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Shadley was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and of the Masonic lodge, at Shelbyville.
After Mr. Jeffries married he lived in London for two years and then moved upon his present farm, where he has built a fine home with modern outbuildings and has a highly enlivated place of one hundred and ten acres. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, at London. of which Mr. Jeffries is one of the trustees. He is a member of Acton Lodge, No. 385. Knights of l'ythias, and his wife belongs to the Pythian Sisters. No. 226. at the same place. To Mr. and Mrs. Jeffries four children have been born : Edith Opal. wife of Roy Means, resides in Sugar Creek township, and has two children. Maurice Jeffries and Nazoma: Nina, wife of Emery Hart- men, a Methodist minister. is a resident of Kansas: Earl and Russell are at home.
PERRY ALBERT GRAHAM.
Tighlman Graham, founder of the Shelby county family of this name. was a Kentuckian by birth and lived throughout the period that literally tried men's souls as well as their bodies. An uncompromising Union man all during the Civil war, he became an object of hatred to the disloyal wing . that tried to get the old state out of the Union. Mr. Graham found it neces- sary several times to flee the state in order to save his life. Sometimes also . he was compelled to run his stock over into Indiana to keep it out of the clutches of the raiders and marauders, who were constantly carrying on their schemes of robbery and plunder. At one time, when his children were small. Mr. Graham was with them in a tobacco field when a company of Confeder- ate cavalry came along. The father's life was not safe if caught by these vengeful men. so he deemed it wise to crawl away, telling his children to keep concealed until the enemy was gone, then to tend the crop and tell their mother he would be back as soon as possible. This was the last they saw of their protector for some days. and they lived in fear and trembling during his absence. In 1868 Mr. Graham, after going back and forth several times. came to Indiana for permanent settlement. He located on a farm in Moral township, two miles east of the village of London. and engaged in rebuild- ing his fortunes shattered by the rough Kentucky experience. He married Nancy Jane Roswell, who was born in Kentucky, October 23. 1823, and by this union there were ten children: Mary C., wife of William D. Stafford, is a resident of Carroll county, Kentucky: Sarah Jane died when sixteen years old: Thomas Franklin resides at Alma, Nebraska; Perry Albert. subject of this sketch: Lydia, widow of John W., son of Joel Crum, deceased : James Larkin, born July 25. 1853. died September 6. 1905: Emily Ellen, wife of
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Arthur C. Mann, of Barton county. Mississippi: Hugh Tighlman is a resi- dent of Fairland, Indiana: Nancy Jane, wife of Thomas Means, lives at La- mar, Missouri: Bennett. the youngest child, is dead. The parents of this large family were active members of the Christian church at Fairlind, and Mr. Graham assisted in building the new church at that place. He got even with his old Confederate enemies in helping to drive back Morgan, when that audacious free-booter invaded the soil of Indiana. Besides farming, this sturdy old pioneer used to run flat-boats to New Orleans, and for a long time was engaged in the mercantile business.
Perry Albert Graham, fourth child of this large family, was born at Moorefield. Switzerland county. Indiana, January 1, 1850. After his par- ents came to Shelby county he lived with them until his marriage, which oc- curred March 7. 1872. to Mary Eliza Crum. She was born in Moral town- ship. July 23. 1852. her parents being Joel and Maria V. (Jeffries ) Grimm. one of the oldest and most influential families of the township. Mr. and Mrs. Graham have an only daughter. Bertha Lillian, who married Clist Walker. resides in Moral township, and has five children : Theresa Anna. Leslie Gra- ham. Mary Ellen. Ruth Irene and Margaret Alice. After his marriage Mr. Graham rented land for a coupk of years and then bought a part of the old Doble farm, on which he lived for seventeen years, and in 1889 moved to his present place. He now owns two hundred and fifteen acres of as fine farming land as can be found in the township. He is a member of the Christian church- at Fairland, while his wife belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church at London. Becoming disgusted with the two old parties. Mr. Graham joined the Populists when that organization took the field, and he has ever since been one of its firm adherents. He is a member of Sugar Creck Masonic Lodge. No. 279. at Fairland, and a charter member of the Oskaloosa Tribe of Red Men at London.
JOEL CRUM.
No Moral township family is better known than that of Crum. It has been identified with the county for more than sixty-seven years. and its mem- bers have figured conspicuously in various departments of business. The founder was a man far above the average in ability, and during his long life exercised an influence for good in the county's development. He was, per- haps, one of the most successful farmers of his day and did much for the im- provement of agricultural methods in his community. The immediate an- cestors were Pennsylvanians. Peter and Elizabeth ( Eckelbarger ) Crum, he- ing settled in that famous old commonwealth during the earlier years of the nineteenth century. Their son. Joel, who was destined to figure so prominent-
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ly in Indiana affairs, was born in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, May 30. 1816, and when twenty years old removed to Juniata county. He spent three years in that locality, and during that time took the step which is. the most important in every man's life. On May 30, 1839. he married Maria L. Jei fries and with her migrated to Fayette county. Indiana, where he farmed rented land for several years and in the spring of 1842 made the moves which led to permanent settlement. It was in the spring of the year mentioned that Joel Crum first entered the borders of Shelby county and located on the okl Jeffries farm west of Sugar Creck. He developed this place with such judg- ment and skill as to take rank among the leading farmers of the township. He was a member of the Democratic party, and though not an office-seeker made his influence felt as a safe adviser. In religious affairs, also, he was recognized as a leader, and none were more active in the local affairs of the Methodist Episcopal church. His wife was also an influential worker in the same denomination, and regarded by all as a worthy Christian woman. Joel Crum was the soul of honesty. and none ever charged or felt that he was not strictly fair in all his dealings with his fellow men. His earthly life, which was as upright and blameless as the most exacting could ask, came to an end on .August 1. 1893. His wife had preceded him to the last resting place, as she died on March 26, 1890. This worthy couple had a family of eight chil- dren : Jerome, who was born May 23. 1840, died when six years oldl : Michael E., born May 1. 1842, died September 26, 1800: Catherine, born February 6, 1845. died in July. 1896: George Washington, born October 3. 1847, died November 16. 1904: John Wesley, who was born February 11, 1850. re- sides near Morgantown. Indiana: Mary Eliza, born July 23, 1852, became the wife of Perry Albert Graham: Columbus Oliver, born March 9. 1851. de- ceased ; Louisa Irene, born October 23, 1856, married Henry Smith, and died Angust 7. 1881.
Bellamy S. Sutton, who became one of Mr. Crum's sons-in-law by mar- rying his daughter. Catherine, was for a long time one of the most prominent men in Shelby county. In 1876 he was elected Clerk of the Circuit Court. and served for a four-year term during a peri xl of unusual political excite- ment. He was very fond of politics, for which he had a natural turn, and took an active part in all the preliminary proceedings as well as the ensuing campaigns. A great mixer, social in temperament, and fond of company. he knew practically every man in the county. In 18,8 he joined with W. Scott Ray. Prosecuting Attorney for Johnson and Shelby counties, and Albert Mc- Corkle, Sheriff of the county, in founding the Shelby Democrat, which was a success from the start, and afterward became a pioneer in the politics of old Shelby. In 1882 Mr. Sutton was a candidate for one of the state offices, bet was defeated. In the same year he was nominated by his party as candidate for Joint Representative from Shelby. Marion and Hancock counties; was
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elected and took a prominent part in the work of the ensuing session. Presi- dent Ingalls, who had a high regard for Mr. Sutton's ability as a railroad man. appointed him for superintendent of the Whitewater Branch of the Big Four system. After filling this position acceptably for several years, he was pro- mated and given charge of an important branch line in Illinois. In 1896 he was elected to the State Legislature as Representative from Shelby county, and after serving one term he retired to private life. His health had been bad for years, and his ailments terminated in death some five or six years ago. Hle had two very bright daughters. Misses Minnie and Myrtle: who became popular favorites in Shelbyville society. Their residence on South Harrison street was the scene of many hospitable gatherings, as the family were fond of company and numbered their friends by the score. Since the death of their parents the younger daughter and her husband have occupied the old homestead and kept up its reputation for cordiality in greeting and liberality in entertaining.
JAMES HENRY SMITH. JR.
Students of Shelby county history will find frequent mention of the Smiths in the records of the northwestern section. The ancestors of this family were among the carly settlers of Moral township and they have borne a prominent part in its agricultural development. Though chiefly farmers. their activities have not been confined to agriculture, but displayed in many other ways, in connection with the government of the county's local affairs. James Ilenry Smith, Jr., was born in Moral township. Shelby county, Indiana. August 22. 1847. His father and namesake was one of the old settlers of the township who made a success of life, accumulating considerable property. reared a large family and was a highly respected citizen. ( Further partici-
lars of the older James Henry Smith will be found in a separate sketch, which appears on another page of this volume. ) James Henry, Jr., grew up on his father's farm, attended the district schools and remained at home until he had completed his twenty-second year. Feeling a desire to travel about this time, he crossed the Mississippi river and spent a year in Missouri. Soon he concluded that "Okl Shelby" was good enough for him, as all his home and family ties, besides his property interests, lay within her borders. September 14. 1870, Mr. Smith was married to Miss Eliza, Jr., daughter of Benjamin Dake, the early pioneer, whose sketch is given elsewhere. Mrs. Smith was born at the ancestral homestead in Moral township, March 27, 1849. After marriage. Mr. Smith rented land in Marion county, on which he spent some time in farming, but eventually bought forty-seven acres to which he devoted his attention until 1897. when he removed to his present place of residence in
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Moral township. When he took possession of this farm of eighty acres it was but little improved. but it was soon developed into a productive tract that will compare with any other place of its size in the township. He has fenced it thoroughly. built a fine residence and barn, put out fruit trees and otherwise brought it up to modern requirements. Mr. and Mrs. Smith are members of the Baptist church at Acton, of which he was treasurer for two years. He held the position of road supervisor for twelve years and has been elected Jus- tice of the Peace, but refused to serve. He has five children and a numerous collection of fine grandchildren, of whom he is naturally proud. Charles F .. the oldest son, was born June 16. 1871, married Pearl Parrish. resides in Indianapolis and has one child. Amel. James Benjamin, the second son. was born October 30. 1874. married Mary Oliphant, resides in Moral township, and has two children. Tresse and Esther. Elenora married Clarence Smock. of Indianapolis, and has had eight children : Elsie, Jessie. Fremont, Sidney, George, Charles. Walter and Naomi, deceased. Ezra and Edith (twins). were born June 13. 1882 : Ezra married Alice Moore and has one child, Leone. Edith married W. Murnan and has one child. Herbert.
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WILLIAM A. BODINE.
Not only has Mr. Bodine achieved large success in a material way. and high standing in financial circles, but when the national horizon became dark- ened with the ominous clouds of civil war. he was among the first of Indiana's patriotic young men to respond to the call of the government, and do battle for the honor of the Union, and in both civil and military experience his fi- delity has been of that type which characterized his life in all of its relations.
William A Bodine, merchant and banker, of Morristown, Shelby county. is a native of Dearborn county, Indiana, where his birth occurred on Octo- ber 4th, of the year 1835. Both branches of his family figured in the early history of Orange county. New York. from which state his grandfather. Francis Bodine, migrated in an early day to Ohio, where he and his good wife spent the remainder of their days. This ancestor served with creditable record in the War of 1812, and was a farmer by occupation. He reared a large family of twelve children. six sons and six daughters. the majority of whom grew to maturity and became well settled in life.
William A. Bodine, son of the aforementioned Francis and father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Orange county, New York, and when a young man made the journey from his home to Ohio on foot. his parents sub- sequently rejoining him in the latter state. He married in Ohio. Matilda Hunter, whose antecedents were pioneers of New York, and about the year - .57
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1830 moved to Dearborn county. Indiana, thence eight years later to the county of Rush, where he spent the remainder of his life, he and his wife dy- ing a number of years ago on the farm which he originally purchased and improved.
William Bodine was a leader in all enterprises for the moral uplift of those with whom he mingled. Of strong convictions and a strict observer of church forms. he reared his children under wholesome religious discipline. and for many years was one of the most influential Presbyterians of the com- munity in which he lived. He, too. reared a large family, and it is a coinci- dence worthy of note that his children were the same in number as those of his parents, and equally divided. as were the latter, between the sexes. Their names were as follows: Charles B., deceased: Daniel H. died in Oregon in 1866: William. of this review : Samuel. a soldier of the Civil war, was killed at the battle of Missionary Ridge: David S. died in 1871, at Morristown; Francis, who lives at Muncie. Indiana; Mrs. Eliza Lockridge died in Rush county : Mrs. Sarah J. McMelty, whose home is in Kansas : Mrs. Julia D. McMelty, of Washington. Iowa: Mrs. Hannah Walton. of Indianapolis: Mrs. Elvira E. Dunn. of Muncie, and Matilda S. Carr, who lives at Burling- ton, this state.
William A. Bodine spent his childhood and youth in the country, early became accustomed to the rugged duties of farin life and at intervals during his minority attended subscription schools in a primitive log building. in the vicinity of his home, where he acquired the rudiments of an education. When twenty years of age his father gave him his time, following which he attended school six months, and then took up the trade of carpentry, at which he soon became quite proficient. After mastering his trade he began contracting for various kinds of carpentry work, and in due time became widely known as a successful builder, his reputation causing a great demand for his services throughout his own and other counties.
Mr. Bodine continued his trade with encouraging results until 1861. when he exchanged his mechanical tools for the death-dealing implements of war. enlisting in August of that year in Company I. Thirty-seventh Indiana In- fantry, and being mustered into the service at Lawrenceburg. on the 16th of September. following. His regiment went from the latter place via the Ohio river to the mouth of Salt creek, Kentucky, thence to Elizabethtown, where it went into camp preparatory to active duty in the field. Mr. Bodine's first encounter with the enemy was in a skirmish at Athens. Alabama, which proved the beginning of a long period of active and strenuous service, dur- ing which he participated in a number of noted campaigns and battles, one of the earliest of the latter being the bloody action at Stone River, Tennessee, December 31. 1862, where his company was in the hardest of the fight, and lost nearly half of its men. Later he shared with his comrades the vicis: 1-
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tudes of war at Chickamauga. the various engagements of the Atlanta cam- paign, and after the fall of that stronghold he experienced much other duty until his discharge in October, 1864. at the expiration of his period of ci- listment.
Returning to Rushville with impaired health, Mr. Bodine rested fo; awhile to recuperate his exhausted energies. after which he clerked for a short time in a store. Liter he engaged in business for himself at Carthage, he- ginning in a modest way with a small stock of general merchandise, but by close attention to the demands of the trade, and honorable methods. he soon secured a liberal patronage, and forged to the front among the leading mer- chants of the town. Since his removal to Morristown he has been a leading figure in business circles, increasing his stock from time to time until it rep resented a capital of from eight to ten thousand dollars. In connection with merchandising he started a private bank which proved successful from its in- ception and which. during the ensuing six years, became one of the leading institutions of the kind in Shelby county. In 1883 Mr. Bodine erected what is known as the Bodine block, a fine brick building with all the modern im- provements, being the best structure of the kind in the town and adling great- ly to the appearance of the place. Closing out his banking business the same year. he subsequently took an active part in organizing the present bank of Morristown, of which he has since been cashier and practical manager.
Mr. Bodine for many years has been a prominent figure in the business affairs of Morristown and to hin more perhaps than to any other man is due the recent material progress of the town and its high reputation as a trading point and place of residence. He was made an Odd Fellow at Carthage, in 1866, and is still an active worker in the order and also holds membership with Joel Wolf Post. No. SI. Grand Army of the Republic, at Rushville. Reared under strict religious influences he early became identified with the Presbyterian church, of Indianapolis, but sub-e quently transferred his mem- bership to Asbury Chapel, and still later to Morristown, where he is now an influential factor in all that pertains to the local society. He gave more than: anyone else to the building of the handsome Metho list Episcopal church. of Morristown, and is now treasurer of the organization, a member of the board of trustees and for a period of twenty-seven years has been the efficient and1 popular superintendent of the Sunday school. In politics he is a Republican. but not a very active politician, and in all matters relating to the good of his town and county and the benefit of the people. he has ever been foremost with material assistance and personal influence. Mr. Bodine has a beautiful and attractive home, but no family beside himself and wife, the latter before her marriage in December. 1868, having been Anna E. Coleman, of Carthaoc. Mrs. Bodine, whose birth occurred June. 1843. in Franklin county. Indie ... was left an orphan at the age of three years, and grew to womanhool in
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Carthage, where she continued to reside until her marriage and remond to Morristown. She is an affable lady of high character and many excellent qualities, popular with her friends and neighbors and moves in the best so- ciety ; she is interested in all that makes for the good of the community along social, moral and religious fines, and. like her husband. stands for high ideals and noble purposes as the essential factors in every life that aspires to some- thing above the mere fact of existence.
THIE PATTEN FAMILY.
The family of which the Patterns of Shelby county are members are of old colonial and Anglo-Saxon stock along every line. The first one of the family in America was a Quaker, who came from the north of Ireland prior to the American revolution. He was in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, in colonial and Revolutionary times, but probably took no active part in the war for independence because of his religious opposition to war.
William Patten, the first of the family whose presence in America is positively known, was born July 20. 1754. A tradition in the family says that he was brought over at a very early age. but there is no mention of his parents ever being in this country. He married Rachel Brown, an English woman, who was born November 30, 1758, and who died September 28, ISIL. He was married a second time, June 2. 1813. to Sally Morris, a widow who owned some property. The record of this marriage, as well as the records of the marriages of many others of the early members of the family, is preserve ! in the archives of the Friends' meeting at Stillwater. Ohio. William Patten went to Georgia some years prior to 1800 and joined the Quaker colony in Warren and MeDuffie counties, and lived there. a member of the Wright -- borough meeting of Friends, until 1802. This Quaker colony had been founded about the time of the Revolution by a number of men who had oh- tained a grant of forty thousand acres of land. and here they lived until the beginning of the nineteenth century, when their opposition to slavery caused them to seck another home beyond the influence of that institution. In 1802 William Patten and another were sent to look out a place for their new home. They went to the Northwest Territory, crossing the Ohio river near Cincin nati, going east, and finally locating land in what is now Warren township. Belmont county. Ohio, where a few Quakers had already settled the year before. Others soon followed, and in a few years not a Quaker was left in Georgia. An account of this migration is given in Week's "Southern Quakers and Slavery." William Patten lived on a farm which he owned near Barnes- ville, in the northeast quarter of section 9. township & and range 6. He died
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October 15. 1840. in his eighty-seventh year. He was an active member of the Stillwater meeting of Friends, and from the organization of that meeting. soon after their coming to Ohio, until his great age prevented his active par- ticipation in their proceedings, his name appears in the minutes of alnost every monthly meeting as a member of some committee, such as the commit- tee on education, on church extension, or to select ellers. He is buried in the Quaker burying ground at Stillwater. He was the father of four sons and six daughters, all of whom lived to mature years and reared families. They were : Isaac, born April 29. 1778. died in 1848; he reared thirteen children, and most of his descendants live in Ohio : a son and daughter once lived in Shelby county : John F. Lacey, of Oskaloosa, lowa. long a member of Congress from the Sixth lowa district, is his grandson. Mary, born February 27. 1781, died August 26. 1813. married Amos Vernon: and Ann, born March 9. 1782, died in June. 1810. married Robert Vernon: their descendants live in Ohio, Iowa and Missouri. Grace, born November 13, 1784. married Ben- ajah Parker: they reared a large family in Henry county, Indiana. Mahlon. born October 15. 1787. left two sons whose descendants live in eastern Ohio and in California. William, born May 25. 1790. left many descendants. every one of whom has left Ohio. and who live in almost every state from Indiana to California. Rachel, born June 23. 1793. died in November. 1852. married Eli Griffith and left two sons. William and Collins. John. whose biography follows. Sarah, born April 18. 1799. died March 19. 1873. married John Thompson, and left descendants in Ohio and New York. Ruth. half-sister to the others. born March 10, 1814, died February 17, 18.11, mar- ried John Bundy: her issue live in eastern Ohio and in Indiana.
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