John W. Finkbone was born in
Berks
County
, Pennsylvania, May 22,1832, and came to this county in 1842.
He is the son of John Finkbone and Susannah Smith., who was born in
Wirtemberg
,
Germany
, and was seventy-seven years of age at his death, John W.
Finkbone was married, November 24, 1853, to Elizabeth Long, daughter of
John B. Long and Delilah Ann McNealy. George McNealy, the grandfather,
was in the War of 1812, and was drowned in
Lake Erie
. Mr. and Mrs. Finkbone have had ten children. John W. was born
March 19, 1850; Mary E., February 2, 1858; Tobias L., February 26, I860;
Ezra A., July 6, 1862; Sarah Jane, January 3, 1865; George W., February
22, 1867; Jacob E., September 15, 1869; Susannah, January 6, 1873;
Mattie E., June 25, 1877; Amanda E., July 22, 1878. Mary E. and Jacob E,
are dead. Mr. Finkbone served as school director some nine years
consecutively. Ransom Freeman, his brother-in-law, was in the Eleventh
Illinois Regiment, and was at the battle of
Fort
Donelson
, where he received eighteen bullet-holes in his cap and clothes without
drawing blood. He was never in a hospital. Mrs. Finkbone's brother,
William
B. Long, served three years and eight months in the Ninety-third Ohio,
acting as teamster over two years.
Samuel Fouts, farmer and dealer in farm
implements, was born in
Montgomery
County
, July 24,1840. He is
the son of John Fouts and Mary Judy, and settled in this county in the
year 1862. He was married, October
10, 1861, to Mary Jane Williamson, who was born in this
county
December
1, 1843, and was the daughter of William Williamson and Ann E. Francis.
They have one child, Calvin C. Fouts, born January 18, 1863.
Mr. Fonts was in the hundred-days' service at
Baltimore
, Maryland.
O. F. Fleming was born in
Lemon
Township
, May 11,1837. He is the son of John Fleming and Catherine
Hoagland. He learned the trade of shoemaker when he was eighteen, and
has followed it all the time since, with the exception of about six
years, when he was employed at farming. He was constable in
Lemon
Township
, being elected in the Spring of 1864, for one term. He is now school
director, and has been for six years. During the war he was in the
hundred-days' service. He was married August 17, 1859, to Susan McCray,
daughter of Jesse McCray and Elizabeth Gebhart, and they have one child,
John H., born July 22,1860.
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