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THOMAS RICHARDS, farmer, P. O. Wal- nut Prairie, is a native of Maryland, where he was born November 22, 1821. His father was Andrew Richards; was a native of Mary- land, and descends from Scotch origin. He grew to manhood in Maryland, and married Miss Rebecca Merman, also a native of Mary- land. They had a family of eleven children, of whom Thomas is the ninth, and all but two born in Maryland. They emigrated to Ohio and settled in Licking County in 1825. There the parents died, the father in 1855 and the mother in 1859. Subject grew to maturity in Licking County, Ohio. His early education consisted of such as was to be ob- tained in the pioneer schools of the then new country. He was married, in Licking Coun- ty, April 11, 1850, to Miss Mary Ann Brown, daughter of Jacob and Letitia Brown. She was born in Licking County, Ohio, June 24, 1824. They made a residence of two years in Ohio, and in April of 1852, they came to Illinois and settled where they now live in Melrose Township, Clark County. They
bought land of a man named Baker, which was covered with a dense growth of timber, brush and vines, which they have removed until now they have a comfortable home con- sisting of 293 acres, with very substantial improvements. Their family comprises fonr children, whose record is as follows: Re- becca L. Richards, born in Ohio, August 25, 1851, married to F. E. Buckner, November 8, 1877; Drusilla Richards, born April 3, 1854, married December 26, 1872, to Nathaniel Jeffers, they have three children, viz .: Es- sie, Ottie and Mirlie Jeffers; Thomas W. Richards, born July 2, 1860, married June 18, 1882, to Miss Isabell Cummins; John Will- iam Richards, born November 2, 1863. The family are among the substantial element of the county. Mr. Richards is a Democrat.
JAMES B. SHEAPLEY, farmer, P. O. Melrose. Prominent among the citizens of Melrose Township and a man who enjoys the confidence of a large circle of acquaintances is the subject of these lines, James B. Sheap- ley. He was born in York Township, this county, January 11, 1831. His father, Michael Sheapley, was born about 1801, in Preble County, Ohio, where he grew to ma- turity and learned the trade of a pump maker. He came to Terre Haute, Ind., about 1828, where he engaged at his trade, and where he married Parthenia Smith, who was born June 4, 1811, near Chillicothe, Scioto Coun - ty, Ohio. Soon after the marriage, they made a settlement in what is now York Township. where they made their permanent residence, he, however, working at his trade at various points, principally at Terre Haute, where he died in the winter of 1836. Thus left alone with one child, then five years old, and hav- ing no resources but personal effort, Mrs. Sheapley succeeded in providing for herself and son, whom she sent to school during the winter, by the product of her loom. In 1839,
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she was married to Samuel Stepp, who was born about 1800, in Butler County, Ky., and died in York Township in fall of 1842, leav- ing one son, William T. Stepp, now a resi- dent of Missouri. Mrs. Stepp subsequently married John Porter, and died April 18, 1848. After the death of his mother, James went near Chicago and worked one summer as a farm hand, returning in the winter and attended school and afterward taught school for one year. He was married, October 4, 1850, to Mrs. Hannah White, widow of William C. White, and daughter of Law- rence and Sarah Hollenbeck. She was born in New York, near Albany, May 11, 1812. In 1852, subject went to California and remained two years, returning in 1854. He has taught more or less until 1876, in connection with which he has followed the pursuit of farming. In 1876, he removed to Martinsville and took charge of the Grange Store, which was established by the farmers of the county; he conducted this business until 1880, when he returned to his farm, consisting of 175 acres in Melrose Township, Sections 6 and 7. Mrs. Sheapley's father came to this county in the fall of 1817, and settled on Walnut Prairie. Her mother, Sarah (Lewis) Hollenbeck, born in the State of New York, died in Linn County, Iowa in 1847. The father died in Texas about 1868. Mrs. Sheapley was married to Will- iam C. White, February 1, 1827. He died September 1, 1847, having had nine children, of whom but three are living. As the result of second marriage there are two children one of whom died in infancy-Nineveh White, born May 11, 1833; Gilead, born January 1, 1835; Elizabeth E., wife of L. Kelley, born February 17, 1841; Parthenia Sheapley, born October 30, 1852. Mr. Sheap- ley is a member of the Masonic fraternity and I. O. O. F. Mrs. Sheapley has been a member of church since her childhood.
JOSEPH SMITH, farmer, P. O. West Un- ion, is a native of Ohio, born October 9, 183S. He is a son of John and Charlotte (Oaks) Smith. The father was a native of Mary- land, and born in the year 1301. The mother was born in Maryland in about 1802. They both came to Ohio with their parents while yet in childhood, and grew to maturity and married in Muskingum County, Ohio. They remained in Ohio until coming to Illinois, in 1846. In May of that year, they settled on the old William B. Archer farm, where they made a residence of but one year, when, becoming dissatisfied with the then un- healthy climate, they determined to return to Ohio, but afterward located in Greene Coun- ty, Ind., where they both died, the mother in spring of 1853, and the father in March, of 1855. They had a family of ten children, of whom Joseph Smith is the seventh. He returned to this county, in July, 1855, and engaged as a farm hand until the breaking- out of the rebellion. He became a member of Company K, First Missouri Cavalry, in August, 1861, and served for the term of his enlistment, and then became a veteran in the same organization, from which he was discharged in September, 1865, and was mustered out at Little Rock, Ark. Mr. Smith participated in the Arkansas campaign, in- cluding the engagement at Springfield, Mo., and the fighting of several days immediately following; afterward at Pea Ridge, Ark., on the 6th, 7th and Sth of March, 1862, and par- ticipated in all the active engagements of his regiment. He was made a Corporal in 1862, which position he held until discharged. In 1866 (March 11), he was married to Miss Mar- tha Bartlett, daughter of James and Hannah (Taladay) Bartlett. She was born in Clark County, on the 26th of January, 1823. They have no children, but are raising a nephew, Edward Grant, son of Jeremiah and Char-
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lotte M. Grant, who was born July 31, 1874. Mr. Smith has a farm of 105 acres in Section 14, of Melrose, with substantial buildings, which has to a great extent been the result of his own labor. They are both members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Plym- outh Church, Melrose Township. Politics, Greenback, and has served the township in official capacity, and is an ardent advocate of the cause of temperance.
MARTIN WILLARD, farmer, P. O. West York, is the oldest settler now living in Mel- rose Township, coming to the immediate lo- cality where he now lives, in June, 1818. His father, Joseph Willard, was a native of North Carolina, and was born November 14, 1769. He was a son of Martin and Rachel Willard, and was raised in his native State, and was married November 23, 1796, to Miss Peninah Jessop. She was born in North Carolina, and died in Clark County, Ill., on the 8th of October, 1841. They had a fam- ily of eleven children, all but the two younger born in North Carolina. Margaret and Mar- tin was born in Orange County, Ind., and the latter, the subject of these lines, born on the 19th of May, 1817. The family landed in what is now Melrose Township, on the 12th of June, 1818, and was the owner of one horse and cart. He began without house or any shelter other than a rude pro- tection for his family, which he constructed of poles set up and covered with poplar bark. Here, surrounded by a dense forest of tim-
er, infested with wild animals and Indians, he began to make for himself a home, and with the help of his older children, soon had made a cabin house and cleared a small field. He lived to make for his family a comforta- ble home, and died where Martin now lives, on the 14th of February, 1845. The circum - stances, therefore, under which Martin was raised, were such as to fit him well for the battle of life, and now, although sixty-six years old, is still able to oversee the interests of the farm. He was married, February 21, 1841, to Miss Sarah Draper. She was born in Indiana July 13, 1819, and is the daugh- ter of Jesse and Abigail Draper. Their fam- ily consists of ten children, two of whom are dead, viz .: Caroline, born March 8, 1842. the wife of Riley Mills; Mary J., born Novem- ber 20, 1843, died September 11, 1865; Isaiah. born September 17,;1845, died July 19, 1879; William M., born December 21, 1847, mar- ried to Miss I. Burrows; Charlotte, born November 13,1849, the wife of Edward Wolf; Amanda, born August 22, 1851, the wife of William P. Claypool; George Willard, born July 3, 1853; Martha A., born November 20. 1855, the wife of Henry Newlin; Alice C., the wife of A. Gideon, was born Novem- ber 11, 1857; Frank P., born June 3, 1861, married to Barbara Stuck. Mr. Wil- lard and wife are members of the Society of Friends, commonly called Quakers. Their ancestors were members of the same organi- zation.
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JOHN H. ADAMS, farmer, P. O. Martins- ville, was born in Rockingham County. Va., August 13, 1827, and when ten years old re- moved with his parents, John and Mary Adams, to Butler County, Ohio. His father was born in Pennsylvania in 1789, and when a young man went to Virginia to engage at his trade, that of saddler and harness-maker. In 1824, he married Miss Mary Long, who was born in Rockingham County in 1800. From Virginia they moved to Butler Coun- ty, Ohio, in 1837. where they died. The mother died in April in 1848, and the father in 1851 (January). John H. is the third of their family of eleven children. He was educated in the common schools, and married on the 20th of March, 1850, in Butler Coun- ty, Ohio, to Miss Julia A. Flenner, daughter of George and Mary (Andrew) Flenner. She was born April 29, 1823. She is the ninthi of a family of ten chidren, of whom fonr are residents of Clark County. Her mother died in Butler County, Ohio. Mr. Adams came from Ohio to this county and settled where he now lives in 1850, buying a tract of land of John McCune. He now owns a farm of 215 acres, well improved, including a substan- tial frame dwelling; engaged in general farm- ing and wool-growing. He has seven children, viz. : George H. Adams, born September 20, 1854, and died April 23, 1855; Mary E., born Jan- uary 11, 1857, married; Margaret, born June 27, 1858, the wife of George S. Sharp; Al- ma, born January 21, 1860, the wife of P. F. Kittering; John L., born October 29, 1861, married Mary E. Shaftner; Alice A., born June 29, 1867; Carrie E., born July 28, 1869. Mr. and Mrs. Adams and three elder daugh-
ters are members of the United Brethren Church at Dolson Chapel. The following obituary of the father of Mrs. Adams is taken from the Telescope: George Flenner died at his residence, in Clark County, Ill., June 26, 1864, aged seventy-seven years ten months and seven days. Brother F. was born in Lancaster County, Pa., August 19, 1786. Soon afterwar.l. he emigrated with his par- ents to Butler County, Ohio, where he was converted and joined the United Brethren Church, under the labors of Rev. Jacob An- trim, about forty-five years ago. From that time until his death, he lived a devoted Chris- tian. In his last illness, he was patient and very much resigned, for he had been wait- ing for some time to be summoned home, and when the messenger of death came he was ready and anxious to go. So his end was peace. He held an official connection with the church as an exhorter and class leader for many years, and his house was a preach- ing place, and the home of the weary itiner- ant for a great while. He has left mauy rel- atives (for he had ten children) and very many classmates to mourn his loss, but their loss is his gain.
WILLIAM H. BEADLE, farmer, P. O. Martinsville, was born in Clark County, Ind., February 13, 1835. His father, Abraham H Beadle, was a Virginian by birth, which oc- curred February 16, 1800, and when he was six years old removed with his father, James Beadle, to Kentucky, where he grew to man- hood, removing to Indiana when twenty years old. Here he followed boating on the Ohio in the winter and farming in the summer, and was married May 5, 1820, to Miss Sarah
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Carr, daughter of Elisha Carr, one of the pio- neers of Indiana. She was born May 25, 1800. They made their residence in Clark County, Ind., until 1850, when they removed to Clark County, Ill. During the residence in Indiana, five children were born, of whom but two are living. The record of this family is as follows: Nancy Beadle, born in Clark County, Ind., August 28, 1822, and died No- vember 25, 1822; Mary C. Beadle, born No- vember 23.1823, she married John Campbell of Indiana, and died in this county October 10, 1850, leaving a family of two children: Mary E., married to John Garver, and Jo- seph A. Campbell, of Casey, Ill .; Ann Eliza Beadle, born June 13, 1829, married to J. H. Watson, of Martinsville Township; Edward { shall, engaged in mixed husbandry.
E. Beadle, born January 6, 1832 and died December 1, 1834; and William H. Beadle, born as above stated. He obtained the rudi- ments of an education in the primitive schoolhouse with puncheon floor, slab benches and greased paper window, and came with the family to this county in the spring of 1850. He was married in July, 1855, to Miss Sarah C. Jones, daughter of Abram T. Jones, of Dolson Township. She was born in Coshocton County, Ohio, Janu- ary 4, 1833, and came to this county with her parents about 1853. After the marriage of William H. Beadle, his father gave him the control of the farm and moved to Marshall, where the mother died March 24, 1859, and the father April 3, 1859, the father contract- ing his sickness while attending the burial of his wife. They were characterized by their public spirit, were members of the Christian Church and enjoyed the confidence of a large circle of friends. Subject lost his wife by death March 4, 1857, leaving one child, Sarah C. Beadle. She was born December 26, 1856, and married to Lewis Heath in February, 1877. Mr. Beadle was
married to his present wife Malinda Chilcote, on the 17th of April, 1859. She is a daugh- ter of Nicodemus and Anna Chilcote, former- ly of Ohio, and natives of Pennsylvania. The father died in Douglas County Decem- ber 24, 1879; the wife survives him and re- sides in Douglas County. Mrs. Beadle was born in Morrow County, Ohio. April 18, 1841. Mr. Beadle is a member of the Knights of Honor, a Republican, and from 1878 to 1880 served the county as Sheriff. He has also served his township officially for several years. He owns a farm of 153 acres in Sections 22 and 23 of Auburn Township: has a substantial frame residence on the Westfield road eight miles west from Mar-
GEORGE FREDENBERGER, farmer, P. 0. Clark Centre. The subject of these lines is a native of this county. Auburn Township, July 31, 1848, son of John A. and Elizabeth (Wendel) Fredenberger. The father was born in Bavaria, Germany, as was also his grand- parents Fredenberger, and came to the Unit- ed States about 1833, and located for a short time in Ohio, and soon after came to what is now Clark County, and assisted in the con- struction of the Cumberland road, and after- ward entered land in Section 30, where he lived until the time of his death, which oc- curred May 18, 1879, in his seventy-fourth year. He was a member of the Evangelical Church of Marshall for many years, being among the organizers of that society, and had meetings in his private house before the founding of the Marshall society. He was a man who enjoyed the confidence of all who knew him. The mother of our subject, Eliza- beth Wendel, was a native of Prussia; was born about 1806. and grew to maturity in the old country. She died in the old homestead in September 2, 1878. She was also for many years a member of the Evangelical Church.
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Had a family of six children, of whom two are deceased and of whom George is the youngest. J. P. Fredenberger, the oldest, was killed in battle at Perryville, Kv .; Eliza- beth Counts, of California; Catherine Lutz, Dolson Township, and Mary S. Gilbert, of Wabash. Subject was raised in Auburn Township, and educated in the common schools; married, February 22, 1872, in Mar- shall Township, to Miss Sarah A. Bierbaum, daughter of Christian and Mary (Salter) Bierbaum. She was born in Indiana, Marion County, May 6, 1850. The parents are resi- dents of Marshall Township. They have a family of six children-John W. Fredenber- ger, born May 11, 1873; Edward W., born October 7, 1874; Mary A., born October 1, 1876; Emma L., born August 17, 1878; Cora M., born February 17, 1882, died May 18, 1882; infant, born February 27, 1883. They are both members of United Brethren Church, Marshall Township. In April, 1880, Mr. F. was elected to the office of Justice of the Peace for the township of Auburn.
ALLEN HURST, farmer, P. O. Auburn, son of Nicholas and Harriet Hurst, was born November 25, 1852, in Clark County, Ill., and received the elements of an English edu- cation in the common schools of Auburn Township. He was married January 23, 1873, in Dolson Township, to Miss Nancy Johnson, daughter of Abram and Mary Johnson. She was born in Dolson Township July 21, 1855. Mr. A. Hurst is one of the most reliable men in the county, and is held in high esteem for his upright walk and temperate habits. He has a farm of eighty acres of land in Auburn Township, and for several years has served the township as Constable. His family con- sists of three children, viz .: John Hurst, born August 5, 1876; Nicholas, born April, 1878; Harriet, born February 4,1882. Nich - olas Hurst, father of Allen, was born in
Kentucky February 23, 1818. He came to this State in 1832, 'and lived for a short time in Edgar County, from where he came to this county. He is a man in whom has been placed a vast degree of public trust, having filled the offices of Associate Judge, County Sheriff and two terms as County Treasurer. For the past twenty years, he has been in the office of Justice of the Peace; has been three times married, in each case raising a family. His first wife was Harriet Craig, who died April 4, 1856. The second wife was Sarah J. Rains, who died October 1, 1864. Present wife is Nancy Harner, to whom he was mar- ried April 1, 1867.
RICHARD JOHNSON deceased, was born in Bucks County, Penn., October 4, 1801. He was a son of Nathaniel Johnson and was reared in Pennsylvania. He was a practical farmer and miller, and was married March 14, 1830, in Muskingum County, Ohio, to Miss Sarah Fogle, daughter of John and Susan (Baird) Fogle. She was born April 7, 1810, near Hagerstown, on the Potomac, where the first eight years of her life were spent. Her parents then settled near Zanes- ville, Muskingum Co., Ohio, where she grew to womanhood. In this locality Mr. and Mrs. Johnson spent the greater part of their mar- ried life, and reared their family of nine children, four of whom are residents of this county. They came to this county and set- tled on the farm now occupied by Amos W. Johnson in fall of 1860. Richard Johnson died on this farm April 15, 1877. Although not a pioneer of the county, he lived in it long enough to endear himself to a large cir- cle of friends whose confidence he fully en- joyed. His wife, Sarah Johnson, survives him, and has a comfortable home with her son, Amos W. Ann Johnson was born Oc- tober 20, 1830, the wife of Martin Thomas, and died April 20, 1850; Clayton, born Oc-
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tober 20, 1832, died in August, 1857; Arth- ely, born September 28. 1834, and died in November, 1838; Alfred, born October 28, 1836; Carson, born November 1, 1838; Asa, born February 7, 1841; Susannah, born June 26, 1843, married Noah Smithly, and died on the 13th of November, 1879; Amanda, born July 29 1846, married W. E. Bony; Amos W., born April 23, 1848. The latter was educated in this county and married Febru- ary 14, 1876, to Miss Maria R. Bair, daugh- er of John and Abbie Bair. She was born November 21, 1853, in DeKalb County, Ind. Her father was a native of Pennsylvania and her mother of Ohio. They were married in Ohio and came to Illinois and Clark County in the spring of 1870, and are now residents of Martinsville. Amos W. Johnson has a family of three children, viz .: Gertrude M., born November 9, 1876; Clarence E., born November 15, 1878, and Charles W., born November 3, 1880. A. W. Johnson has a farm of 100 acres in good state of cultivation and well improved. His mother is a mem- ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
CARSON JOHNSON, farmer, P. O. Mar- tinsville, is the fifth of a family of nine chil- dren of Richard and Sarah Johnson, whose sketch is given herein. He was born in Mus- kingum County, Ohio, November 1, 1838, and came to this county with the family in 1860. In the spring of 1862, he enlisted in Company G,Fifty-fourth Illinois Volunteers. He served his time of enlistment and vet- eranized, being discharged and mustered out at Springfield, Ill., in fall of 1865. He lost his right hand at Paducah, Ky. After re- turning home, he pursued his farm work. He bought his first eighty acres of land of Lewis Fulton. He now owns 367 acres of land, of which part is in Martinsville Town- ship. He has a substantial frame residence on the southwest quarter of southeast quarter
of Section 27. He engages in stock raising and general farming. He was married Feb- ruary 11, 1872, in Clark County, to Miss Mary E. Cook, daughter of Eli and Martha Cook. She was born February 18, 1852. This family came from Clark County, Ind., to this county in 1853. They have a family of one daughter, viz. : Sarah A. Johnson, born April 20, 1880. Mrs. Johnson is a member of the United Brethren Church.
F. E. LESEURE, Postmaster and grocer, Auburn, is a native of France, born Sep- tember 21, 1816, a son of Joseph and Fel- icite (Hurel) Leseure. Our subject grew to manhood in his native country, and was mar- ried in February, 1838, to Miss Lawrence Collin, who was born in France about 1817, and died in Terre Haute, Ind., in March, 1864, leaving five children, all of whom are living-Henry and Emanuel, who are resi- dents of Marshall, Ill .; Agathe, who married Lafayette Ashmore; Mary, married Hubert Guthwick, of Harper's Ferry, Iowa, and Er- nestine., who is also living in Harper's Fer- ry, Iowa. Our subject came to the United States in December, 1849, and has since been engaged in mercantile business. He came to Clark County in 1864, and for fifteen years has been Postmaster at different points. He married his second wife, Sarah M. Hollings- worth, July 28, 1855. She is a native of Clay County, Ind., born December 2, 1843. They are the parents of the following chil- dren: Pauline, born November 4, 1871; Prosper, February 10, 1876, and Sophia, April 28, 1881. Our subject is at present en- gaged in business in the village of Auburn. He is also the owner of three farms, two of which are located in Anderson Township, and consist of eighty and 120 acres, and the other in Auburn Township consisting. of eighty acres. Mr. Leseure is a member of the Catholic Church
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TILGHMAN H. LINTON, farmer, P. O. Clark Centre, was born November 13, 1847, in Parke County, Ind. His father was Will- iam Linton and the mother was Sarah Bul- lington. His father was born in 1820, in Kentucky, and losing his parents when young, was raised by an uncle, William Payne, by whom he was brought to Indiana, where he was married to Sarah Bullington. She was born in Parke County, Ind., in 1827, and was the daughter of William and Mar- garet Bullington. They had a family of two sons, viz .: George and T. H. Linton. When the latter was quite young, his father, Will- iam Linton, died. His mother afterward married to James R. Bullion, and died in Iowa in 1866. Mr. William Linton came to this county with his family about 1849, but his health failing, be returned to Indiana, where he died as above stated. In spring of 1869, Mr. T. H. Linton returned to this county, and for four years made his home with his brother George, who had moved here in 1868. T. H. was married January 26, 1873, to Miss Sarah M. Wright, daughter of Wesley and Sarah Wright. She was born in Clark County, April 24, 1857. Her parents were born in Coshocton County, the father on the 26th of October. 1824, and the mother February 10, 1827. They had six children, viz .: Sylvina, Lemuel R., Joseph L., Will- iam H., Sarah M., John A. and James W. Wright. William H. was killed by the burst- ing of a grindstone on August 10, 1880; John A. died January, 1866, of spotted fever. The father died November 26, 1864. The mother is the wife of Samuel Norris. T. H. Linton has a family of four children, viz .: Josephine and Joanna, born May 8, 1874; William, born June 12, 1877; Alonzo, born November 14, 1881. He owns a farm of eighty acres of land; sixty of which are in cul- tivation ; engaged in mixed husbandry.
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