Brown County (Indiana) Democrat, March 26, 1914, p. 4.
DEATH OF PIONEER CITIZEN
Jesse H. Percifield, aged 90 years, died at his home at Walesboro,
Bartholomew County, last Friday night. Deceased was a second cousin of
Anderson Percifield of Nashville. Jesse H. Percifield was born in Kentucky
in 1830 and when four years of age came with his parents to Indiana, the
family locating a few miles west of Nashville where his boyhood and early
manhood was spent. In 1850 he moved to Bartholomew County settling on a
farm near Walesboro where he spent the remainder of his life except about
two years which were occupied in an overland trip with a wagontrain to
California and return. On January 7, 1858, he was married to Mrs. Mary J.
Whalen who with four children survive The children are Frank, Edward and
Victor Pecifield who live in Columbus, and Mrs. Flora Beatty, widow of the
late John W. Beatty, a resident of Columbus.