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Mr. Pool was married May 9, 1901, to Effie Spencer, born August 22. 1883, in the township in which she now resides, the daughter of James and Sarah Spencer, both natives of Jefferson township, Sullivan county, Indiana. One child has blessed this union-Ira, born November 20, 1906.
MRS. MARY ANN (HOWARD) DOUTHIT, widow of John M. Douthit, of Jefferson township, Sullivan county, was born September 19, 1842, in Jefferson township, this county, a daughter of Rual and Mary (McCon- nell) Howard. Her father was born in Jefferson, Kentucky, and died in Jefferson township, Sullivan county, Indiana, in 1876. Her mother was a native of Haddon township, this county, and died here in 1875, at about the age of sixty years. Rual Howard was the son of Joseph Howard, Vol. II-23
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who was born in England and with six brothers came to America, at first locating in New York, where they finally separated, Rual going to North Carolina and later emigrating to Kentucky at the time Daniel Boone went to that section. He was a first cousin of Mr. Boone. In 1831 Mr. Howard came to Sullivan county, Indiana, settling in Jefferson township, where he ever afterwards resided. He followed farming pursuits through- out his entire life. Politically he was a supporter of Democracy, and in the church of his choice was a Baptist, as was his wife. The ten children of this family were as follows : Strawther M., deceased; Sarah J. Mrs. Newkirk, a widow now residing in Linton, Indiana; James M., residing in Jefferson township; Mrs. M. A. Douthit, subject; Francis M., residing in Jefferson township; Jasper, deceased; Miranda E., deceased ; Newton, residing at Carlisle, Indiana; Eliza, Mrs. Isaac Yates, who resides in Pleasantville, and William C., residing in Florida.
Mrs. Douthit was united in marriage, January 16, 1859, to John M. Douthit, born March 17, 1836, in Jefferson township, this county, and died June 2, 1904. He was laid to rest within the Indian Prairie Ceme- tery. He was a son of Ira and Sarah (Ellis) Douthit, both of whom were natives of North Carolina, where they were also married and carried on farming operations, coming to Sullivan county, Indiana, at a very early day-about 1830. At the time of their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Douthit had a farm of one hundred and twenty acres. They moved to this land in 1861. The place now contains one hundred and eighty-five acres, having once been a tract of three hundred and fifteen acres, but a portion was disposed of. Politically Mr. Douthit was a firm believer in the prin- ciples of the Democratic party. He belonged to the Baptist church, as does his widow. During the Civil war he served five months in the Union cause. Eleven children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Douthit, as follows : Victoria, born January 3, 1861, married George Lucas and resides in Knox county, Indiana ; James E., residing in Sullivan, and who married Mary Hooper; J. Frank, born 1865,, resides in Sullivan; Grace, residing in Sullivan, married William Medley; William R., residing with his mother and is unmarried and carries on the farm; Mary Edna, who married George Robbins and resides in Knox county ; Sarah Estella, Mrs. Frank Robbins, residing in Haddon township; Emmet L., living in Knox county, Indiana, and who married Grace Padgett ; Lucy E., who married Alonzo C. Owen and resides in Sullivan; Glenn Opal, a graduate of the Danville Normal School of Indiana, has taught five years in Sullivan county, and is now a teacher in the schools near Sullivan, and Nellie, who died in infancy.
JAMES TIMMERMAN, engaged in the harness business at Pleasantville, Indiana, and noted for the excellent quality of work turned out, especially in the line of his hand-made harness, for which he has a wide reputation in this section of Indiana, will form the subject of this biographical notice. He was born June 4, 1859, in Knoxville, Ohio, the son of Nimrod and
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Hannah (Thompson) Timmerman. His father was born in 1818 in Virginia, and died about 1904 in Pleasantville, Indiana. The mother was born in 1820 in Ohio, and died in Sullivan county, Indiana, in 1901. The Timmerman family are of German ancestry, but quite far removed. Nim- rod Timmerman was first engaged in mining in Ohio, to which state he went when a young man. Later he abandoned the mining business and began shoemaking. He remained at that in Knoxville, Ohio, until 1865, when he went to Sullivan county, Indiana, locating near Pleasantville. He purchased eight lots in Pleasantville, and was engaged a part of his time at farming and the remainder at coal mining, occasionally working at the shoemaking trade. Politically he voted with the Republican party, and in church connection was a Methodist Episcopal, as was also his wife. He was active in all church movements and served as one of the trustees in the church of his choice. Ten children were born to Nimrod Timmer- man and wife, born and named as follows: John W., who was killed at the battle of Perryville, Kentucky, he having served eighteen months in the Union army at the time of the Civil war : Katherine, residing in Toronto, Ohio, married George McNeal; Samuel, a resident of Greene county, married Katherine Hinkle ; Samuel, who served three years in the Union cause during the Civil war ; William, residing in Greene county, Indiana, married Jane Purcell; Emma, who married James Hale, and she is now deceased and he lives in Jefferson township, Sullivan county ; Elizabeth, Mrs. Patrick, a widow residing in McLeansboro, Illinois; Mariah; Mrs. Brewer, residing in Pleasantville, and James, of this notice.
James Timmerman was educated at the common schools of Pleasant- ville, Indiana, and chose the useful trade of a harnessmaker. He began to work at this with Strawther Howard at Pleasantville when but fifteen years of age, continuing there for four years, and during that time he well mastered the trade. In 1878 he commenced traveling and working at his trade, and in 1880 went to work for Peter Miller, of Terre Haute, and remained with him five years, after which he came back to Pleasantville and engaged in the harness business with W. P. O'Haver, with whom he was associated as a partner for seven years. In 1893 he purchased his partner's interest in the business and has since operated the harness shop alone. He makes a specialty of his hand-made harnesses, and has all he can do in this line of work. He has succeeded well at his business and has accumulated a handsome property, owning his stock, eleven town lots and his residence property in Pleasantville.
In his political affiliations he is a Republican, and in church choice is a Methodist, as is also his wife. He is a trustee of the church of which he is a member. He also holds a membership in lodge No. 408 of the Odd Fellows at Pleasantville and has filled all the chairs of his lodge and represented it in the Grand Lodge of the state of Indiana. As a means of protection to his family he is associated with the Modern Woodmen of America, Camp No. 4929, at Pleasantville. He was united in marriage, April 17, 1890, to Cally Loudon, born February 8, 1864, a daughter of Joseph and Phoebe Loudon, both deceased. The father was a tanner by trade. Mr. and Mrs. Timmerman are the parents of three children:
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Teressa, born January 9, 1891, now teaching music and attending school ; Ray, born August 30, 1894, in school, and Mary E., born August 10, 1896, in school.
ARMAN SPENCER, an agriculturist of Sullivan county, residing in Jefferson township, was born January 25, 1845, in Greene county, Indiana, a son of Charles J. and Elizabeth (Snyder) Spencer. The paternal grandfather, Moses Spencer, was a native of Kentucky, and followed farming pursuits throughout his entire life. He came to Greene county, Indiana, and bought his son, Charles J., a farm. He attained the ad- vanced age of eighty years, while Charles J. reached the extreme age of ninety-one years. Charles J. Spencer was twice married, first to Eliza- beth Snyder, by whom he had the following children: Moses, who died in the Civil war; Mary (Brewer), now deceased ; John, who is deceased, having also served in the war; Mandy, whose first husband died in the army, and she afterward married Joshua Anderson, also a soldier in the same war and now deceased, and she resides in Sanborn ; Joseph, residing in Jefferson township; William T., of this township, and Arman, of this sketch. For his second wife Charles J. Spencer married Frances Owen, by whom five children were born, as follows: Sarah, who married Her- rod Risley ; Charles J., Jr., now of Sanborn, Indiana ; Eva, of Jefferson township, and who married James Howard ; Frank, of Jefferson township, and Logan, deceased. The father, Charles J. Spencer, was formerly a Whig, and joined the Republican party when it superseded the Whigs. He was a member of the Baptist church and its deacon, and his wife also belonged to that denomination.
Arman Spencer obtained his schooling in the country schools of his home district. His youth, however, was spent largely in assisting his father in clearing up his forest farm and making the necessary improve- ments to gain for the family a comfortable and valuable home. He re- mained with his parents until he reached his majority, then married and lived with his father one year, at which time he bought forty acres of land where he now resides, the place being four and a half miles south- west of Pleasantville. This place he cleared from out the heavily tim- bered land, unaided by others, which task was no small undertaking. He now owns sixty acres of excellent land, all well improved. He pays special attention to the growth of grain.
Mr. Spencer has been twice married, first in 1868 to Ellen Risley, by whom one child was born, Nancy J., born in 1869 and married Daniel Owen, now deceased, and she resides at Vincennes. Mrs. Spencer died in 1876, and three years later he married Helen Owen, born August 3, 1852. By this union four children were born: Daniel, who died in in- fancy ; Anna B. and Fannie D., twins, the former married to James Wil- son and residing in Pleasantville, and Fannie is unmarried and lives with her sister; and Flossy E., who married Hasseh Brewer and is at home. Politically Mr. Spencer is a Republican, and has held the office of super- visor one year.
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J. WESLEY ENOCHS, who is numbered among the prosperous agricul- turists of Jefferson township, Sullivan county, was born in this township April 14, 1861, a son of James M. and Margaret A. (Hinkle) Enochs. The father was born in North Carolina February 1, 1809, and died in Jefferson township, this county, April 14, 1894. The mother was born in 1820 in Kentucky, and died in this township about 1888. James M. Enochs went from his native state with his parents in 1812, and about 1835 settled in Sullivan county, Indiana, entering land in Jefferson town- ship. He was the son of Jones and Mary (Mock) Enochs, natives of North Carolina. Jones Enochs was a farmer, and died here at the extreme age of ninety-six years. Margaret A. (Hinkle) Enochs was the daughter of John and Elizabeth Hinkle, who emigrated from Kentucky to Greene county, Indiana, about 1830 and there remained until their death. At one time James M. Enochs owned three hundred and fifty acres of land. In politics he supported the Democratic party, and he was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, as was his faithful wife. Ten children were born to this union : Eli, deceased ; Mary, Mrs. Brewer, of Greene county, Indiana ; Manda, Mrs. Howard, residing in Gill township, Sullivan county ; the next two children died in infancy ; Ruel, deceased ; Angeline, deceased ; Ellen, deceased ; Eliza, Mrs. Phillips, residing in Knox county, Indiana, and J. Wesley, of this notice.
J. Wesley Enochs received his education at the common schools. He is a member of the Methodist church, as is also his wife. Politi- cally he is a supporter of the Prohibition party, believing that neither of the other great political parties will ever solve the temperance question in this country. He is connected with the Odd Fellows order, belonging to lodge No. 408 at Pleasant- ville, and has filled all its chairs and represented the lodge at the Grand Lodge. He taught school one term, but aside from that he was employed by his father until his marriage, when he was the owner of one hundred and six acres of land where he now resides, but to which he has added until his present place contains two hundred and twenty-six acres. He is an excellent farmer, and pays most attention to the raising of stock.
About 1890 he was married to Stella L. Edmonds, born May 20, 1866, in Jefferson township, a daughter of Lewis and Serelda Edmonds, who reside in Sullivan. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Enochs are: Rex P., born September 10, 1892, now attending school ; James H., born Octo- ber 10, 1896, also in school, and Laurel A., born November 12, 1902.
THOMAS B. O'HAVER is one of the men of Jefferson township, Sulli- van county, who have made their community the better for having been citizens of it, and a veteran of the Civil war, an untiring church worker and always standing for the right-such an influence can be but for good. Mr. O'Haver was born September 30, 1844, in Greene county, Indiana, a son of Pleasant M. and Cynthia A ( Hinkle) O'Haver. His father was a native of Tennessee and died in Pleasantville in 1881. The mother was
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born and died in Greene county, the date of her death being February 13, 1868, when she was about forty years of age. Pleasant M. O'Haver came from Tennessee to Sullivan county, Indiana, in 1820, settling near Carlisle with his father, Joseph O'Haver, and he married Bettie (Swagerty) O'Haver. The name O'Haver was originally O'Heifer. Joseph settled near Carlisle and there died. The son, Pleasant M., entered land where Pleasantville now stands, and for him the town was named. At one time he owned fifteen hundred acres of land in Sullivan and Greene counties. His occupation was raising and herding cattle, besides doing some farm- ing. In his politics he was always a firm Democrat until his later years, when he became a Prohibitionist ; seeing the great and growing evil of in- temperance sweeping over the land as he did he allied himself with this party. He served as township trustee two terms, and was justice of the peace several terms. Both he and his good wife were exemplary members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and he was a church trustee and had held every office in the church, save that of pastor. Eight children were born to Pleasant M. O'Haver by the subject's mother, Cynthia A. (Hinkle) O'Haver, and four by his first wife, who was a widow Martin. Of the first marriage one child died in infancy and the other three lived to man- hood and womanhood, but only one still survives-Mrs. Edmonds, of Sullivan. By his second marriage the children born were as follows : Thomas B. ; Martha, born June 25, 1847, resides in Marco, Greene county, Indiana, the wife of Jesse Fleming; John W., born February II, 1849, residing in Danville, Illinois, a physician who married Nina Jones ; Louisa J., born February 24, 1851, and who resides in Jefferson township, married James H. Clark; James F., born March 1, 1853, and residing in Greene county, Indiana, married Sarah Flater ; Charles J., born July 18, 1854, and residing in Florida, married Lulu Shepherd; Robert S., born April 20. 1856, resides in Sanborn, Indiana, and married Flora Coffee, and Grace, born January 16, 1860, married Shannon Ogg, who is now deceased, but she lives in Florida.
Thomas B. O'Haver, son of Pleasant and Cynthia A. (Hinkle) O'Haver, obtained his education at the country schools and attended school one year at Greencastle, Indiana. He remained at home assisting his father until he was twenty-five years of age. The father built a feed and flour mill in Pleasantville in 1864, and Thomas B. and his brother John worked in this mill until 1870, when they bought the property and operated it in partnership until 1876, when Thomas B. sold his share to his brother. From 1864 to 1865 Mr. O'Haver served in Company E, Ninth Volunteer Indiana Infantry Regiment. He escaped without wounds, having participated in the engagements at Nashville and Franklin, Tennessee. After selling his interest in the milling business he went back to his farm in Greene county, Indiana, and continued living on his place until 1895, when he moved to his land in Sullivan county, on the edge of the town of Pleasantville. He now owns ninety acres, but at one time owned two hundred and forty acres. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, as was his wife during her lifetime. Mr. O'Haver has held all the various offices and has been active
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in every interest of the church of his fathers. He belongs to the Odd Fellows' order, lodge No. 408, at Pleasantville, having filled all of the chairs and represented the subordinate lodge at the Grand Lodge which met at Indianapolis in 1878, and he also belongs to the Encampment and Rebekah degrees. He is numbered among the Civil war veterans who compose the Grand Army of the Republic, belonging to McClung Post No. 476. He is now quartermaster of this post, and has held all other local offices. Politically Mr. O'Haver is affiliated with the Democratic party.
An incident of his boyhood days will be of interest in this connection : When but six years of age he was lost in what was known as the Old Goose Pond in Greene county. It was in the afternoon and he was not recovered until late that night. The whole settlement were out in search of him, and several times he was near his seekers, but he thinking they were wolves would skulk away from them, until finally he saw a light at one of the neighbor's and went to it. It proved to be at the home of Mr. Breese, who took him to his parents' home.
Mr. O'Haver was married May II, 1871, to Sarah J. Huffman, who was born January 20, 1852, and died August 30, 1904. Three children were born of this union: Roscoe C., born November 4, 1872, married Daisy Ellis and resides at Los Angeles, California ; Ora Myrtle, born Janu- ary 26, 1876, married George L. Baker and resides in Worthington, Indiana, and Daisy C., born September 16, 1883, married John Jackson, a physician in Lyons, Greene county, Indiana.
MARTIN UNGERER, one of the successful and thoroughgoing farmers now tilling the fertile soil of Sullivan county, Indiana, whose farm-home is situated within Jefferson township, is a native of France, born near the city of Paris September 20, 1852. His parents were Michael and Eliza- beth (Rucher) Ungerer, both born in France, but came to the United States when young people. They returned to their native land after their marriage, which occurred in Buffalo, New York. While in this country the father was employed in a factory, but upon his return to France he en- gaged in farming. He lived but a short time after going back, and was but forty-five years of age at the time of his decease. His wife returned to America a few years after her husband's death and located at Indian- apolis, Indiana, where she died in 1895, aged eighty-seven years. . The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Michael Ungerer were as follows: Michael. Jr., a resident of Haddon township ; George, of Ohio, who married Carrie Pilotbracker, who is now deceased; John, of Haddon township, who mar- ried Catherine Lake ; Martin, who will form the subject of this biograph- ical review ; Elizabeth, deceased; Barbara, residing in Indianapolis, and who married Michael Lindbuyer, and Katherine, of Indianapolis, who married Henry Hockerty.
Martin Ungerer came to this country alone when aged fourteen years. He obtained the greater part of his education in his native country. He went to Columbus, Ohio, where he remained one year and then to Sullivan
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county, Indiana, where he has lived ever since. It was in 1867 when Mr. Ungerer first arrived in this country, and the next seven years he spent as a farm laborer, doing his work faithfully and well, and he was never without profitable employment. At the end of that period he commenced farming on his own account, when he at once became more forehanded and independent. He farmed in Haddon township five years and then purchased a twenty-acre tract of land in Jefferson township, to which he soon added twenty more. Subsequently he added to his farm sufficient to make it eighty-one acres, its present size. This valuable property is situ-
ated five miles southeast of Carlisle, and here he carries on his farm operations, which consist chiefly in the production of grain and hogs. Politically he affiliates with the Republican party, and in his religious faith adheres to that of the Methodist Episcopal church, as does his wife. Be- lieving in the policy of protecting his family he is numbered in the great membership of the Modern Woodmen of America, his lodge being No. 3332 at Carlisle, Indiana.
Mr. Ungerer was united in marriage, October 22, 1874, to Viola J. Deiss, born in Ohio May 8, 1857. She is the daughter of John F. and Wilhelmina ( Heifner) Deiss, both of whom are now deceased. The chil- dren of this union are: Rosa W., who married Burt Hart and they reside in Terre Haute ; Luella May, who married Fred McCammon and resides in Knox county, Indiana ; Albert N., at home, unmarried ; Barney E., unmar- ried and at home : Eva C., wedded Curtis Critchlow and resides in Terre Haute ; Garrette Martin, at home, and Ivan Oakley, at home. Albert and Barney are both members of the Modern Woodmen of America, Camp 3332, at Carlisle, Indiana.
Mr. Ungerer has purchased a residence in Haddon township and will move there for retirement, leaving the farm in charge of his sons.
COLUMBUS BOUGH, engaged in the hardware and undertaking busi- ness at the village of Pleasantville, Indiana, was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, January 29, 1849, a son of Henry and Mary (Irwin) Bough. Both parents were natives of the same county in which the son was born. The father was a farmer during the later part of his life. The grand- father was a miller and Henry lived with him until his marriage and was then engaged in the mercantile business until the gold fever struck the country in 1849. In 1852 Henry Bough went to far-away California in quest of gold, and there remained until 1857. He was very successful and coming back to Ohio he purchased a farm on which he resided until his children were of age, and then sold and removed to New Lisbon, there remaining until his death in 1899; the wife, and the mother of him for whom this notice is written, died in 1897. The father was a Methodist in church connection, and politically a Democrat.
Columbus Bough obtained his schooling in the country schools and at the New Lisbon schools in Ohio, attending the high school for a time. He remained at home until he reached his majority and then was em-
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ployed as a farm hand in Ohio. He learned the painter's trade and followed it for twenty years, then embarked in the hardware and under- taking business at Pleasantville, where he is still located and doing the exclusive trade in that line, as well as the handling of farm implements. His wife also conducts a millinery store in the same building. Mr. Bough owns a complete stock valued at about seven thousand dollars, besides his beautiful residence property and five acres of land within the village.
Politically Mr. Bough affiliates with the Democratic party, and in church relations is a Methodist Episcopal. While never seeking local office, he has served for seven years as township trustee. He is numbered among the worthy members of the Odd Fellows' order, lodge No. 408, and is alive to the best interests of his community.
Regarding his brothers and sisters it may here be said that there were six children in his parents' family, four of whom still survive. The names of this family are: Joseph, who was a printer in Cleveland, died in the service of his country, being a member of an Ohio regiment during the Civil war, and he was the second man in his city to enlist; Phebe, deceased ; Elizabeth, deceased ; Marcus, residing in Liverpool, Ohio; Columbus, of this notice, and John A., of New South Wales.
Mr. Bough was united in marriage, December 3, 1875, to Sarah E. Harbin, born in Greene county, Indiana, March 9, 1855, a daughter of James and Frances (Martin) Harbin. The father was a native of North Carolina, as was also the mother. They came to Greene county, Indiana, in 1845, bought a farm and there resided until 1875, when the father died. The mother continued on the old homestead about five years longer, and then went to Missouri and died in 1887. Concerning the Harbin family it may be here related that in this immediate family there were eight children, five of whom are living: Jesse, deceased ; George and John, who reside in Missouri; Thomas, deceased ; David, living in Kentucky; Sarah E., wife of Mr. Bough ; Alvin, of Missouri, and Elmer, deceased.
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