History of Randolph County, Indiana with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers : to which are appended maps of its several townships, Part 149

Author: Tucker, Ebenezer
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Chicago : A.L. Klingman
Number of Pages: 664

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Job Harris. About 1851, Job Harris undertook to open a small store. Heshortly afterward laid out the town. Before long, Will- iam Locko set up a blacksmith shop, and William Benson built a saw-inill. Mahlon Fous followed, making pumps, and some- times tried his hand at repairing wagons. Dr. Dreer undertook to practice medicine, and Mr. Bone made and mended shoes. Job Harris kept a post office. Here we have the picture of the town in its earlier years, and truth compels us to state that the business of the ambitious little " ville" is not greatly more ex- tensive at the present day. Some increase indeed there has been. The saw-mill was burned. Mr. Keister built another. That, too, was burned, and he built still another, attaching to it a grist-mill, and the two in one are there to-day. One store has sufficed for the trade of the town until the spring of 1881, and now there are two. A church (Christian) was formed in 1865, and a meeting-house was erected by them in 1866. Mr. Keister built a warehouse in 1880 and bought some grain. There are a smith shop and a post office, and the pump-maker continues his vocation; there are a physician and a clergyman and a Justice of the Peace, and the mill still rears its head amid the dwellings of the place. About twenty-five residences are found upon the various streets, and the church opens its hal- lowed doors for the services of religion. In those twenty-five residences, one hundred and nine people find a home and a rest- ing-place, so that, take it all in all, Harrisville is quite a town -much more than many a one that persists in maintaining a name and a place in the world

Its merchants have been Messrs. Harris, Benson, Millett, Parker & Horner, Hullinger, Eyinger, Sutton, Albright, Ackels. The physicians have been Messrs. Dreer, Adams, Hullinger, States, Owens. Blacksmiths: Messrs. Locke, Frazier. Kelzy, Robinson. Those now doing business are as follows: Selling goods, Messrs. Albright and Ackles; physician, Dr. Owen; clergyman, Rev. D. S. Davenport, Christian; blacksmith, Mr, Robinson; pump-ma- ker. Mahlon Fous; miller, Mr. Keister; grist-mill, Smith Bros. resido at Union City; Postmaster, Mr. Albright; grain dealer, Mr. Keis.er. Its citizens seem to have been attached to the place. Philip Ingle has resided here from the first. Mahlon Fous and William Locke also. Mr. Keister and Mr. Daven- port have been here some fifteen years. No liquor is sold in the town. The Bee-Lina Railroad passes through the place, and furnishos to the vicinity the convenience of a daily mail. No pike extends to the town, but it stands between two, the near- est about a mile off. When the citizens will arouse and put in that " gap." they will have free intercourse both by gravel pike and by rail with the whole boundless continent. May the wis !! and anxious hope erelong become a blest reality. Their school is about a half a mile away.

Wayne Township is divided into five voting precincts, and the polling places are Bartonia, Harrisville and three at Union City. The great hody of the voting is done at the latter place, though Union City is near one corner of the township. In pop- ulation, Harrisville ranks twelfth in Randolph County, the towns with more people being Union City, Winchester, Farmland, Lynn, Spartansburg, Morristown, Huntsville, Bloomingsport. Saratoga, Windsor. Messrs. Smith, proprietors of the foundry and ma- chine shop at Union City, have lately (1882) fitted up a fine grist-mill at Harrisville, and they seem likely to command a good patronage and to achieve a substantial success for them- selves, as well as to furnish a convenience to the region in which it is situated.

Settlers noar Harrisville: William Dickinson and Michael Ingle came to the neighborhood about 1837. Samuel Conkling came from New Jersey about 1836, settling east of Whitesell's Graveyard; he raised ten children, and died in 1860, aged sev- onty-three. Thomas Welch the same year; he was an old man and died soon after; his son took the farm and resided there until he died, three years ago. William Martin came about 1835, living near the second ioll-gate, west of Union; he died in 1872, sixty-six years old. Joel Elwell came from New Jersey in September, 1838; has been twice married, and has had eleven children, ten grown, seven married and six living. His first wife was Elizabeth Hus- ton, and the second wife Mary Cole, married in 1878. Mr. Elwel!

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was born in 1806, and is now in his seventy-sixth year. George Whitesell came in 1841; he settled two and a half miles north- east of Harrisville; had fourteen children, twelve grown and eleven married-seven living; he was born in 1790, in North Carolina, and died in 1863, seventy-three years old. He and his wife both died in Fountain County, Ind., in about a month after their removal thither, she being abont sixty-five years old; his son, Tobias Whitesell. resides at Harrisville. Jacob White- sell came to the neighborhood about 1839, settling near the Whitesell Cemetery, west of Union City, on the north pike; he died in 1877, in his seventy-ninth year, and Mary, his wife, in 1863, in her seventy-second year. Ezra Coddington came about 1855, from Richland County, Ohio; he is an old man, with a family of seven grown children. Much of the land north of Harrisville was owned and held by speculators, and thus was kept from occupancy. Some of it came into actual use only 80 late as 1880.

Randolph (old) .- One mile west of Bartonia, on Greenville State road, on the east side of the " Old Boundary," Section 27, Town 17, Range 1; John McKim, James Green, proprie- tors; fourteen lots; recorded May 20, 1836; streets, east and west, Main (State road); north and south, Main Cross. Dis- tances: Winchester, eight miles; Bartonia, one-half inile; Spar- tansburg, four miles; Union City, nine miles.

Randolph was probably the first town laid out in Wayne Town- ship, but the business was never considerable. In 1846, there were two stores and one hotel. but probably nothing else. The hotel was kept by Bailey, and the stores were by Bailey and Mc- Intosh The town did not prosper, and was wholly extinct by 1852. At one time, James Polly kept hotel in the town. It is a curious reminiscence of that old dead town that one of its lots was sold for taxes, and was bid off for a dollar or so by an old colored man named William Lewis, and he undertook to make it a residence, hauling logs there to build a house. The owner of the farm which included the town forbid him entering upon the lot, and he never made good his title to the premises. What a man with plenty of money could have done, cannot now bo told, but the colored man had to suecumb and lose his dollar, and his labor in hauling the logs to boot. Citizens in the vicin- ity are Mossrs. Graves, Mote, Kennon. Morton, Shockney, etc. The country is slightly rolling and slowly improving. There is no pike near the place, and no road but the State road, which in inuddy weather is terrible. An old graveyard is near the town, which is still in use. Many of the residents in the region are thriving farmers. Messrs. Kennon, Shockney and Morton are especially prominent and enterprising.

Salem .- Location, Sections 11 and 12. Town 17, Range 1, southwest of Union City, east of "Old Boundary." Nine lots; plat recorded December 25, 1849, David Polly, proprietor; no streets named in the plat. Polly's Addition, David Polly, pro- prietor; seven lots (ten to fifteen inclusive); recorded October 5, 1858. Salem is located on the road running east from Jeri- cho, three miles from the latter place. McIntosh & Polly had a store there in 1847. The town began about 1850. A post office was established about 1852 by the name of Balaka. Silas Gist had a cabinet shop. J. Locke had a smith shop. The persons who have sold goods there have been D. Polly, McIntosh, Wiggs & Polly, Joseph Shaw, Elijah Frazier, Hardin Law, Downing & Harkrider, Alfred Dixon. Montgar. The black smiths have been J. Locke, Joshua Harlan, Amos Coughren, Thompson, William Anderson and others. Cabinet shops: Silas Gist, John T. Adams, Springer, Harlan, etc. Wagon shop, Harlan. There has been a Disciples' Church thirty years or more, which has lately been revived. Among the settlers in the region have been Benjamin Dixon, Silas Dixon, Samuel Downing, Robert Murphy, William Woodbury. 1839; Nathan P. Woodbury, 1839; Edwin R. Woodbury, 1839; Peter Hoover, Ezekiel Gullett, Samuel Gullett, David Polly, 1840; Barnahill Polly, 1840. The town was begun mostly in the woods, and did some business for a time, but it has had the common fate of small towns near, but not on, a railroad. Business has all died out. A few old houses remain, most of which have families liv- ing in them. The store, the smith shop, the post office, all are

gone. Only the church remains, in which services are held at irregular intervals. Salem is about four and a half milos from Union City, in a southwest direction. There is no pike near the town. Only mud roads exist there, and the country being level and the surface clay, the highways are, in the wet season, nearly impassable. The country thirty years ago was mostly in the woods, but improvement has gradually made its way till there are now good farms and comfortable residences to be found in the vicinity. A saw-mill has been in operation in the neighbor- hood for thirty years, until within a year or two, but now it is gone. In 1852, teams used to come down through the woods-roads . newly cut out and bridged up a little, from Union City, that had just started, after lumber to help to build the infant town. The immense lumber yards that are now the pride and the wonder of the thriving city, had not then beon thought of. Alfred Lenox, in 1852, went from Union to Pollytown (as it was then called) and hauled a load of lumber to Union City, with six yoke of oxen. The load was a whopper, and men did not believe that he would get the load through, but he did. The region around is similar to the rest of this part of the country-somewhat level and inclined to be low, and needing good thorough draining, but improving gradually, and having some good farms and building.

Hayesville-Is a little suburb of Union City, Ind., located about a mile southwest of that town, at the junction of the south pike leading to Winchester and the new pike, extending from the south line of the conuty northward to Union City. It has grown up within six or eight years, having been named at the inauguration of President Hayes, in March, 1877. The state- ment is made that the people there resolved that, if Hayes should be declared elected, their suburb should be christened Hayes- ville, and if not, the name should be Elizabethtown. The place contains a store, a smith shop, a toll-gate, a schoolhouse and eight or ten dwellings not far off. Of course, the close proxim- ity prevents business from centering there, yet it is a neat and pleasant hamlet. the houses being comparatively new and the residents quiet and industrious citizens.

JAMES ALEXANDER, a prominent farmer of Wayne Township, was born in Warren County, Ohio, January 8, 1818, being a son of Daniel and Sarah Alexander, who removed from the county of their nativity to Preble County, Ohio, in 1823, and not very long afterward to Warren County, in the same State. Daniel Alexander was a farmer, and James grew up a farmer's son, sharing from boyhood the labora and hardships of those rough and rugged days. His marriage occurred September 2, 1840, with Miss Julia A., daughter of Jacob Alexander. Eight children have been born to them, and six of the eight survive, viz., Milton II., Mary J., Sarah E., Hugh T., Henry J. and James B. Mr. Alexander is not an early pioneer of Randolph County, emi- gratiog thither not till 1851 ; some portions of the county, however, were still uocleared, and he managed to settle in the woods, even at thal Inte day. His wife and self are members of the Christian ( New-Light) Church, and he is, in poli- tics, a Republican. Mr. Alexander is a modest and retiring, yet an estimable and reliable citizen.

BRANSON ANDERSON. Born in 1814, in North Carolina, he came to Randolph County, Ind., in 1833 ; he entered forty acres adjoining John Hart- man's old place on the west, but resides at the present time on the Greeneville State road, east of Bartonis. Mr. Anderson married Hester Greeo, in 1842, and they have had ten children, five of whom are still living. He now owos eighty acres, where he has his residence ; he is a substanial farmer, and a re- liable, life-long Democrat.

JOHN ANDERSON, born in 1785 in Maryland ; went to North Carolina when young ; married Priscilla Sexton about 1802; came to Richmond, Ind., 1829; came to Randolph County in 1833; settled north of Greenville Creek, near Abram Chenoweth's (Jacob Macy farm), entering forty acres of land there. He had twelve children, all grown, and ten married before he died. Ilis children were eight boye and four girls. He died in 1850, and his wife in 1863, at the ago of seventy-seven years ; she was buried in Hoover's Graveyard. Mr. Anderson was a Democrat.

LEVEN BARTON (father of Mrs. Norton, of Bartonia) came to Bartonia about 1850, or probably sooner; he lived there about two years, then moved to Iowa, and died there. Edward Barton, son of Leven Barton, came to Ran- dolph County, Ind., about 1846. He laid out Bartonia in 1849 (plat recorded October 1, 1849), and resided there nhout six years, and then removed to Iowa, in 1852, and died there. He was an enterprising citizen, a member of the Methodist Church and an excellent, upright and trustworthy man.

JACOB BENNETT lives south of the toll-gate southwest of Union City, near Hayesville. He was born in Virginia in 1809; came to Meigs County, 'Ohio, in 1840; moved to Jay County, Ind., io 1850; moved to Mercer County, Ohio, in 1852, and to Randolph County, Iod., in 1866. He married Rachel Mclaughlin in 1830, who died in 1854; he then married Elizabeth Beechan in 1855. He has had fourteen children, of whom ten are now living. Mr. Bennett has heen an active, enterprising farmer all his life. He owns 146 acres of land,

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is a Republican and an Episcopal Methodist, and has been a Methodist lecsl preacher for thirty years.

HENRY BURKET was born in Montgomery County, Ohio, and is a son of Isaso and Catharine Burket, the former a native of North Carolina, and the latter of Ohio. Mr. Burket was raised on a farm, receiving enly a common education. In 1854, be married Miss June HIulse, by whom he had five chil- dren, three of whom are yet living. His wife died on April 12, 1870, and on the 17th of the following September he married Mrs. Rachel A. Grim, by whom he has three children, all living. Mr. Burket bns, since 1854, been the owner of a saw-mill, but in business he is classed as a farmer, living en his own farm of 160 acres, three miles west of Union City, and besides this he owns 80 acres in Derke County, Ohie. He and his wife are members of the German Reform Church.

ELIHA CAMMACK. sen ef John Cummack, bern in Arba in 1817; mar- ried Rebecen Wiggs in 1837. Lived nenr Arba on the old farm till he moved to his present home on the State read, enst of Bartonis, In 1846, in the green woods. He now owns 168 sores there, 80 nores near Spartansburg, besides several tracte of land elsewhere. He has resided where he now lives thirty-four years (except that he sold goeds at Arba a few years, returning in 1873). He has been Commissioner of Randolph County ten years. He has a fine young vine- yard with several hundred vines, giving splendid promise for the future. He is supposed to be the oldest living persen native of Randolph and new resid- ing in its limits. His wife was sick for years, Iny very low for many monthe, And finally died in the summer of 1890. They have bad six children-Jehn Henry, born in 1838, twice married and has six children. is a farmer and saw- miller, Wayne Township, near his father's : Francis Marien, bern in 1843, has three children, railroad clerk, Sidney, Ohie : Martha Ann, born in 1845, died an infant; George Washington, born in 1848; William Winfield, born In 1851, thres children, farmer, lives one mile north of his father, near Greenville Creek ; Elmens Henrietta, bern in 1855, unmarried, and lives with her father. Mr. Cammack is a fine specimen of the sturdy Western farmer and business man, prempt. active, firm, public-spirited and energetic, hewing his steadfast way through hardship and toil to comfort and independance. His father and uncles were among the earliest settlers of Randolph County; near Arba. His father, John Cammack, entered land in 1814 or 1815, near Arba, and his uncle James entered his Iand near the same place. Of course Eliha Cammack toek the brunt of pioneer life from the very start, witnessing and experiencing ite many trials (nnd its pleasures as well) from the very beginning; for with all the hardships incident to such a life, inconceivable sod well-nigh incredible to the present generation, there were also sources of delight open to those atal- wart pioneer#, affording them much enjoyment, and rendering them cheerful and contented with their lot, and even thankful and happy for all their bless- inge. E. C. was married in the fall of 1881. in Iowa, te A lady with the same name as himself. Mr. C. is sixty-four years of age, in the vigor of mature manhood, still hale and strong and giving promise of enjoying many years to come in the land of the living. He was, in old times, & Whig, and for years past n Republican. possessing & vigorous and independent mind, and command- ing the respect and esteem of all who knew him. Mr. Cammack, in December, 1881, removed te Iowa, because-well, because his wife lives there, and be- cause-which is natural, you know-he wished to live where his wife does.

ABRAM I. CHENOWETH.

Abram I. Chenoweth, the first of the Chenoweth family of whom we have any record, onme from England to Amerien in 1720. They were two brothers, named Arthur and Richard Chenoweth, who settled in Berkeley County, Va .. and each married and had several children. Arthur had several sons named James, John, Abraham, William Thomas, Arthur and Richard. The fifth son, Thomas Chenoweth, married Mary Pricket, who bore him twelve children, namely, Martha, Sarah, Mary, John, Thomas, Arthur, Richard, William, Elijah, Ann, Hannah and Abraham. This youngest son, Abraham Chenowith married Rteheoou Herr, May 1, 1790. They had fourteen children, whose names were, Martba. William, Jneoh, Aan, Jobn, Susannah, Mary, Noah, Sarah. Hannah, Abraham, Rebecca, Joel and Gideon. Their thirdI son, John Chenoweth, mar- ried Mary Barger, April 13, 1820, and by her had six children, namely, William, Jacob B., Abraham J., Jolin B., Susan and Reberen. John Chenoweth, the father, died on the 26th day of January, 1851, and of the children. William died February 20, 1837, and John B. died August 7, 1863. The mother died October 12. 1876. Tho others of the family are yet living.

Of the last above-named childron, Abraham J. Chenoweth is the subject of this eketch, and was born in Pike Conatv, Ohio, on the 9th of July, 1826. When quie young, hils parents removed to Darke County, Ohio, and settled in Washington Township. Here he grew up, surrounded by the privations of a frontier life, and necustomed to the Inber and toll of the backwoods. Ils was eduonted in the primitive schoois ef that day, and acquired the rudiments of nn education On the 25th day of August, 1848, he was married to Miss Celia Harris, a native of Campbell County, Va., and the daughter of Benjamin and Susan Harris, who were among the pioneers of this county. From this mar- riage have sprung elght children, six of whom are living.

In November, 1848, Mr. Chenoweth came to this county aud settled on the northenst quarter of Section 26, in Wayne Township. Of this land, he had received from his father eighty acres, and by purchase from his brother, Jacob, he had nequired the other eighty. The land! was wholly animproved. In fact, Mr. C. eut away the underbrush and trees to make an opening for his log osbin, into which he removed and began the work of life. As a farmer he was emi- nently successful. To the original homesteadl he added other lands, until st the time of his death he was the owner of 576 acres.

Mr. Chenoweth united with the M. E. Cburch when he was fourteen years of age, and fer thirty-eicht years he was a consistent and influential member thercof, having been a Class-Lender thirteen years. Ile was exact in all his business transactions, cor lial with his acquaintances, a kind-hearted and gen- erous man. lle died of typhoid fever November 9, 1878, and his mortal re-

mains were followed to their final earthly reeting-place in Union City Cemetery, by a large and sympathizing company of sorrowing relatives and friends.

Mrs. Celia H. Chenoweth was born iu Campbell County, Va., March 1, 1828, and is the daughter of Benjamin and Susan Harris. When she was in her eighth year, her parents moved to Warren County, Ohio, and in the esme year to Greene County, from which place, after n short sojourn, they removed to Randolph County io 1836, and settled on a piece of land in Washington Township. She received such education as the cemmon scheele of that day could afford, and grew up as the daughter of an early settler. When ten years of age, she united with the M. E. Church, and has ever sincs remained a member. On the 25th day of August, 1848, she was married, te Abraham J. Chenoweth, with whom she lived a pleasant, useful and preeperous life of a little more than thirty years, and whose respected and honored widow ehe now is. Her resi- denoe is yet on the old homestoad, where she receives frem her neighbors the respect and esteem which her virtuee merit, and where she enjoys the compe- tence which her industry and economy helped to accumulate.

JOHN T. CHENOWETH, born in Maryland in 1826. He came to Rail- delpb County, Ind., in 1840. He was thrice married, to Rhedn Parker in 1847, to Hester Ramsey in 1852, and to Emily Lawrence in 1859. They have had eleven children, five of whom are living Mr C. is a Methodist and a Repub- lican, thriving in business, and respected and esteemed in social life. He is & farmer by veoation ; has been Assessor for both Green's Fork and Wayne Townships, and came within a few votes of obtaining the Republican nemins tien fer Commissioner of Randolph County. Three of his brothers were in the Union army. Benjamin F., Fifty-seventh Indiana Infuntry, had a finger sbet off ; discharged June 22, 1863. George W., Sixty-ninth Indiana Infantry, taken prisoner and released on parole at. Richmond, Ky .. August 80, 1862; wounded at Thomson's Hill, not very far from Grand Gulf, Miss., May 1, 1863 ; died May 14, 1863, of the wound received as before etated. Joshus B. joined the Eighty-fourth as a recruit. Account of land owned by the William Cheno- weth family : John T. Chenoweth, Wayne Township, Jeriche, 265 acres ; W. C. Chenoweth, Green's Ferk Township, 120 aores; Sirah Ann (Banks), Darke County, Ohio, 240 acres ; Charles W. Cheneweth, Green's Ferk Townsbip. 200 acres; Oliver M. Chenoweth, Green's Fork Township, 180 acres; Edwin M. Chenoweth Wayne Township, 140 seres ; Benjamin F. Chenoweth, Green's Fork Township, 76 acres ; Joshua B. Chenoweth, Wayne County, 155 acres ; homestead, Green's Fork Township, 236 acres ; Henrietta K. (Brown), Wayne County (dead), 160 acres. Total, 1, 762 sores. The Chenoweth family held a large and interesting re-union August 26, 1882, at the old homestead near Arba, Ind. The family is numerous and wide-spread, and they belong to the enterprising and influential portion of the community.

OTIS COATS was born in White River Township, this county, October 25. 1842, and is a son of Isaac and Norena Coats. He was brought up on a farm, and, in common with the boys of his neighborhood, received his education in the conton schools, and for three years was a teacher. On July 31, 1867, he married Miss Catharine Davenport, daughter of Rev. D. S. Davenport, mention of whom is made elsewhore in this book. They have six children, and are hoth members of the Christian Church. Mr. Coats is now engaged in farming.

ANCESTRY OF EZRA CODDINGTON.

William Coddington (grandfather of Ezra Coddington, resident of Wayne Township, Randolph Co., Ind.), was born February 8, 1751, and died in 1827. Hannah Coddington, wile of Willian Coddington, was born September 26, 1754. Their children were as follows: lenao, born December 19, 1774, and died April 12, 1797; John, born April 4, 1777, and died in Illinois in 1845 st the age of sixty-five years; Betsey, born January 14, 1780; Robert, born December 10, 1781, died March 10, 1782; Benjamin, born June 19, 1788, died Mareb 3, 1855, aged seventy-two ; Martha, born December 5, 1785, died in two months. Benjamin Coddington was the father of Ezra Ceddington. Benjamin'e wifs, Martha, was born February 12, 1786, and died October 15, 1826, aged forty years. Their children were na follows: Abraham, born June 14, 1805 (Ezra Coddingten's oldest brother) ; llannah, born June 12, 1807, living, has twelve children ; Ezra, born May 12, 1809, is living, and has had seven chil- dren ; Azn, born July 28, 1811, living, was never married, resides in Ran- dolph County, Ind. ; John, born May 30, 1815, diod May 31, 1836, aged twenty-one years one day ; Lydia, bern October 10, 1816, died April 14, 1861, having had nine children ; Samuel, born September 21. 1820, died July 16, 1863, four children; Effee, born December 16, 1822, living, has four obil- dren ; Elizabeth, horn June 26, 1825, living, has two children ; Eleanor, horn in 1827, died in 1878, eight children ; Sarah, born in 1829, died in 1876. Thus, Ezra Coddington was one of eleven children, only six of whom are now living. An ancestor, probably the earliest in America of the family, was Will- iam Coddington, who, with eighteen others removing frem Massachusetts to Narragansett Bay, purchased Aquitneok, settling in 1688, and of the little colony, William Coddington was chosen their first Governor. From him, se the original stock, are reckoned to have sprung the various branches of the con- nection throughout the country. Ezra Coddington's great-grandfather, wbose name also was William Coddington, resi led in New Jersey, where the family was numerous, but the exact connection from this William back to the William, Governor of Aquitneck and its infant colony, we are unable to trace. Ezrn'a grandfather, after his marriage, moved from New Jersey to Maryland some time after the Revolutionary war, and after his marriage, which latter event occurred, however, before the war, eny 1772 or 1773, as his oldest child was born in 1774. His subsequent life was spent in Maryland, but the date of his deatb is to us unknown. He was well-to-do, having been the owner of 800 acres of land. Ezra's father, Benjamin Coddington, was born probably In New Jersey, and was taken by his father to Maryland upon their removal thither. Benjamin Coddington, father of Ezra R. Coddington, heing married about 1801, removed from Maryland to Perry County, Pike Township, Ohio, sixty miles south of Columbus in 1816, remaining in the same county till his death in 1855. Ezra Coddington's grandfather, William Coddington, was a soldier

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History of Randolph County, Indiana with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers : to which are appended maps of its several townships, Part 149

Author: Tucker, Ebenezer Publication date: 1882 Publisher: Chicago : A.L. Klingman Number of Pages: 664

Author: Tucker, Ebenezer
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Chicago : A.L. Klingman
Number of Pages: 664