History of Hendricks County, Indiana, her people, industries and institutions . d came to Indiana in March, 1851, locating a halfmile southwest of Danville, where he lived until his death, which occurredMarch 30, 1885. Ezra Scearce was a great student of the Bible, a consis-tent member of the Universalist church, and was a man of high ideals andof a philosophic bent of mind. Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Scearce were the parentsof seven children, only one of whom is living, George W. The six deceasedchildren are James, Elizabeth, John N., Johanna K., William W. and Curtis. George W. Scearce spent his boyh
History of Hendricks County, Indiana, her people, industries and institutions . d came to Indiana in March, 1851, locating a halfmile southwest of Danville, where he lived until his death, which occurredMarch 30, 1885. Ezra Scearce was a great student of the Bible, a consis-tent member of the Universalist church, and was a man of high ideals andof a philosophic bent of mind. Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Scearce were the parentsof seven children, only one of whom is living, George W. The six deceasedchildren are James, Elizabeth, John N., Johanna K., William W. and Curtis. George W. Scearce spent his boyhood on his fathers farm and receivedthe education which was accorded to the children of his county in the periodbefore the Civil War, which amounted to onlv a few months during the win-ter, and consisted of reading, writing and arithmetic. At an age when mostof the boys of the present time are in high school, he left school to enterthe army. When the war broke out he was only eighteen years of age, buthis youth did not interfere with his plans for serving his country. At the. GEORGE W. SCEARCE HENDRICKS COUNTY, INDIANA. 20I Opening of the war he enHsted in Company K, Fifty-first Regiment IndianaVolunteers, and served three years and two months. During that time hewas in thirty-one engagements, among the most famous battles in whichhe took part being Shiloh, Stones River, Perryville, Franklin and the battle of Nashville, on December i6, 1864, he received a gunshotwound in his left hip. He was a prisoner of war for a short time, and wasconfined at Belle Isle, in the James river, near Richmond, Virginia. Duringpart of his service his regiment was attached to General Streights brigadeand detailed to do field duty in destroying munitions of war and lines ofcommunication. His brother, William W., was also a soldier in the war andwas made a prisoner, being confined in the infamous Libby prison. He, incompany with three others, escaped from this in the tunnel which has bee
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