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JOHN FENNIG
was born in Wayne County, Ohio, in 1-29. and settled in Mercer County in 1950. He is a farmer by occupation. When he located in this county the country was quite new, and he had to drive to Piqna to mill. He was one of the trustees of Washington Township from 1-77 to 1578. He was married in Mercer County in 1>56 to Catharine Spriggs, a native of Jackson County. who has borne him seven children. He is an active member of the German Reformed Lutheran Church, and his wife belongs to the Christian Church.
SAMUEL R. DEHAYS
is the oldest son of Samuel Delays, and was born in this county March 17, 1838. His father located in the county in 1$36, and was at the first election held at Fort Recovery in 1831. He was the first constable elected, and had to get his milling done at Piqua, fifty-seven miles dis- tant. The subject of this sketch is a successful farmer and stock-raiser of Washington Township. His grandfather, Samuel Everinan, was a soldier in the War of the Revolution five years, and another ancestor, William Dehays, was in the War of 1912. He was married in Preble County February 20, 1855, to Eliza J. Shuman, by whom he has had seven children.
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. JOHN R. SWARTS
was born in Perry County, Ohio. August 15, 1809, and his wife, whose maiden name was Matilda J. Sawyer, was born in Licking County, Ohio, March 6, 1822, where they were married in March, 1846, The following list shows the names and dates of the birth of their children : Milton, born April 22. 1847; Wallace, July 10, 1819; Archibald. July 11. 1852; Mary O., April 14, 1554 : Doleres, April 1, 1866; Hulda S .. June 5, 185>: Leo, January 26, Is60; and James, September 20, 1562. Lvo died May 16. 1440. Mr. Swarts by occupation is a tailor and farmer, and was a soldier in the late war. Served in Company 1, 161st Regi- ment ; enlisted in 1864 ; discharged in 1965. His son Milton enlisted in the 19th Regiment in 1963, and was discharged at the end of the war.
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FANBURY SWARTZ
Is a farmer and stock-raiser of Washington Township. He was born in Perry County, Ohio, March 20, 1521, and removed to Mercer County in 1846. In isol he enlisted in Company K, 40th Regiment O. V. L., and was honorably discharged in the spring of 1892. His two sons, John and William, enlisted in 1965, and ere the war closed William dial at Camp Chase, at Columbus. When he first located in the county there were very few neighbors, and he had to undergo the hardships of the sturdy first settlers. He has been trustee of Washington Township two years. He was married to Sarah Elder, July 12, 1842. She died in August, 1863, leaving him a family of eight children.
JACOB BASTIAN,
son of George and Elizabeth Bastian, one of the carly settlers of this county, was born in Alsace, France, December 4. 1917, and settled with his father in Marion Township. Mercer County, in June, 1836. He was married to Elizabeth Cordier, daughter of Christian and Mary Cordier, also early settlers. By this union they reared the following children : Christian, born in 1842 and died in 1814 ; J. C., born March 29, 1845; Catharine, born June, 1847; Frederick, born July, 1849; and Adam, born in 1854. Mr. Bastian, wife, and children are members of the Lutheran Church, in which Mr. Bastian has been a member over fifty years. In his early life he was a great hunter, and is said to have killed over two hundred deer.
ROBERT OLIVE
was born in Perry County, Ohio, September 25, 1823, and settled in Mercer County in 1866. He is a farmer and saddler. At Newark. Ohio, May 8, 1850, he was united in marriage to Eliza Johnson, who was born in Newark, Licking County, Ohio, January 24, 1824, by whom he has been blessed with three sons and four daughters. His father. James Olive, served in the War of 1812. In 1863 he joined the " Squirrel Hunters " in their chase of the rebel raider Gen. Morgan, and reports that the exciting incidents of that campaign were lots of fun, but no fighting.
THEOBOLD LEININGER
was born in France, and with his parents emigrated to America and settled in Mercer County the same year, where he has been raised, and follows the business of farming. He was married here to Catherine Mowery, a native of Germany, to whom nine children have been born. When a boy his parents had to travel a distance of sixty miles to Pay- ton to do their trading. He has killed over a thousand deer in his time, and killed a bear when only eighteen years of age.
HENRY HUMBARGER
was born in Perry County, Ohio, in 1820, and settled in Mercer County in 1850, and the same year married Mary Vangarden, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1>21. This union was blessed with four children, Jolm. Ann, and Levi still living. Mr. Humburger died in 1945, and his sons continue the agricultural pursuits of the father. Mrs. Humbarger's father. John Vangarden, was a soldier of the War of 1:12, and was one of the first settlers of Mercer County, and endured the hardships of the early pioneers.
JOHN BOLEY,
of Laneaster County, Pennsylvania, came to Mercer County in 1840 He was married to Catharine B. Amon in June, 1866, and has raised a family of four children, named as follows: Catharine B., William I., Eva B., and Michael. Mr. Boley is one of the wealthiest men in the county. Precise in his dealings, and energetic in business, he has done much for the improvement of the county. He still has an overcoat which was made in 1936 by his sister, and has been worn more or less every winter since made. Several years after he settled here his taxes did not exceed one dollar. His farm now contains over four hundred acres of good land.
GEORGE BASTIAN
is a native of France, having been born June 30, 1820, and with his parents located in Mercer County in 1536, thus being one of the early pioneers. He helped to dig the St. Marys Reservoir in 1>38-39. There were Indians at Fort Recovery, and abundance of deer, bear, and wolves roamed the forests. He has been trustee of Washington Township four years. In ISI he was married to Mary Fenny. a native of France, who has blessed him with eleven children. He is engaged in the business of farming and stock-raising.
C. L. LANDEAIR
is a native of Mercer County, as also is his wife, the former having been botn November 23, 1857, and the latter in IAdo. He is a farmer and school-teacher. His wife's maiden name was Rebecca C. Kuhn, to whom he was married in 1950.
DAVID PORTERFIELD
MRS. S. J. PORTERFIELD
RESIDENCE OF DAVID PORTERFIELD , WASHINGTON TWP., MERCER CO. OHIO.
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HISTORY OF VAN WERT AND MERCER COUNTIES, OHIO.
GEORGE KANNARD,
a minister and farmer, was born in Perry County, this State, July 22, 1815, and his wife, Malinda Routson, was born in Parke County, Ohio, June 16, 1816. They were married in Parke County Sept 14, 1336. They have reared the following-named children : Susanna, William, John W., and Cynthia A. George Kannard, Sr., the grandfather of the sub- jeet, was in the Revolutionary war five years. John W. eulisted in 1861, was wounded at Chickamauga, and discharged. E. H. Kelly, a . son-in-law, was wounded at the battle at Vicksburg, Mississippi, and discharged in 1861.
ENGELBERT BIGGS
is a native of Germany, and settled in Washington Township in 1969, where he is engaged in farming and stock-raising, and has been road supervisor. January, 1864, he enlisted in Company (, 9th Ohio Cav- alry. Had three horses shot from under him, and went with Sherman's army to the sea. He was honorably discharged in July, 1865. Was married in Mercer County in the year 1871 to Elizabeth E. Fortman, who has borne him five children.
FRANK WINKER
was born in Prussia in February, 1826, and settled in Mercer County in 1856, and is a farmer and stock-raiser in Washington Township. Ile enlisted as a private in Company E, 58th Regiment O. V. I., and was honorably discharged, on account of disability, at Columbus, Ohio, in November, 1862. His family belongs to the Presbyterian Church. He was married in Prussia in July, 1848, to Charlotte Farwick, who has had six children, all born in Macedon, Mercer County, Ohio.
WILLIAM J. DAVIDSON
was born in Shelby County. Ohio, June 19, 1840, and with his parents came to Mercer County in 1842. He is a farmer by occ vation, and was elected a trustee of Washington Township in the spring of Isso. December 24, 1867. he was united in marriage to Catharine McDowell. who was born in Mercer County, October 7. 1843, by whom he has had three children, as follows : Robert T., Margaret, and John.
JOHN MENCHHOFER
is a farmer by occupation, a native of France, and settled in Mercer County in 1850. He bas filled the office of township trustee; has been twice married, taking his second wife June 10, Isso, in the person of Henrietta Bolleubacher. By his first wife he had six children, as fol- lows : George A., Mary A., John L., William II., Catharine C., and Barbara MI.
JAMES B. HILL,
a farmer of Washington Township, was born in Fayette County, Ohio, September 7, 1817, and settled in Mercer County in March, 1876. He resided some years in Brown County, Ohio, and while there was a town- ship assessor, and also a deputy sheriff of that county six years. He was in the one hundred days' service during the War of the Rebellion, in Company A. 179th Regiment O. V. I. His father, James K. Hill, was a soldier in the War of 1812. He was married in Georgetown, Ohio, September 2, 1537, to Miss D. Marshall, a native of Kentucky, by whom he has had six sons and four daughters.
WILLIAM LOUGHRIDGE.
Among other early settlers from the State of Delaware was William Loughridge and wife, née Elizabeth Grimes, who married and settled here in 1837. They have had eleven children, two of whom are dead. Mr. Loughridge was the first trustee elected in this township, and there were only thirteen votes cast at the time. Edward Loughridge, the father of William, settled here at the same time. They may be classed with those men to whom the improvement of the township is to be accredited.
F. M. MOORE
was born in Fairfield County, Ohio, and settled in this county in Orto- ber. 1815. He married Miss Sarah Toner on May 4, 1859. They have raised seven children, all of whom still reside in the county, as follows : Melvill was born April 4, 1560; Charles E., November 2, 1862 ; Mary JA., December 22, 1864 ; L. D., June 12, 1966 ; James S., December 21, 1967; John C., March 15, 172; and William, June 1, 1%75. Mr. Moore's father, John O. Moore, died in Fairfield County. His mother is still living, at the advanced age of seventy-one.
JOHN RAMSBOTTOM
was born in Logan County in 1815, and settled in this county in 1868. He was married to Jane MeQuin, of this county. September 2, 1%. The fruit of this marriage was one child, born in 1969. Mr. R. servert in the late war about one year.
WILLIAM A. WISHON
is a farmer, who settled in Mercer County in October, 1832. He was born in Jackson County, Ohio, May 1, 1935, and in 1869 he was mar- ried in Adams County, Indiana, to C. Rush, whose birthplace was Lick- ing County, Ohio, November, ISIT. She has blessed him with five sous. Hunself and wife are members of the Christian Church.
SEBASTIAN KRIG
settled in this county in 1858. He was born in Germany, August 19, 1826. He married Agnes Ronelli, and has raised a family of nine chil- dren, born as follows: Bernard, August 15, 1860 ; Amelia, May 11. 1862; Mary, April 22, 1864; Christian, 1866; John, May 22, 186%; Anthony, August, 1870; Jacob, October, 1872; Veronica, August, 1873 ; Eliza, November 17, 1877.
JOHN H. GRANGER
was married to Mary Cole in this county in 1865, and by this union four children were born : Enora L., February 17, 1866; D. W., JJuly 26, 1976; Ida Estellt. December In, 1877 ; and Mary E., November 29, 1879. Mr. Granger has been township trustee and school director a number of times. He enlisted in October, Ist1, and was discharged in November, 1864.
FREDERICK MERTZ
is a carpenter by trade, and has been a resident of Washington Town- ship since the spring of 1877. He was born in Loraine County, Ohio, March, 1857. "A brother of his, John, enlisted as a soldier in Isch. and was never heard of after he went South. Mr. Mertz married Barbara Smith in Lorain County. She was born in Germany, and has blessed her husband with four children.
WESLEY CUMMINS
was born July 17, 1849, and married in 1870 Miss Nancy Dixon, daugh- ter of Amos and M. Dixon, who were early settlers in this county. John P. Cummins served during the late war, having enlisted in the 61st Ohio Volunteers, and was discharged in 1865.
Lieutenant Jacob Cummins enlisted in 1861, and was discharged 1805. Henry enlisted 1861, and was wounded and discharged 1804.
W. C. MILLER.
One of the carly settlers of this county, W. C. Miller, came here in 1848, and died in 1852. His son, Ephraim Miller, whose occupation is that of farming, married Miss Ellen A. Greer in 1865. They have six children : Mary C., C. J., Martha, James F., Nettie D., and Harriet. Mr. Miller's grandfather, Henry Miller, served in the war of Ist2. Ephraim was a member of Company B, 20th Ohio Volunteers, and served one year.
WILLIAM CURRY
was born in Scotland, May 9, 1844. He married Miss F. Cancer, who was born in Perry County, Ohio, November 18. 1973. By this marriage two children were born, named Sarah E .. born June 25, 1875: and Mary L., born October 30, 1878. Mr. Curry has a good farm, and is engaged in raising stock and grain. For years he has been a leading member of the United Presbyterian Church.
JAMES B. SNYDER
was born in Butler County, Ohio, September 8, 1828. He was married to Miss Cyron A. Phellis, of the same county. His family consists of two children, son and daughter. They settled in Mercer County Feb- ruary, 1879, and own a farm of 255 acres, with good improvements. lle is one of the best farmers in the county.
JAMES PATTON
was born in Franklin, Kentucky, in 1813, and came to this township in 186%. September 9th of that year he married Alice E. George, a native of Hocking County, Ohio. Mr. P. is a farmer by occupation, aud a de- vout member of the United Presbyterian Church. He has four children living, namely : Fannie, Andrew, William T., and John.
HERMANN MUHLENCAMP
is a native of Germany, born in 1936, and settled in Mercer County in 1860. He is.a farmer and stock-taiser by occupation. In 1860 he was married in Germany, and now has seven children, named as follows: Barney, Gertie, John, Henry, Theodore, Catharine, and William.
JOHN WORTZ
was born in this county in 1855, and is engaged in farming. July 4. 1×76, he married Juliette Greene, who was born in the county April 2, 1858. They have two children, Nettie May and Cora E.
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HISTORY OF VAN WERT AND MERCER COUNTIES, OHIO.
DAVID POWELL
was born in Butter County, Ohio, March 8. 1838, and settled in Mercer County in 1858. He is a farmer by occupation. In 1870 he was elected a trustee of Washington Township, and filled the office two years, His wife's maiden name was Angeline Spelman, who was born in Licking County, Ohio, April 5, 1819, to whom he was married in Mercer County August 22, 1867. This union has been blessed with six chiktren.
HENRY FORTMAN
is & farmer. and stock-raiser by occupation. Born in Cincinnati in 1835, he came to Mercer County when a child, where he has continued to re- side. He has filled the office of trustee of Washington Township fifteen years. In IS61 he was united in marriage to Frances Biggs, who was born in Germany in 1>81, and is the mother of tive children.
GEORGE KOURATH (Coonrod)
was born in Alsace, France, November 3. 1833, and settled in Mercer County in the fall of IsG1, where he is a farmer and stock-raiser. He was married April 11, 185%, to Margaret Speck, by whom he has bad seven children, namely, Mary, Elizabeth, Margaret, John D., Jacob, George, and Michael.
GEORGE W. TRACE
is a school-teacher and carpenter, and in 1880 was elected clerk of Washington Township. He was born in Batler County, Ohio. June 11, 1851, and settled in Mercer County in December, 1-77. His wife's maiden name was Esther J. Ireland, who was born in Darke County in 1855. One son is the result of this union.
EDWIN C. STOWELL
was born August 20, 1844. in Loraine County, Ohio, and settled in Mer- cer County in the year 1855, and engaged in farming, at which he still continues. He enlisted in Company 1. One Hundred and Eighteenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry in 1>62, and was discharged iu 1865, at the close of the war. Ile was never married.
JOHN DIXON
was born in Jackson County, Ohio, June 17, 1836, and came to Mercer County with his parents in 1838. In March, 185%, he was married to Harriet Miller, who came with her parents from Butler County. Six children are the result of this union. He is engaged in the drygoods and grocery business in the village of Macedon, and also does some farming.
GIDEON BOFFENMOYER
is a farmer and stock raiser of Washington Township, having settled in this county in 1838. He was born in Betler County, Ohio. December 25, 183%. Hle served in, the three-month.' service, Isel, in the war of the Rebellion. In 1872, he married Elizabeth Kauffman, by whom he has had four children.
ROBERT C. McMILLEN
is a merchant in the village of Macedon, Mercer County. He was born in Pennsylvania, February 2. 1848, and located in Mercer county in May, 1857. In 1965 ke united with the Church of the Covenanters, to which all of his father's family belong. He is a single man.
ANTHONY WELLMAN
was born in Germany, November 23, 1851, and located in Mercer County in 1864. He is the proprietor of a grocery store in Macedon, Mercer County. Mary Fortman is the maiden name of his wife, whom he mar- ried September 28, 1830.
CHARLES SCHLEMMER
is a native of Seneca County, Ohio, and located in Mercer County in the year 1868. He is a farmer by occupation ; was born February 1, 1841, and was married in Seneca County to Susan Harbert, who was born February 10, 1841. She has blessed him with seven chuihren.
CHARLES RABE
is a farmer, who was born in Germany in 1838, and came to Mercer County in 1818, where he was married August 27, 180%, to Margaret Leininger, by whom he has had three children. He is a member of the German Reformed Lutheran Church.
STEPHEN SCOTT
was born in Jackson County, Ohio, in September, 1536, and came to Mercer County with his parents when two years of age. He was mar- ried in this county to Jane Weeks, a native of Coshocton County, Ohio, who has boruc him five children. He is a farmer and stock-raiser.
NATHAN COLE
was born in New Jersey, July 30, 1820, and was married November 21, Isth. in the same State, and moved to this county in 1856. He has served as constable of his township one year, and at the breaking out of the war in 1861, he enlisted, and served umil 1564. William Cole also enlisted in INGI, and was wounded three times, and finally dis- charged in 1864. Mr. Cole's grandfather served fifteen months in the army during the War of 1812.
IRA T. KELLER
was born in this county, at Fort Recovery, August 10, 1851, and his wife, Mary Steel, was born in the same town December 1, 1855. They were married in Jay Comty, Indiana, January 6, 1877. Ilis grand- fathers were both in the War of 1812.
GEORGE RAUCH
and wife were born in this county, and were married on November 6, 1877. They have two children, Mary and John A. Mr. Rauh was born October 5, 1554, and his wife, daughter of John and Christina Haine, was born July 15, 1877.
LEWIS WEICKERMAN
was born in Germany in 1810, and settled in Mercer County in the spring of 1952 ; is a farmer in Washington Township. He married his wife in Germany. She died in 1866, leaving three children.
WILLIAM F. DEHAYS
was born in Mercer County, January 20, 1516, and is now engaged in the business of farming in Washington Township. He was married to Amanda Price, a native of Kentucky, by whom he has had two children.
THOMAS HUSTON,
a farmer of this township, was born in Licking County, Ohio, October 15, 1843, and was brought to this county in 1843. His post-office ad- dress is Skeel's Cross Roads.
JACOB SHUNK
was born in Mercer County June 3, 1851, and was raised and continues business as a farmer. On November 23, 1875, he was married to Laura Heiyne, who has given unto him a son.
PETER SHOOP
came to this county in 1875 from Pennsylvania. He married in same State, and has reared four children-two sons and two daughters.
GEBHARD FITZ
settled in the county in 1869.
RECOVERY TOWNSHIP.
This township is bounded north by Washington Township, cast by Butler and Granville Townships, south by Gibson Township, and west by Indiana. It is six miles from east to west, and has an average width from north to south of about four miles. The irregularity occurs on the south line, which follows the Greenville treaty line, as already de- scribed as the north line of Gibson Township.
Organization.
This township was organized May 5, 1531, commencing at the south- west corner of Mercer County ; thence north with the State line to the Wabash River at the mouth of Beaver Creek; thence up said creek, with the meanders thereof. to the east line of range number 2 : thence south with said range line to the south line of said county ; thenre west along the said south line of said county to the place of beginning.
This township contain- 12.276, att the corporation 2790 aeres, The valuation of the land in the township is $211,950; to which and for the corporation land, $66,100; buildings of the township, $12, 150 ; and of the corporation, 86300; arable kuul, Gif acres; 216 acres of pasture land, and 5349 wood land.
Election Statistics.
1880. Secretary of State, Charles Townsend (R.). 53; Wm. Lang (D.). 258; total, 291. President. James A. Garfield (R.), 56; W. S. Hancock (D.), 216; total, 802. Governor, Charles Foster (R.), 19; John W. Bookwalter ( D. 4 193.
Population, 1850, 1272.
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HISTORY OF VAN WERT AND MERCER COUNTIES, OHIO.
Early Land Entries.
See. สีลมเค.
Acres. Yrat. Ser.
Naine.
Acres, Yenr.
1 Gilmore Howell,
80 1837 13 Henry Burns,
1837
Alex. Gillespie.
120 :
Henry Seger, 80
Butrell Archer.
= Francis Mormon,
=
John Adupy, 44
1841
James Davis.
80
14 Anthony Bloom,
160
1837
Wmn. Huist.
40
John Wise,
160
4.
Jou, D. Smith,
80
10
1226
Wendell Doll,
100
=
2 Granville Parr,
Gilmore Howell. Patrick Thompson,
160
1837
Anthony Doll,
320
1936
Daniel V. Vallervall,
160
16
Jaties Stone.
160
1837
John H. Krockman,
40
=
Rammel Phipps,
..
John T. Smith.
80 =
Julin Phipps,
120
=
HI. Kramer,
40
160
1836
11. Davidson. 80
18 Anderson and Scott
80
80
58
1832
B. Hrudorf.
Bernd. Pardick,
80
4 Win. Delays,
40
Daniel Kerener.
120
20 P. Studebaker,
80
1831
Morand Basher,
25 John Grant,
124
1837
Jacob King.
120
=
26 John Ziier. Ales. Grant.
47
1838
John Vent-lman,
40
27 Alex. Grant,
11
37 1830
80
80
Jacob Wallenschneider,
80
5 John S. McDowell, 40 40
80
1836
Samuel Phipps,
80
John Runekle,
40
John S. MeDowell,
40
9 Joseph Miller, .
40
6 Richard Scott, Wm. Money
40
1:33
Ignatius Follard,
120
Richard Scott,
-10
1836
Geo. Trou!man.
160
Joseph C. Nickerson,
80
=
M. Bisher. Jr.,
160
I James MePowell,
80
1833
Jacob Miller,
80
14 Damel Jones
160
1:12
D. Gaske,
80
18 A. Tucker,
40
1836
Isadore Free.
120
=
19 John Miller,
40
1833
W. Rhincheart.
80
W. Knoob,
40
40 1835
11 James Houser,
320
1837
A. Tucker,
40
1×36
Daniel Jones,
160
D. Beardslee,
80
1-32
12 Wm. Downs,
320
20 M. Knoop.
80
1833
D. T. Hant,
40
John Brooks,
2-1)
1-35
H. Hewson,
21 Alex. Scott,
40
1834
W. Miller,
80
D. Adams.
2-0
1836
Eli AArcher.
40
=
22 Demas Adams,
160
13 Henry Hewsom.
2×0
=
23 Demas Adams,
640
1836
Henry Overbeck,
80
25 Alex. Grant,
80
1:35
FORT RECOVERY.
Recovery is laid out on the south part of west half of section 20. town 7 south. range I east, in county of Mercer. and adjoining the south line of the county. The line between Parke and Mercer counties being two rods south of south tier of lots, and forming the centre of an in- tended fourrod street, and marked on plat as Sidney Road. The town is laid out on the courses of lines noted from magnetic north. Sidney Road and Broad Street running south Si}- cast, agreeing with the course of the county line.
Main, St. Clair, and Oak Streets run north 912 east, and the lines of lots correspond with the course of the streets. Broad Street is five rods wide. Main, St. Clair, and Oak Streeta are cach four poles wide. Lots, numbered 1. 2. 3. 1. and 5, are each four poles wide, and extend from Main Street to the river. Length of lines being marked on plat in poles and link 4.
Lot4 6 to 21. inclusive, are each four rods wide and eight poles long. Lot là is eight poles square.
Lots 22 to 29. inclusive, are each five rods wide and eight long.
Lots 30 and 31 are euch eight poles wide and ten poles lonz.
Outlet number I extends to north end of Main Street and the river, and is bounded on the north and west by the Wabash and a bayou.
Out-let- 2 and S are bounded north by the river. The cause of other lines corresponds with the lines of the town : and the length of the lines of out-legs are marked on plant in poles and links ; also area in actes and hundredths marked on each out lot.
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