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Facts and Events
References
- ↑ JacksonTownship, in History of Wayne County, Indiana: together with sketches of its cities, villages and towns, educational, religious, civil, military, and political history, portraits of prominent persons, and biographies of representative citizens, history of Indiana and the Northwest Territory, embracing accounts of the prehistoric races, aborigines, Winnebago and Black Hawk Wars, and a brief review of its civil, political and military history (1884). (Chicago : Inter-state Pub., , 1884)
2:558.
Exum Elliott, farmer, section 20, was born on the farm where he now resides, Nov. 5, 1823, a son of Jacob and Mary (Pellee) Elliott. He attended the Bethel School, conducted by the Society of Friends, during the winter terms, and helped on the farm the remainder of the year. He has followed agricultural pursuits through life, and is still engaged in farming and stock-raising.
He was married in 1851 to Mary, daughter of Gideon and Catherine Myers, early settlers of Wayne County. Gideon Myers came to Indiana when about twenty-one years old, and started a tannery near Milton, Wayne County. Mr. and Mrs. Elliott have reared one child---Carrie Chappelle, wife of William L. Kimpner, of Dublin. They have an adopted daughter---Lizzie M., born Sept. 12, 1867, and taken from the Children's Home in Cincinnati, Ohio, when about two years old. She is at present attending school at Dublin. Mr. Elliott and wife are members of the Society of Orthodox Friends.
Our subject's father was born in August, 1793, and was married in 1811. He emigrated to Wayne County, Ind., in 1816, and in 1822 removed with his family to the tract of land now owned by our subject, where his wife died in 1853. They were the parents of twelve children, seven of whom survive---Absalom, Rhoda, Solomon, Catherine, Exum, Rachel and Mary. Jacob Elliott was again married in 1854 to Isabella Hawkins, widow of William Hawkins. Mr. Elliott died near Cambridge City, Ind., in 1869.
- Jackson Township, in History of Wayne County, Indiana: together with sketches of its cities, villages and towns, educational, religious, civil, military, and political history, portraits of prominent persons, and biographies of representative citizens, history of Indiana and the Northwest Territory, embracing accounts of the prehistoric races, aborigines, Winnebago and Black Hawk Wars, and a brief review of its civil, political and military history (1884). (Chicago : Inter-state Pub., , 1884)
2:563.
Joseph Gray was born Dec. 30, 1826, in Maryland, son of Joseph and Mary (Fairbank) Gray; they were also natives of Maryland. When about eight years of age his parents emigrated to Wayne County, Ind., settling on Simon's Creek, where his father followed farming till he moved to the town of Milton where he died. His wife died on Simon's Creek in 1874.
Joseph learned the trade of carriage making when about eighteen years of age, and in connection with his
older brother, James, worked at that occupation in Milton about six years. After his father's death he and his brother James bought the home farm, which they carried on some five years when he disposed of his interest to his brother and bought a farm south of Dublin where he was engaged in farming and dealing in stock about twenty-one years. He rented his farm in the spring of 1876, since which he has resided in Dublin. His farm contains 208 acres of valuable land which he has obtained by perseverance and industry.
He was married in 1855, to Elizabeth A., daughter of Gideon and Catherine Myers, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1804. Mr. Gray and wife have a family of four children---Mary M., Charles D., Joseph H. and Viola. Mr. and Mrs. Gray are members of the United Brethren church of Dublin.
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