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Surnames: Bugh, Coddington, Frash, Bowman, Williams, Woods, Dildine, Recob, Robinson,
Sales, Melick, Jacobs, Eckroat
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Standard History of Adams and Wells Counties, 1918
John W. Tyndall
Ezra Bugh
While all his life and experiences have been in Indiana, Mr. Ezra Bugh has been identified
with the agricultural section of Adams County for only fourteen or fifteen years. He has
one of the excellent farm homes of Hartford Township.
Mr. Bugh was born in Blackford County, Indiana, December 8, 1849, a son of Barnhart W. and
Hannah (Coddington) Bugh. His father was of old Pennsylvania stock, born in that state
June 13, 1805. The mother was born in Maryland June 14, 1807. They accompanied their
respective families to Perry County, Ohio, where they grew up and married and in 1848 they
settled in Indiana in Washington Township of Blackford County, where they spent many years
among the highly respected members of the farming community. In January, 1870, they
retired from their farm to Hartford City, where the father died March 29, 1877, and the
mother on January 27, 1880. Barnhart Bugh began voting as a whig, took up the republican
cause at the formation of that party, and for one term was a county commissioner of
Blackford County. His religion was that of the Methodist Church, while his wife was a
Baptist in faith. They had five sons and five daughters: William, deceased; Jacob,
deceased, who served a!
s a soldier in the Civil war; Jesse, a Union veteran who is still living at Hartford
City; Ezra, who though very young at the time, was a member of the Home Guard during the
war; Perry of Hartford City; Elizabeth; Lydia, wife of George Frash; Catherine, wife of
Levi Bowman; Mary, wife of Andrew Williams; and Jane, wife of John J. Woods, former county
treasurer of Blackford County, the last named being the only one of the daughters now
living.
Ezra Bugh's earliest recollections are of Blackford County during the '50s and
during the Civil war period. His environment was a farm and his education was obtained in
the district schools. He found occupation for his time and efforts on the home place
until he was twenty-five, and on June 6, 1875, married Elizabeth Dildine. She was born in
Blackford County September 27, 1853, daughter of Jesse Dildine. She grew up at Hartford
City and acquired her education in the public schools there.
Mr. and Mrs. Bugh after their marriage lived in Hartford City for three years and they
then went back to the old Bugh farm in the county and conducted it as renters for three
years. Mr. Bugh then acquired a tract of woodland, eighty acres, and spent several years
clearing and ditching it and putting it into shape for farming. He sold his Blackford
County interests and on March 13, 1903, settled in Hartford Township of Adams County,
where he bought the eighty acres comprising the north half of the northwest quarter of
section 22. This is a farm well fitted for his needs, and furnishes hi a comfortable
living and a good home for his declining years.
Mr. and Mrs. Bugh have seven children, all living: Clara, wife of John Recob; Eva, wife
of Charles Robinson; Edith, wife of Otta Sales; Lottie, who married Lee Melick; Mable,
unmarried; Mary, wife of Lorenzo Jacobs; Walter, who lived in Kansas and married Alda
Eckroat. Mr. Bugh in matters of politics supports the republican party.
Typed by Dawn Montgomery