History of Preble County, Ohio
Christian Siler came to Preble county before 1812, from Virginia. His wife was Margaret Groover. Ten children were born them, one only of whom is now living. Christian Siler, sr., the only surviving child of the above, was born in 1794, and in 1822 he married Hannah, daughter of John Niecum, an early settler of Dixon township. She was born in the year 1801. Eight children were born them, six of whom are now living. Mr. Siler owns a farm of eighty-one acres, about three miles east of Eaton, where he is living at the age of eighty-six years.
