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very unhealthy, and Mr. Veal returned to Wayne county and worked for a time on a farm by the month. After his marriage he rented a farm three years, at the end of which period he rented another tract in the northern part of Perry township, where he re- sided twenty years, and he had the place under his control for twenty-five years. In 1900 he moved to the village of Economy, where he purchased property, and afterward bought his present commodious residence. While operating the rented farm he pur- chased a tract of land adjoining, which he still owns. In politics Mr. Veal has always been a Republican. In 1880 he was elected trustee of Perry township and served in that position until 1895. In 1900 he was again elected, serving four years, and in 1910 was appointed to the same position for the term ending in 1914. Ile is a man of high standing in the county, having been the executor of some very large estates and the guardian of minor children. On March 4, 1879. Enos T. Veal was united in marriage to Ida F. Bailey, born Sept. 9, 1859, daughter of David L. and Martha (Wilson) Bailey, and of this union was born a son, Cicero B., Feb. 23. 1880. The son is a graduate of Purdue University, at Lafayette, Ind., and has been for some time a professor of Me- chanical Engineering and at the head of the machine design depart- ment of that institution. He married Miss Jennie Albertson, daughter of Joseph Lee Albertson, and of that union have been born two children-Mary Eunice and Martha Lonise. Mr. Veal and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.
William Alonzo Cain, a prosperous farmer of Perry township, was born on a farm in Randolph county, Indiana, May 20, 1861. He is a son of Allen and Elizabeth ( Weyl) Cain, early settlers of Green township, and a grandson of Jonathan and Elizabeth Cain. Allen Cain was a farmer all of his life. He is deceased and his widow resides at Economy. To him and his wife were born six children : William Alonzo is the eldest ; Alice is the wife of Sam- uel Stover, a farmer near New Castle; Artie married Ottie Crull and resides on the old Cain homestead in Perry township; Etta died in childhood; Earl and Pearl are twins, the former married India MeGunigal and is a farmer in Dalton township, and the latter is the wife of Ira lloober, a farmer in Henry county. William Alonzo Cain came to Perry township with his parents when very young and received his early education in the schools of Economy and at the Shaw school in Perry township. He began life working on his father's farm and continued there until 1885, when he rented a farm in Jefferson township and continued to operate the same until 1890. lle then purchased the old Manning place of 160 acres in Perry township, where he has since been engaged in general farming and stock raising. He has greatly improved the farm and has since added two additional tracts, which bring his total acreage up to 186. Politically Mr. Cain belongs to the Republican party, and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Economy. On Aug. 6, 1885, he was married to Miss Dora M. Manning, daughter of George and Susan Manning (both deceased), of Wayne county, and of this union were born two children: Paul
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H., born April 3, 1887, married Gail Haxton, daughter of Joseph C. and Ora Haxton, of Economy, and they have one child, Genevieve, born Jan. 13, 1910; and Marcella, born Jan. 26, 1897, resides at the parental home. The son, Paul H., went to Colorado in 1909 and entered land there, and is extensively engaged in the dairy business.
George W. Barnard, a highly respected and prosperous farmer of Perry township, was born on a farm in that township, June 3, 1855. He is a son of Eli B. and Huldah (Canaday ) Barnard, na- tives of Wayne county. The paternal grandfather, also named George W. Barnard, was a son of Uriah and Elizabeth (Macy) Barnard, and his ancestral history is given as follows: Ile was a grandson of Timothy Barnard and Love (Swain) Barnard, Joseph Macy and Mary (Starbuck ) Macy; great-grandson of Timothy Barnard and Mary ( Bunker) Barnard, George Swain and Love (Paddack) Swain, Joseph Macy and Ilannah ( Hobbs) Macy, Wil- liam Starbuck and Anna (Folger) Starbuck; great-great-grandson of Benjamin Barnard and Judith (Gardner ) Barnard, Peleg Bunker and Susanna (Coffin) Bunker, John Swain, Jr., and Experience (Folger) Swain, Nathaniel Paddack and An (Bunker) Paddack, Thomas Macy and Deborah (Coffin) Macy, Benjamin Hobbs and -, Jetho Starbuck and Dorcas (Gayer) Starbuck, Peter Fol- ger and Judith (Coffin) Folger; great-great-great-grandson of Nathaniel Barnard and Mary ( Barnard) Barnard, Nathaniel Gard- ner and Abigail (Coffin) Gardner, William Bunker and Mary (Macy) Bunker, Stephen Coffin and Mary ( Bunker) Coffin, John Swain and Mary ( Wier) Swain, Peter Folger and Mary (Morrill) Folger, William Bunker and Mary ( Macy) Bunker, John Macy and Deborah (Gardner) Macy, John Coffin and Deborah (Austin) Coffin, Nathaniel Starbuck and Mary (Coffin) Starbuck, William Gayer and Dorcas (Starbuck) Gayer, Eleazer Folger and Sarah (Gardner) Folger, Stephen Coffin and Mary (Bunker) Coffin ; great-great-great-great-grandson of Thomas Barnard and Eleanor Barnard, Robert Barnard and Joanna ( Hervey) Barnard, James Coffin and Mary (Severance) Coffin, George Bunker and Jane (Godfrey) Bunker (on four lines), Thomas Macy and Sarah (Hop- cott) Macy. (on two lines), Tristram Coffin and Dionis (Stevens) Coffin (on four lines), John Swain and Elizabeth Swain, Richard Gardner and Sarah (Shattuck) Gardner (on two lines), Joseph Austin and Sarah (Starbuck) Austin, Edward Starbuck and Cath- erine (Reynolds) Starbuck (on two lines), Peter Folger and Mary (Morrill) Folger; and the great-great-great-great-great-grandson of William Bunker, a French Huguenot, in England, Tristram Coffin and Dionis (Stevens) Coffin, John Severance and Abigail Severance, of Salisbury, Mass., - -Shattuck and Damaris Shat- tuck, of Salem, Mass., and Edward Starbuck and Catherine (Rey- nolds) Starbuck. Returning to George W. Barnard, the grand- father of the subject of this review, it may be stated that he mar- ried Edith Bailey, of Wayne county, Indiana, in 1820. The father of our subject, Eli B. Barnard, born March 31, 1821, was the only , offspring of this union. His mother died when he was six weeks old and afterward his father married an Irish woman, named Lening-
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ton, and they reared four children: Oliver, of Guthrie, Okla .; Eliza (Barnard) Cabeen, late of Iowa; and Amanda and Harriet. Eli B. Barnard was thus reared without a mother's care and solici- tude. His early life being one of hardship and privation, he learned the carpenter trade and was a fine workman and joiner before he was fifteen years old. In 1847 he married Huldah Canaday and of this union were born seven children-Robert Ii., Edith E., one that died unnamed in infancy, Arminda M., George W., Irena M., . and Sarah M. Of these children only three-Edith E., George W., and Irena M .- are living. The paternal grandfather of George W. Barnard was Robert Canaday, born in Tennessee, Jan. 13, 1777. His wife, Amy (Sumner) Canaday, was born in Tennessee, April 24, 1782, and they came to Wayne county, Indiana, and settied north of Economy, in 1816. Of their union were born nine chil- dren : Joshua, Nov. 11, 1806; Lyda, May 5, 1808, died in infancy ; Ann, May 2, 1809, died young : Abigail, May 12, 1811; Thomas, March 5, 1813; Sarah, Dec. 13, 1815; Amy, March 5, 1817; Irena, April 14, 1819; and Huldah, May 13, 1821. The mother of these children died Sept. 25, 1823, and after her death Robert Canaday married her sister, Sarah Sumner, and of this union one child, Lind- sey, was born, June 11, 1829. IIe is the only one of that family now living, and he resides in Economy, hale and sprightly and in the full possession of all his powers, at the age of eighty-two years. The maternal great grandfather, Joshua Sumner, was of noted Tennessee stock and lived to be 101 years old. To him and his wife, Sarah, were born the following children: Jonathan, Dec. 3, 1770; Josiah, Feb. 22. 1775; Robert, Nov. 2, 1777; Charles, born March 2, 1780; Amy (grandmother of George W. Barnard), April 24, 1782; Lydia, Sept. 18, 1784; Joshua, Sr., April 24, 1786; Sarah, May 27, 1788; Abigail, July 4, 1791; and William, Feb. 2, 1795. Eli B. Barnard was a lifelong Republican and gave a vigorous support to Lincoln's war measures during the Civil war. He died in 1900. George W. Barnard received his early education in the district schools of Perry township and in the schools of Economy, and has always worked on his present home farm. Since the death of his father he has continued to reside with his two sisters-Edith E. and Irena M. His occupation is that of a farmer, fruit grower and inventor. He is a Republican in his political views, and he is a birthright member of the Friends' church.
William L. Fouts, a prominent farmer of Perry township, was born on a farm in Jefferson township, this county, April 16, 1875. HIe is a son of John M. and Barbara (Williams) Fouts (see sketch of John M. Fouts). William I. Fouts received his education in the district schools of Jefferson township and at the schools of Economy and began his independent career by renting land of his father, "on the thirds," one season. After his marriage he rented a farm in Perry township and resided there two years, at the end of which time he purchased the Hlale farm in the same township and lived there thirteen years, adding to its acreage in the meantime. In 1910 he purchased the Clark farm, consisting of 276 acres, lo- cated one mile northwest of Economy, and there he has since
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resided, engaged in general farming. On Nov. 26, 1896, Mr. Fouts was married to Miss Lida Ward, daughter of George F. and Mar- garet (Brown) Ward, who then resided near Brownsville, Union county. Mrs. Fouts was born in Wayne county, Jan. 29, 1874. Of this union there is one child, Harold, born April 20, 1899. Both Mr. and Mrs. Fouts are members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Economy. George F. Ward, father of Mrs. Fouts, is a mechanic and now resides at Cambridge City. He and his wife became the parents of seven children: Laura, the eldest, married William Beard and they had two sons-Frank and Byron. Mr. Beard died in early life and his widow married Rufus Williams, of Perry township. Mrs. Fouts is the second in order of birth .. Leona married Jesse Replogle, of Hagerstown, and they have one child, Helen. Hattie married Frank Jordan, of Perry township, and they have two sons-William and Raymond. Ida, Dora and Charley died young, and Mrs. Ward, the mother of these children, passed away June 8, 1891.
William C. Northcott, formerly engaged in the lumber and milling business and later a prominent farmer and stock raiser of Perry township, was born in Troy, N. C., Dec. 30, 1832. He is one of eight children-four sons and four daughters-born to John and Mary (Bolan) Northcott, the former born in Kentucky and the lat- ter in Montgomery county, North Carolina. William C. North- cott received his education in the schools of his native State and remained at the parental home until he reached his majority. He then rented land in North Carolina and farmed until twenty-nine years old, when, in 1861, he came to Economy, this county, and formed a partnership with David Robbins in the flouring mill business, which they conducted four years. He then engaged in the lumber business, buying timber and cutting it up and shipping the lumber, and was thus enployed about six years, at the end of which time the mill burned. He then rented a farm in Randolph county, where he resided five or six years, after which he purchased his present home place of about sixty-three acres, where he erected a comfortable house and good barns, and has since resided there, at the present time in practical retirement. To such characters as Mr. Northcott the community is greatly indebted, and his life has been a fine example of industry and patience. He is an adherent of the Republican party, and socially, when younger and able to attend meetings, was a member of the Masonic order, having been made a Mason in the Economy lodge in 1866. On March 28, 1851, he was united in marriage to Miss Martitia Luther, daughter of Abraham and Luvisa (Steed) Luther. of Montgomery county, North Carolina, where Mrs. Northcott was born July 21, 1838. Of this union were born eight children: Margaret, born April 17, 1856, died at the age of three months ; Mary A., born Nov. 25, 1858, is the wife of Sylvester II. Jones, of Richmond: Sarah L., born June 21, 1859, is the wife of Thomas B. Orr, of Anderson ; John L., born Nov. 10, 1861, married Wilda Mckinney; William F., born Oct. 21, 1863, resides at the parental home and has charge of the farm; Emma E. and Ella (twins), born May 16, 1866, the former
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of whom is the wife of John Comley and the latter is the wife of Reid Smith ; and Charles E., born April 17, 1873, married Elizabeth Cain and resides at Hagerstown. Mr. and Mrs. Northcott are members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Economy.
Samuel Spahr Clevenger, trustee of Abington township, and one of its prominent and influential citizens, was born one mile north of his present residence, April 6, 1844, son of Samuel and Ruth (Spahr) Clevenger (see sketch of Francis M. Clevenger). After Samuel S. had finished the course afforded by the school in District No. 4 of Abington township, he abandoned his studies and engaged in farming. When about twenty-one years old he worked by the month one year, and in November, 1867, moved to his father's farm, which he rented several years. He then purchased 120 acres of land, and at the time of his father's death added by purchase 120 acres more. Ten years later he sold sixty acres and now has a farm of 160 acres, which is operated by his son. Mr. Clevenger improved the land and developed one of the finest farms in the county. At the last general election he was chosen trust. of Abington township, to which office he devotes a large share of his time. He has always been a public-spirited man, and previous to his election as trustee had served four terms as supervisor, de voting much time and attention to the welfare of the township. In politics he gives staunch support to the men and measures of the Democratic party and his election to office has always been as a candidate of that organization. He is a prominent member of the Masonic body, belonging to Cornelius Lodge, No. 232, at Abington: His father and mother were members of the Methodist Episcopal church when living, and in the faith of that church he was reared On Oct. 15, 1867, Mr. Clevenger was united in marriage to Mis- Nancy V. Siminons, born in Jefferson county, Tennessee, Nov. 24, 1851, daughter of Thomas and Margaret (Coward) Simmons, high. ly respected residents of Union county, Indiana. Mrs. Clevenger died Feb. 21. 1906, having become the mother of eight children : Florence E., born May 2, 1869, is the wife of William Plankenhorn, of near Brownsville, Union county ; David M., born Oct. 28, 1870, married Merlie McCashland and resides near Brownsville, in Union county ; Margaret Alice, born Dec. 15, 1872, became the wife .I Edward Garthwait and died in 1894; Thomas F., born Nov. 9, 1874, was first married to Lottie Bowland and after her death to Mrs. Mary (. Berkshire, is a farmer and resides near Brownsville, in Union county ; John S., born Dec. 23, 1877. married Bessie Mc- Cashland and resides on his father's farm; Mary Edna, born Sept 21, 1880, is the wife of William 11. Gans, a farmer in Hendricks county ; Rebecca Leota, born July 19, 1885, is the wife of Harry V. McCoy, a farmer in Fayette county ; and Eveline Ruth, born Feb 6, 1892, died in infancy. On Nov. 24, 1908, Mr. Clevenger was married to Mrs. Florence V. (Treen) Davidson, born in Fulton county, Indiana, July 26, 1850, daughter of John G. and Sarah (Redd) Treen, the former a native of New Jersey and the latter of Ohio. Mr. Treen was a very early settler in Fulton county, where he spent the greater part of his life, but he died at Logan'sport,
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where he had lived retired ten or twelve years, Sept. 25, 1876. His wife had passed away several years before his death. Mrs. Cleven- ger's former husband, Charles Davidson, died Sept. 29, 1894, being at that time a resident of Jasper county. Of that union there were born nine children-Mary C., Carrie M. (deceased), Minnie Bell (deceased), Charles S. (deceased), Myrtle F., Jacob R., Birchard R., Merrill T., and Mabel.
William Martin Wright, who died April 14, 1911, was a well known farmer of the township of Abington, where he was a life- long resident, never having been away from the farm upon which he resided for a month at any one time. He was born on the farm where he died Sept. 4, 1840, a son of Henry and Nancy (Martin) Wright, the former born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, Nov. 19, 1797, and the latter in Tennessee, Oct. 18, 1803. The father re- moved to Ohio in 1809, and was married there July 10, 1826. About 1835 or 1836 he came to Wayne county and located in Abington township, on a part of the farm afterward occupied by his son, William M. His brother owned the other portion of the place, but later Henry Wright purchased this tract and at the time of his death owned 360 acres. He did not farm very much during the later years of his life, but made a business of loaning money. He died Dec. 31, 1855, and his wife passed away, Aug. 19, 1869. They were the parents of ten children: Margaret, born April 7, 1827, died March 2, 1846; Lucy Ann, born May 1, 1820, died July 18, 1830; another child, born Feb. 4, 1831, died in infancy ; John Wash- ington, born April 27, 1832, died Jan. 19, 1860; another child, born April 2, 1834, died in infancy ; Mary, born July 2, 1835, died Oct 15, 1849; Josephus, born Sept. 18, 1837, is also deceased; William M. is the next in order of birth; another child, born Aug. 30, 1842, died in infancy ; and Nancy Jane, born Aug. 13, 1844, died Feb. II, 1887. William M. Wright received his education in a log school- house in Abington township, and after leaving school engaged at farming, which he followed during all of his exceedingly active career. His father died when he was fifteen years old, and after he had reached the age of twenty-one, in company with his brother, Josephus, he operated the farm as long as his mother lived. After her death the farm was divided according to the terms of his father's will, and William M. fell heir to the old homestead part of the estate. He later purchased his brother's portion and by sub- sequent purchases increased his landed possessions until he had 440 acres of land which he operated, making a specialty of dairying and stock raising. In politics he was independent, and he was a member of the Whitewater Horse Thief Detective Association. On March 22, 1866, Mr. Wright was married to Mrs. Mary Ann (Doddridge) Wright, daughter of Isaac and Sarah (Weekley) Doddridge, former highly respected citizens, who are given ex- tended mention on other pages of this work. Of this union were born nine children: Leora Annetta, born March 26, 1867, died Oct. 13, 1891 ; Sarah Nancy, born Sept. 15, 1868, is the wife of John L. Rugh, of Wavne township, and they have four children-Elsie May, Berling Reymond, Frances Elizabeth, and Florence Violet ;
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Lurena Frances, born Jan. 29, 1870, resides at the parental home ; Howard Doddridge, born May 23, 1871 (died May 21, 1911), mar- ried Sarah Seller and she resides at Greencastle, Ind., the mother of four children-Mary Margaret (died in infancy), Lawrence Western, Minnetta Leota, and Howard Arthur (died in infancy) ; Grace Ione, born Nov. 15, 1872, is the wife of Eller O. Douglass, a Methodist Episcopal minister, Madrid, Iowa, and they have four children-Clayton Otis, Emery Wright, Mary Katharine, and Doro- thy Ione; Eliza Leota, born July 14, 1874, is a trained nurse at Greenwood, Ind .; Mary Ellen, born Nov. 27, 1876, married a Mr. Ranck and she has one son, Robert Charles; Charles Wilbur, born April 15, 1879, married Gertrude Johnson and resides at Gettys- burg, S. D .; and Isaac Clayton, born Oct. 23, 1881, resides at home and operates the farm. Mrs. Wright was born in Union county, near the Fayette county line, March 12, 1837. The family home is pleasantly located and was erected in 1845. Mr. Wright was a member of Doddridge Chapel Methodist Episcopal church many years.
Nicholas Tice, late resident of Abington township, and whose untimely death was recorded at that time of his life when his in- dustry had earned a respite from the arduous labors of his earlier years, was a native of Electoral Hesse, near Cassel, Prussia, born Oct. 22, 1833, son of Jacob and Katharine Tice, natives of Prussia. The father died when Nicholas was four years old, and the latter came to America at the age of nineteen, about 1852, becoming a resident of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, where he remained about six years, working for others for a time and then engaging in the lime burning business. In April, 1858, he came to Indiana and located in Wayne county, rented a house and worked one year for Jacob Fender, of Abington township. He then moved to Center township and rented a farm one year, and then moved to another farm where he remained three years. He then spent one year on an adjoining farm, at the end of which time he purchased twenty acres in the southern part of Abington township, where he resided about sixteen years. Then selling that place, he purchased a farm of eighty acres where his widow resides, and this was added to by subsequent purchases, from time to time, until there is 110 acres in the homestead. He was a man of industrious and frugal habits, was significantly the architect of his own fortune, made the best improvements on his property and became one of the substantial farmers and highly honored citizens of the county. He continued to reside on the homestead until his death, Aug. 15, 1888, in the very prime of his useful manhood. On Aug. 30, 1857, he was mar- ried, in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, to Elizabeth Diehl, born in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, on the River Rhine, Dec. 20, 1835, and she survives her husband. Theirs was a beautiful domestic life and their example has ever been before their children, a lasting sacred memory. The widow is a devoted member of the Lutheran church, with which her husband was also prominently identified. In politics he was a stanch Democrat and was active in the sup- port of the party cause in his locality, ever showing a loyal inter-
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est in public affairs of a local nature. Of the thirteen children born to this estimable couple, and whose names are here entered in the order of birth, the eldest died in infancy ; John, born in May, 1858, died at the age of sixteen years; Lydia, born Feb. 3, 1861, is the wife of Theodore Stinson, of Abington township; Fred, borr Feb. 22, 1863, is a farmer in Abington township; Susie, born Jan. 27, 1865, is the wife of James B. Dye, of near Urbana, Ohio; Ella, born Sept. 29, 1866, is the wife of Charles Mattie, of Kokomo, Ind .; Daniel, born Jan. 29, 1868, is a farmer and resides north of Center- ville; Francis, born Jan. 5, 1870, resides in Richmond; Balzer, born Nov. 6, 1872, resides in Center township; Charles, born July 26, 1874, resides at home with his mother; Jacob, born April 24, 1876, resides at New Madison, Ohio; Louis, born Feb. 2, 1878, resides near Chester, Wayne county, Indiana; and Emmet. born Jan. 26, 1880, is a farmer and resides near Centerville. Mrs. Tice is a daughter of John Henry and Margaret (Hauf) Diehl, natives of Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, the father born in October, 1795, and the mother in June, 1800. The former died Dec. 25, 1848, and the latter on June 25 of the same year. They were the parents of six children-John Peter (deceased), Anna (deceased), Susan, a daugh- ter that died in infancy, Mrs. Tice, and Barbara.
George William Wright, a prominent farmer and stock raiser residing in Abington township, was born on the farm where he resides, Sept. 20, 1850. His parents were natives of Wayne county, the father, Washington Wright, born on the farm where Andrew Kramer resides, Jan. 31, 1826, and the mother, Teresa (Nugen) Wright, was born on what is now known as the "Wray Farm," Dec. 4, 1824. They were married in Wayne county, Dec. 17, 1849. The father became a land owner about 1872 and was engaged as a farmer all of his life, dying March 2, 1904, his wife having died Sept. 4, 1903. Three children were born to them: George W. is the eld- est ; Jolin P. resides at Denver, Colo., where he is superintendent of the Detention Home, the second institution of the kind to be established in the United States; and Enos S. is a farmer and stock buyer and resides in Centerville. George W. Wright was edu- cated at the school in District No. 4, in Center township, later at- tended school at Lebanon, Ohio, and at Danville, Ind., and he at- tended during a three-months' term at Spiceland, Ind. At the age of twenty-three years he taught a three-months' term of school in Abington township, following which he worked on the farm during the summer months and taught school in the winter for a period of about twenty-one years. He then rented a farm of his father in Center township and resided there three years, then lived on an- other rented farm in the same township two years, and at the end of that period purchased the farm where he resides, and which was the old homestead where his paternal grandfather died. At the time of the purchase the farm consisted of sixty acres, but Mr. Wright now has 140 acres, which is operated in a general way and he makes a business of stock raising, the farm being well stocked with cattle and also with horses. In politics he is a Democrat, but in all matters of a local nature is independent. On Sept. 10,
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