A biographical history of Fremont and Mills Counties, Iowa . so learned the carpenterstrade. In Johnson county, Indiana, he wasunited in marriage to Lucy Sellars. who wasborn in Kentucky and was a daughter ofSamuel Sellars. who served as a soldier inthe war of the Revolution and was presentat the time of Braddocks defeat. His wife,Mrs. Sarah Sellars, was of Scotch lineage,and in their family were two sons and sevendaughters. After his marriage RowlandT. Parkhurst engaged in carpentering andbuilding. Leaving the Hoosier state, he re-moved to Effingham county, Illinois, butafter a time returned
A biographical history of Fremont and Mills Counties, Iowa . so learned the carpenterstrade. In Johnson county, Indiana, he wasunited in marriage to Lucy Sellars. who wasborn in Kentucky and was a daughter ofSamuel Sellars. who served as a soldier inthe war of the Revolution and was presentat the time of Braddocks defeat. His wife,Mrs. Sarah Sellars, was of Scotch lineage,and in their family were two sons and sevendaughters. After his marriage RowlandT. Parkhurst engaged in carpentering andbuilding. Leaving the Hoosier state, he re-moved to Effingham county, Illinois, butafter a time returned to Indiana, where heremained until 1868, when he became a resi-dent of Vernon county, Missouri. In 1871he went to ]\Ierrick county, Nebraska, and in1875 to Fremont county, Iowa, where he isnow li\ing. His wife died in Hamburg,in 1878. at the age of sixty-two years,mourned 1)y her family and many had twelve children, nine of whomreached years of maturity, namely : CynthiaMay; Elijah N.; Mrs. Sarah Lampson;Rowland T., who died in Pulaski county,. Elijah N. Parkhurst, aged 61. John C. Parkhurst, aged T. Parkhurst, aged 82. Harry B. Parkhurst, aged 12. BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 563 Indiana; Mrs. Loni;-. of Ba^rtlett,Jowa: Reul)en of Seattle. Washington;]\Ir>. May, of St. Joseph. Missouri;]\lrs. Lucv C. Wood, of Kansas; and F. Lidell, of Denver, Colorado.^\illiam If., who was a well-known ])hysi-cian of Dunhar. .\el)raska. died leaving a\\idow and two children, who are now liv-ing- in I lanihnrg. Flijah X. Tarkhurst was reared in John-son county, Indiana, whither his family re-turned during his early boyhood, and therein the public schools he obtained his educa-tion. He learned the car])enters trade andin early life completed his prei)aration fora home of his own b} his marriage, on the29th of Xoveml)er, 1S59, in Brown county,Indiana, when nineteen years of age, to]i!lizabeth Grant Rairdon. who was born inBullitt county, Kentucky,
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