... There were born unto him [William G Sutton] and his excellent wife four sons and three daughters, of whom Daniel, the father of our subject, was the eldest. The latter was born in 1802, it is believed in New Jersey, or if not there, at the place where they first settled near Chillicothe, this State.
The father of our subject was a young child when he removed with his parents to Greene County, this State, and he assisted in the development of the home farm, remaining under the home roof until reaching his majority. He was then married in New Jasper Township to Miss Elizabeth Spahr.
This lady was born in Virginia in 1804, and was quite young when she accompanied her parents, Philip and Mary (Schick) Spahr, to Greene County, they settling south of the present site of Xenia. In Greene County they spent the remainder of their lives and both lived to be quite aged. Mr. Spahr died at the old homestead and his wife afterward died at the home of her son in Ross Township. Both were active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They reared a family of ten children and were among those whose names have always been held in kindly remembrance.
After their marriage Daniel Sutton and his wife commenced the journey of life together on a farm two miles north of the old Sutton homestead, on Caesar's Creek, where Mr. Sutton improved two hundred and twenty acres and gathered around himself and family many comforts. There his death occurred in 1860.
He was a prominent man in his community and looked upon as one of the best citizens in the county. Politically, he was a sound Republican, and in religion, a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Physically he was a powerful man, being considered the stoutest man in the county at that time.
His wife survived him a number of years and also died at the old homestead in 1884, being then eighty years old. She was a large-hearted Christian woman, kind and charitable in all her impulses and was one of the most active workers of the Methodist Episcopal Church. ...
