MYRON ATWATER is the eldest of four children in the family of Thomas S. and Hannah (Enos) Atwater. The former, a native of New York, was a blacksmith by trade , and followed that occupation in early life. In the fall of 185 he came to Lima Township, an purchased 200 acres of land, and died in 1872. Mrs. Hannah Atwater died at the same place in 1875; she was born in Pennsylvania, and both were members of the Free-Will Baptist Church.
Myron Atwater bought the farm of 160 acres in this township in the spring of 1865, and February 11, 1867, was married to Miss Ann Brinley. They have had seven children, of whom five are living - Nellie, Thomas, Mary, Jessie and Walter. Mrs. Atwater was born in Ashland County, Ohio, January 8, 1842, her husband's birth occurring the same year, on the 28th of October, in Luzerne County, Penn. Her mother, Elizabeth (Guysinger) Brinley,
was born in Maryland, while her father was a native of Pennsylvania; in their family were ten children. Mr. and Mrs. Atwater are members of the Free-Will Baptist Church, and he is a Democrat, being one of the prominent and enterprising citizens of the township.
Source: "1882 History LaGrange County, Indiana" by F.A.Battey & Co., - Clay Township
ROSWELL D. BABCOCK, born June 13, 1819, in Grand Isle, Vt., is the youngest of seven children of Elias and Lucy (Demery) Babcock, the fomer a native of Norwich, Conn., born February 2, 1777, the latter of Dartmouth, born May 22, same year. Elias Babcock served at the battle of Plattsburg, in the war of 1812, and the subject has in his possession a powder-horn carried by his father on that memorable occasion. Elias Babcock moved to Huntington
County, Quebec, in 1829, proceeding, in 1831, to St. John's, Canada, where he was employed in getting out ship timber. In 1833, he went to Geauga County, Ohio, purchasing ninety acres, built a cabin and began clearing. Here his death occurred, July 2, 1859. Mrs. Lucy Babcock died there March 1, 1874. Roswell D. Babcock and Mrs. Hetty A. (Abramson) Hamblin were married in Geauga County, Ohio, April 24, 1845, and came to Bloomfield, this county,
in 1846, where he worked by the day and farmed on shares until 1852, when he received eighty acres of the old Abramson homestead. He sold out and moved to La Grange in 1860, and has lived on his present farm since he bought it in 1863. Mr. Babcock, since 1853, has been a member of the A., F. & A. M. They have three children - Lucy J., now Mrs. Sanders; Francis W., and Charlotte F., now Mrs. Spidel. All belong to the Lutheran Church. Mrs.
Babcock was born in Rockland County, N.Y., April 6, 1822, and her parents were natives of New York. Her father, Halstead Abramson, was born August 16, 1794, and her mother, Elizabeth Van Houten, November 8, 1796; the former was a soldier in the war of 1812, and came to Bloomfield Township, this county, in 1845; bought a farm of 240 acres, where he lived until his death, October 25, 1852; his wife died May 6, 1857, and both were buried on the old farm.
Source: "1882 History LaGrange County, Indiana" by F.A.Battey & Co., - Clay Township
JOSIAH T. BOWEN is a native of Bedford County, Penn., born July 7, 1819. He went with his parents, Jacob W. and Rachel (Kiten) Bowen, to Stark County, Ohio, in 1820; they were both natives of Bedford County, Penn. Jacob W. Bowen was a soldier in the war of 1812. He was a carpenter and came to this township in 1851, where he lived until his death, in 1860. Mrs. Rachel Bowen died in 1870. Josiah T. Bowen learned the clothier's trade in Holmes County, Ohio,
in 1839, and was there married, October 5, 1843, to Miss Catharine A. Garmire, a native of the same county. Mr. Bowen bought eighty acres of wooded land in this township when he came here, in 1847. In 1852, he sold his farm and moved to Illinois but returned the same year and bought 160 acres, built a log cabin and commenced clearing. Mr. Bowen is living on this farm and has largely increased its value by numerous improvements; he takes especial pride in
keeping good horses. In 1861, he was elected Justice of the Peace, and served four years; he also served as Trustee when three constituted the board. Mr. Bowen is a prominent Republican and was an active worker among the Regulators; he is a member of the Lutheran Church. Their family numbers nine children - Minerva A. (now Mrs. C.M. Barrows), Sarah R. (now Mrs. Benjamin Giggy), Lucinda E. (now Mrs. J. Slack), Alvin W., Mary E. (now Mrs. S. Roy), Mott A.,
Edith M., Morton E. and Frank B.
Source: "1882 History LaGrange County, Indiana" by F.A.Battey & Co., - Clay Township
JAMES BOYD, Jr., is the son of James and Mary (Yowler) Boyd, the former a native of Scotland and the latter of Germany. James was born May 17, 1801, in Somerset County, Penn., and married on the 20th of March, 1831, to Catharine Engle, of the same navitity as her husband, her birth occurring on February 29, 1812. Her parents were Peter and Barbara (Garlets) Engel, of Pennsylvania. Mr. Boyd, in 1836, moved to Tucarawas County, Ohio, immigrating to Elkhart
Township, Noble County, Ind., where he cleared sixty acres of land for William Collt, receiving in return a deed for 120 acres of land in this township, where he built a cabin in October, 1854, and began clearing. It is yet the home of Mr. Boyd, and is well improved. Mrs. Catharine Boyd died February 6, 1881, in her sixty-ninth year. She, with Mr. Boyd, belonged to the German Baptist Church. They were the parents of eighteen children, fourteen of whom are yet
living. One son, Arion, died about twelve years ago, leaving a wife and five children. Those living are Delilah (now Mrs. Frick), Easton, Harrison, Edward, John, James, Peter, Jacob, Douglass, Urias, Philip, Elizabeth (now Mrs. Cary Frisby), Mary (now Mrs. McBeth), and Corrinda (now Mrs. Coager).
Source: "1882 History LaGrange County, Indiana" by F.A.Battey & Co., - Clay Township
JOHN BOYD, sone of James and Catherine (Engel) Boyd, was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, June 24, 1838. His parents were natives of Somerset County, Penn. The subject, from the time he was twenty, worked on a salary until in August, 1862, when he enlisted in Company B, Eighty-eighth Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He was in the battle at Perryville, Ky.,and served with his regiment until discharged for disability. After his marriage, March 2, 1865, at Albion, he
farmed two years in Noble County, then came to where he is now living, in this township. He farmed two years, then worked at carpentering until 1875, when he took a contract of improving 700 acres of land in the northeast part of the township, returning to his farm in the spring of 1880. Mr. Boyd is one of the inventors of a patent buggy-top adjuster, and also invented a patent hay rack. Mr. and Mrs. Boyd are members of the German Baptist Church, and parents of
seven children, viz., Estella, Alma, Dayton, Canton, Ann E., Clarence and Bessie E. Mrs. Amanda Boyd is the daughter of Michael and Mary (Colt) Landis, natives of Ohio, and parents of three children. She was born in Eden Township, this county, on the 15th of September, 1846.
Source: "1882 History LaGrange County, Indiana" by F.A.Battey & Co., - Clay Township
HIRAM CARNAHAN is the son of Samuel and Mary A. (Marshone) Carnahan, natives of Pennsylvania and Greene County, Ohio; the birth of the former occurring April 15, 1813, and that of the latter May 14th of the same year. In 1835, Samuel Carnahan moved to Greene County, Ohio, where he was married. In his youth he owrked several years onthe Lower Mississippi, near New Orleans. In 1841, came to Lima Township, where he was employed in the Grannis Mills, and bought 40 acres of
unimproved land in Clay Township; built a house and began clearing. In this house Hiram Carnahan was born December 6, 1842. His father returned to the South, but made a brief sojourn. In 1845, he sold his farm and bought another of 100 acres in same township, where he died November 5, 1867, having increased his land to 340 acres. Mrs. Carnahan died at the same place January 18, 1878. Hiram Carnahan lived at home after his father's death. November 13, 1869, he was married
to Orvilla Tedrick, who was born September 18, 1847, in Bloomfield Township, this county. They had two children - Jacob S., who died September 25, 1873, and Carrie May. Mr. Carnahan bought the farm of 81 acres where he now lives, in 1870. It is part of the old homestead and is well improved. Mr. and Mrs. Carnahan belong to the M.P. Church. He has served as Assessor three years. Mrs. Carnahan's father, Jacob Tedrick, was born in Maryland; and her mother, Sarah (Rathburn)
Tedrick, in Licking County, Ohio.
Source: "1882 History LaGrange County, Indiana" by F.A.Battey & Co., - Clay Township
SAMUEL CARNAHAN, Jr., was born in this township March 19, 1844, son of Samuel and Mary A. (Marshone) Carnahan, natives of Pennsylvania and Ohio. Samuel Carnahan, Sr., came to Lima Township, this county, in 1841; bought land, then returned to the South, where he had previously worked near New Orleans, returning to this township; November 5, 1867, he died at his home; his wife followed him January 18, 1878. The subject, after attaining his majority, worked out for two years, and in
1868, bought 71 acres of land in this township, where he now lives. Mrs. Carnahan was born in Elkhart County, Ind., May 1, 1852, and was one of five children in the family of Costain adn Andalusia (Gould) Rathburn, and was married to Samuel Carnahan, January 12, 1871. Her mother was a native of New York; her father, of Ohio. He came to Bloomfield Township, this county, in 1844, remained about seven years, then went into Elkhart County, but returned later to La Grange County, where
he died November 19, 1875. Four children - Lester, Charles, Clara E. and Rachel A. - constitute the family of Mr. and Mrs. Carnahan. Mr. Carnahan is a stanch Republican, and he and wife are active members of the M.P. Church.
Source: "1882 History LaGrange County, Indiana" by F.A.Battey & Co., - Clay Township
MRS. ELIZABETH DANSER was born in Fayette County, Penn., November 2, 1813, daughter of Joseph and Fannie (Shaw) Hindaman, who came to the United States from Ireland when small children. They moved to Monongalia County, Va., when Elizabeth was about fourteen, and where Mr. Hindman died June 11, 1847, and Mrs. Hindman in 1864 or 1865. They were parents of two daughters. Elizabeth Hindman was married at Morgantown, Va., December 13, 1834, to Elijah Danser, who was born in New Jersey,
May 8, 1808, and taken by his parents to Monongalia County, Va. He learned the wheelwright trade, carpentering and cabinet-making, and was employed in the manufacture and sale of pumps for some time. He also worked at contrating and building, and furnished a large part of the flagging for the city of Cleveland and stone for piers in Cleveland Harbor. He owned boats on the Ohio & Erie Canal, and shipped quantities of stone to Canada and Cleveland. Mr. Danser moved to Wayne County,
Ohio, and then, in 1835, to Cuyahoga County, Ohio, where he lived until he came to La Grange, in 1855. The fall following, he moved on the farm where Mrs. Danser now lives. He died, while engaged in clearing and improving his farm, August 13, 1860. Mr. Danser was a good citizen, respected by all who knew him. Mr. and Mrs. Danser had two children. One - Joseph H. - was a soldier in the late war, and went out as First Lieutenant of Company H, Forty-fourth Indiana Volunteer Infantry,
in 1861. He was promoted to the Captaincy in November, 1862. At the battle of Stone River he was wounded in the hip, in consequence of which he resigned his commission and returned home in 1863. Previous to entering the army he had taught several terms of school and studied law with Dr. Kennedy, of La Grange. After returning, he was admitted to the bar, but was unable to practice his profession on account of ill-health, which finally resulted in his death, at the home of his mother,
October 8, 1865. The other child - Sarah J. - became Mrs. J.B. Pratt on the 9th of December, 1858. She has two children - Willma C., now Mrs. William H. Selby, married May 26, 1880, and Robert L.B. Mrs. Selby has one child - Cora. All are living together on the homestead farm in this township.
Source: "1882 History LaGrange County, Indiana" by F.A.Battey & Co., - Clay Township
FRANKLIN DAVIS is the son of Sylvestor and Hannah (Daggett) Davis, of Massachusetts. Sylvestor Davis served in the war of 1812, was married in New Yor, and had a family of five children. He lived a pioneer's life in the States of New York, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa and Kansas. In Geauga County, Ohio, Franklin Davis was born, June 16, 1827, and Mrs. Hannah Davis died in 1832. In 1844, the elder Mr. Davis came to this township, and bought the farm where the subject now lives. In 1850, he
went to Iowas and from there to Kansas, about the time of the breaking-out of the "Border Ruffian" war, in which he took an active part. At one time, while staying with his nephew, the house was attacked, and twenty-seven bullet-holes made in one door. No damage but a slight injury to his nephew. Mr. Davis returned to Iowa, where he died, in his seventy-ninth year. In politics, he was first a Whig, then an Abolitionist, and afterward a Republican. His religious views
were as many as his politics, he being in turn a Universalist, Disciple adn an Adventist. The subject lived with his Grandfather Daggett, in New York, from the age of seven to sixteen; then went to Ohio, and remained two years, coming to La Grange County in 1845, where he rented and operated a saw-mill for several years. In 1851, he bought the farm where he is now residing. His wife, Mrs. Elizabeth (Elliott) Davis, is a native of Wayne County, Ohio, born October 25, 1826. They were
married on the 1st of January, 1850, and seven of their children are living; three being deceased. Those living are William S., Clary L. (now Mrs. Barrows), Chloe (now Mrs. Sams), Caroline S. (now Mrs. Bulock), Frank S., Lizzie N. and Gust A. Clary and Chloe are twins. They also have taken into their family a little niece - Mary M. Elliott. Mr. and Mrs. Davis are members of the M.P. Church. Mrs. Davis' parents were William and Lydia A. (Spidle) Elliott, of Pennsylvania. Mr. Davis
was Township Trustee two years, and for the twenty-seven past years has been a class-leader in the church.
Source: "1882 History LaGrange County, Indiana" by F.A.Battey & Co., - Clay Township
EMANUEL FLECK is a native of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and in his twenty-second year, in 1855, came to LaPorte, Ind., and learned the carpenter's trade. In November, 1856, he returned to Ohio, with $152, and purchsed carpenter's tools. February 19, 185, he married Miss Savillah Fisher, came to Indiana March 27, 1865, and bought a farm in Clay Township, on which was an old water-power saw-mill. He used this mill until October, 1866, when he built a new one on the same site. In 1870, he
built a grist-mill, but the water proving insufficient, he put in an engine in 1871, and built a new circular saw-mill. He is the owner of the "Model Mills", known as Fleck's Mil, with a saw-mill containing planing, joining and edging machines. He also owns the right of a patent hay-rack, for Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and all territory west of the Mississippi River, and is one of the inventors of a patent buggy-top attachment. His farm is well improved, and a new frame residence has
just been completed. He introduced the cultivation of German prunes in the county, and is the inventor of a fruit-tree rotector. The spring of 1867, he was elected Jsutice of the Peace, and held the office eight years; served as Trustee, and was re-elected in 1878. The following children were born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio; Henrietta, born April 30, 1858, died in March, 1880; Laura Ann, May 28, 1859; George Washington, August 4, 1860; Amanda Jane, October 7, 1861; Oliver Leander, June 7, 1863;
and Israella, November 16, 1864; those born in La Grange County - Samuel Peter, December 20, 1866; Curtis Wise, September 21, 1869; Burt, January 16, 1872; Helen Izora, July 3, 1875; Harry B., January 29, 1877; Rollen, December 27, 1879, and an infant daughter, who died February 21, 1874.
Source: "1882 History LaGrange County, Indiana" by F.A.Battey & Co., - Clay Township
SETH FORD came in 1856 to Clay Township with his parents, Jared Ford, a native of Massachusetts, born in September, 1808, and Rebecca (Ringer) Ford, who was born in December, 1810, in Maryland. They were parents of four boys and three girls; and, upon their arrival in this county, the elder Mr. Ford bought the farm that his son Seth now manages, and owns also property in La Grange. He took an active part in the Regulator movement of this county, and was a member of the M.E. Church in his younger
days. He died at La Grange on the 3rd of May, 1881, at which place Mrs. Rebecca Ford yet resides. The subject, Seth Ford, was united to Miss Catharine Selby in marriage May 3, 1860. Her parents were Luke and Mary A. (Kissinger) Selby. The former was a native of Ashland County, Ohio, where Catharine was born September 29, 1835. Mary Selby was a native of Maryland; Mr. Ford was born in Wayne County, N.Y., March 23, 1836. They are members in good standing of the Methodist Church. Mr. Ford
bought the farm where he now lives in 1858. It has fine improvements and good buildings.
Source: "1882 History LaGrange County, Indiana" by F.A.Battey & Co., - Clay Township
CARY R. FRISBEY came to Noble County with his parents in 1842, and in 1844 moved to Lima Township, this county. His father, John Frisbey, was born in Luzerne County, Penn.; he was a soldier in the war of 1812, and was married in June, 1817, to Mary A. Van Clief, a native of Morgan County, Ohio. She died at her home in Lima Township, in November, 1854; Mr. Frisbey then moved to this otwnship, hwere he died in October, 1859. C.R. Frisbey was born February 2, 1836, in Morgan County, Ohio. He went to
Wisconsin in 1855, returning to this county the following year; September 30, 1861, he enlisted in Company H, Forty-fourth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and was in battle at Fort Donelson. Being unfit for service he was discharged July 17, 1862, at Battle Creek, Tenn., and returned to La Grange. September 30, 1864 Mr. Frisbey re-enlisted in Company D, One Hundred and Forty-second Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and participated in the battle at Nashville. July 6, 1865, they were mustered out at Nashville,
and Mr. Frisbey returned to Indiana. In 1864, April 2, he was married to Julia F. Osborn, who died September 22, 1864. He married Miss Elizabeth Boyd October 27, 1867, a native of Noble County, and bought the farm where he now lives, in February, 1868. They have two children - Erie S. adn Minnie M. Mr. Frisbey is a member of the Free-Will Baptist Church, and Mrs. Frisbey of the German Baptist. He was Deputy County Treasurer for about nine years, and six years served as Assessor and Real Estate
Appraiser; he now fulfills the duties as Justice of the Peace, to which office he was elected in June, 1879. Mr. Frisbey has taught sixteen terms of school, and has conducted a singing school for twenty-three years; for five years he was local correspondent of the La Grange Standard, and has written two years for the La Grange Register.
Source: "1882 History LaGrange County, Indiana" by F.A.Battey & Co., - Clay Township
SARAH S. (BOWEN) GARMIRE was born in Stark County, Ohio, May 11, 1826. Her parents were Jacob W. and Rachel (Oldem) Bowen, both born near Pittsburgh, Penn. They were parents of twelve children, six boys and six girls. The Bowens are of English descent; two brothers, William and David, came to America during Queen Anne's war, William settling in South Carolina and David in Pennsylvania; from the last named Mrs. Garmire is a descendant. Her marriage with Samuel Garmire tool place in Stark County, Ohio,
March 13, 1845, and they came to this township and settled in September, 1848. Mr. Garmire bought eighty acres of land, and set out an orchard on his first clearing the following spring, having bought sixteen apple trees in La Grange in the fall, and had them buried during the winter. They are still bearing. Mr. and Mrs. Garmire had six children. William S. died September 17, 1865; Jacob A., died April 3, 1854; Jonathan F.; Amanda J., now Mrs. George Slack; Mary E., now Mrs. Squire Beech, and Martha,
who died in infancy. Mr. Garmire died at his home January 28, 1878, and had he lived until the 15th of the following June, would have completed his sixtieth year. He had been for many years a member of the Lutheran Church, of which he was also Deacon. Mr. and Mrs. Garmire were charter members when that society was organized at La Grange. Mr. Garmire was Township Assessor a number of terms, and was always a devoted husband and father.
Source: "1882 History LaGrange County, Indiana" by F.A.Battey & Co., - Clay Township
JONATHAN GARMIRE, son of Samuel and Sarah (Bowen) Garmire, is a native of this township, born September 4, 1849. He married Miss Elizabeth Fuller August 24, 1875. Her father, Cyrus Fuller, was a native of Coldwater, Mich., and her mother, Mary A. (Rowe) Fuller, of Ohio; Elizabeth was their only child. Mr. and Mrs. Garmire belong to the Lutheran Church. Their only child, Earl C., was born August 24, 1876.
Source: "1882 History LaGrange County, Indiana" by F.A.Battey & Co., - Clay Township
WILLIAM GARMIRE, Jr., is the son of William Garmire, who was born May 12, 1788, near Hagerstown, Md. In his younger days, he followed flat-boating on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, from Pittsburgh to New Orleans. About 1812 or 1813, he was married at Greensburgh, Penn., to Sarah Addleman, a native of Greene County, born August 23, 1796. In 1825, they moved to Holmes County, Ohio, where Mr. Garmire, Sr., purchased a farm. In 1863, he came to this county, where he lived a farmer's life until the time of
his demise, January 7, 1879. Mrs. Sarah Garmire died in same place March 6, 1870. They had nine children,and both were prominent members of the Lutheran Church. William Garmire, Jr., the subject, learned carpentering in Benton, Holmes Co., Ohio, beginning in 1834. He worked at his trade in Iowa from the spring to fall of 1837, continuing from that time in Holmes County, Ohio, until he moved to Seneca County in 1843. During the winter of 1844-45, he worked in the cabinet shop of John Miller, at Fort Wayne,
Ind. In February, 1845, he came to La Grange, and, in company with his brother, ran a cabinet shop until 1847, when he began farming on eighty acres of unimproved land in this township. This he sold after five years, and bought another eighty, only to sell in the following year, 1853, when he went to Illinois with the intent to locate, but returned that same year, and has since farmed one hundred and thirty-five acres in this township. The present Mrs. Garmire was Barbara E. Stromen, whom he married on the
2nd of April, 1872. She was the daughter of Charles and Rebecca (Dukes) Stromen; born in Summit County, Ohio, February 23, 1837. The former Mrs. Garmire died in this township February 24, 1870, leaving four children, viz.: James M., William M., Elizabeth A., now Mrs. Holsinger; and Josiah F. She came to the United States with her parents, David and Catharine Shultz, from Wurtemberg, Germany, where their daughter, Catharine was born July 24, 1824. She married Mr. Garmire October 13, 1842, in Holmes County,
Ohio. Mr. Garmire was foreman of the Board of Township Trustees for six years, and Assessor six years. Himself and wife belong to the Lutheran Church. He is a native of Greene County, Penn.; born September 22, 1816.
Source: "1882 History LaGrange County, Indiana" by F.A.Battey & Co., - Clay Township
BENJAMIN GIGGY came to the United States with his parents, Benedict and Christina Giggy, in 1852. He was born August 29, 1844, in Canton Berne, Switzerland, and was one of five children. In Boston, Summit Co., Ohio, during the year 1853, he worked for $7 per month. Coming to this township in 1854, he was engaged first in farm work for John Ray, and attended school until 1859. The three following years he worked at the stone mason's trade with his father. In August, 1863, he enlisted in Company G, Eighty-eighth
Indiana Volunteer Infantry, but at Fort Wayne was taken down with lung fever, and was not able to report for six weeks. He was then furnished transportation to Louisville, Ky., where he was again attacked with lung fever, and in December returned home. In the spring of 1864, he enlisted in Company H, Forty-fourth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and served until the war closed. During his last three months of service he was detailed as a clerk at Gen. Gillen's headquarters, District East Tennessee, and was mustered
out at Nashville September 25, 1865. August 12, 1866, Mr. Giggy and Miss Sarah Bowen were united in marriage. She is a native of Holmes County, Ohio; born September 26, 1846. They have had seven children, viz.: May, Ella C., Alonzo B., Clara C., Clyde, Ray (died August 14, 1880), and Carl. Mr. Giggy purchased forty acres of his farm in 1864, and the other forty in 1871, and its improved condition is mainly due to his efforts.
Source: "1882 History LaGrange County, Indiana" by F.A.Battey & Co., - Clay Township
CHRISTIAN GIGGY, one of the leading citizens of his township, came to America in the spring of 1851, in company with his sister, Ellen, now Mrs. John Roy. He is a son of Benedict and Chrsitina (Snyder) Giggy, who were parents of three boys and two girls, and was born in Canton Berne, Switzerland, February 1, 1832. Mrs. Christian Giggy is also a native of the same place, born in July, 1818. She married Mr. Giggy in Summit Count, Ohio, in August, 1851. She was Ellen Burkhalter, daughter of John and Barbary (Pfiefer)
Burkhalter, parents of ten children. Mr. Giggy landed in New York, went to Cleveland, Ohio, remained a few days working in a foundry, then went to Peninsula, Summit County,Ohio, where he worked in a stone quarry for a time, then in a saw-mill, and farmed two years. He came to this township in 1855, and worked at the stone mason's trade in connection with farming. In 1859, he bought twenty acres fo improved land, that he sold in 1862, and bought the farm of one hundred and fifteen, where he now lives. Mr. and Mrs.
Giggy are members of the Lutheran Church, and have a family of five children - Mary E., Rosanna (now Mrs. Hart), Charles W., Oscar L. and Sarah R.
Source: "1882 History LaGrange County, Indiana" by F.A.Battey & Co., - Clay Township