The late Sutherland McCoy, public-spirited citizen and farmer, who owned at the time of his death three hundred and eighty-seven acres of fine farming land in Decatur county, was born, November 8, 1829, on the farm where the McCoy children are now living, and died, April 5, 1906. He was the son of Andra, who the son of Daniel, the son of William, was born, December 20, 1789, at Wheeling Creek, Virginia, and who moved to Nicholas county, Kentucky, in 1791, and to Decatur county, Indiana, in 1823. A splendid farmer and a good mechanic, as well as a pioneer horse breeder, he settled on the farm where his grandson and granddaughter now live. On January 15, 1818, Andra McCoy was married in Kentucky to Margaret Hopkins, who was born, September 29, 1793, and who died, August 27, 1851. Andra, himself, died, July 14, 1871. His wife taught the first Sabbath school in Fugit township at Mt. Carmel. This school probably was the first ever conducted in Decatur county. She was the mother of nine children, Columbus, George W., John H., Kate, Parthena E., the wife of David L. Miller, Sutherland, Benjamin M., Amanda and Justus Barton.

The present residence of the McCoys on the old McCoy homestead, which is a substantial and attractive dwelling, was built by Sutherland McCoy, Andra having built and lived in a log house. The latter, who was a strong man, an industrious worker and an enterprising citizen, was eminently respected during his day and generation by the people of Decatur county, and being elected as a county commissioner of this county in 1853, served thereafter a term of six years.

The late Sutherland McCoy, who was the seventh child born to his parents, Andra and Margaret (Hopkins) McCoy, pioneers of this county, crossed the plains to the Pacific coast in 1852, shortly after reaching his majority, proceeding with a company of sixty-three men from Shasta Valley, to which place they had gone to drive back the Indians. After being actively engaged for a period of thirty-three days, during which the party participated in many thrilling exploits, they returned with only twenty-seven of the original party of sixty-three men, thirty-six having been killed and wounded. Sutherland McCoy himself was wounded in the neck by an Indian arrow.

At the outbreak of the Civil War, Sutherland McCoy responded to one of the early calls for volunteers and enlisted in Company G, Seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry. During the war he was engaged in many severe battles, among which were those of South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Rappahannock, Gettysburg, Thorough Gay, Mine Run, etc.

Returning from the war, Sutherland McCoy settled down to the peaceful pursuit of agriculture, and about ten years after the close of the Civil War was married, May 25, 1875, to Priscilla Kincaid, who was born, October 1, 1847, in Decatur county, Indiana. Four children were born to bless this marriage, one of whom, the third child, Mary J., who was born, June 5, 1883, died, September 5, 1899. Of the three living children, Ella was born May 5, 1877. Amanda, who was born, January 27, 1880, was married, March 13, 1901, to Clyde William Kitchin, who was born in January, 1879, in Decatur county, Indiana. They now reside on a farm in Rush county, Indiana, and have five children, May Florence, born December 10, 1901; Martha Amanda, born November 5, 1903; Ruth and Ruby, twins, born June 4, 1907, and Clara Margaret, November 4, 1913. John Andra, the youngest child of Sutherland and Priscilla McCoy, was born, April 14, 1887, and after graduating from the Clarkshurg high school, April 13, 1904, took up farming on the old homestead, and so far as a son is able to follow in the footsteps of a worthy father, John Andra is doing this.

For almost a half century the late Sutherland McCoy was one of the leaders of the Democratic party of Decatur county. His judgment as an organization man was admitted to be of a superior order, and, possessed as he was of a genial and cordial manner, he was able to rely for his strength upon his own personality. Between 1882 and 1886 he served as county commissioner of Decatur county, filling the same office his father had so well filled before, him. Religiously, the McCoys are devout members of the Springhill Presbyterian church. The late Sutherland McCoy, who was a member of the Clarksburg Masonic lodge, took a great interest in the welfare of this order.

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"History of Decatur County, Indiana"
Lewis A. Harding
B. F. Bowen & Co.
Indianapolis, Indiana
published in 1915.

Charles W. Woodward, who has been connected with the Citizens National Bank since 1879, a period of thirty-six years, was appointed assistant cashier on January 14, 1890, and cashier on January 8, 1901, and since then the career of Mr. Woodward has been identified with this bank, a period including practically his entire active life. This bank has a capital of one hundred thousand dollars, average deposits of three hundred thousand dollars and surplus and undivided profits of fifty thousand dollars. Mr. Woodward not only has been connected with the Citizens National Bank for thirty-six years, but he has lived in Greensburg all his life, with the exception of his youth, which was spent at Adams, Decatur county, Indiana.

Charles W. Woodward was born on July 18, 1854, at Greensburg, Indiana, the son of Isaac L. and Christe Ann (Jackson) Woodward, the former of whom was born in Kentucky on June 3, 1830, and who died on November 1, 1914, and the latter of whom was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the daughter of William Jackson, a pioneer citizen of Decatur county, and a native of Virginia. Isaac L. was a son of Charles Woodward, who settled on a farm west of Greensburg in 1832, eventually became a druggist and merchant at Adams, in this county, afterwards becoming a gardener before he retired from active life, when he removed to Greensburg, Indiana. He was a veteran of the Civil War, having served in Company G, Seventy-sixth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, for thirty days. He was a Republican in politics, and was identified with the Baptist church. His wife, who is now deceased, was a daughter of a pioneer farmer, who came from his native state of Virginia to Cincinnati in an early day, later coming to Decatur county, where he was a farmer in the pioneer days. He died in Greensburg after a long and useful life.

Charles William Woodward was reared at Adams, the eldest of a family of ten children, three who died in infancy, the others, who live at Greensburg, Indiana, being Frank, a drayman; Mrs. George W. Magee, the wife of a dry goods merchant; Mrs. F. R. Christman, whose husband is a merchant; Ion L., a merchant; Mrs. James Porter, who lives on a farm three miles from that place, and Mrs. D. A. West, the wife of a merchant.

Charles W. Woodward received his education in the schools of Adams, and was one of the first bookkeepers for the Greensburg Woolen Mills, having worked for Arthur Hutchinson for two years. Later he became a clerk for John Emmert, and a bookkeeper in a grain elevator for two and one-half years, after which he also spent six months working in a grocery store. Entering the Citizens National Bank as a bookkeeper on May 26, 1879, his rise to the position of assistant cashier in 1890, and to that of cashier in 1901, has already been related.

Mr. Woodward was married on May 12, 1880, to Candas Coy, who was a native of Greensburg, and a daughter of Matthew Coy, a pioneer resident of Greensburg, now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Woodward are the parents of one son, Arthur Coy, born on August 18, 1890, is now a student at Cornell University, of Ithaca, New York. He is a graduate of the Greensburg high school, and also of DePauw University. At Cornell he is taking an engineer course. Arthur C. Woodward was married to Hazel Ayres, of Greencastle, Indiana, and they are now living in Ithaca.

Identified as he is with one of the leading financial institutions of Greensburg and Decatur county, Mr. Woodward is, of course, well known to the people of this county. As a banker he has had no small part in its growth and prosperity, and it may be truly said that as cashier of this institution he enjoys the confidence not only of the board of directors and officers, but also of the patrons of the bank, with whom he is exceedingly popular.

"History of Decatur County, Indiana"
Lewis A. Harding
B. F. Bowen & Co.
Indianapolis, Indiana
published in 1915.

The late Dr. Sherman B. Hitt, who was born on January 15, 1854, in Louisville, Kentucky, and who died, September 25, 1911, in Greensburg, was the son of Dr. John Y. Hitt, himself a well-known physician in two states. Dr. Sherman B. Hitt's mother was, before her marriage, Martha Ann Logan and was the daughter of Samuel Logan, one of the earliest of the pioneers of Decatur county, who came here with Thomas Ireland, whose life work is referred to repeatedly in this volume.

John Y. Hitt was born in Sullivan, Illinois, and was the son of Joel and Sarah Hitt, the former of whom, a farmer by occupation, was born on November 7, 1798, and who lived and died in the state of Kentucky, where he was a large landowner and slaveholder. His family is of English origin. Joel Hitt was one of a family of ten children, there being seven sons and three daughters. He was married in 1817. After practicing his profession for a number of years at Sullivan, Illinois, the late Dr. John Y. Hitt came to Greensburg to live about 1901, and died there on April 11, 1914. He and his wife, Martha Anne (Logan) Hitt had two children, Joel and Dr. Sherman B.

Sherman B. Hitt was educated for his profession at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he spent four years at one of the post-graduate institutions of Berlin, Germany. After practicing his profession for five years in Cincinnati, Ohio, he came to Greensburg, Indiana, and here he built up a large and profitable practice and was highly esteemed and widely honored not only by his fellows in the medical profession, but by the public generally.

Dr. Sherman B. Hitt was married, May 9, 1895, to Mary S. Smith, a daughter of John H. and Mary Jane (Parant) Smith, the former of whom was a native of Jefferson county, Indiana, and one of a large family.

Beginning life on a farm he became a successful farmer and owned a large tract of land in Decatur county. During the latter years of his life he lived in Columbus, Indiana, and died in that city. Mrs. Mary (Smith) Hitt was educated in the common and high schools of Decatur county and at Notre Dame University, located near South Bend, Indiana. She is a woman not only of wide information and of rare native intelligence, but a woman of refined and cultured habit, one who is popular in the social life of this city. As the result of her marriage to the late Sherman B. Hitt, one daughter, Gladys, was born on May 9, 1896, in Greensburg. Miss Hitt was educated in the common schools of Decatur county, and later pursued her academic work at Moores Hill College. Finally she entered the conservatory of music at Cincinnati and was a student there for three years, during which she completed the regular four years' course in vocal and instrumental music. Miss Hitt is a young woman of prominence in musical and social circles in the city of Greensburg.

Although the work of the late Dr. Sherman B. Hitt is finished, his influence goes on not only in the life of the members of his family, but also in the larger community where his work was done, since he was a man in whom the public placed implicit trust and confidence.

"History of Decatur County, Indiana"
Lewis A. Harding
B. F. Bowen & Co.
Indianapolis, Indiana
published in 1915.

Mr. Ford is a veteran of the Civil War, having enlisted on President Lincoln's first call for volunteers on April 14, 1861. He served in Company F, Seventh Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, for three months and was engaged in the first battle on Cheat river, where the first rebel general was killed. Upon his second enlistment, September 9, 1861, he became a soldier in Company E, Thirty-seventh Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and served for three years. During this period he served under Capt. M. C. Conett, and Col. George W. Hazard, a brutal officer who was cashiered, and thereafter was succeeded by Colonel Gazely, who was also cashiered. He was succeeded by Colonel Hull, who was wounded, and who was succeeded by Colonel Ward, now an attorney at Versailles. The principal engagements in which Mr. Ford served were the battles of Stone's River, Chickamauga, siege of Atlanta, and many skirmishes and minor battles. He was mustered out of service, October 4, 1864.

After the war, Mr. Ford returned hoe to Decatur county, and farmed in Washington township for one year, and then farmed near Peru, Indiana, for about seven years. Subsequently, he engaged in railroading as express messenger and baggage man on the Wabash railroad for thirty-five years. In 1912, he retired, and in October of that year removed to Greensburg, where he has since been living.

In 1868, Mr. Ford was first married to Louisiana Isabelle Johnson, of Decatur county, the daughter of William P. Johnson, an early settler of the county, who bore him one child, Dr. Walter D. Ford, a well-known physician of Detroit, Michigan, who married Clara M. Dean. Mr. Ford lived in Detroit during his long service on the railroad.

On October 17, 1912, Mr. Ford was again married to Mrs. Elizabeth Ann (Guest) Perry, of Decatur county, who was born on November 14, 1843, in Clay township, and is the daughter of John and Elizabeth (Branson) Guest, natives of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, respectively, who first settled in Ohio, and from Ohio came to Indiana in the late thirties.

John and Elizabeth (Branson) Guest have nine children: Thomas, born on March 18, 1827; Hannah, January 5, 1829, and died on June 14, 1869; David, March 28, 1831, and died on October 23, 1855; Stephen, June 6, 1833, died on July 26, 1847; Sarah, August 24, 1835, married Dr. Wooden; Mary, May 17, 1838, died on October 12, 1852; Moses, November 16, 1840, died on August 24, 1853; Elizabeth A., November 14, 1843, is the present wife of Mr. Ford; Louisa J., October 27, 1846.

Elizabeth (Branson) Guest, the wife of John Guest and the mother of the above named children, was a daughter of David and Sarah (Antrim) Branson. The Antrim family was a very famous family, not only in this country, but abroad. The first of the Antrims to settle in this country was John Antrim, who received a large grant of land from the English king. James, the direct ancestor of Mrs. Ford, and a brother of John, purchased land from him. The family was originally of Irish extraction, and probably belonged to the landed gentry class of County Antrim, Ireland. They, as well as the Bransons, were Quakers. A genealogical history of the family has been issued by people at Burlington, New Jersey. An old Friends church built in the blockhouse at High street, Burlington, was the house of worship of the Antrims of that city. James Antrim, a brother of John Antrim, heretofore referred to, came to America from England, and settled in Mansfield township, New Jersey, some time between 1678 and 1680. His son, James, had a son, James, whose daughter, Sarah, was born on October 7, 1764, and who died, July 23, 1821. She married David Branson, heretofore referred to.

Mrs. Lafayette Ford was first married to William S. Perry, who was born in Decatur county, 1833, and who died, April 10, 1911.

A Republican in politics, the venerable Lafayette Ford is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and a member of Zion Lodge No. I, Free and Accepted Masons, of Detroit, Michigan. His career has been long and honorable, and he is glad to spend his last clays in the county of his birth, where his early friendships were formed, and where lived many people whom he dearly loved. In some respects Mr. Ford's life has appeared to be a charmed one. During his valiant service as a soldier in the Civil War, he received seven bullet holes in his clothing, but was never wounded. In fact, these entire seven narrow escapes were all incidents of the battle of Stone's River. Moreover, he took part in the one hundred and four days of continuous fighting from Chattanooga to Atlanta, and here he also escaped.

Mr. and Mrs. Ford are splendid people, intelligent, well informed, sociable and hospitable. Both are well preserved and enjoy the best of health.

"History of Decatur County, Indiana"
Lewis A. Harding
B. F. Bowen & Co.
Indianapolis, Indiana
published in 1915.

Mr. Turner has been well prepared for the practice of law. Aside from graduating from the public schools of Greensburg and from the Greensburg high school in 1900, he pursued for four years an academic course at DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, and received the degree of Bachelor of Arts from this institution. After graduating from DePauw in 1904 he entered Harvard University in the fall of that year, and for three years was a student of the law department, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1907. Hundreds of young men enter the Harvard law school every year, but comparatively few of them remain to graduate, on account of the very high standard of the institution. It is impossible for the derelict or the stupid, or for the brilliant young man who refuses or declines to study, to get a diploma from this institution, and it is a mark of distinction to any young man that he holds a diploma from the Harvard law school, for practically half of the freshman class is dropped at the end of the first semester, because of failure to maintain the standard of studentship required by this institution.

The firm of Treemain & Turner within a comparatively brief period has built up an extensive practice, not only in Decatur county, but in the courts of other counties adjoining Decatur, and in the state and federal courts as well. Rollin A. Turner is not only a profound student of the law, well learned in legal principles and well informed in present day jurisprudence, but he is what is commonly called a successful practitioner in court, and his success has been builded upon careful and painstaking study of the minutest details involved in every case presented to him. He never goes into the court room unprepared, and his habits in this particular are not difficult to explain. Careful and methodical work was required of him during the time he was a student of the law.

Rollin A. Turner was born, July 26, 1881, at Laurel in Franklin county, Indiana, the son of the Rev. J. W. and Lizzie (Woodfill) Turner, the former of whom was a native of Indiana, and the latter of whom was a daughter of William S. Woodfill, one of the pioneer citizens ancl business men of Decatur county. Of Rollin Turner's ancestry it may be said, that the Rev. J. W. Turner was a son of Rev. Isaac Turner, one of the pioneer Methodist ministers of southeastern Indiana, and himself a native of England, whose wife was Alice Turner, and who came to America in 1854. The Rev. J. W. Turner, who now resides on a farm in Decatur county, spent thirty years in the ministry of the Methodist church, retiring in 1905, and locating on his present farm. He was born, August 11, 1857, in Dearborn county, Indiana, and was graduated from Moores Hill College with the class of 1878, receiving, later, the degree of Master of Arts and Doctor of Divinity. He was married in 1880 to Lizzie Woodfill. During his career as a minister, he was located at the Trinity church, of Madison, Indiana, the Irvington church, at Indianapolis, the Trinity church at Louisville, the Trinity church at Evansville, and, finally, was presiding elder of the Evansville district, and pastor of St. Paul's church at Rushville when he retired.

Of the mother of Rollin Turner, who, before her marriage to Rev. J. W. Turner, was Lizzie Woodfill, it may be said that she is the daughter of William S. and Sarah A. (Talbot) Woodfill, the latter of whom was the daughter of H. H. Talbot, the first clerk of Decatur county. William S. and Sarah (Talbot) Woodfill had four children, Elizabeth, who married the Rev. Mr. Turner, was the eldest. The others are, William Wirt, of Greensburg; Harry Talbot, who is superintendent of the Greensburg gas and electric plant, and Web Woodfill, secretary and treasurer of the Greensburg Gas and Electric Company. William S. Woodfill passed away, July 25, 1899, and his wife, the mother of Mrs. J. W. Turner, died, October 31, 1895. The former was born in Owen county, Kentucky, November 16, 1825, and was the son of Gabriel and Eleanor (Pullam) Woodfill, of Welsh and English extraction, the Woodfill family having been established in Pennsylvania in early colonial days. The Rev. Gabriel Woodfill, the great-grandfather of William S. Woodfill, emigrated from Pennsylvania to Kentucky, and moved from Shelby county, Kentucky, to Jefferson county, Indiana, where he spent the remainder of his life. He was a minister in the Methodist church in Kentucky and Indiana, and a man of large influence in the pioneer communities. Andrew Woodfill, the son of Rev. Gabriel Woodfill, and the grandfather of William S. Woodfill, was born in Pennsylvania, and spent most of his life at Madison, Indiana, where he entered government land, and where he was married to a Miss Mitchell. He and his wife had twelve children, eight of whom lived to maturity. Gabriel Woodfill, one of the sons of Andrew Woodfill, and the father of William S. Woodfill, was born in Shelby county, Kentucky, in 1800, and though he emigrated from Kentucky to Indiana with his parents, he later returned to Kentucky and there was a farmer and tavern keeper. He came to Greensburg, Indiana, November 16, 1830, and here during his life took a prominent part in the financial and commercial life of Decatur county, subsequently establishing a general mercantile store, which has been under the management of the Woodfill family for almost a century. Gabriel Woodfill's first wife was Eleanor Pullam, who bore him three children, Andrew, William S., the father of Mrs. J. W. Turner, and Mary, who married Henry Christian. Upon the death of his first wife, Gabriel Woodfill married Elizabeth Van Pelt, daughter of Joseph Van Pelt, and there were three children by this second union, James M., John, deceased, and Catherine, the wife of Rev. James Crawford. The store with which William S. Woodfill became associated in 1825, after his death was operated under the name of W. S. Woodfill's son, and is now under the individual management of W. W. Woodfill.

The Rev. J. W. and Mrs. Elizabeth (Woodfill) Turner have had seven children: Rollin A, the subject of this sketch, is the eldest; Sarah married Louis C. Uhl, of Huntingburg; Lieut. William W. Turner, of the United States navy, is stationed at Annapolis, Maryland; Harry D., James W., Jr., Rachel and Welwirt live on the home farm.

Rollin A. Turner was married, June 1, 1910, to Lillian Hill, of Greensburg, the daughter of W. J. and Lillian Hill, old residents of Greensburg. The former, a native of Ireland, is a traveling salesman for Young, Smythe, Field & Company, of Philadelphia, and has resided in Greensburg for the past thirty-five years. He is a well-to-do and substantial citizen, who has extensive property interests in real estate and business blocks in this city.

In 1914, Rollin A. Turner was nominated by the fourth district convention as the Republican candidate for congress in this district. Although he made a most vigorous fight, the fourth district is strongly Democratic, and Mr. Turner was defeated, but he is, today, one of the leaders of the Republican party in the fourth district, and is one of the counsellors of the party in state politics. Mr. Turner is a member of the Centenary Methodist Episcopal church, of Greensburg, while Mrs. Turner is a member of St. Mary's Catholic church. Fraternally, he is a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, the Knights of Pythias and the Fraternal Order of Eagles. At college. Mr. Turner was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Greek letter fraternity, as well as other Greek letter societies, local in their membership.

"History of Decatur County, Indiana"
Lewis A. Harding
B. F. Bowen & Co.
Indianapolis, Indiana
published in 1915.

Of the many retired farmers living in Greensburg, Indiana, who have been successful in their life's vocation, mention must be made of Joseph Patterson, a native of County Antrim, Ireland, who was born on July 12, 1839, the son of Roger and Mary Jane (Hall) Patterson.

Roger Patterson, after immigrating to America, in 1845, to find a home for his family, located in Clinton township, Decatur county, Indiana, where he rented land for a short time, and, in 1847, the family, consisting of a wife and two sons, John and Joseph, joined the husband and father. Roger Patterson died when he was thirty-seven years old, in 1855, leaving a wife and two children, who, at that time, were living in Clinton township. John was killed in the second battle of Bull Run. The mother, who was married again to Michael Ryan, had three children by the second marriage, Mrs. Sallie Meek, William and Mrs. Katie Lanham, all of whom are living at Greensburg, Indiana. The mother of these children died at an advanced age.

During the Civil War, hogs sold for a considerable period for ten dollars a hundredweight, and it was during this time that the venerable Joseph Patterson purchased his farm of one hundred and sixty acres. He raised a great many hogs, and, being successful with them, was soon able to pay for his land. Beginning with nothing, he took advantage of the opportunities offered and soon made good, prior to which time he had rented and for several years in Clinton township. His farm is now well improved and very valuable. In 1905 Mr. Patterson moved to Greensburg.

In September, 1857, when he was eighteen years old, Joseph Patterson was first married to Mary Bird, the daughter of William and Maria Bird, natives of Kentucky and Virginia, respectively, who moved to Decatur county, Indiana, in the late twenties. They reared a family of eight children: Harvey, who married Sarah Lowe; Mrs. Martha Anna Johnson; Benjamin, who married a Miss Small; Henry, who married a Miss Davidson; Edwin, who married Charlotte Powers; Harriett, the wife of William Sefton; Mary, the wife of a Mr. Patterson, and Minerva, who first married Jacob Hickman and had four children, Luna, William, deceased; Martha, the wife of Charles S. Reed, who lives in Washington township, and Mrs. Ottawa Baumgarten, who lives in Greensburg. Mrs. Mary Patterson was born on July 31, 1839, and died on May 1, 1908. Four years after her death, Mr. Patterson was again married to Minerva, the sister of his first wife, the marriage taking place on December 9, 1912.

To Joseph and Mary (Bird) Patterson were born seven children, all of whom are stilling living, Mrs. Maria Jane Robison, who lives near Adams and has one child, Millicent; Harriet Elizabeth, who is the wife of J. L. Hamilton and has one child, Cora; Mrs. Nora Olive Ford, who lives at Greensburg and has one child, Mary; John William, of Clinton township, who married Lou Hazelrigg and has three sons, William, Van and Daniel; James, who married Margaret Goddard and lives on the old home place; Charles, of near Adams, who married Dessa Guthrie and has one child, Charles Guthrie, and Mrs. Ina Anderson, of Greensburg. Mr. Patterson died on May 19, 1915, at the age of seventy-six years.

Although Mr. Patterson was a Republican all of his life, in 1912 he voted the Democratic national ticket, supporting the Democratic candidate, now the President of this country, Woodrow Wilson. Mr. and Mrs. Patterson are members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Greensburg.

"History of Decatur County, Indiana"
Lewis A. Harding
B. F. Bowen & Co.
Indianapolis, Indiana
published in 1915.

Alexander and Prudence (Armstrong) McCoy had nine children, the names of whom follow in the order of their birth: William M. McCoy, the subject of this sketch, was the eldest child born to his parents and first saw the light of day at Salem, in Washington county, Indiana; Leander Aretas, who was born on March 14, 1834, died on August 7, 1900; Sarepta, June 20, 1836, married William Franklin Cox, a soldier in the Civil War, and they lived at Montrose, Illinois, both are deceased; Daniel Judson, August 8, 1839, was killed in the battle of the Wilderness; James Burney, August 8, 1839, a twin of Daniel Judson, died on October 17 of the same year; Philonadus, June 3, 1843, deceased, lived in Indianapolis, Indiana; Orpheus, January 8, 1846, died on March 3, 1904; Milissa, March 29, 1849, died on July 17, 1851; Cassius C., July 25, 1852, lives at Greensburg, Indiana. Two children, therefore, out of this family of nine, are still living.

Alexander McCoy, who, for the purpose of this sketch, may be designated Alexander II., was the son of Alexander McCoy I., the latter of whom was born in Scotland, in 1753, and who married Nancy Campbell, in 1780, eight years after coming to this country. He and his wife had six children born in Pennsylvania, and five children born in Kentucky. Those born in Pennsylvania were John C. William, Daniel, Angus C., Margaret and Alexander. In 1794, the family removed to Bourbon county, Kentucky, and after their removal, there were born, Jane, Mary, George, James and Campbell.

Alexander McCoy I. was the son of William McCoy, the founder of the family in America, who was born in Sutherlandshire, Scotland, in 1730, and emigrated to America, settling on the east shore of Maryland in 1772, and later removed to Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania. His remains are buried at Ruddles Mills cemetery in Bourbon county, Kentucky.

William Martin McCoy, the subject of this sketch, was married on November 2, 1871, to Mary Jane Jones, who was born on December 25, 1844, in Cincinnati, and who is the daughter of Roland and Catherine (Hughes) Jones, natives of Wales, who came to this country from Cardingshire before their marriage in 1840. They lived in Cincinnati, Ohio, where the father was a stationary engineer, and where he lived and died. He was born in 1820, and died in October, 1875. His wife, who, before her marriage, was Catherine Hughes, was born in 1822, and died in 1850. They had three children, John, of Bellevue, Kentucky; Mrs. Mary Jane McCoy, and Mrs. Elizabeth Evans, of Hyde Park, Cincinnati.

To Mr. and Mrs. William M. McCoy have been born three children, Minnie Prudence, Ralph Evans and Robert. Of these children Minnie was born on October 10, 1872, and married Carl Hendrick, who was born on November 22, 1870. They had three children, Ralph, who was born on November 12, 1899; William Boland, December 11, 1901, and Rose Eualine, October 29, 1904, at Terre Haute, Indiana. They reside in Indianapolis; Ralph Evans, who was born on June 20, 1878, lives on the home farm east of Greensburg. He married Daisy Barnes and they have one child, William Frederick; Robert, who was born on April 16, 1880, was a civil engineer until his death, October 30, 1914.

After his marriage, Mr. McCoy settled at McCoy Station, where he rented one hundred and forty acres of land for two years. At the end of this period he purchased one hundred and sixty acres near Kingston, and lived there for nearly two years, when he moved to another farm one and one-half miles southeast of Greensburg, consisting of ninety-six acres of well-improved land. In September, 1914, Mr. and Mrs. McCoy removed to Greensburg.

William M. McCoy is a Republican in politics, and Mr. and Mrs. McCoy are both members of the Presbyterian church, as are the other members of their family. They are well known and highly respected not only in Greensburg, but in Decatur county.

"History of Decatur County, Indiana"
Lewis A. Harding
B. F. Bowen & Co.
Indianapolis, Indiana
published in 1915.

The popular and efficient cashier of the Greensburg National Bank is descended from an old family of this section, his grandfather, Dan S. Perry, having settled in Washington township, Decatur county, in 1824. Here he purchased land, and after clearing a small tract, erected a log cabin. Dan S. Perry, who was a soldier in the War of 1812, and who had moved from the ancestral home in Virginia to the state of Kentucky, was the son of Frederick Perry, a member of the personal body-guard of General Washington during the Revolutionary War. Dan S. Perry is, therefore, descended from Revolutionary ancestry and is himself of militant and patriotic stock. Born in July, 1873, on a farm in Decatur county, Dan S. is the son of Leonard and Cinderella (Boyce) Perry, the former a native of Kentucky, who had come with his father, Dan S. Perry, Sr., from Kentucky to Washington township, Decatur county, in 1824, and the latter of whom was a native of Indiana, and reared in Decatur county. Leonard Perry, who lived on the ancestral farm for sixty years, was born in 1824, and died in February, 1909. His wife, who died in 1873, left a family of nine children, as follow: Dina P. Craig, of Greensburg; Will L. and Louisa, of Greensburg; Squire D., who lives on a farm east of Greensburg; George S., who lives on the old home place; Mrs. Chester Edkins, of Greensburg; Allen M. and Pierce, deceased, and Dan S., the subject of this sketch.

Dan S. Perry during his youth and early manhood enjoyed the educational advantages which the schools of Decatur county afforded. After having finished the course in the country schools, he attended Greensburg high school, and when eighteen years old became a student in one of the leading Cincinnati business colleges. After finishing the course in the business college, he returned to Greensburg and studied law in the office of D. A. Miers for six years. Two years of this period he served as court stenographer. Upon the organization of the Greensburg National Bank, in 1900, Mr. Perry became assistant cashier, and four years later succeeded to the office of cashier, a position which he has held ever since, a period of eleven years.

Mr. Perry was married on November 30, 1893, to Elsie Russell, daughter of Richard Russell, of Decatur county. Mr. and Mrs. Perry have had one son, Russell Myers, who is now twenty years old, and who is a student in the American School of Osteopathy at Kirksville, Missouri.

A Republican in politics, Dan S. Perry has never been prominent in political work, although he has always maintained a keen interest in good government and in the election of capable men in public office. Fraternally, he is a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

As a banker, Dan S. Perry is regarded as a man with few peers and no superiors in Decatur county. The growth and present prosperous condition of the Greensburg National Bank are due to the wise and efficient management of its board of directors and especially its officers. Mr. Perry has never been found wanting in any test which has been imposed upon him. He has safe-guarded the interests of the bank, and at the same time his cordial relations with the patrons of the bank have brought substantial increases in business year by year. Honorable and upright in all of the relations of life, private and public, he possesses the confidence of the people and. enjoys their respect as a private citizen.

"History of Decatur County, Indiana"
Lewis A. Harding
B. F. Bowen & Co.
Indianapolis, Indiana
published in 1915.

The Fugit family was one of considerable achievements and note in the pioneer history of Decatur county, several members of the family having held important positions of trust and responsibility. Judge John Fugit, who had been a justice of the peace in Franklin county before his removal to Decatur county, or what was then called the "New Purchase," brought with him his commission and docket and acted as justice of the peace up to the time the county was organized, when he was elected one of the first associate justices of the circuit court. In 1825, the Fugits moved to Turner's Corner in Clay township, where they lived until 1839, when John Fugit moved to Milford, where he died in 1844.

It was a daughter of John Fugit, Mary (Fugit) Garrison, the mother of the late Joseph W. Garrison, who was known during her time, as "the washerwoman for all Decatur county," there having been at this time only three families in the whole county. The Fugits were noted not only for the important positions of trust and responsibility which they held in the early history of the county, but they were also noted for being the tallest family in this county, each member averaging over six feet in height. The children of David and Polly (Fugit) Garrison were John Q. A., Silas W., James L. F., Isaac N., Joseph W., Jesse F., Benjamin F. and David G.

Four children among the six sons and three daughters born to Judge John Fugit and wife, are: Mrs. Mary Garrison; Isaac W., of St. Paul, Minnesota; Mrs. Rachel McCallister, of Windfall; Mrs. Celia Wilson, of Boone county, Indiana, and James, of Greensburg. These children are deceased as are the remainder of the family.

The late Joseph W. Garrison, who was born on January 19, 1838, and died in December, 1909, served three years in Company H, Thirty-seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry. Among the severe battles in which he was engaged, were those of Stone's River, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Peachtree Creek, Chattanooga, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Kenesaw Mountain and Picket Hill. He was also engaged in the Atlanta campaign and in many minor engagements. Becoming sick in the latter part of the war, he was assigned to the commissary department and was thus connected when he was mustered out of the service.

On February 16, 1865, just after the close of the Civil War, Mr. Garrison was married to Martha E. Tanner, who was born on February 15, 1840, and who recently celebrated her seventy-fifth birthday, the neighbors gathering at her home in large numbers. Mrs. Garrison was born in Washington township and is the daughter of Simpson and Callie Mattie (McGannon) Tanner, natives of Virginia and Kentucky, respectively, who came to Decatur county in 1835. Her father died in Greensburg, Indiana. They had several children: James Elza, Lucy Jane, Ira, Mary, .Maria and Zachariah, twins; Annabel and Laura Belle, twins; Lucius, Achsa, Sara E. Simpson Tanner had been twice married. Mrs. Garrison's half-sister, Mrs. Sophia Deere, lives at Franklin, Indiana.

After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Garrison lived for one year on the Tanner farm and then on the David Garrison farm for two years, after which they rented Mr. Garrison's brother's farm for one year and then purchased a farm of their own in Washington township, where they lived for three years. Eventually, they sold their farm and purchased the one where Caleb Wright now lives, living here for several years, when they moved to Greensburg, where they lived for twenty-one years. The present farm was purchased some time after 1900 and in December of 1902, Mr. and Mrs. Garrison moved to the farm. It comprises one hundred and twenty acres and is a beautiful country home, well-kept with splendid out-buildings and attractive grounds.

The late Joseph W. Garrison was a Republican in politics. He never held office nor was much interested in this phase of political activity. He was a member of the Baptist church and assisted in the building of the church. Fraternally, he was a member of Pap Thomas Post, No. 5, Grand Army of the Republic and of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and a charter members of the Eastern Star. Mrs. Garrison and daughter are charter members of the Eastern Star. Mrs. Garrison is a charter member of the Greensburg chapter, Women's Relief Corps. She and daughter are also members of the Rebekahs at Greensburg. Mr. Garrison was a city councilman of Greensburg. E. F. Roszell was married on December 6, 1905, to Minnie Garrison, daughter of the subject of this sketch. Mr. Roszell has had charge of the farm for nine years. Mr. Rozell is a stand-pat Republican and a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

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"History of Decatur County, Indiana"
Lewis A. Harding
B. F. Bowen & Co.
Indianapolis, Indiana
published in 1915.