigh state of cultivation, with convenient and commodious buildings; he is comfortably situated, and, in addition to the cultivation of grain, he gives attention to the raising of hogs and cattle.

Mr. and Mrs. Bales are the parents of three children, of whom two are living - William H., born September 11, 1857; Mary E., born January 19, 1861, deceased November 7, 1861; Magnolia M., born January 29, 1868. William H., married Mary A. Fisher, daughter of Amos and Ann Fisher, of this county. They are the parents of one child, Newton A.

Isaac enlisted in the army August 6, 1862, in Company HE, Sixty-ninth Regiment Indiana Infantry; he was a brave soldier and did gallant service for his country; he was actively engaged with his regiment in many severe battles, but was never w@unded, but he was confined in che hospital at Indianspelis and Natchez, from two attacks of the lung fever; he took an active part in the battles of Richmond (Ky.), Chickasaw Bluffs, Arkansas Post, siege of Vicksburg, eto. After the siege of Vicksburg, he was transferred, with his regiment, to New Orleans, Brasher City, Opelusas; then returned to New Orleans; thence across the Gulf to Texas, where they were engaged in several skirmishes. They were then transferred to the disastrous and fatal Red River expedition, in which the Sixty-ninth suffered greatly, marching for thirteen

. days and nights without rest. From this expedition, they returned to Morganzes Bend; thence to Baton Rouge, East Pascagoula, Pensacola Bay and Pollard. They then arrived at Blakely, Ala., the defen-e of Mobile. This place was besieged for six or seven days, and then carried by storm, which they captured with a large number of prisoners. They then took possession of Mobile without further resistance. After the capture of Blakely and -Mobile, the Sixty-ninth was deployed to convoy the prisoners to Ship Island; after which Mr. Bales' company accompanied Maj. Gen. U. C. Andrews as body guard to Selma, Ala. They then returned to Mobile, where they were placed on provost duty, where they remained until mustered cut of service, July 5, 1865. Mr. Bales reached home July 20.

He opened a stock of goods at his home in Washington Township in the spring of 1874. In the fall of the same year, he moved his stock to Wood's Station, taking as a partner in a general mercantile business his brother, Pleasant W. Bales, They kept a large and well selected stock of goods and did a thriving business. While at Wood's Station, Mr. Bales acted as Postmaster and ticket agent. He remained here until the fall of 1876, when he sold out to Lewis Norton and returned to the farm.

As a business man, Mr. Bales was industrious, economical and successful. He and his family are acceptable members of the Christian Church at New Liberty, Mr. and Mrs. Bales being charter members. Mr. B. has been Treasurer of this church ever since its organization. He is a stanch Republican, and is an industrious worker in the party. His father was a Free Soiler,

Marraa JANE (Pratr) Baxes, wife of Isaac N. Bales and daughter of Abram C. and Eliza (Horner) Platt, was born in Wayne County, Ind., March 16, 1838. She is the eldest of a family of three children, two of whom are living. Her father was born in New Jersey and her mother in Ohio. Her parents came to this State in early times, and settled in Wayne County. Her father died when she was but three years of age, and her mother followed in the year 1862. She lived with her grandfather until she was eight years old. when she found a home with David and Martha Taylor, who were members of the Society of Friends. She lived with them until she was eighteen, when she was married to Isaac N. Bales. Mrs. Bales is a most estimable woman, and has been of great assistance to her husband in his business. During the time Isaac was in the army, she took upon herself the entire management of the farm, and did it well. She is a consistent member of the church, a devoted wife, an affectionate mother and a valuable member of society.

Dr. J. S. Blair

James S. Blair was born May 26, 1850, near Williamsburg, Wayne Co., Ind. He is the son of George W. Blair, M. D., who was born in Ballylogle, County Sligo, Ireland, of Scotch-Irish parentage, and came to the United States in 183865, locating at Williamsburg, Ind. He was married there to Hannah Cranor, and was engaged in the practice of medicine until his death, which occurred in 1861. His wife is the daughter of Thomas Cranor, a native of North Carolina, who came to Indiana at an early day,locating at Williamsburg, where his daughter was born, and where she still continues to reside. James 8., the subject of this sketch, received a good education in the high school of Williamsburg and the Centreville Collegiate Institute, and after completing his studies was engaged for two years in teaching in the common schools. At the end of that time, he took charge of the Williamsburg Graded Schools, in which position he continued until he began the study of medicine, in 1872, with Dr. L. P. Taylor, of Williamsburg. In 1874, he attended lectures at the Eclectic Medical Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio, graduating from that institution in 1875. He then began the practice of medicine with his former preceptor, Dr. Taylor, with whom he was associated for two years. In 1877, he came to Randolph County, and located at Lynn, where he has ever since continued to practice his profession. He is yet a young man, but has already achieved a fine professional reputation, and enjoys a large and lucrative practice, which is constantly increasing. He is enthusiastically devoted to his profession, and by his promptness and genial good nature has won the good will and high esteem of all who know him, while his ability and skill accord him a high place in the medical fraternity. He is identified with both the Odd Fellows and Masonie orders, having united with the former at Williamsburg in 1875, and with the latter at Lynn in the spring of 1880, He has been married three times, and has twice mourned the death of a devoted wife. He was first married, in August, 1869, to Miss Ellen Potter, a native of Wayne County, Ind., and daughter of John C. and Elizabeth Potter. This union was blessed by two children, the eldest-- Ada G. - still survives. The mother died in January, 1875. On the 7th of January, 1877, he wedded Miss Carrie Medéaris, of Williamsburg, Ind., who died August 10, 1879, leaving one daughter - Ethel M. - who still survives. On the 12th of May, 1881, Dr. Blair was united in marriage with Miss Mary E. Kelly, of Lynn. They have a cosy, pleasant home, and enjoy the high esteem of the beat citizens of the community in which they reside.

JAMES A. BALES, farmer, P. 0. Snow Hill, was born in this county January 23,1831. He is the son of Pleasant Bales, who was born in Ohio September 21, 1810. His mother, Mary (Abshire) Bales, was a native of Virginia, born September 27, 1809. Mr. Bales was educated in the district schools of the county. He was married November 20, 1858, to Ann Thornburgh, who was born in this county May 11, 1837. They had born to them two children - Marion S. and Edward W., but death entered the home circle and carried from it both mother and children. Mr. Bales then battled with the hardships of life alone until April 14, 1865, when he was married to Mary J. Lamm, born in this county April 11, 1841. She is the daughter of Josiah and Elizabeth (York) Lamm, who were natives of North Carolina. This union bas been blessed with Rebecca A., born September 80, 1866. Mr. Bales is a consistent member of the Christian Church. He owns a fine farm of 100 acres. Heisa