From the query section of the Indianapolis Star (no date) (note: This Cully may not have
any connection to those in Boone County -- but has a lot of information that might be
helpful in tracing those in Hamilton & Boone Counties.)
CULLY--(Old Series 100). Thomas Cully was one of the first commissioners and county
treasurer of Union county, Indiana, from 1824 to 1832. His daughter, Mary Cully, born Nov
26? 1802, married James Leviston, May 27, 1819 (his second wife). Their children were:
William, James, called Bud, and Thomas. James Leviston, son of George, was born March 14,
1791, near Charleston, S.C. Came to Union county, Indiana, with his father, 1806. Here
he married (1) Nancy Templeton, daughter of John Templeton. She was born Laurens
district, South Carolina, Feb 15, 1793; married Oct 26, 1812; children--Mary Hannah,
Marie, Nancy Jane (my grandmother).. George Leviston, a native of Ireland, came to South
Carolina with his parents prior to war of 1776, and married there. In 804 he moved to
Butler county, Ohio and 1809 to Union county, Indiana (reference "Historical Atlas of
Union County." 1884.) Nancy Templeton was the daughter of John Templeton, also born
Ireland, to South Carolina wi!
th his parents, who located in Laurens district. He married a daughter of Robert Hanna,
in 1801, and moved to what is now Hamilton County, Ohio, near the village of Harrison.
Other heads of families that came to Ohio with John Templeton were: Robert Templeton,
Sr., Robert Hanna, Sr., Joseph Hanna, john Hanna, George Leviston, William Logan, John
Logan, John Ewing and Robert Swann. these settlers lived in Ohio until the spring of
1808. They explored the country along the Whitewater River, now Union County, Indiana,
and John Templeton and Joseph Hanna made the first land entries. After building cabins,
they returned to Ohio for their families.
Signed: Mrs. P. F. Fuller, Aurora, Ill.