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John Gard was born in Hamilton county, in Decem- ber, 1806, and was married in 1832, to Nancy Sprout, who died in 1842. They had three children-Levi R. lives in Dixon; Elizabeth, wife of Ira Duvall, lives in Union county, Indiana; and Harvey L. lives in Israel township. In 1860 Mr. Gard was again married to Dor- cas (Jones) Ammerman, widow of Martin Ammerman. She was born in 1820.
Mr. Gard owns the quarter section upon which his father settled. Mr. Gard moved to Rush county, Indi- ana, in 1833, and remained there six years, when he re- turned to Dixon township.
Robert, son of Barfoot and Nancy Runyan, born in Rowan county, North Carolina, August 1, 1787. When nine years of age he moved to Madison county, Ken- tucky, with his parents, and two years later to Barren county, where he lived until he reached his twenty-first year, at which time he married Elizabeth Burns. In 1806 he moved to Somers township, and built a cabin below the iron bridge. He remained here until 1808, and then settled on the farm now owned by Robert Har- ris, near Sugar valley, Dixon township. While here he lost his first wife, who died in 1823. In the following year, 1824, he married his second wife, Mary, widow of James McAuley, with whom he lived until her death, which oc- curred in the year 1868. During the year 1812, Mr. Runyan took part in the war. After living near Sugar valley for twenty year, he purchased the farm on which he afterwards died.
Samuel Gordon came into Dixon in 1810, and made his location in section twenty. He was born in Guilford county, North Carolina, in 1795, and died in Dixon in 1860. He was in the six months' service in the War of 1812. He was married to Sarah Gard, who was born in 1803, and to them were born ten children, only three of whom survive, viz: Levi, who resides in Henry county, Indiana; Phebe, wife of Taylor W. Nicum, in Jackson township, this county, and John, who occupies the home farm in Dixon. He was married to Esther Ann Stiffler, in 1865, and has a family of five children living, and one dead. He was in the war of the Rebellion as a member of the Forty-seventh regiment Ohio volunteer infantry.
George Parks emigrated with his parents, Samuel and Charity Parks, from Kentucky, in 1811, and settled on the farm now owned by John Conger, in section twenty- five. George Parks was born in 1801, and in 1825 mar- ried Mary Price, who was born in Butler county, Ohio, in 1805. The issue of this marriage was nine children, eight living, named as follows: Silas, Harriet, Elizabeth, Henry N., Catharine, Mary Jane, Charity, and Leander. Harriet and Henry reside in Grant county, Indiana; Catharine in Eaton, and the rest in this township. Silas
was married to Nancy (Rhea) Gordon in 1877, the widow of S. Gordon. Leander married in 1869, Livice Lewis.
Among the earliest settlers of the Sugar valley neigh- borhood was Josiah Simonson. His son, Jessie, is now living there. Josiah Simonson was killed by the acci- dental discharge of a gun. He took the piece down, and, thinking it to be unloaded, he pushed the hammer back with his foot, putting his mouth at the same time to the muzzle, for the purpose of blowing the tube clear. The hammer slipped from under his foot, and the gun, which was heavily loaded, went off, sending the entire charge through the lower part of his head. He lived until early morning and then expired. Mr. Simonson was one of the pioneers of his district, and his frightful death cast a deep gloom over the community which had grown up around him.
In 1815 John Pinkerton settled in the township, and in the following year, 1816, Major William Gray, an officer in the Revolutionary war, settled on section fif- teen, on the farm now owned by Robert Gray.
Michael Runyon entered a quarter section in the southeastern part of the township, where the Congers now reside. He afterwards sold out and went to Illinois.
In 1812 Josiah Conger emigrated from Kentucky to Ohio and settled in Dixon township, in the vicinity of what is now called Sugar valley. He was a native of the Carolinas. From there he moved to Tennessee. He next went to Kentucky, and afterwards to Ohio, where he lived until his death, in 1843. His death was caused by the accidental discharge of a gun. Mr. Conger was a minister of the Christian church, having entered upon his sacred office when only twenty-three years of age, and continuing until his death. The journey from Kentucky, which they were three weeks in accomplishing, was made in a four-horse wagon. They settled on the farm now owned by Mr. Thompson. His wife, Catharine (Runyon), was born in 1787, and died in 1871. They were the parents of eleven children, five sons and six daughters, as follows: Nancy (Marshall), deceased; Aaron R .; Moses; Anna (Hoffman), deceased; Sarah, widow of Al- exander Rhea; Mary (McWhinney), deceased; John, de- ceased; Eli; Melissa, widow of Henry Overholzer; Wil- liam; and Evelina, wife of Jacob Marshall. Moses and A. R. Conger are the only members of the family now residing near Sugar valley, who were raised there.
Aaron Ross Conger, the eldest son of Josiah Conger, was born in Tennessee in 1805. He came with his father and mother first to Kentucky, and thence to Ohio, and settled in Dixon township. In 1827 he was married to Ruth Marshall, by whom six children were born, four of whom are living. His first wife died in 1847, and in 1848 was married to Rhoda A. Robinson, who was born in 1825. She is the daughter of Isaac and Rhoda Rob- inson, who settled in Monroe township. Mr. Conger has had no children by his second wife. He owns eighty acres of well improved land in section twenty-four where he resides.
Moses Conger, who emigrated to Ohio from Kentucky in 1812, settled with his parents in section fourteen of Dixon township, this county. He was born in 1807,
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and in 1828 married Phoebe Price, who was born in 1807. To them were born nine children, five of whom are living: Sarah J., wife of Meeker S. Morton; Eliza- beth A., wife of Lemuel S. Bennett, William W., living in Dixon township, and John A., who resides in Illinois.
William W. Conger, born in 1814, married Julia Wil- kinson in 1860. She was born in 1843, and is the daugh- ter of George Wilkinson. Mr. and Mrs. Conger have four children, all living: Emma, Royal, Edward, and Bertha. Mr. Conger owns forty-seven acres of land in section twenty-four.
In 1810 Jacob Marshall settled in Dixon, on the farm now known as the Marshall estate, in section twenty-four. Marshall was a Marylander, and his wife, Rebecca Mur- ray, was from the same State. Ten children were born to them, five of whom are still living, as follows: Josiah, who is living in this township; Edmund, in Indiana; William, in Butler county, Ohio; Jacob, in Harrison township, and Ephraim in Kansas. Josiah Marshall married Harriet Price in 1834, the issue of which union was six children, four of whom survive, viz: Mrs. David Wilkinson, resides in Washington township; Mrs. John R. Burson, Mrs. John Brower, and Mrs. John Hickman, in Dixon. Jacob Marshall served six months in the War of 1812.
Daniel Brower was born in Virginia in 1803, and em- igrated to Ohio in 1815. He married Sarah Shively, who was born in Stark county, Ohio, in 1811, and died in 1877. Four of their nine children are living, two in Dixon township, and two in Indiana. Jacob Brower, the father of Daniel, was born in Virginia in 1772, and settled in Lanier township in 1815, where he died in 1832. His wife was a native of Maryland, and died in 1876. The old folks were the parents of eleven children.
Thomas Pinkerton came to Dixon in 1815, with his father, John Pinkerton, who entered land in section thir- ty-two. John Pinkerton subsequently represented Preble county in the State legislature two terms. Thomas was born in South Carolina in 1793, and married, in 1816, Margaret McGaw, by whom he had seven children, two of whom survive: Elizabeth, wife of John B. Foster, liv- ing in Illinois, and W. A. Pinkerton, in this township, W. A. was born in 1821; married, in 1843, Maria Sterrett, who was born in 1821. They have had four children, two living. Mr. Pinkerton has held the office of justice of the peace six years, and has been trustee of the town- ship some fifteen years.
Major William Gray settled in Dixon in 1816. He was a native of Pennsylvania, born in 1755, and emigrated to this county from Tennessee. He entered the land in sec- tion fifteen, which Robert Gray now owns. Major Gray was in the Revolutionary war, and served during almost the entire period of its continuance. He died in 1849. His wife, whose maiden name was Ann Thornberry, was a na- tive of North Carolina, born in 1764, and died in 1854. They had five boys and six girls, three, of them now living, viz .: Mrs. Ann Garvis, in Union county, Indiana, Mrs. Elizabeth Shoemaker, in Grant county, Indiana, and Mrs. Cynthia Shoemaker, in Darke county, Ohio. John Gray, father of Robert, now residing in this township, was born
in North Carolina in 1797, and came to Ohio with his father in 1816. He was married to Nancy Rhea, who was born in 1799. Her father was one of the early set- tlers of Washington township, having located there as early as 1810. Six of the thirteen children born to John and Nancy Gray are now living, namely: Robert, in . this township; Mrs. Thomas Reed, near Springfield, Illi- nois; Mrs. J. W. Cook, in Jay county, Indiana; Clark, in Logansport, Indiana; James, in Arizona, and Margaret, wife of James Paddock, in Kansas. Robert Gray was married in 1864, to Rachel Cunningham, widow of Henry Cunningham, and has two children.
Nancy Cooper, widow of Benjamin Cooper, sr., emi- grated to Preble county from Kentucky with her family in 1816, and settled in section seventeen. She was born in Woodford county, Kentucky, in 1775, her maiden name being De Coursey. Benjamin Cooper, sr., died in Kentucky, in the year 1803. There are two children now living-Mrs. Jane Davis, widow of Jesse Davis, living in Carroll county, Indiana, and Benjamin, sr., in this township. Benjamin Cooper, jr., was born in 1804, and was married in 1837, to Susannah Flora, who was born in Franklin county, Virginia, in 1819. Mr. Cooper began in the woods on the farm now owned by his daughter, Mrs. Ross. This farm he cleared up, having purchased it of William De Cour- sey in 1835. By hard work and industry he has accu- mulated a fine property. He has given to each of his children as they married and left the old home the sum of five thousand dollars. His surviving children are Mrs. Smith Railsback, Mrs. David Railsback, and Mrs. F. V. Ross.
Carey Toney moved into Dixon and settled in section six in 1819. He was born in Buckingham county, Vir- ginia about the year 1779, and died in this township. His wife, Elizabeth (Doren), died at the advanced age of ninety-seven or ninety-eight years. They had a family of ten children, four now living, namely: James, near Logansport, Indiana; Archibald, Jonathan and Har- rison, in Dixon. Archibald was born in Franklin county, Virginia, in 1801, and came to this township with his parents in 1819. He has been twice married. His first wife was Dorcas White, born in 1802, died in 1850. In 1851 he was married to Catharine Whitesell, who was born in 1821. By his first marriage he had five children, who are all living, and by his second mar- riage ten children, eight of whom are living.
Harmon Toney emigrated from Virginia to Ohio in 1819, and located on the farm now owned by Anderson Toney. His wife was Fanny Kingley.
Carey Toney was born in section eight, Dixon town- ship, in 1842, and in 1863 married Sarah Moss, who was born in 1846 in Carroll county, Indiana. Four of their six children are living. Mr. Toney resides in sec- tion seventeen of Dixon township.
William, son of Harmon Toney, was born in Dixon township in 1838, and in December, 1859, was married to Margaret E. Witt, who was born in Union county, In- diana, in 1842. Two of their three children are living: Andrew H. and Orla L. Minta died in 1880. Mr.
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Toney owns one hundred and ninety acres adjoining his residence in section eight, and one hundred and twenty acres in section six, where he is building a new house.
Joseph Miller was born in North Carolina in 1772 and removed from that State and settled in Somers township in 1818. In 1820 he moved into this township and set- tled in section thirty-six. Here he died in March, 1859. His wife, who was Ann Hodgens, was born in 1778 and died in 1856. Of their seven children three are now living, viz .: Robert H., Martha C. (Stubbs) and Joseph H., who resides on the old homestead. Joseph H. married for his first wife Margaret Elizabeth McDivitt, who died in 1841, and he subsequently married Hannah S. Booker, born in 1821, and whose parents were early settlers in the county. By his first wife there were born three chil- dren, one of whom is deceased. He had no children by his second marriage.
Samuel Morton was born in Warren county, Ohio, in 1819, and came with his parents, Benjamin and Hannah Morton, who were early settlers of Israel township. He married Susan Kinney in 1856, who was born in 1832. They have had five children, four of whom are living. Noah is at home, as are also John and Kate. In 1870 Samuel Morton was elected township trustee and served two terms. Mr. Morton has built a large number of houses in Dixon township.
Ora P. Morton was born in 1857, in Dixon township, and he is the oldest child of Samuel and Susan Morton, who now reside in section thirty of Dixon township. Mr. Morton married Miss Anna Honsher, who was born in 1857. He is the owner of one hundred and twenty acres of land located in section thirty-six, Gasper township.
Samuel Pottenger was born in Kentucky, in 1790. While a child, in 1880, his parents emigrated to Butler county, Ohio. He died in 1859, his death being caused by injuries received from a runaway team of horses. His wife, Jane McCowen, was born in 1799, and is still living. She emigrated to Preble county with her parents from Tennessee, in 1816. Her mother lived to be one hundred and seven years old. To Samuel and Jane Pottenger were born three children, all of whom are still living. Nancy Jane married Cornelius McDivitt and re- sides in Dixon township. Mary Ellen married Edmund Murphy and lives in Butler county. James H. lives in Dixon township.
Cornelius McDivitt married Nancy Jane Pottenger in 1860. They have had three children, all of whom are alive. Their farm, consisting of two hundred and forty acres, is under a good state of cultivation. There has not been a death on this farm for fifty years.
William Pottenger came into the township in 1823, and settled in section ten. He was born in Wayne township, Butler county, Ohio, in 1805, and was married to Mary Monfort in 1834. She was born in 1812, and died in 1879 Mr. Pottenger, although he settled here when the country was still quite new, has ever since resided within a mile of the place on which he first set- tled. He is the father of ten children, eight living and two dead, as follows: Elizabeth, Henry, Thomas (who
was killed at Gettysburgh in 1865), Catharine, Wilson, Ella, John, Margaret, Mary, and William (now deceased).
Samuel Bell, born in Ireland in 1784 emigrated to Ohio from South Carolina, and settled in Israel town- shia about the year 1817. His wife was Jane Hamilton, born about 1790. She died in 1868, and her husband the same year. Their children were six in number, five of whom survive: Andrew lives on the old place; John lives in Iowa; James lives in Kansas; William and Na- than in this township. William, born in 1822, in Israel township, married, in 1857, Sarah McCallum, who was born in 1825. They have six children living and three dead.
James Rhea was born in Kentucky in 1800. His wife was Mary Gray. To them were born ten children, seven of whom are still living, as follows: Ann I., wife of Ben- jamin Glessner, is now living in Marion, Indiana; Alex- ander resides in Greenwood county, Kansas; John Rhea, in Eaton, Ohio; Jehu, on the old homestead in Dixon township; Elizabeth, wife of David R. Dooley, in Grant county, Indiana; George W., in Hanover county, and Nancy, wife of Silas Parks, in Dixon township, sec- tion nine.
Mrs. Nancy Harris bas born in 1812. Her parents, Andrew and Rachel Lytle Lintner, came from Butler to Preble county at an early day, and settled in Dixon town- ship. Nancy, who was their second child, was born in 1812, and was married in Butler county to Benjamin Harris, in the year 1829. For about five years after their marriage they continued to reside in Butler county, and about the year 1835 they removed to Preble county, and settled on the farm of one hundred and fifty-seven acres, in Dixon township, where Mrs. Harris now resides. To Mr. and Mrs. Harris were born seven children, of whom two are living, viz .: Judge A. L. Harris, of Eaton, and Eliza J., wife of Levin Murray. Mr. Harris died in 1872, and his widow now has the sole management and care of the farm, which she keeps in good order.
James H. Lewellen was born in Dixon township in 1830. His parents, Philip and Anna Lewellen came to Preble county from Kentucky at an early day, and set- tled in Dixon township. They were the parents of eleven children.
In the year 1853 James H. was married to Frances M. Gavin, who was born in 1832. Her parents, John and Elizabeth Gavin, are dead. To Mr. and Mrs. Lew- ellen have been born three children: James C. lives in Indiana; Lizzie married Samuel C. Weist, lives in Dixon; and Charles Edwin is dead.
William Duggins was born in Preble county, in 1824. His parents, William and Sarah Duggins, came from Kentucky to Ohio at an early day. William, their young- est son, was married in 1849, to Sarah, daughter of Robert and Mary Runyan, who were early settlers of this county. Six children have been born to them, all of whom are living and are married. James H. lives with his mother in Dixon; William T. is in Washington township; Mary D. is the wife of Finley Kincaid, of Washington; and Elmer E. and Cora A. are at home. Mr. Duggins died in 1875, and his widow lives on the home place of one
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hundred and sixty-five acres of land in section thirteen, of Dixon township.
Smith Charles was born in Guilford county, North Carolina, in 1784, and in 1805 came to Warren county, Ohio. In 1807 he came to Preble county and settled in Dixon township. He was in the War of 1812 for six months. For thirty years he was the Dixon township treasurer. His wife, Nancy Kercheval, was born in 1784 and died in 1823. There were seven children by this marriage-James, Elisha, Reuben, John P., Mary, Eliza- beth, wife of Leroy Larsh, living near Richmond, Indiana, and Sarah, residing in Dixon township with her brother William. Smith Charles married for his second wife Elizabeth Hibler, a native of Kentucky. Three of the four children born of this marriage are living, viz .: Thomas W., William H. and Nancy, widow of John Jen- nings, of Butler county. Thomas W., born in 1825, married, in 1853, Mary Flora, who was born in 1834. He occupies a part of the old home place. William H., who also lives on a part of the homestead, was born in 1828, and in 1854 married Sarah E. Leech. She was born in 1836.
John P. Charles was born in Dixon on the old place, June 20, 1815. In 1853 he married Mrs. Sarah E. Jack- son, widow of Dr. William M. Jackson. She was born in New Hampshire in 1823.
During the years 1845-6-7 Mr. Charles was the editor of the Eaton Register, and then bought the Hamilton In- telligencer, which he sold six months afterwards. In 1880 he again assumed editorial control of the Eaton Register, which position he still retains.
John M. Daugherty was born in Butler county, Ohio, in 1823. John M. and Sarah Daugherty were his par- ents. His father died when John was young. In 1832 he came with his grandfather, Samuel Hunt, who settled on the farm now owned by Mr. Daugherty. His mother joined them soon afterwards. In 1845 he was married to Sarah, daughter of John and Lucy R. Truax, who settled in Preble county at an early day, and for many years lived just south of the Daugherty farm. To Mr. and Mrs. Daugherty were born four children, of whom all are living: Mrs. Libbie Reynolds, of Eaton; John S., who married Lizzie Parker; G. W. lives in Eaton; and Lewis C., who married Cora Surface.
Mr. Daugherty owns about two hundred acres of land in sections one and two of Dixon township. He has for a number of years been president of the Preble County Agricultural board, and has always taken an interest in every laudable enterprise.
Michael Fleisch was born in Germany in 1820, and in 1840 came to this country ; stopped for eighteen months in Philadelphia, and then came to Butler county, Ohio, and worked for six years near Somerville. In 1843 he married Catharine Meckly, by whom he has had five children-three girls and two boys: Jacob lives in Kansas; Joseph is in Dixon township; Sarah is the wife of John Shafer; Matilda married Emery Davies, and Nancy is at home. About the year 1850, Mr. Fleisch came to Preble county, and bought one hundred and twenty acres of land in section five of Dixon town-
ship. From time to time he added farm to farm until he owned about a thousand acres in Dixon township. He has given away part of this vast tract of land to his children, and now owns the whole of section five, as good a farm as there is in the county, and undoubtedly the largest. Besides this he owns about five hundred acres in Indiana. Mr. Fleisch keeps his vast farm in perfect order, and in a good state of improvement. He deals extensively in fine stock, and makes the raising of hogs a specialty. His farm presents an attractive appear- ance, and is one of the finest tracts of land for miles around.
Joseph, the second son of Michael Fleisch, was mar- ried in 1865, to Lucinda Laflan, who was born in Union county, Indiana, in 1846. Their seven children are still living: Lottie, Jacob, Lawrence, Ida, Viola, Luella and Varner. Mr. Fleisch owns two hundred and eighty-six acres of well improved land in section seven.
William B. Parker was born in New Jersey in 1818, and came to Preble county about the year 1835, in com- pany with his mother, Sarah Parker. In 1845 he was married to Mary Ann Burley, daughter of David and Jane Burley, who came to Preble county about the year 1848. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Parker settled on Paint creek, in Gasper township, and in 1857 moved to their present farm of one hundred and sixty acres of land in Dixon township. Three of their five children are living: John, near New Paris; Daniel, near Flor- ence Station, and Mary E., the wife of Sylvester Daug- herty, of Dixon township.
Stephen Gard was born in Union county, Indiana, in 1836. His parents were Lorenzo and Malinda (Per- kins) Gard. His father died in 1836, and his mother afterwards became the wife of Ebenezer Paddack, and is still living. In 1866 Stephen was married to Sarah Dillman, daughter of David and Hannah Dillman. She was born in 1846. To Mr. and Mrs. Gard have been born four children: Ida L., deceased; Oscar, Emma J. and Clifford. Mr. Gard owns one hundred and sixty-four acres in section eighteen.
Charles B. Simonson is the tenth child of Jesse and Mary Russell. Jesse Simonson came to Ohio from Es- sex county, New Jersey, about the year 1822, and Mary Russell came from Kentucky. They were married in 1823, and have had eleven children, of whom four are living. Charles B. was born in Dixon township in 1839, and in 1867 was married to Keziah Osborn, of Cham- paign county, Ohio. After their marriage they settled on the farm of eighty acres in section twenty-five, of Dixon township, where they now reside. They have no children. Mr. Simonson has just erected a fine new house.
Mrs. Eliza A. McDivitt came to Preble county with her parents in 1825; she was born in Pennsylvania in 1816. She became the wife of Robert McDivitt, her maiden name being Fry. Her husband died in 1863. He was born in North Carolina in 1813. Mrs. McDiv- itt is the mother of eight children, named George W., Cornelius, Catharine, Elizabeth, Joseph, Mary, Ellen, and John A.
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Cornelius was born in 1838, and in 1860 married Nancy Jane Pottenger, who was born in 1836. They have had three children.
Charles Larsh moved to this township and settled in sec- tion four in 1830, coming from Brown county, Ohio. He was born in Kentucky in 1792. His wife, Ellen Rains, whom he married in 1817, was born in Brown county in 1798. They had a family of ten children, all living but one. John R., the oldest son, came to Preble county with his father in 1830, and in 1844 married Hannah Smith, whose parents were among the earlier settlers of the township, having settled in section twenty-three in 1816 or 1817.
William Silver, sr., settled in Dixon in 1836. He was born in Salem county, New Jersey, in 1773, and in 1827 settled in Warren county, Ohio. He died in Israel township in 1848; his wife, Rebecca (Bates), born in 1776, died in 1849. Of the family of eight children, only three survive, one son and two daughters: William B. residing in Dixon, and Mrs. Martha Brown, and Mrs. Phebe Brown, in Huntington, Indiana.
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