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district school and remained with his father until twenty-one years old. On Oct. 6, 1860, he was married to Catherine E. McSherley, a native of Henry county, born July 29, 1842, daughter of William and Margaret (Lochridge) McSherley. William McSherley was an early settler of Indiana, coming from Kentucky, and died about 1842. His daughter, Catherine E., who became Mrs. Ulrich, was reared and educated in Henry county and taught school in Liberty township. After his marriage George Ulrich located on the home farm and looked after his father's interests until the death of that parent ; then purchased the interest of the other heirs and now has a fine farm of 184 acres. He followed general farming until 1896, engaging extensively in stock raising, but since that year has lived in comparative retirement, a highly respected citizen of Liberty township, Henry county. He is a member of the German Baptist Church, and in politics is a Democrat. To him and his estimable wife were born two children: Amanda A., born June 14, 1861, died June 28, 1884. She became the wife of Alfred Waltz, and to them was born a daughter, Lena A., the wife of Edward O. Bee- son (see sketch ). Allie A., the second daughter, is the wife of Oscar .A. Brown.
Frank Waltz, a prominent farmer of Dalton township, was born in the township of Clay, near Green's Fork, Aug. 8, 1865. He is a son of William and Sarah E. (Routh) Waltz, born in Wayne county, where they were married and have always resided. The paternal grandparents were Peter and Sarah (Luce) Waltz, the former a native of Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, and the latter of Wayne county, Indiana. Peter Waltz came to Wayne county in an early day with his parents, who settled below Germantown, and was married in this county. He was engaged in the saw mill busi- ness during the greater part of his life, having erected two mills, one of which was located northwest of Hagerstown, along Nettle creek. He sold his mill interests during the Civil war. Peter Waltz was born Nov. 13, 1810, and died Feb. 23, 1881, at the home of his son, William, in Dalton township. His wife, Sarah, was born July 11, 1814, and died in September, 1896. Of their union were seven children: Elizabeth, born Ang. 24, 1833, died in infancy ; Phoebe, born May 6, 1836, is the widow of Seneca Keever and re- sides at Cambridge City ; Levi, born Aug. 25, 1838, who served as a soldier in the Civil war with the Sixty-ninth Indiana infantry, and was a millwright by occupation, is deceased; Rebecca, born Oct. 9, 1840, is the widow of Benjamin Rafe and resides in Jeffer- son township; William is the next in order of birth; Charlotte, born Aug. 7, 1846, became the wife of J. Henry Leavell and is deceased; and Pauline, born Sept. 5, 1852, died in infancy. William Waltz, father of Frank, was born just north of Hagerstown, in Jefferson township, Jan. 31, 1845. He was married Aug. 2, 1864, to Sarah Elizabeth Routh, born Aug. 20, 1846, daughter of Joseph and Malinda (Thornburgh) Routh, natives of Dalton township, where her mother died in 1851 and her father in 1859. She is the first born of her parents and there were two other daughters and a son in the family ; also a half brother and four half sisters. Wil-
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liam Waltz was educated in the schools of Jefferson township and upon reaching maturity worked in his father's mills along Nettle creek for a few years. About 1870 he located at his present home in the southern part of Dalton township. There he erected a saw mill on his farm of 102 acres, and the mill has continued in opera- tion up to the present time. He did general sawing, and in addi- tion did contracting and building to a considerable extent, erecting churches, stores, dwellings, etc., in various places. He also fol- lowed general farming, but is now living practically retired. Ile and his wife are the parents of three children : Frank is the eldest; Cora Lee, born Aug. 12, 1870, is the wife of Harry Bottles, of Con- nersville, Ind., and they have three children-Ellis Andley, Frank Lee, and Mary Routh ; and Ada, born Aug. 31, 1877, was educated in the normal school at Terre Haute and for the past ten years has been a teacher in the schools of Hagerstown. Frank Waltz re- ceived his early education in the district schools of Dalton town- ship and in the schools of Hagerstown, and at an early age began work at the carpenter trade, which he followed until 1901. Dur- ing this time he was associated with his father and they did general contracting on various kinds of buildings. They erected the Odd Fellows' building at Hagerstown, a church in Indianapolis, a num- ber of buildings in Richmond, Dublin, and New Castle, school buildings in a number of townships, and many residences in Wayne county. In 1901 Mr. Waltz purchased 136 acres of land in Dalton township, the tract being known as the "Harry Cheesman Farm," and in addition to its cultivation he farms other tracts which he has rented near his home. Up to a few years ago he con- tinued to be active in contract work, but of late has devoted con- siderable of his time to farming. His residence is one of the most modern in Wayne county, built according to his own plans, and his ideas of comfort, beauty, and usefulness are fully carried out in its construction. From 1891 to 1901 he resided at what is now the J. C. Keever home. In the matter of politics Mr. Waltz is al- lied with the Republican party. On Aug. 8, 1891, he was united in marriage to Miss Sarah Florence Lumpkin, of Dalton township, daughter of the late Rufus M. and Rachel Jane (Jordan) Lumpkin. Of this union there are four children: Charles R., born June 2, 1892; William R., born May 20, 1896; Alma R., born March 21, 1898; and Ralph H., born Feb. 13, 1904. Rufus M. Lumpkin, father of Mrs. Waltz, was born in Wayne county, April 15, 1835, son of James Lumpkin, a native of Virginia who removed to Ten- nessee and thence to Wayne county, locating on what is now the James and Elmer Lumpkin homestead. Rufus M. took possession of the same farm about 1872 and spent the residue of his life there, dying Aug. 2, 1907. He was married Sept. 9, 1858, to Rachel Jane Jordan, daughter of John and Catherine (Davidson) Jordan, of Perry township. His wife was born March 15, 1843, and died April 3, 1909, the mother of nine children-Mary, America J., Robert, Sarah Florence, Charles, James, Oren, John C. and Elmer, all of whom are living with the exception of Charles and Oren, who died in infancy.
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George Lincoln Thornburgh, a prominent young real estate and insurance man of the city of Richmond, and formerly a resi- dent of Dalton township, was born in that township, Aug. 31, 1869, son of Dempsey Carver and Ethelinda (Williams) Thornburgh (see sketch of Dempsey C. Thornburgh). Ile received his pre- liminary education in the schools of Economy and then went to Richmond, where he took the classical course at Earlham College. In 1891 he engaged in agricultural pursuits on the farm which he still owns in the eastern part of Dalton township, and which con- sists of 140 acres of his father's estate. He took possession of this tract in 1904 and remained thereon, engaged in general farming, until 1910, when he removed to the city of Richmond and has since been engaged in the insurance and real estate business. Although he has been in this business but a comparatively short time he has already built it up to extensive proportions, with fine prospects for the future. In his political relations he is allied with the Republican party, and he is prominently identified with the Masonic lodge at Hagerstown and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Econ- omy. On Dec. 25, 1892, Mr. Thornburgh was married to Abbie A. Botkin, daughter of William T. and Martha (Cropper) Botkin, na- tives of Randolph county, and of this union there is one child, Crozier B., born Jan. 22, 1895. Mr. Thornburgh has a wide circle of friends who predict for him unqualified success in his chosen occupation.
James Townsend is one of the venerable and honored members of the agricultural community of Wayne county and is still en- gaged aan that occupation in the township of New Garden, where he has long resided. Ile is one of seven children of Stephen and Mary (Griffin ) Townsend, natives of Wayne county. The paternal grandfather was John Townsend, born in Pennsylvania of English parentage, in 1758. At the age of seventeen he joined the Revo- lutionary army under General Greene and served four years. While with this command in South Carolina he contracted smallpox and was given a furlongh for treatment. While yet in the early stage of the disease he started on foot across the country to reach a place where he might receive treatment, but after walking a few days fell exhausted from travel and the weakness caused by the disease. As fate would have it, while thus lying in the woods he was dis- covered by Miss Elvira Cain, a young girl of twelve years, who in company with a negro servant was hunting the cows. She in- sisted that the stricken soldier accompany her to her father's home and there be taken care of. Mr. Townsend objected to going to the house, for fear of spreading the disease among the members of the family, but he stopped at an unoccupied cabin on the plantation and there was cared for by one of Mr. Cain's slaves who was immune. After his recovery he returned to his command and served out his term of enlistment, receiving an honorable discharge. Immediate- ly thercafter he returned to the home of the girl who had saved his life, and asked for and received her hand in marriage. They began their married life together in North Carolina and lived there a num- ber of years, coming to Indiana in 1803. Mr. Townsend settled
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upon and cleared a tract of land adjoining the present city of Richmond on the south, and there he lived until about 1830, when he removed to a farm two miles north of Centerville. Ile died at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Isaac Commons, at the advanced aged of ninety-six years. During the last twenty years of his life he was afflicted with blindness, one of his eyes having been lost while a soldier in the Revolutionary war. While living in North Carolina he and his wife became converted to the principles of peace as tanight and practiced by the Society of Friends. As an evidence of their supreme faith in these teachings there are two incidents that deserve mention. As a Revolutionary soldier Mr. Townsend was entitled to a government pension, and during the last twenty years of his life was tendered a pension payment every three months. But although stricken with blindness he steadfastly refused to accept it, saying that pension money was blood money, and that he had enlisted under a Captain of Peace and was no longer serving under General Greene. At the time of the death of the father of Mrs. Townsend she inherited seven full grown slaves, worth from $700 to $1,000 each. The administrator of her father's estate came to Indiana, where she and her husband were living in humble circumstances, and offered to buy the slaves and pay her the market price. She refused the offer and asked to have the slaves sent to her, and upon their arrival in Indiana she gave them their freedom. The grandparents were thus numbered among the pioneer settlers of Eastern Indiana, where they took up their abode a number of years prior to the admission of the State to the Union, and James Townsend himself is one of the rapidly thinning class of sterling citizens whose memories link the formative period in the history of this section with the later days of opulent prosperity and advancement. It is well that the reminiscences of such citizens be perpetuated for future generations, for all too soon will have passed away those who can, from personal experience, relate the tales and recall the conditions of the pioneer era. Stephen Townsend, the father, was born in Wayne township, this county, Dec. 31, 1810, and attended school in the famous Jonathan Roberts log school- house, later farming the home place and teaching school during the winter months. In 1836 he was married to Mary Griffin, at West Grove Church, this county, and after his marriage moved to Randolph county, where he settled on Cabin creek. After five years he returned to Wayne county and settled two miles south- east of Green's Fork. To him and his good wife were born seven children : Elvira was born in Randolph county in 1837; Sarah was born in Randolph county in 1839, and died in 1871; James is the next in order of birth; the fourth was Jacob, and the fifth was Ella, who married George Hartley, of Wayne county; the sixth was Lindley and the seventh was Caroline, who married Thomas Woodard and died in 1908. James Townsend was born in Clay township, Wayne county, Indiana, in 1841, and as a boy watched the building of the old log cabin Horner school-house, where he afterward attended school five or six years. At the age of twelve years he removed with his parents to West Grove, in Center town-
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ship, where he attended the Friends' school four years. When he was sixteen years old the family removed to Lee county, Iowa, where he continued his schooling, and he remained at the parental home until twenty-two years old. His first undertaking in his inde- pendent career was the leasing of a coal mine, which he operated successfully one season, and then managed a sorghum mill three months. After this he engaged in the buying and shipping of cattle and hogs, which enterprise demanded his attention until his return to Wayne county, where he settled on the farm where he has since continued to reside. It is needless to say that no citizen is held in more unequivocal confidence and esteem than Mr. Townsend, and he is known as a loyal and public-spirited man and as a worthy member of the agricultural fraternity, with which he has been iden- tified from his early manhood. Both he and his wife are zealous members of the Friends' church, in which he has served as over- seer for more than twenty years. In 1867 was solemnized the mar- riage of Mr. Townsend to Miss Phebe Anna Crampton, the cere mony being performed in the New Garden Church. Of this union were born three children : Anna Mary, born Oct. 28, 1867, married W. Irving Kelsey, are both graduates of Earlham College, and they have served as missionaries in Mexico. The husband served three years as president of Pacific College at Newberg, Ore., and resigned that position to accept the position of Professor of Biblical Instruction in Penn College at Oskaloosa, Iowa; Lorena, born March 12, 1869, married Prof. J. C. Ilodson and resides at New- berg, Ore .; and Maurice L., born Feb. 18, 1877, graduated in the high school at Fountain City and afterward at the Richmond Busi- ness College. He then attended the Pacific College, in Oregon, three terms, graduating in the medical school of the State Univer- sity. Taking a post-graduate course in surgery, at the age of twenty-eight he went to Victoria, Mexico, where he practiced his profession four years and then became superintendent of one of the largest landed estates in that republic. Merrick Crampton, the father of Mrs. Townsend, was born in 1804, in Culpeper county, Virginia. He was permanently crippled by an accident at the age of seventeen, but became a very successful and well-to-do farmer. first removing to Ohio and later to Indiana. He married Anna Smith, daughter of Jacob Smith, in 1824, in Wayne county, and of this union were born eight children: Sarah, born June 10, 1825; Rachel, born Oct. 11, 1827; Martha, born Nov. 10, 1829; J. Smith, born Jan. 9, 1832; Mary, born Dec. 13, 1834, died in infancy ; Sam- uel, born Aug. 10, 1837; Letitia, born April 24, 1840; and Mrs. Townsend, the youngest, was born Sept. 29, 1844.
Abraham Cuppy Stanley, a successful farmer of Wayne town- ship (farm located on Rural Route No. 5), was born near the vil- lage of Boston, this county, Jan. 23, 1850, a member of a family that settled in Indiana in an early day, the forebears being natives of North Carolina. The earliest known ancestor of the Stanley fam- ily was Thomas Stanley, of England. His son, Joseph, was born about 1760, the youngest in a family of fourteen children. He emigrated from England to Guilford county, North Carolina, and
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there met and married Catherine Hilton, born in Maryland, from whence she had migrated to Guilford county, North Carolina. To Joseph and Catherine Stanley were born eleven children, of whom Aaron was the sixth. The father, Joseph, lost his life while mov- ing with his family to Ohio, about the year 1810. He was thrown from his horse into the Adkin river and his body was never re- covered. Ile belonged to the Friends' Society and was about fifty years old at the time of his death. His family continued their journey to their home in the West. Aaron Stanley was born in Guilford county, North Carolina, in 1787, and with the other men- bers of the family reached Clermont county, Ohio, in 1810. He married Mary Cuppy in 1811 and to them were born thirteen chil- dren, of whom Levi, father of Abraham C., was the second. Aaron died in 1866. His wife, Mary Cuppy, was born in 175 and died in 1849. Aaron Stanley was a strong and active member of early Methodism, and was an advocate of the Federalist party, which was later succeeded by the Whig party. Levi Stanley was born July 13, 1814, and married Susannah Butler, Jan. 14, 1836. 1Ie was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and his political affili- ations were with the Republican party. He spent many years of his life as a farmer in Boston township, his death occurring April 25, 1891. Ilis wife, Susannah Butler, was born May 20, 1819, and her remote ancestors were Friends and came with William Penn to America. Her parents migrated to Wayne county, Indiana, where she was born, one of eight children. Her father came from the State of Georgia to Indiana Territory in 1806, and her mother, Mary Davenport, came from North Carolina, about 1810, with her parents. Susannah was a member of the Methodist church from 1842 to the time of her death, Dec. 7, 1887. Of her union with Levi Stanley were born eleven children: Francis Marion married Barbara Bulla and is a farmer in Union county, Indiana; Mary Elizabeth died at the age of eighteen years; William Henry, de- ceased, served as a soldier in the Civil war with the One Hundred and Thirty-third Indiana infantry; Rebecca Jane is the widow of B. F. Campbell and resides at New Paris, Ohio; Jesse Butler mar- ried Hannah Watson and is a farmer in Perry township, Wayne county ; Isaac Newton, deceased, married Gulielma E. Jessup and his widow resides in Randolph county, having a son, Isaac New- ton, a minister of the Friends' church and the principal of a high school in Henry county; Abraham C. is the seventh in order of birth ; Anna Eliza is the wife of D. W. Church, an attorney at Greenfield, Iowa; Mary Emma is the wife of Charles Druley, a merchant at Middletown, Ind. ; Susannah Ella is the wife of Thomas Smelser, a carpenter at Anderson, Ind .; and Levi Ellwood mar- ried Catherine Spencer and is an electrician at St. Charles, La. Levi Stanley, the father, was one of the most prominent and ener- getic farmers and landholders in Wayne county, accumulating his property by honest efforts, thus enabling his children to become honorable and reliable citizens by following the precept of his ex- ample. Ile and his wife were noted for their hospitality, generos- ity, jovial dispositions, and sterling Christian characters, leaving
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their children a good inheritance and a rich legacy. Abraham C. Stanley was reared on a farm and educated in the public schools of Boston township. On Feb. 19, 1879, he was married to Miss Anna Mary Cook, born April 1, 1860, only daughter of Isaac and Martha (Crampton) Cook, deceased. IIer father was twice mar- ried: first to Mary Reagan, deceased, of which union there is a daughter, Hannah Josephine, wife of H. S. Matthewson, a commer- cial salesman of Dayton, Ohio. The paternal grandparents of Mrs. Stanley were Merrick and Anna S. Crampton, of Wayne county. Of the union of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley were born two sons-Isaac Orlo, born Dec. 14, 1880, and Charles Asa, born Feb. 8, 1883, the former of whom was educated in the common schools and a busi- ness college and is engaged in farming in Wayne township, and the latter was educated in the common and high school, resides in Richmond and is a fireman on the Pennsylvania railroad. Isaac Orlo was married June 4, 1902, to Aurelia C. Iredell, born Oct. 25, 1883, daughter of Samuel E. and Sarah (Dilks) Iredell, of Wayne township. Of this union have been born three children-Arthur Marion and Robert Earl, twins, the last named being deceased, and Alice May, born in December, 1908. Charles Asa was married April 29, 1903, to Bessie Elliott, and of this union there are three children: Paul G., born Aug. 26, 1904; Ralph E., born Sept. 7, 1906; Esther L., born May 8, 1908; and Dorothy M., born June 9, IQI0. The late Zachariah Stanley, a prominent citizen of Union county, left an estate of several thousand dollars, the income from which is to be used to educate Stanley children. Abraham C. Stan- ley's children were eligible, but did not use their advantage. Mr. Stanley is a Republican in his political convictions but has never sought public office, and he and his wife are identified with the East Main Street Friends' Church, in Richmond.
Louis Nelson Hampton, a progressive farmer residing in New Garden township, was born at Spring Grove, Wayne county, May 22, 1866. His parents were Lewis and Esther (Stanton) Hampton, the former born in what is now Webster township, Wayne county, March 24, 1819, and the latter a native of Union county, born May 26, 1822. Lewis Hampton was a son of David and Jane (Moon) Hampton, the former a native of West Virginia (then a part of Virginia), and the latter of North Carolina. They were married in Ohio, April 2, 1818, and moved from Waynesville, that State, to Indiana, where they continued to reside until their respective deaths, he on June 12, 1855, and she, Dec. 4, 1885. To these hon- ored parents eleven children were born: Lewis, March 24, 1819; Jacob, Nov. 14, 1820; Dayton, Sept. 28, 1822, died April 26, 1833; Julia Ann, Dec. 20, 1824, died April 30, 1833; Jehiel, Oct. 10, 1826; Emily Jane, June 14, 1829, died Dec. 4, 1885; William, Feb. 22, 1832; Sarah Ann, Jan. 6, 1835; and John Dunham and Mahlon T. (twins), Nov. 19, 1839; and a twin brother of William, who died at birth. All are deceased but Sarah Ann, who resides at Mon- rovia, Morgan county, and Mahlon T., a resident of Dayton, Ohio. Lewis Hampton, the father of Louis N., was a successful farmer all of his life, and died at his home in Wayne township, Sept. 9,
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1897. He was married to Esther Stanton, in Richmond, Oct. 29, 1846, and they became the parents of six children: Albert S., born July 24, 1847, resides in Indianapolis ; Ilenry J., born Aug. 12, 1850; Virginia, born March 2, 1852; Maurice M., born April 18, 1854; William Dayton, born Nov. 5, 1858; and Louis N., the youngest of the family. Louis N. Hampton assisted in cultivating the Wayne township farm and was reared to agricultural pursuits. In 1886 he began his independent career by renting land and in 1900 pur- chased the farm upon which he has since resided, in New Garden township. In November, 1910, he was elected a member of the Wayne County Council. Ile is a member of the Masonic lodge, No. 667, at Fountain City, in which he has held several offices. On Oct. 12, 1892, Mr. Hampton married Miss Bertha Iredell, daugh- ter of John S. and Sidney (Dilks) Iredell, of Wayne township, both deceased, and of this union have been born nine children : Edith Sidney, born Oct. 9, 1893; Helen, May 16, 1895; Hilda, Feb. 5. 1897; Maurice Nelson, April 23, 1890; Mark Iredell, April 2, 1901 ; Elsie, Sept. 11, 1993; Philip, Jan. 9, 1907 ; Lillian, March 23, 1909, and Robert Louis, Feb. 11, 1911. Mrs. Hampton was born April 2, 1868, and was educated in the Wayne township district schools and the Richmond High School. John S. Iredell, father of Mrs. Hampton, was born July 2, 1839, and Sidney Dilks, his first wife, was born April 10, 1845. The former was a native of Wayne county and the latter of Philadelphia, Pa. They were married July 16, 1867. The mother of Mrs. Iredell moved to Preble county, Ohio, and brought her children with her, settling near New Paris. John S. Iredell died Nov. 12, 1908, and his first wife died Feb. 3, 1883. He was a Republican in politics and both he and his wife were members of the Friends' Church. He was a farmer during most of his life and served three years as a soldier in the Civil war, a member of Co. 1, 84th Indiana infantry. To him and his wife were born three children, of whom Mrs. Hampton is the eldest ; Mary Anna, born Nov. 2, 1869, died Feb. 25, 1896; and Rachel S., born Oct. 27, 1876, resides in Wayne county. After the death of his first wife Mr. Iredell was married, Dec. 8, 1887, to Mrs. Sarah M. Duvall, of Richmond. She was the widow of James M. Duvall, a veteran of the Civil war, and she resides in Richmond. Louis N. Hampton is a Republican in politics and he and his family are members of the Friends' Church.
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