Contributed by Charlene Saunders:
AARON HUFFMAN, deceased, late of Wea Township, was one of the
enterprising and successful citizens of the county for many years. He
was a Virginian by birth but reared in Ohio. He came to Tippecanoe
County, Indiana, in 1826, and was here married to MISS SARAH C.
FRANKLIN, a native of Tippecanoe County, Indiana. On coming to this
county his first land purchase was forty acres on the Wea. His second
land purchase was 160 acres on Buck Creek, and later he purchased
another tract of land on the Wea. He made his home on the south side of
Wea Creek until his death, which occurred May 12, 1874, leaving a wife
and family of eight children, as follows--MRS. KATY ALLBURN, of
Tippecanoe County; FRANCENA, now deceased; MRS. MILLIE WITTERS, living
in York County, Nebraska; MARTHA, wife of DANIEL CLARK; CORBIN, of Wea
Township; JASPER, of York County, Nebraska, and EDWARD, living on the
old homestead in Wea Township.
MRS HUFFMAN is making her home in Nebraska. EDWARD HUFFMAN was born on
the old homestead where he now lives, and was reared to agricultural
pursuits, his youth being spent in assisting on the farm and in
attending the schools of his neighborhood, where he received a
common-school education. He was united in marriage February 11, 1880,
to MISS MARY B. BOYER, of Wea Township, and they are the parents of
three children, named MINNIE, ELMER and EFFIE. MR. HUFFMAN has 133
acres of Tippecanoe county's best soil, where he resides, the homestead
being well improved and under fine cultivation, with comfortable
residence and good farm buildings, convenienetly arranged for his stock
and grain. In politics he affiliates with the Republican party.
Biographical Record and Portrait Album of Tippecanoe County, Indiana,
1888, pp. 576-579