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Charles Riggs followed agriculture and was counted a very suc- cessful farmer. He owned two hundred and fifty acres of land and was a man of high intelligence and possessed great integrity. In his political views, he was a Democrat. His first wife, Mary Davis, was a member of the Christian church. To this worthy couple were born the following children : John T., residing in Dexter, Kansas; Jane, deceased ; Lavina, deceased ; and two children who died in infancy. For his second wife, Mr. Riggs married Minerva A. Griffin. She was born in Terre Haute, July 13. 1833, and died October 14, 1901. She received her education in the Catholic school of her native city. Her father, William Griffin,
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was born in Ohio, as was also his good wife. By trade he was a harness maker, which trade he followed at Fairbanks, Indiana, having moved to that place from Terre Haute. Subsequently he removed to Sullivan and was elected county treasurer on the Democratic ticket, serving two terms, after which he engaged in the general merchandise business. He was also a heavy dealer in poultry, at Princeton, Indiana, but later retired to Sullivan where he died. The following children were born to the second union of Mr. Riggs: Mary F., wife of J. A. Mattix; Minnie, deceased; William G., of this sketch ; a child who died in infancy ; Henry A., deceased ; and Henry E., a resident of Indianapolis.
William G. Riggs was reared on his father's farm and remained at home until he was about eighteen years of age, when he commenced farming on his own account on the old homestead, continuing there until 1899, when he went to Sullivan and was there employed as a clerk in a hardware store, belonging to J. A. Mattix, for about two years. At the end of this period, J. E. Turman and Mr. Riggs purchased the stock of hardware from Mr. Mattix, after which the business was operated under the firm name of Turman & Riggs for about six months, when Mr. Mat- tix was admitted to the firm and it was changed to Mattix, Turman & Riggs, which firm continued until the autumn of 1906, when the stock was sold. Turman & Riggs then established their present implement and vehicle business at Sullivan. Mr. Riggs still owns the old homestead con- sisting of one hundred and ninety acres situated in Turman township.
Politically, Mr. Riggs is a Democrat and does his share toward fur- thering the interests of his political party. Believing in the theory of fraternal and mutual life insurance, he holds a membership in the Modern Woodmen of America. He was united in marriage, January 10, 1900, to Dovie M. Turman, born in Turman township, Sullivan county, Indiana, February 18, 1878. Her education was obtained in her native county. She is the daughter of Return J. and Pauline (Wible) Turman, and a sister of her husband's partner, John E. Turman. In her church connec- tion she is of the Methodist Episcopal denomination. By this union three children were born: Harold L., Gladys; and William Robert.
DAVID HILLA LOVELACE, the well known county commissioner of Sullivan county, residing at Sullivan, Indiana, was born April 19, 1853, in Cass township, Sullivan county, son of Charles W. and Sarah A. (Mc- Kinley) Lovelace. The father was born in Hamilton township, Sullivan county, in 1825, and died May, 1858. The mother, a native of the same township, was born December 14, 1824, and died in April, 1905. Charles W. Lovelace followed agriculture for his livelihood. In politics, he was a Democrat; both he and his wife were exemplary members of the Christian church. Their children were as follows: Sarah E., wife of Hiram Wiggs, residing in Carlisle, Indiana ; David H., of this notice ; Charles W., of Shelburn, Indiana.
David H. Lovelace was reared on his father's farm and attended the
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district schools, which at that time were not up to the present day standard. His father died when he was but five years of age, and he was under the care of his step-father, James R. Land, with whom he lived until twenty-one years old. A few months after he had reached his majority, he commenced farming on a twenty-seven acre tract which he owned, the same being the place where his father died. He continued to farm that land until January 25, 1906, at which time he moved to Sullivan and built a fine, modern frame residence on North Section street, where he has resided since. He owns the old homestead, consisting of two hundred and seven acres, which place ranks among the best in Sullivan county. Politically, Mr. Lovelace affiliates with the Democratic party, and on that ticket was elected as county commissioner in 1906.
October 15, 1874, he was married to Malinda Alice Wilson, born in Haddon township, October 3, 1853, daughter of Townsley and Eme- line (Martin) Wilson, natives of the same county. Mr. and Mrs. Love- lace are the parents of the following children: Bertha May, wife of William G. Ferree; Etta, unmarried, at home; Archie, married to Bessie Steward and they reside in Sullivan; Sadie, unmarried and at home; Ora ; Archie attended college at Vincennes, and then taught school three years in the district schools of his home county. Etta graduated at Union Christian College at Merom and is now teaching music. Sadie has attended the State Normal and at Terre Haute and Merom. She is now teaching the graded school at Farmersburg, having been engaged in teaching for six years. Ora attended both State Normal schools and is now teaching in the Sullivan graded school; she has also taught six years. Their mother taught school one year before her marriage. The Lovelace family are members of the Christian church.
NANCY DRAKE HARRIS, the venerable pioneer mother so widely known and esteemed in Turman township and Sullivan county, has spent fifty-nine years of her useful life on the fine farm and homestead which is now conducted by her son, Martin Harris. She was born in Fair- banks township, this county, on the 15th of December, 1830, and is a daughter of James and Mary (Stone) (Pearson) Drake. Her father, who was born in 1778, first migrated alone from Ohio to Indiana, in 1800. Later, he returned for his family, which was among the first to settle in Fairbanks township. There James Drake died in 1863, the father of ten children by a first marriage, and six, by a second. The only survivor of the first union is Manning Drake, of Curry township, who is now one of the oldest residents of the county; he is the father of Manning E. Drake, whose sketch will be found elsewhere in this work. The living offspring of the second marriage are as follows: Nancy, of this biography ; Martin, a resident of Fairbanks township, and Coleman Drake, of Vigo county.
Nancy Drake received her education in Fairbanks township and
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lived at home until her marriage to William Harvey Harris, April 26, 1850. Her husband was also a native of that township, born in 1823, a son of Benjamin and Mary Harris. It is a somewhat singular fact of family history that the first wives of Benjamin Harris and James Drake were sisters and all located in Sullivan county about the same time. Promptly after his marriage to Miss Drake Wiliam H. Harris commenced farming on his place of two hundred acres in Turman town- ship, about one mile southeast of Staffordshire, and there he died in 1870, an industrious, unassuming, moral man, and a faithful member of the Baptist church to the last. The six children of this marriage were as follows: Rebecca, Catherine and Columbus, all deceased ; Mary, who is the wife of Charles Badger and resides in Fairbanks township; Simeon, deceased ; and Martin, who now conducts the old homestead, both for his mother and himself.
Martin Harris, mentioned above, was born on the Turman township farm, of which he is now superintendent and part owner, on the 3rd of March, 1864. He obtained his education in the district schools of the township, and at the age of twenty-two began working for himself. With the exception of four years spent on a farm in Fairbanks township, he has spent his entire mature life in looking after the interests of the old homestead. He has devoted himself to the raising of stock and grain and has maintained the family reputation as a progressive agri- culturist and a useful citizen. Mr. Harris is a widower, his wife, who was formerly known as Miss Rosella Fusson, living but a few years after her marriage in 1886. Mrs. Rosella Harris was born in August, 1868, near Newton, Illinois, died in 1892, and was the mother of three children, two of whom did not survive infancy, and Alma Florence died at the age of nine. Mr. Harris belongs to the Odd Fellows. He is a member of the Baptist church as was his wife. Politically, he is a Democrat.
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Adams, Harry, 242. Adams, James W., 138. Adams, Richard, 270. Adams, William, 242. Akin, Charles T., 394. Akin, Edgar W., Jr., 52. Allen, John H., 80.
Alsman, Stonewall J., 408.
Alumbaugh, James F., 30. Anderson, Edward, 319. Anderson, Franklin M., 113. Annis, John C., 102.
Badders, John C., 390. Badders, Samuel F., 174. Bailey, Richard L., 18.
Bailey, William. P., 373. Bailey, William W., 149. Baldwin, James M., 393.
Banther, Cyrus, 217.
Banther, James H., 318. Barnes, Joel C., 234. Barnhart, Charles, 195.
Barnhart, Harrison, 182. Barcus, William W., 176. Batey, Charles F., 34. Baughman, Lewis C., 208. Bays, Fred F., II. Bays, John S., 9. Beasley, Clyde L., 372. Bedwell, David M., 160. Benefield, William, 106. Bittle, James E., 266. Blann, Francis M., 316. Boles, Eli C., 89. Boles, William H. H., 365. Bolinger, James S., 85. Boone, Anna R., 136.
Boone, Nevel B., 135.
Boone, Salathiel, 117. Botts, George F., 363. Botts, Leander R., 44. Bough, Columbus, 358. Bowen, John W., 336. Bragdon, Jotham J., 236.
Branson, Caroline M., 172.
Branson, John M., 45.
Brentlinger, Mary L., 126.
Brentlinger, Rush E., 127.
Brewer, Charles E., 98. Brewer, John E., 203. Brewer, Orlando C., 343.
Bridwell, William H., 281.
Brown, Francis M., 382.
Brown, Herbert A., 66.
Brown, James R., 22. Brown, James W., 181.
Brown, Julia C., 224.
Brown, Stephen R., 159.
Brown, William H., 223.
Bryan, Edward W., 297.
Bryan, Isaac A., 326.
Burton, Clarence F., 63.
Calvert, James W., 76. Cartwright, Oliver J., 395. Carty, Samuel O., 152.
Case, Cora A., 91.
Case, William M., 177.
Chaney, Dirrelle, 5. Chaney, Silver, 12.
Clayton, Eli, 164.
Coffman, Clarence E., 268. Coffman, Stuart S., 269. Cole, Samuel R., 189. Collier, Otho T., 247.
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Collins, Edward J., 298. Conley, Andrew J., 400. Conner, James H., 88. Conner, Mahala, 369. Cote, L. E., 404.
Cowle, William E., 54. Cox, Abraham G., 61.
Crawford, Joseph A., 153.
Crawford, William T., 6.
Crowder, Benjamin C., 14.
Crowder, Edgar S., 280.
Crowder, William H., Jr., 13.
Crowder, William H., Sr., 290.
Cummins, Vachel D., 27I.
Cumson, Jacob, 170.
Curtis, Charles E., 347.
Cushman, Guy A., 232.
Cushman, Thomas K., 240.
Cutler, Arthur D., 48.
Curtner, William J., 50.
Daugherty, Jesse S., 377.
De Baun, Alva, 34I.
DeBaun, Arthur E., 17.
De Baun, James M., 345. Deeble, Solomon, 64.
Denney, Elias G., 90.
Denton, Robert J., 171.
Deputy, Ernest M., 150.
Dickerson, Alexander W. C., 335-
Dickerson, Mary F., 336. Dilley, Elijah H., 344.
Dilley, Rose D., 345. Dix, Eli W. L., 295.
Dorothy, Francis M., 194.
Dorothy, Notolean P., 195.
Douglas, Richard B., 100.
Douthit, Mary A., 35I.
Douthitt, Frank M., 21.
Douthitt, John F., 279. Douthitt, William T., 286. Drake, Manning E., 40.
Draper, William M., 276.
Driver, Anderson W., 396.
Driver, John E., 414. Durham, John L., 251. Durham, Joshua B., 256.
Edwards, Simpson, 201. Ellis, Claude A., 57. Ellis, Melvin, 260. Engle, Charles L., 21I. Enochs, J. Wesley, 355.
Ersinger, John, 38.
Everhart, David E., 142.
Exline, George A., 156.
Fordyce, William A., 99. Frakes, W. R., 334. Funk, George W., 75.
Gambill, Gilbert W., 392.
Gambill, Levi, 166.
Gambill, Wiley, 320.
Gard, Dorcy C., 178.
Gaskill, James B., 188.
Glidden, Ira, 22.
Gordon, George, 183.
Gordon, Nina B., 184.
Gray, Joseph, 249.
Gregg, Moses H., 144.
Haddon, Flora A., 263. Haddon, Jesse, 263.
Halberstadt, Daniel H., 168.
Halberstadt, George M., 176.
Hale, George W., 147.
Hamilton, Mesha, 365.
Hamilton, Thomas W., 199. Hancock, David H., 315.
Hardy, Charles W., 327.
Hardy, Margaret A., 327.
Harris, Martin, 419.
Harris, Nancy Drake, 418.
Harris, Orion B., 3.
Harrison, John F., 346.
Harper, Harriett M., 31I.
Harper, Henry F., 310. Hart, William C., 215.
Hash, William R., 361. Hawkins, John B., 380.
Hayden, U. Ellery, 95.
Hays, John T., I. Hays, Will H., I. Hayworth, Perley M., 93.
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Hazelrigg, Abraham T., 274. Hiatt, William F., 391. Hinkle, George M., 41I. Hinkle, John L., 133. Hoke, George H., 238.
Hoke, Jacob F., 405.
Hoke, John A., 125.
Hoke, Richard W., 132.
Hoke, William F., III.
Holder, Aaron, 229.
Holdson, Sarah E., 306.
Holmes, Arthur A., 5.
Hoover, Philip L., 67.
Hopewell, George W., 309.
Houpt, Jacob F., 374.
Howard, Clarence T., 246.
Howard, James D., 71. Howard, James M., 349.
Jackson, James W., 323. Jackson, Jefferson G., 329.
Jackson, Robert G., 198.
Jennings, Elza W., 105.
Jennings, Walker V., 348.
Jerauld, Hannah F., 73. Johnson, Henry, 342. Jones, Mary M., 207. Jones, William H., Jr., 206. Joseph, James R., 376.
Kahre, Chris, 3II. Kelly, James, 242. Kelly, John, 234. Keys, Irvin J., 53. Kimberlin, Franklin, 314. Knotts, Charles E., 140.
Lammey, John, 163. Lane, Albert M., 87. Laurent, William L., 78. Leach, Esom R., 25. Lester, Mark, 69. Lindley, John W., 20. Lisman, Ivin S., 129. Lisman, John A., 146. Lisman, John W., 403. Lloyd, Philip T., IOI.
Lockard, John, 383. Love, George, 219. Lovelace, David H., 417. Lucas, William H., 39. Lyons, Grandville M., 384.
Mahan, James, 293.
Mann, Henrietta I., 245.
Mann, Thomas J., 243.
Manning, Elizabeth, 257.
Manning, William B., 256.
Markee, Mary A., 32. Marshall, Leonard, 192.
Marshall, Singleton, 194.
Mathias, Aloysius, 322.
May, Peter B., 272.
McConnell, Bailey, 120.
McConnell, James, 62.
McConnell, James E., 407.
McKee, W. H., 406. Merrill, Joseph V., 340.
Milam, Henry R., 214.
Milam, Josephine W., 214.
Miller, James A., 224.
Miller, William, 30I.
Minter, Russell E., 236. Moore, James M., 253.
Minich, Adam V., 23.
Minich, Pleasant A., 128.
Minich, William F., 129.
Mullane, John B., 278.
Nash, Edgar E., 115.
Nash, William L., 259. Nead, Francis M., 197. Near, James H., 292. Neff, James H., 294.
Nelson, William A., 96. Nesbit, Ira A., 273.
Nesbit, William R., 285. Nicholas, Frank J., 36. Nicholson, James N., 367. Nowlin, George W., 254.
Ogle, Tilghman, 284. O'Haver, Thomas B., 355. Osburn, James T., 362.
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Padgett, James H., 123. Patten, Earl, 97.
Patten, Luther, 84. Payne, William Z., 77. Pearson, Edward, 328.
Pearson, Melvina O., 329.
Pifer, Alonzo P., 213.
Pirtle, Charles L., 265.
Pirtle, George W., 65.
Pirtle, James J., 296.
Pool, Ora, 350. Pope, Martin M., 161.
Poston, Frank E., 226.
Poynter, S. Paul, 287.
Prose, Alexander D., 216.
Prose, Jacob A., 218.
Pound, James G., 337.
Purcell, John E. M., 109.
Railsback, Nancy A., 173. Reid, Paul L., 26.
Ridgway, Frank B., 144.
Ridgway, Owen J., 149.
Ridgeway, John, 79.
Riggle, John T., 399. Riggs, William G., 416. Riggs, William, 303. Risinger, Thomas S., 60.
Ritchie, Payton, 392.
Robbins, Frank L., 258.
Roberts, James N., 56.
Rogers, Edley W., 49.
Rose, John T., 33I.
Russell, Elijah E., 283. Ryan, Daniel, 261.
Self, Kenneth W., 200. Schaffer, George D., 209. Schlichter, Charles C., 190. Scott, Walter G., 28. Shake, David F., 58.
Shaw, James A., 312. Shepherd, Benjamin F., 359. Shepherd, Solomon G., 220. Shepherd, William B., 70. Sherman, Amanda, 81. Shields, William A., 231. Sills, Nathan J., 187.
Sims, Elisha C., 410. Sinclair, James M., 29. Sin Clair, Andrew, 364. Siner, James P., 103. Sink, Lorenzo D., 179.
Sisson, John, 290. Sloop, A. E. A., 397. Smith, James D., 42.
Smith, Marshal B., 37I.
Smith, William M., 378.
Smock, Samuel C., 82.
Sparks, Walter P., 202. Spear, Lydia A., 196.
Spear, John A., 196.
Spencer, James F., 305.
Spencer, James, 304.
Spencer, Arman, 354.
Spencer, William T., Jr., 300.
Spencer, William T., 324.
Standley, Josiah, 154.
Steele, Andrew J., 186.
Steele, James S., 412.
Stewart, Lafayette A., 35.
Stivers, George R., 37.
Stoddard, Orren, 22I.
Stuck, James H., 92.
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Taylor, Richard, 228. Tennis, Diana W., 185. Tennis, John, 185. Thomas, William H., 389. Thomson, Andrew, 87.
Thompson, Caleb J., 367.
Thompson, Edmond W., 368. Thompson, George B., 32I. Thornberry, William J., 230. Thrasher, Augustus L., 317. Thurber, Alonzo B., 388. Timmerman, James, 352. Trimble, William M., 387. Tucker, William E., 139. Turman, John E., 415.
Turman, Return J., 245. Turnbull, Lewis O., 227.
Unger, George H., 131. Unger, George W., 212. Unger, John, 137.
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Unger, Michael, 130. Ungerer, Martin. 357. Usery, William C., 332.
Vaughn, Daniel J., 210.
Wagner, William F., 43.
Wallace, Anna, 84.
Wallace, Francis R., 83.
Wallace, Katherine G., 169.
Walters, John W., 116.
Wolfe, Tilman B., 147.
Walters, Marion F., 386.
Wolfe, Winfield S., 27.
Walters, Sampson, 94.
Woner, John W., 239.
Wambaugh, John, 172.
Wood, Walter F., 26.
Ward, Thomas E., 16.
Ward, Walter R., 370.
Watson, George W., 12I.
Welman, Charles W., 288.
Wence, Leander, 104.
Welsh, Charles M., 331.
Whalen, Joseph R., 15. Whipps, James, 124.
White, Robert P., 4.
White, Samuel A., 282.
Whitlock, John M., 114. Whitmire, John T., 112. Wible, William W., 375. Willard, Rufus O., 402. Willis, Marion F., 404. Willis, Richard T., IIS.
Willis, William, 277. Wilson, George T., 108.
Wilson, James H., 14I.
Wilson, James K., 134.
Worth, Josiah, 180.
Wortman, David C., 145.
Wyman, Solomon, 184.
Yeager, John F., 340. Yeager, Nicholas, 338. Youngman, George C., 307.
Zaayer, William, 157. Zink, Albert J., 193.
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