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Henry S. Dagley, born in Herald's Prairie Precinct, Nov. 29, 1833, was a son of Captain Samuel and Jane (Webb) Dagley, who were among the earliest settlers, Captain Dagley coming to this section with Joseph Boone in 1811, and probably helped to build the fort. After staying there a while he went back to Kentucky (Barn County, near Peter's Creek), when Thomas and his family (the father) moved to New Haven, with Boone in the fort, Boone being his son-in-law. The history of New Haven, if all could be written of the early Indian exploits and pioneer trials and hardships of those early few, and of Captain Samuel Dagley, would be very inter- esting, but much of it has died with them. Captain Dagley mar- ried Jane Webb, daughter of Asa Webb, it being the first marriage in the precinct. Henry S. received a common school education in an old log house at Union Ridge." Henry S. being the young- est son was always on the home place, on which he and his family now live. He was married Aug. 28. 1858, and his father died
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Sept. 5, following. He married Sarah H. Eubanks, of Indian Creek, daughter of John and Sarah (Wrenwick) Eubanks. Their children are-George K., born Aug. 4, 1859, married W. V. Questel, and has one child, Ethel I .; Sarah J., born Sept. 11, 1861, died in infancy; John E., born April 4, 1863; Samuel J., Ang. 25, 1865; Robert W., Feb. 25, 1867; Flora Agnes, Nov. 28, 1870. Mary, March 25, 1878; Henry Powell, Dec. 12, 1875; Cora Lee, June 15, 1878; Louvisa, Dec. 12, 1880. Mr. Dagley has a farm of 260 acres. In several portions of it are to be found Indian mounds, some of which have been opened and remaining relics taken therefrom. The neighborhood is known as the Dagley neighborhood for miles around. He is a member of the Cumber- land Presbyterian church at Union Ridge.
Jonathan S. Dagley, perhaps the largest wheat-grower in White County, and certainly one of the most successful farmers, is a son of Samuel and Jane (Webb) Dagley. He was the sixth child of a family of eleven children, and was born Ang. 20, 1827. Oct. 12, 1848, he married Catherine, seventh daughter of James and Mary Trousdale. She was born Dec. 2, 1828. Their children were-Vir- ginia, born Dec. 27, 1849; Mary Ann, born July 12, 1852; Solon Jones, born Jan. 31, 1854; an infant son, born Jan. 25, 1856. His wife died Feb. 1, 1856. Dec. 1, 1856, he married Susan Jane Las- ater, third daughter and thirteenth child of James and Susan Lasater. She was born Jan. 16, 1837. To this union have been born-Charles, Aug. 20, 1857; an infant daughter; James Lasater, born Dec. 19, 1861, died Feb. 16, 1882; Milton Edmore, Sept. 7, 1864; Franklin and Fannie Belle, born Aug. 3, 1866; Emma, born Oct. 20, 1868; Jonathan Boone, born Sept. 15, 1877.
Samuel Dagley, Sr. (deceased), was born in Peter's Creek, Bar- ren Co., Ky., Oct. 2, 1797, and was a son of Thomas Dagley, a native of Ireland. His mother was a native of Scotland. Of Scotch-Irish descent, the Dagleys, like all their race, have energy, strong common sense and practical worth. Thomas Dagley was baggage-master for General Washington in the Revolutionary war. During the march of the British there were guards placed over his wife's house to protect it from the ravages of the troops. He moved to New Haven in 1812 with his family of five children-Sara (Mrs. Joseph Boone), Rebecca (Mrs. William Withrow), Hannah (Mrs. Hugh Withrow and afterward Mrs. Robin Harris), Ruth (Mrs. Carter Smith), and Samuel. New Haven was then called Boone's Fort, from Joseph Boone, the first settler. Mr. Boone was a brother
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of the famous Daniel Boone. As one of Thomas Dagley's daugh- ters married Joseph, Daniel was necessarily brought to the settle- ment, and many interesting stories are told of him by his relatives here. Samuel Dagley slept with him the night he was twenty-one. Samuel was married March 2, 1817, in New Haven, to Jane Webb, a daughter of Asa and Mary (Block) Webb, who was born Jan. 14, 1796. To them were born ten children-Rebecca, born Dec. 17, 1817; Mary Ann, March 22, 1819; Sarah, Nov. 25, 1821; Elizabeth, Aug. 20, 1823; Samuel, Sept. 25, 1825; Jonathan Boone, Ang. 20, 1827; Louisa and Lucinda, May 22, 1829; Robert W., Nov. 7, 1831; Henry S., Nov. 29, 1833; Lavisa J., Jan. 13, 1838. Samuel Dagley died Sept. 5, 1858, and his wife, March 2, 1881. Both are buried in Union Ridge Cemetery.
Solomon L. Garrison was born in Barren Co., Ky., June 7, 1808. He was a son of James and Rachel Garrison. They moved to White County at a very early date, settling in what is now Emma Township. He is one of the very few pioneers who are liv- ing. In conversation with Mr. Garrison we found him to be a man of practical common sense, and of unquestionable integrity. He retains his faculties to a remarkable degree, and his reminis- cences of the early pioneer days and early schools are very inter- esting.
John Graham, born Sept. 13, 1814, in Fayette County, Pa., is a son of John and Elizabeth (Thompson) Graham, natives of Scot- land and Ireland. He received a common-school education, and worked on the farm till his eighteenth year, when he went to Elizabethtown, Pa., and learned the shipwright's trade ; worked at his trade on land eight years, and was then steamboat carpen- ter twenty-three years, working on many boats and experiencing the dangers of many storms. He has been on three different boats where the boilers burst, killing many, the last one killing twenty-seven. Securing a competence in this rough life, he came West and bought a farm, and settled down to a quiet life. He also deals quite largely in grain, having charge of Brown's Station on the Wabash Railroad, his son-in-law, B. I. Brockett, running the farm, and he the grain depot. Mr. Graham married Miss Jane Wilson, of Pittsburg, daughter of George and Elizabeth (Grant) Wilson, of the same State. Their family consisted of two sons and this one daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Graham have one daughter -Virginia Belle, now Mrs. B. I. Brockett, and living with her parents. ] r children are-Laura B., Graham D .. Jane B.
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Etta M., Edward L. and Nellie B. Mr. Graham and Mr. Brockett own land on section 31, Carmi Township. Mr. Graham ran a steam- boat for seven years between St. Louis and Ft. Benton, Montana, a 3,600 mile route ; this brought him from civilization to the wild lands of the warlike Sioux, Blackfoots, Winnebagoes, etc., and where elk, deer, and buffaloes abounded; has had skirmishes with the Indians, and the boat, City of Pekin, was shot into many times. He was also on a steamboat, The Belle Peoria, taken into the service of the United States, and served as ship carpenter during the war; was before Vicksburg six weeks; also on the Ten- nessee River in the region of Morgan's guerrilla raids, but escaped unmolested. Mr. and Mrs. Graham and Mr. and Mrs. Brockett are members of the West Union United Presbyterian church.
Robert Grant, born April 17, 1796, near Cambridge, England, came to America in December, 1818. Upon their approach to the Jersey shore, between Big and Little Egg harbor, they ship- wrecked. After landing he came via Pittsburg, and down the Ohio to Shawneetown. June 10, 1827, he married Frances Wood- Salsbury, a native of New York. They had four children-Mercy E., born March 29, 1828, married B. L. Patrick, of Carmi, June 18, 1845, and is now deceased; George and Susannah F. both died in childhood; Thomas A., born April 10, 1839, married Sarah A. Bennett. Mrs. Grant died Jan. 30, 1841. Mr. Grant married Sarah M., daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Parker) Thompson, natives of Tennessee. Mrs. Grant was born in Sumner County, Tenn., and came to this county in 1841. She has since resided within two miles of her present home. Mr. and Mrs. Grant have had nine children-Margaret S., born Aug. 30, 1844 (deceased); Robert R., born Jan. 30, 1846, married Fannie E. Rice; George W., born Dec. 20, 1848 (deceased); Richard B., born Dec. 14, 1850, married Fannie A. Campbell; John E., born Feb. 24, 1852, married Phoebe J. Bowman; William J., born March 14, 1854, mar- ried Margaret Downing, who died, and he married Rhoda A. Blackard; Sarah E., born Nov. 25, 1856 (deceased); Mary Augusta and Charles Augustus, born April 5, 1859; Charles died in child- hood; Mary married Andrew J. Knight.
Robert R. Grant, born in White County, Jan. 30, 1846, is a son of Robert and Sarah M. (Thompson) Grant. His father was a na- tive of England, and came to this country in 1818, coming direct to this county, where he died Dec. 22, 1878. Robert R. was mar- ried Sept. 24, 1868, to Fannic E., daughter of Cary and Lucinda
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(Sallee) Rice. They have four children-Franklin, born June 29, 1870; Elmer E .. Ang. 2, 1872; Aswell Curtis, Feb. 3, 1877; Charles W., Sept. 8, 1880. Mr. and Mrs. Grant are both mem- bers of the Cumberland Presbyterian church. He is one of the Directors of the School Board. Mr. Grant has lived in this county the most of his life, and is one of its influential citizens. He ha a nice farm of sixty acres of improved land.
William E. Greer, son of Henry and Parleeaurilla Parleeann (Buttery) Greer, both natives of Tennessee, is a native of this county and has always resided here. He is the second son of a family of two sons and four daughters. His early life was spent with his father. He married Mary, daughter of Willis C. and and Elizabeth (Mars) Ward. Mr. and Mrs. Greer have four chil- dren-Edward, born Dec. 25, 1871; Oscar, April 13, 1874 ; Al- bert, Oct. 13, 1877, and Sarah J., April 13, 1880. He has a farm of 204 acres, most of it tine timber, only about seventy-five acres being cultivated. The ravages made upon the forest during the last ten years, will, if continued, greatly enhance the value of timber land. Mrs. Greer's father was a native of Pennsylvania, and her mother of Illinois. They had a family of nine children -Mary, Ann P., Joseph, Thomas, Benjamin and Jane still living, and Emily, George and James, deceased. Mr. Ward died Aug. 19, 1882. Mrs. Ward is living in Carmi.
Franklin Hale, born in West Tennessee, Dec. 29, 1825, is a son of Asa and Elizabeth (Chapman) Hale, natives of Virginia and North Carolina. His grandfather, Simon Hale, was in the whole Southern campaign of the Revolutionary war. He died in 1842. in his ninety-ninth year, in White County. His father, Asa Hale, came to this county in 1830 with five children, Franklin being the fourth. He was married Aug. 7, 1841, to Sibbie, daughter of James and Polly (Regan) Bryant. To them were born six children -James B. ( surveyor of Gallatin County for the past ten years), William (deceased), John (deceased), Sarah Ann E. (Mrs. Geo. W. Harper, deceased), Asa F. and Lewis. Mrs. Hale died in the fall of 1870, and Dr. Hale married Mahala, daughter of Daniel Bryant. They have had two children-Martin I. (deceased and Marshall. Mr. Hale has given his children all the advantages to be obtained in this section of the country. He and his family are all members of the Cumberland Presbyterian church. He was School Director of Buckeye District for twelve years, at the date of the ending of subscription and the beginning of free schools.
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Abraham Hall, born Jan. 29, 1857, is a son of William and Mary (Bryant) Hall. His early life was spent on the farm and in going to school. He married Sarah J., daughter of Franklin and Ellen (Phipps) Pomeroy. She was the second of their nine chil- dren. When Mr. and Mrs. Hall were married they settled on section 1, of this township, where they are making for themselves a nice home. They have two children-Ethel, born April 14, 1880, and Ettie M., born Aug. 20, 1882.
John W. Hall, born Oct. 26, 1854, is a son of William and Mary (Bryant) Hall, of Emma Township. He lived at home during his minority. He received a common-school education. He married Ellen Edwards, daughter of Berry and Sarah (Miller) 'Edwards, of Enfield. She was the youngest of their fifteen children. To Mr. and Mrs. Hall have been born four children-Mary, died in infancy; Sarah A., born Aug. 19, 1877; William B, born June 13, 1879; Lula M., born Oct. 19, 1881. Mr. Hall is engaged in farming; has about fifty acres. He is an industrious, intelligent young man.
Pinkney B. Harris, born in what is known as the Dagley set- tlement, Herald's Prairie, Feb. 13, 1836, was a son of Richard and Minerva (Webb) Harris, the father a native of North Carolina, and the mother of Kentucky. The two families moved to White County when the children, Richard and Minerva, were both young. Richard and Minerva Harris raised to maturity ten children, eight daughters and two sons-Nancy, Lina, Mary, Harriet, Lucy J., Pinkney B., Richard M., Julia, Sarah and Eliza. Pinkney B. spent his early years on the farm. His education was received in the early subscription schools. When the news came of the bom- bardment of Fort Sumter he, with the many other patriotic men, resolved that his country needed his services, and enlisted Aug. 14, 1861, in the Twenty-ninth Illinois Infantry, Company D, Captain Whiting, taking his place in the ranks as a private. His regiment was in the memorable battles of Fort Donelson and Shiloh. At Shiloh he was slightly wounded; had many other hair-breadth escapes, having a lock of hair cut off by a minie, bul- let holes in his coat at Donelson, and one through his coat and another through his pants at Shiloh. After fourteen months of service he was promoted by election to Second Lieutenant, serving in that capacity during the rest of the service. He was in the war about three years, being mustered out at Natchez, Miss., Septem- ber, 1864. He returned home and took up his life-work of farm- ing. He married Emma Etta Mead, a native of Indiana, and
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daughter of Lafayette Mead. To this union have been born- Perry, born Nov. 27, 1878, and Winnie, born in 1882. Mr. Harris is now farming about sixty-five acres of improved land.
Richard Monroe Harris, son of Richard and Minerva (Webb) Harris, was born in Herald's Prairie, Feb. 25, 1838. His father was a son of Robert and Lucy (Stubblefield) Harris, natives of Rockingham County, N. C. Mrs. Harris was born Nov. 11, 1759. They lived and reared their family in North Carolina. Mr. Harris died in the early part of the present century. They had nine chil- dren-Nancy, born Jan. 4, 1780; Robert, Dec. 2, 1782; Richard, Nov. 11, 1785; Elizabeth, Aug. 12, 1787; Thompson, Dec. 21, 1789; Susanna, April 20, 1792; Fanny, March 16, 1795; John, Jan. 10, 1798; Polly, July 9, 1800. The eldest son came to Illi- nois and prospected some, and then Richard came and put in a small crop, and returned to North Carolina, reported favorably, and soon returned with his mother and a portion of the family, in- cluding Nancy (Mrs. Alexander Trousdale), Susanna, or Aunt Sukey (Mrs. Wm. Taylor), and Polly (Mrs. Wm. Trousdale), all married in this county. Mrs. Harris resided and died on the place where Richard now lives. Richard was married in 1826, to Mi- nerva Webb, and went to housekeeping on the home place, the sisters all having married and left home. To them were born- Nancy, Sept. 22, 1827 (Mrs. J. A. Bryant, deceased); Lina, Dec. 30, 1828; Polly, Aug. 20, 1830 (Mrs. D. M. McGhee, deceased); Harriet, May 17, 1832 (Mrs. R. L. Scott, deceased); Lucy Jane, Feb. 7, 1834 (Mrs. C. S. Bryant, deceased); Pinkney B., Feb. 13, 1836; Richard M., Feb. 25, 1838; Jalia and Sarah, Oct. 5, 1839 (deceased); Eliza, July 15, 1843 (Mrs. G. W. Bryant). Richard Harris, Sr., was a well-known citizen, and a regular minister of the Cumberland Presbyterian church for about thirty years. He died March 29, 1856. His wife died in the fall of 1873. Richard, Jr., married Elizabeth M., daughter of Alfred and Mary A. (Lang- ford) Pearce, of Indian Creek Township, Jan. 13, 1876. They have two children-Mary Adaline and George Spencer. Mr. Harris is farming the original purchase of the family, having 150 acres, eighty of which are well improved. Mr. and Mrs. Harris have both been members of the Presbyterian church for twenty years, or more. Robert Harris was a Revolutionary soldier, serving under the different generals that commanded the Southern army. Richard can remember of his father drawing a pension for his mother reg- ularly till his death.
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Henry F. Hart, born Jan. 12, 1846, was the fourth child and second son of one of White County's oldest and most sturdy pio- neers. He spent his early life till his nineteenth year with his father, doing the ordinary farm work and attending the district school winters. He was married March 9, 1869, to Frances E. Napier, daughter of F. E. Napier. She was educated in this town- ship and was married in her fourteenth year. To them have been born five children, three living-Clara, born Aug. 29, 1871; Ola. born July 14, 1876; Gladys, born June 1, 1882; Lina, born July 15, 1874, died when five years old, and one died in infancy. Mr. Hart has sixty acres of improved land mostly under cultivation.
Thomas Hendrix was born near Beardstown, Ky., March 4, 1824. He is a son of James and Sarah J. (Leathers) Hendrix, natives of Kentucky. In 1834 the family came to White County, Ill. Thomas married Sarah Jane Haskins. To them were born four children-Mary E., born Nov. 27, 1843; John, Jan. 6, 1846; Martha, August, 1847; George W., Dec. 13, 1848. His wife died in February, 1849. Aug. 4, 1850, he married Hannah L. Rogers- Coker. Their children are-Margaret L., born Aug. 20, 1852; Lorenzo Dow, Aug. 13, 1854; Ellen, Dec. 31, 1856; Thomas, April 7, 1859; Laura J., Aug. 10, 1861; Charles A., March 29, 1864; Hannah Melvina, July 28, 1867.
Benjamin F. Herring, son of Nathaniel and Mehitable Herring, was born in Guilford, Me., Aug. 1, 1816. He came to Illinois in 1840, located in Galena, and worked in the lead mines and at his trade for twelve years; then in 1852 came to White County. He was married Aug. 7, 1846, to Elizabeth T., daughter of Ezekiel and Jane Porter, born July 20, 1825. She died leaving two children- John Alexander and George Washington. He married again, Sept. 27, 1854, a lady with exactly the same name as his first wife, -- Elizabeth T. Porter, born April 25, 1829, daughter of John and Rebecca Porter. Sept. 25, 1858, he married his third wife, Eliza- beth J., daughter of Reuben and Esther Lowery, born Sept. 25, 1830. They were the parents of five children-Margaret Jose- phine, born Oct. 2, 1860 (Mrs. Homer Inboden); Chena, Aug. 29, 1862 (deceased); Sira Nevada, Aug. 12, 1865 (deceased); Benjamin F., May 27, 1868; Hardena L., Sept. 28, 1870. Mr. Herring died in this township Sept. 5, 1880. His wife and children still reside here. The boys are intelligent, enterprising young men. This fall (1882) they started a sorghum mill, using the Evaporator, of Mansfield, O., and Krantz mill, of Evansville, Ind. They work
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night and day and are doing well. John A. enlisted in the late war in Company C, One Hundred and Forty-ninth Indiana In- fantry. He was mustered out at Nashville and has never since been heard from.
Robert Coleman Hoskins (deceased), known throughout this sec- tion as Coleman Hoskins, for many years a preacher of the Old School Baptists, was born in Kentucky, July 14, 1805, and was a son of James A. Hoskins, whose wife, a native of Virginia, was Rebecca Smith. Coleman came to White County when a young lad, his parents moving in at that time. The family consisted of eight daughters and four sons. His mother was English descent. He was married Nov. 4, 1830, to Margaret S. Vought, who was born Feb. 19, 1811. Their children were-Eliza J., born Oct. 29, 1831, now Mrs. Hugh Austin; Rebecca N., born Sept. 10, 1834, now Mrs. Henry Coles; Martha E., born April 12, 1837, now Mrs. John Lowry; Mary, born Feb. 28, 1839, now Mrs. Charles Austin; William Franklin, born Nov. 4, 1841; Francis M., born April 25, 1844, married Henry Spence; died Jan. 31, 1882. Mrs. Hoskins died Nov. 2, 1844. His second wife was Mrs. Lucretia Chapman. Coleman Hoskins died Sept. 11, 1853.
Champney Hughes (deceased) was an old veteran in the Mexi- can war, who, after an honorable discharge, received a land war- rant from the Government as a pension for services. He married the lady who is now the widow Lee, by whom he had two children -Mary J. and Oliver C. Upon his death the estate reverted to the children and the widow. Mrs. Hughes married for her second husband Jesse F. Lee; was his second wife. Their children were- Jesse, Thomas, Emanuel, Francis, Oliver S., James, Orville, Sarah T., Thomas J. Mr. Lee died July 22, 1874. Much credit is due to Mrs. Lee's eldest daughter, who has succeeded in buying out the heirs, and now owns her father's original grant. This has been done by hard work and honest frugality. Her mother resides with her on the old homestead.
John H. Kisner was born in Monongalia County, Va., April 7, 1828, a son of Frederick and Rhoda (Williams) Kisner, both natives of Virginia. They moved to Posey County, Ind., in 1853, and in the fall of 1859 came to White County. They had a family of five sons and four daughters, four sons and three daughters still living. John H. has spent his entire life in farming. He received a common school education; has worked and gained for himself a good home with most excellent buildings. He was married to
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Charlotte Musgraves, a native of Virginia. They had four chil- dren-Charles Henry, married Ophelia Shelton, and resides on his father's farm; James Wesley, living in Kankakee County; Mary Elizabeth, now Mrs. George Bullock, of Pope County; Cornelia, and John W. Mrs. Kisner died in Herald's Prairie Township, in 1868. He then married Martha, daughter of J. Collard, formerly of this township. Their children are -- Benjamin F. and Monroe. His wife died in January, 1871, and in March, 1871, he married Malinda Hart, also a native of this township. They have four children-Theopholus, Jesse Frederick, Lewis Hancock and George. Mr. Kisner owns the southeast quarter of section 5. His father is residing with him. He has been a member of the Meth- odist Episcopal church for thirty-eight years. In April, 1882, his house, which was built in 1881, was totally destroyed by fire, but in sixty days he had the present one finished and ready to move into. Mr. Kisner enlisted in the Eighty-seventh Illinois Volun- teer Infantry; was mustered in at Shawneetown. His regiment was engaged on picket, advance guards and scouting; was at the surrender of Vicksburg; at Jackson, Miss .; at New Orleans, and Brazier's City, where they went into camp; from there on the Red River expedition, under Banks; from there to White River; then back to Morganza; then to camp, at St. Charles. From this time till their discharge they did scouting duty. They were dis- charged at Springfield, July 3, 1865. Mr. Kisner was also in the terrible battle of Pleasant Hill, Ark., where so many brave Illinois boys fell.
James M. Leathers, farmer, section 18, was born Sept. 20, 1826. He was the youngest son of a family of fourteen children. His parents were William and Rachel (McDaniel) Leathers. James, being the youngest son, remained on the farm and cared for his parents. His mother died March 8, 1859; his father May 13, 1872. His early years were hard. He received his education in the subscription schools of an early day. He was married Oct. 24, 1851, to Mary Ann, daughter of Samuel and Margaret (Stokes) Birch. Their children are-Luther, born Oct. 14, 1852; Ellen, Oct. 15, 1854, now Mrs. George Bowers; Emily, born Dec. 24, 1856, married P. Philipps; William, born Jan. 1, 1859 (deceased); Jehu, born July 28, 1861; Charles, born May 6, 1864; Nora M., born Aug. 13, 1866; Ephraim, born June 22, 1869; Eben, born June 3, 1871, died in infancy. Mr. Leathers has a fine farm of 242 acres, 175 of it improved. Three of his sons are at home. On
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his farm are several graves. Mrs. Leathers' parents were natives of Virginia and North Carolina, and had eight children-Lucinda, William, Elizabeth, Stokes, Susan A. (died in childhood), Samuel, Malinda, Mary A. Mr. and Mrs. Birch were members of Mr. Leathers' family at the time of their death. They are buried in the Rice Grove cemetery. Mr. Birch was blind several years prior to his death.
John Leathers, born in 1815, was a son of William and Rachel (McDaniel) Leathers. His father was a native of Orange County, Va., and his mother of Maryland. They moved to Nelson County, Ky., and from there to this county, when John was about twenty years old. Their family was-Matilda, Mary (Mrs. Benj. Clark), Maria (Mrs. John Collard, deceased), Betsey (Mrs. Marcus Gill, deceased), Jane (now Mrs. Marcus Gill), William (deceased), David (deceased), Henry (deceased), John and James, of this town- ship. When Mr. Leathers came here the land office was at Shaw- neetown. He bought an improvement of William Nevet, and further improved it. There he lived and died, and now his son James resides on the place. He and wife are buried in Lick Creek cemetery. John Leathers was married to Parzana Pearce, daugh- ter of Colonel Hosea and Sally Pearce, natives of Tennessee. Their children were-Emma, Mary, Caroline. Phoebe, James. John and Marshall. His wife died in 1862, and he married Nancy, daugh- ter of William and Mary (Buckingham) Mitchell. They have had three children-Washington, and two that died in infancy. Mr. Leathers has always been a hard-working, upright citizen, and has gained for himself a good home. Marshall and Washington are both at home. Mr. Leathers' son John was in the Eighty-seventh Illinois Infantry, and conducted himself with valor and courage. He is since deceased.
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