... Joseph A., who was born on January 9, 1821, and who was brought to Indiana, on horseback, at the age of six months, by his father and mother, Martin and Mary (Rankin) Logan, was married in 1842 to Mary Jane Straney, a native of Lexington, Kentucky, born on May 12, 1824. She died on May 26, 1888. They had eight children, of whom all are deceased, except Nathan M., the father of Mrs. Power. The deceased children were as follow :
- Mrs. Nancy M. May, born on March 9, 1844, died in 1909;
- Mrs. Mary A. Cork, October 14, 1845, died in 1911;
- Mrs. Margaret F. Manlove, August 13, 1847, died on August 5, 1889;
- John H., November 8, 1849, is deceased;
- Leander, February 9, 1853, died in 1911;
- William R., August 20, 1855, died in 1857;
- Luna A., October 23, 1865, died on January 3, 1891.
A hard worker and an industrious citizen, Joseph A. Logan resided on the farm, in the house he built in 1855, the greater part of his life, the only exceptions being short residences in Oxford and Rushville. In the latter years of his life he lived with his children. He died in 1913 at the age of ninety-four years. ...
... It was an interesting fact that the coming of the Martins, Kincaids and Logans to Decatur county was occasioned by the reports given by Uncle Billy Anderson, who returned from the battle of Tippecanoe to his home in Kentucky through Decatur county, and here saw the fine land, and told these Kentucky families about what he saw. ...
