This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list.
Author: LUVJAN65
Surnames: Waller, Messenger, Acton, Boaz, Ruth, Clark, Cullison
Classification: queries
Message Board URL:
http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.indiana.counties...
Message Board Post:
Found this interesting piece of information....
TENNESSEE STATE RECORDS - BIOGRAPHIES - David Chandler Roach
====================================================================
USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing
free information on the Internet, data may be used by
non-commercial entities, as long as this message
remains on all copied material. These electronic
pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit
or for presentation by other persons or organizations.
Persons or organizations desiring to use this material
for purposes other than stated above must obtain the
written consent of the file contributor.
The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives
to store the file permanently for free access.
This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb
Archives by: Diane Drogich ddrogich(a)viaduct.custom.net
====================================================================
David Chandler Roach
Surnames: Waller, Messenger, Acton, Boaz,
Ruth, Clark, Cullison
Locations: Pennsylvania; Maryland; Coshocton Co., OH;
North Carolina; Tennessee; Jasper Co., IL; Johnson Co., IN
There were only three houses in Indianapolis and Indians
and wild animals infested the dense forests where the
present city stands when Sarah (Waller) Messenger, the
grandmother of the subject of this sketch, came to Indiana
with her parents from Pennsylvania, and others of his
ancestors located in the state while it was yet inhabited
principally by the red men and denizens of the uncut forests.
Our subject's maternal grandfather, David C. Messenger, a
native of Maryland, went to Pennsylvania when a young man
and there married Sarah Waller. They first went to Coshocton
county, Ohio, and to Greene county, Indiana, in 1829, where
he took up unimproved land and worked at farming, also
following his trade as carpenter and cooper. Both he and
his wife lived there until their death. He was a Republican.
They were members of the separate Baptist church. They had
nine children, namely: Henry, David, Eli, John, Elisha,
Hannah, Rachael, Mary and Mariah.
The subject's paternal grandfather was Joshua Roach, a native
of North Carolina, who married Margaret Goad, a native of
Tennessee. In 1829 they came to Greene county, Indiana, and
settled in Richland township, where they bought wild land,
cleared it and made such a pleasant home that they spent the
remainder of their lives there. He was a Democrat, and both
he and his wife were members of the Baptist church. They had
three sons and five daughters.
The subject's father was Henry Roach. He was born in Tennessee,
August 10, 1828. Although he received a very limited education
in the pioneer schools of those days, he studied at home and
was able to teach school. He had an excellent war record, having
enlisted in the United States army when he was seventeen years
old for the purpose of taking part in the Mexican war. He served
during part of the campaign in Mexico, but was taken sick and
came home. He had a Mexican land grant and in 1852 secured one
hundred and sixty acres of land in Jasper county, Illinois. In
1857 he came back to his old home in Indiana, where he worked
on a farm until August, 1861, when he enlisted in Company C,
Forty-third Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, was commissioned
first lieutenant, and was in several hard battles. He was badly
hurt by a fall and was discharged for disability in 1865. After
the war he lived in Taylor township, Greene county, Indiana,
where he farmed until his death, February 1, 1897. He was a
Democrat and later a Republican. Both he and his wife were
members of the Church of God. They were highly esteemed in
their neighborhood. She died July 4, 1899. To them were born
the following children: David C., the subject of this sketch;
Joshua died in boyhood; Margaret J., who married Thomas Acton,
of Jasonville, Indiana; John Lincoln, a farmer in Jackson
township, Greene county, Indiana, who married America Boaz;
Samuel S., who was one of the best school teachers in Greene
county, died in 1906; Mary Frances married William Ruth, a
farmer of Taylor township, Greene county; Alma married Edgar
Clark and died in Taylor township; Henry Hayes attended the
State University and is a teacher.
David Chandler Roach was born in Center township, Greene
county, Indiana, May 29, 1858. He was educated in the common
and normal schools and was a teacher for several years in
his native county. He was admitted to the Greene county bar in
1884 and has since practiced law there and in Illinois. He has
one hundred and sixteen acres of land in Taylor township, Greene
county, and seventeen acres where he now lives in Richland
township. He has been justice of the peace eighteen years and
a notary public for six years. He has always been active in
Democratic politics. He is a member of the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows and Modern Woodmen of America. Of the latter
he is deputy head council in the Bloomfield lodge. He was
ordained a minister in the Christian church in 1884. He has
worked on public works a great deal and he is well known
throughout his native county.
Mr. Roach has been twice married. His first wife was Isadore
Acton, of Johnson county, Indiana, daughter of Dr. William G.
Acton, of Worthington. She died in 1888. A few years later he
married Frances Cullison, the daughter of Jacob and Mary
Cullison, of Center township, Greene county. Her father was
a native of Ohio and died in 1881. Her mother is living in
Taylor township. The subject had one son by his first wife,
Daniel C., now in the State University at Bloomington. He is
preparing for a lawyer's career and has won recognition as
an orator. Mr. Roach had eight children by his second wife,
namely: Vernie, Samuel, Ivan, Lexie, Edna, Olive, Leslie
and Violet.
Source: "Biographical Memoirs of Greene County, Ind.
with Reminiscences of Pioneer Days", B.F. Bowen & Co.,
Indianapolis, IN, 1908.
Important Note:
The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply
to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.