Early life and times in Boone County, Indiana, giving an account of the early settlement of each locality, church histories, county and township officers from the first down to 1886 ..Biographical sketches of some of the prominent men and women .. . nd stockholder; he is also one of our best farmers,owning at one time nearly one thousand acres of choice landin Union Township, eight miles east ofLebanon, where hehas resided many years, highly respected by all. Is a memberof the Regular Baptist Church. No man in the county standshigher than Mr. Shoemaker, one of the pioneers of UnionTownship. JO
Early life and times in Boone County, Indiana, giving an account of the early settlement of each locality, church histories, county and township officers from the first down to 1886 ..Biographical sketches of some of the prominent men and women .. . nd stockholder; he is also one of our best farmers,owning at one time nearly one thousand acres of choice landin Union Township, eight miles east ofLebanon, where hehas resided many years, highly respected by all. Is a memberof the Regular Baptist Church. No man in the county standshigher than Mr. Shoemaker, one of the pioneers of UnionTownship. JOHN SLOCUM, One of the jnoneers of Boone County, was born in HarrisonCounty, Va., May 22, 1803. Married to Sarah McCann, whowas born July 27, 1805. They were married May 18, first to Rush County, Ind., and remained there one April, 1830, they landed in Washington Township, onS[)ring Creek, where he owned a large tract of land, a part ofwhich he entered. He died July 3, 1866; Mrs. S. died Sep-tember 27, 1863; both are buried in Bethel Cemetery, nearwhere they first settled, and where their life was mostly spent,or the best days at least. Names of their children : Robert,born March 15, 1827, resides in Washington Township, and. C. F. S. NEAL. BOONE COUNTY, INDIANA. 369 is one of the best farmers and men in the county; owns 640acres of choice land six miles north of Lebanon; he wasmarried to iS^ancy J. Snodgrass; Sarah, deceased in Kansas,September, 1866; Thomas, born July 17, 1830, married toMartha Rose, resides in Knox County, Mo.; John, bornNovember 11, 1834, married to Eliza Taylor, resides in Jef-ferson Township; Margaret, born August 7, 1835, married toDavid Thornburg; she is deceased ; buried in the Bethel Cem-etery, in Washington Township; Mary J., married to WilliamLaiisbury, born November 28, 1841; Ann, born April 12,1846, died September, 1866, and is buried in Bethel Cemetery ;Rebecca, died in infancy; Harriet, born April 29, 1848, died^t the age of fiv
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