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Surname: Trueblood, Overman, Morris, Henley, Morrison, Cook, Woody, Moody,
Clayton, Loudon, Sturgeon, Johnson, Thompson
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Surname: Trueblood, Overman, Morris, Henley, Morrison, Cook, Woody, Moody,
Clayton, Loudon, Sturgeon, Johnson, Thompson
I am not researching this family, I found this and thought I would post
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James and Elizabeth Trueblood
PIONEER PICKINGS
The Salem DEMOCRAT
Apr.7 1880
Salem, Indiana
Surnames in this are: Trueblood, Overman, Morris Henley, Morrison, Cook,
Woody, Moody, Clayton, Loudon, Sturgeon, Johnson, Thompson,
Sketch Of James and Elizabeth Trueblood
Page 2
James Trueblood had one brother and two sisters. His brother was named
Nathan and he died in his 19th year. His sister Mary married a man named
Overman, and died at the age of ninety. Rebecca, the other sister married
a man named Morris, and. is now living, aged ninety-three years. Hon. Thomas
J Henley formerly a member of Congress from this district was a cousin
of the mother of Mrs. Trueblood.
While James was a non-voting man on account of slavery, men of both parties
tried to obtain his vote on their side. One. Sunday John I. Morrison and
Catherine his wife went to visit the family. Mr. Morrison told her husband
that he must not talk politics. Morrison was at the time a candidate for
some office, yet he could not induce Trueblood to vote at all at that election
for anyone. Trueblood says that Asher Cook trod the mud to make the brick
to build the first Court House in Salem. Our readers may not know that
in early days the mortar for brick was tramped by men and oxen. Cook was
a North Carolinian, and has been dead many years. That Court House was
built up on pillars with an opening underneath for hitching horses.
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Robert Loudon was one of the first teachers in the friends School, then
came Levi, and Lewis Woody (printed Moody here) Alexander and Simeon Clayton,
John and James Trueblood and others.
Catherine, a daughter, married Hatcheson Sturgeon, a son of David Sturgeon,
of whom we gave a pretty good history some time ago. Mary E married Davis
Johnson, near Terre Haute, Indiana, a prominent citizen there. John H.
is the oldest of the children and aged 64, and now resides in Canton. Milton
resides in the township. Martha married Francis Overman, and he is long
since dead and Martha now resides in Kansas. Hicks resides in this township.
Warner M died some years ago at Hitchcock's Station, in this county. Rebecca
married Hiram Thompson and resides in this county. Susannah, the youngest
daughter, resides at home taking care of her aged parents.
Elizabeth's father was a merchant of Elizabeth City, North Carolina and
sent out vessels to trade with the West India Islands. Joshua wrote some
letters to his future wife when he was on one of these far off Islands.
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