. Biographical and genealogical history of Wayne, Fayette, Union and Franklin counties, Indiana .. . mber i, 1823. His parents were Newton andMary (Kerns) Claypool. His father, Newton Claypool, and his brother,Solomon Claypool, were sons of Abraham Claypool, a native of Hardycounty, Virginia, who went early to Ohio and settled in Ross county, whencein 1816 Newton and Solomon came to Indiana. The two brothers kept thetrading post at Connersville. In 1818 Newton went back to his old home inRoss county, Ohio, and was married January 8, that year, to Mary Kerns, adaughter of Benjamin and Sarah Ker
. Biographical and genealogical history of Wayne, Fayette, Union and Franklin counties, Indiana .. . mber i, 1823. His parents were Newton andMary (Kerns) Claypool. His father, Newton Claypool, and his brother,Solomon Claypool, were sons of Abraham Claypool, a native of Hardycounty, Virginia, who went early to Ohio and settled in Ross county, whencein 1816 Newton and Solomon came to Indiana. The two brothers kept thetrading post at Connersville. In 1818 Newton went back to his old home inRoss county, Ohio, and was married January 8, that year, to Mary Kerns, adaughter of Benjamin and Sarah Kerns and the first white child born in Rosscounty (1798). Kerns had come from Philadelphia and located nine milesfrom Chillicothe. He was the first to drive cattle across the mountains fromOhio to Philadelphia. In February after his marriage Newton Claypool returned with his young-wife to ConnersNille, where he opened a hotel with such accommodations aswere available. Granted the use of John Conners pioneer sawmill for thenight time, he sawed lumber of nights, and as soon as he could do so erected. j}^^;^ %Joio^fr^ BIOGRAPHICAL AND GENEALOGICAL HISTORY. 753 near the site of the present skating rink a hotel building, in one room ofwhich he kept a store. This building he occupied seventeen years. SoloinonClaypool, his brother, settled on a farm across the river from Connersville,and died there at the age of fifty-eight years. He never married. He said,when Newton brought his young wife to Connersville, that a man could notsupport a wife in that new country, and he would withdraw from their mutualinterests and farm by himself. This over-careful man was a success in hisown way. He acquired six hundred acres of fine farm land and considerableproperty in Connersville, but he was forced to admit that Newton could geton in the world and take good care of his wife, too. Newton Claypoolbecame the first treasurer of Fayette county, and represented Fayette andUnion counties in the state legi
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