Person:Martha Noble (4)

Richard Henry Tyner was the son of Richard and Martha Sedgwick Willis Swift (Nobel) Tyner and was born in Brookville, Indiana, September 2, 1831, being one of twelve children. His father was a son of William E. Tyner, a pioneer Baptist preacher of Indiana, who had emigrated to this state from South Carolina and who built one of the first Baptist churches in the state, wouth of Brookville, in 1812. His wife, Elizabeth Hackleman, was an aunt of Pleasant A. Hackleman. Richard Tyner was one of the early settlers of Brookville, where he was an important factor in the business life of the community, conducting an extensive mercantile establishment. Afterwards he moved to Davenport, Iowa. His wife was a member of the Noble family that emigrated from Virginia to Kentucky, thence to Indiana. She was a daughter of Dr. Thomas Noble, a surgeon in the Revolutionary war, who was related to Richard Henry Lee, of Virginia, whence comes the name Richard Henry Tyner. She was a sister of James and Noah Noble. The latter was one of the first governors of Indiana, while James Noble was one of the first United States senators from this state, serving from 1816 to 1831, his death occurring the latter years in Washington. The ivory-headed cane carried by him while senator is now in the possession of Mr. and Mrs. Crecraft.

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...His wife, whom he married in Campbell Co, KY, 10/22/1823, was the daughter of
Dr. Thomas Noble, and was born 5/13/1803. Her family originally came from
Virginia. Mrs. Tyner was a sister of Governor Noble, of IN, and of General
James Noble, who for seventeen years was a US Senator from that State. Henry
Ward Beecher, when settled in Indianapolis, was an intimate friend of
Governor Noble; and it is worthy of mention that Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe,
while on a visit to her brother, saw the man who is said to have been the
original of her celebrated Uncle Tom. He was a slave known as "Black
Thomas", belonging to the Noble family of KY, who was then with Governor
Noble in Indiana." ...