Center Village, Ohio

David A. and Martha D.;,her father was married a second time, which blessed him with John, Lorenzo, Roxa, William and Margie A.; the name of the mother of the last-iiamed children was Phoebe (Philips) Adams. Mrs. Copper was born Nov. 18, 1829 ;. she has six children by her union with Mr. Copper - Sarah A. (deceased), Arza E., Martha E., Idola (deceased), Emma, Nettie (deceased). In 1855, Mr. and Mrs. Copper went to Allen Co., Ind., and farmed one year, and then moved to Bureau Co., 111., where he farmed and bought stock; in 1860, they returned ' to Center Village, where he again resumed his trade, which he abandoned in 1872, on account of ill health ; he owns two town lots, one of which is well improved by buildings ; he is now breeding fine' Canadian horses ; the sire of his present stallion was known as the' Guerney horse, which lived to be 52 years old and held the record of one of the fastest trotters and pacers of this part of the country ; he has one of the finest road horses in the country; is brown-black, 11 years old, sixteen hands high, and weight, 1,400 pounds. His son, A. E., was born Aug. 26, 1855 ; his first occupation was peddling with a little tin box; at 13, ho began clerking for McNett & Barr, at this place, continuing one year, and has been engaged most of the time since for Mossman. Was married Nov. 12, 1879, to Laura, a daughter of Van and Mary (Marriot) Clutter; she was born in 1862; in October,, 1879, he bought Mossman out, and is now running a general store of all kinds of merchandise.

Passage source: History of Delaware County and Ohio. Containing a Brief History of the State of Ohio ... Biographical Sketches ... Etc, published 1880.

ARCHIBALD C. NEEDBLS, Sr., farmer ; P. 0. Center Village; born Aug. 5, 1800, in the south part of Indiana ; his father, John Needels, was born in Sussex Co., Delaware, in September, 1779 ; from Delaware he went to Indiana when a young njan, and there married Sarah Campbell in 1797, and, in 1803, moved to Fairfield Co., Ohio, and bought fifty acres of land, on which he built a small cabin, and remained there several years ; he then moved to Franklin; in 1812, while getting out timber to build a log house, he was hurt by a falling tree, from the effects of which he died in a short time, his death occurring during the total eclipse of the sun in the year 1812 ; he was a member of the M. E. Church ; by his death, his wife was left alone with a number of small children (the oldest being only 14 years old), and in an almost destitute condition, .though by hard work she raised her children, and lived to see them well settled ; she died in 1847, in her 67th year ; they had seven children, three of whom are still living - Nancy, born in July, 1802, and is now Mrs. Hudson, and lives in Auglaize Co., Ohio ; Elijah, born in February, 1806, and living in Atchison Co., Mo. Our subject was the second child, and was 3 years old when his parents moved to Ohio, was 12 years old at his father's death, and worked for his mother until 1816 ; his work was mostly in timber, and, when 15 and 16 years old, would make his 200 rails a day from the stump ; during his early life, wild game was plentiful, such as deer, turkeys, wolves, wild hogs, etc.; with one gun that he owned, he killed twentythree deer, having killed as many as three a day, beside other game; when 16 years old, he commenced doing for himself, and, for seven years, he worked nine months during the year, and attended school three months. April 20, 1823, he was married to Nancy, daughter of J. and Rachel Kile, of Kentucky, where she was born in May, 1803 ; after his marriage, our subject remained in Franklin Co. two years, and then moved to Delaware Co.; March 23, 1825, he located on his present homestead, which wae then covered with heavy timber ; he bought 100 acres, and for it paid $150 ; he continued to add to it until he owned 400 acres, but during the panic of 1847, he lost about three-quarters of his property, and, during the same year, he lost his wife; they had twelve children, three of whom died in childhood. Sept. 25, 1848, he married his present wife, Julia A., daughter of Benson and Annie B. Wilmoth, of Union Co., where Mrs. Needels was born Jan. 6, 1829 ; her mother died when she was quite young ; her father married again, and at 10 years of age she left home and supported herself until her marriage to the subject ; by his last wife hej has had fourteen children ; seven of them died in childhood ; Mr. Needles is t)ie father of twenty-six children ; twelve of them are now living ; though he lost the most of his property in 1847, he has accumulated until he now owns 325 acres of good land with a good farm, residence, barns, sheds, etc., also has several tenement houses on his land ; he also has his farm well stocked with cattle, hogs and sheep ; in addition to what he now owns, he has given his first wife's children property, either in land or money, all of which he has made by hard work, never having had any money or property given him, and though 80 years old, he is yet as active in business and work as men usually at 60 ; Mr. Needels cast his first vote for Andrew Jackson, and continued to vote with the Democratic party until 1840 ; since jthat time has been with, the Republican party ; has held the position of Trustee and other township ^fiSces, and was Supervisor at the time of locating and working many of the public roads ; he was a member of the M. E. Church for eighteen years and was class-leader in that body.

Passage source: History of Delaware County and Ohio. Containing a Brief History of the State of Ohio ... Biographical Sketches ... Etc, published 1880.

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