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Bio. of Charles Osborn-1016


   History of Wayne County, Cincinnati, Robert Clark and Co., 1872.
   Page 313.  (Perry Township)  (transcript)
   [See an 1882 bio. of Charles Osborn-1016]
   [See an 1884 bio. of Charles Osborn-1016]
   [See the bio. of Jefferson Osborn-1254]

   CHARLES OSBORN removed from Tennessee to Ohio, in 1816, and in 1819 to
the township of Perry, and settled on the land on which the town of Economy
now stands.  In 1825 he laid out the town, as proprietor, to which he made
an addition in 1829, and another in 1834.  After many years' residence
there, he removed to Michigan, and a few years after to Porter county, Ind.
[Dates of birth and death not obtained.]  His sons were, James, who was
married, and died in Iowa; Josiah, married, moved to Michigan, and died
there; John, married, resides in Economy; Isaiah, married, resided there
until his decease in 1846; Elijah and Gideon, married, live in Cass county,
Michigan; Charles N. and Parker, who reside in Wilmington, Ohio; Jordan,
Benjamin, deceased.  Daughters: Sarah, who married James Bonine; Anna, wife
of James East; Cynthia, who married ---- Singerfuse; Narcissa, who died in
Economy at the age of 12.  In 1831, all the children of Charles Osborn were
living and were present at a dinner at his house.  He was a preacher in the
society of Friends.
   [The names of two of Charles Osborn's children have probably been
ommitted in the above list.]
<Note: The comments in "[]" are part of the printed biography and are not
the transcriber's comments.>


Bio. of Charles Osborn-1016


   History of Wayne County, Indiana, Vol. II, Chicago, Inter-State
   Publishing Co., 1884.  Page 703.  (Perry Township)  (transcript)
   [See an 1872 bio. of Charles Osborn-1016]
   [See an 1882 bio. of Charles Osborn-1016]

   Charles Osborn. -- Matthew Osborn was a native of England.  His son,
Daniel Osborn, was born in Sussex County, Del., March 14, 1745, and married
Margaret Stout, a native of York County, Pa.  Charles Osborn was born in
Guilford County, N.C., Aug. 21, 1775.  In 1794 he moved with his parents to
Knox County, Tenn., where he was married Jan. 11, 1798, to Sarah Newman, a
native of Virginia.  In the fall of 1811 he moved to Lost Creek, Jefferson
County, where his wife died Aug. 10, 1812, leaving seven children -- James,
born Nov. 10, 1798; Josiah, born March 2, 1800; John; Isaiah; Lydia,
afterward Mrs. Eli Newlin, born Oct. 6, 1805; Elijah, born Nov. 15, 1807;
Elihu, born Feb. 9, 1810.  Sept. 26, 1813, Mr. Osborn married Hannah,
daughter of Elihu and Sarah Swain, and to them were born nine children --
Narcissa, born June 20, 1814; Cynthia, born Sept. 30, 1815, married A.
Liggerfoose<sic>; Gideon S., born Aug. 12, 1817; Charles N., born Sept. 20,
1819; Parger B., born Oct. 14, 1821; Jordan, born Aug. 6, 1823; Benjamin,
born Nov. 21, 1825; Sarah S., born Feb. 21, 1828, married J.B. Bonine;
Anna, born Aug. 20, 1830, Married Jesse East.  Charles Osborn was a minister
in the Society of Friends.  He was the organizer of the manumission
societies of Tennessee and North Carolina in the year 1814.  Although reared
in a slave State his sympathies were early enlisted in the behalf of the
slave, and he became his life-long friend.  In the fall of 1816 he moved to
Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, where he published the Philanthropist, a religious
anti-slavery paper.  In January, 1819, he moved to Wayne County, Ind.,
settling where the town of Economy (which he afterward laid out) now stands.
In 1842 he moved to Cass County, Mich., and in 1848 to Porter County, Ind.,
where he died Dec. 20, 1850.  Charles Osborn was a minister of some note in
the Society of Friends.  He visited nearly all the meetings of his church on
this continent, and many of them more than once, traveling several thousand
miles to accomplish it, much of the time on horseback.  In 1832 and 1833 he
visited meetings in Great Britain and the continent of Europe.  His devotion
to the slave, and especially his opposition to colonization, cost him his
position in the society, and he was one of the leaders in organizing the
society of Anti-slavery Friends, of which he was a member at the time of his
death.  His widow lived with her daughter, Mrs. Bonine, till Feb. 12, 1878,
when she died, aged eighty-eight years.  Isaiah Osborn, a son of Charles and
Sarah (Newman) Osborn, was born in Knox Co., Tenn., Nov. 25, 1803.  In 1816
he moved with his father to Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, where he learned the
printer's trade in the office of the Philanthropist, and in 1819 came with
his father to Wayne County, Ind.  In the fall of 1822 he went to Greenville,
Tenn., and worked in a printing office two years for $100 a year and his
board, most of the time in the office of the Genius of Universal
Emancipation.  In the fall of 1824 he returned to Centreville, Ind., and
worked on the Western Emporium till the spring of 1827, when he returned to
Wayne County and entered the land on which he afterward lived, the patent
bearing date April, 1828.  Early in 1829 he was elected Justice of the
Peace, an office he held four years.  In the meantime he cleared his land,
planted an orchard, and built a house preparatory to moving to his farm.  He
also taught school and worked at his trade in the winter.  In the winter of
1832 he worked for Septimus Smith, publisher of Western Times, riding from
Economy to Centreville and back each week, attending to the duties of
Justice one day in the week and setting the required amount of type,
receiving $3 a week for his services.  For a number of years he was Assessor
and Collector of Taxes of the northern townships.  He moved to his farm in
1833, and there died, June 16, 1846.  His educational advantages were
limited, but by his own efforts he succeeded in obtaining sufficient
education to enable him to fill responsible positions in church and State.
He was a consistent member of the Society of Friends.  June 24, 1829, he was
married to Lydia, daughter of Job and Rhoda Worth.  She was born in Guilford
County, N.C., Nov. 1, 1805, and in 1823, moved with her mother to Randolph
County, Ind.  To Mr. and Mrs. Osborn were born eight children -- Caroline,
born Feb. 4, 1831, is the wife of William Edgerton, and lives near Dunreith,
Henry Co., Ind.; Charles W.; Rhoda, born Dec. 7, 1834, died Sept. 9, 1859;
Edmund B., born Nov. 4, 1836; Lawrinda, born Oct. 1, 1838, married Thomas
Ward, of Wihchester, Ind.; Narcissa, born Oct. 30, 1840, married Henry W.
Charles; died Sept. 24, 1878; Martha W., born Feb. 15, 1843, died March 31,
1848; Eunice, born May 4, 1845, died April 7, 1848.  Mrs. Osborn is a woman
of rare ability.  Left a widow with eight children, the eldest but fifteen
years of age, with but little means and several debts incurred by her
husband's sickness, she went to work with energy, and succeeded in paying
the debts and rearing her family, giving the six that grew to maturity a
better education than the majority of children at that day received.  After
remaining a widow twelve years and rearing her children, she married David
Maxwell, and moved to Union County, Ind., and from thence to Dunreith,
Henry County, where she lived till Mr. Maxwell's death in 1880.  Since then
she has lived with her son Charles, near Economy.  She has been a lifelong
member of the Society of Friends, and has held many important positions in
the society.  Her life has been one of faith and good works, and she still
takes great interest in the moral and religious work of the day.


Bio. of Charles Worth Osborn-1207


   History of Wayne County, Indiana, Vol. II, Chicago, Inter-State
   Publishing Co., 1884.  Page 705.  (Perry Township)  (transcript)
   [See an 1882 bio. of Charles W. Osborn-1207]

   Charles Worth Osborn, son of Isaiah and Lydia Osborn, was born in
Economy, Feb. 8, 1833, and for twenty-seven years was a resident of Perry
Township.  Residing since then within two miles of Economy, though in the
edge of Randolph County, his life-work has been almost as closely identified
with Wayne County as though he lived within its borders.  Up to the winter
of 1845-'6 he was sent to various private schools in the neighborhood.  His
father died when he was thirteen years old, and from that time on for six or
seven years he only attended school a few weeks during the winter, staying
at home to work a day or two almost every week.  After securing the harvest
of 1853 he left home with $2.25 in his pocket (the proceeds of the sale of
some apples in Hagerstown) to attend the remaining two months of the summer
session of the Union Literary Institute -- a manual labor school near
Spartansburg, Randolph Co., Ind.  Here students could pay half their board
in work;  here he could work more than enough to pay half his board, and
sell his time for money to others who preferred to pay all money.  In this
way he was enabled to pay his way with but little aid from home.  He and his
sister Rhoda attended the two following sessions of five months each at this
institution.  At the commencement of the first the board dismissed the
Superintendent, and not being able to supply his place till spring, they
employed Charles to attend to the duties of the office for the term, which
consisted in providing for the table for thirty boarders, superintend their
work on the farm, collect and keep an account of their board, etc.  This, in
addition to five studies and hearing one class recite each day, so occupied
his time that for more than two months he allowed himself but four and a
half hours' sleep each night.  The following session the Superintendent was
absent much of the time, and he gave the immediate care of the farm work to
Charles, thereby enabling him not only to pay his own way but to assist his
sister also.  The teacher in this institute was Prof. E. Tucker, a graduate
of Oberlin College, and an excellent instructor, and the year spent under
his preceptor was the most important of Charles's education.  In December,
1854, he began his first public school in Green Township, having obtained
a license for two years; farmed the next summer, and the following fall and
winter taught the first of five sessions in Economy; taught in Greensboro,
Henry County, in the spring of 1856, and then went to Antioch College two
terms.  He taught during the winter and farmed in the summer for the most
part till 1867, when he left the school-room for the farm, but not without
some regrets.  His father and sister having died of consumption, and the
generally crowded and poorly ventilated school-rooms of those times
subjecting him to frequent colds, he deemed it best to follow an occupation
that would bring him more in the open air.  Charles W. Osborn is a minister
in the Society of Friends; was Clerk of his Monthly Meeting for seventeen
years, and fills other important positions in the church.  He has ever been
an active worker in the temperance cause, appointing meetings and talking
temperance in the surrounding neighborhood, while attending school at the
institute.  He has been identified with the different temperance movements
since that time, and for the past four years has been President of the
Economy Temperance League, an organization that has met weekly during this
time.  He has also been prominently connected with the Sunday-school work
of his church and also of Wayne County.  In the spring of 1858 he was
married to Asenath W. Wood, daughter of Jacob and Phebe Wood, of Greensboro,
Ind.  They have had six children, three of whom are living.  He is now
comfortably situated with his family, on a little farm two miles north of
Economy.


Bio. of Edmund B. Osborn-1228


   History of Wayne County, Indiana, Vol. II, Chicago, Inter-State
   Publishing Co., 1884.  Page 707.  (Perry Township)  (transcript)

   Edmund B. Osborn was born in the house where he now lives, Nov. 4, 1836,
the youngest son of Isaiah and Lydia (Worth) Osborn.  He was reared a farmer
and was educated in the schools of Perry Township.  When he was nine years
old his father died, and his mother subsequently married again.  He was
married Dec. 12, 1867, to Mary E. Rinehart, daughter of Charles and Mary
Rinehart.  They have had four children -- Charles A., Lydia E., Mary V. and
Lloyd Garrison.  Mr. Osborn has been a successful farmer, and has surrounded
his family with all the comforts fo life.  He is an ardent worker in the
temperance cause, never having used tobacco in any form, drank a glass of
liquor nor tasted a drop of whiskey; has not tasted coffed for more than
thirty years, neither has there been a cup of it made in his house since he
was married except for visitors or work hands.  Milk he uses, and advocates
the use of the same.  He was raised a Friend or Quaker, but is a Freethinker
or Materialist.


Bio. of John Osborn-1215


   History of Wayne County, Indiana, Vol. II, Chicago, Inter-State
   Publishing Co., 1884.  Page 707.  (Perry Township)  (transcript)

   John Osborn, son of Charles and Sarah (Newman) Osborn, was born in Knox
County, Tenn., Nov. 28, 1801.  His early life was passed with his parents,
and, like all children of early pioneers, his educational advantages were
limited.  His innate desire for knowledge, especially for the sciences,
overcame all difficulties, and while other boys were spending their leisure
hours in sport he was spending his in study.  Acquiring a thorough knowledge
of mathematics and natural science and a fair acquaintance of literature and
art, with but little aid from schools, he did not appreciate the value of
institutions of learning.  He studied medicine with Dr. Thomas Carroll,
first in Richmond and going with him to St. Clairsville, Ohio.  He completed
his studies but never practiced, giving as a reason that it did not deserve
the name of a science as medicine was so uncertain in its effects.  He
turned his attention wholly to the culture of fruit and to the nursery
business.  To him, more than any other man, does Wayne County owe the
reputation she also has had for nearly fifty years, of the quality of her
fruit.  Before starting his nursery in Economy, in 1833, he walked to Long
Island and back again, to obtain the best varieties of fruit grown in the
East, carrying the cuttings in his hand; and in grafting did not lose a
single variety.  After testing them, if he became convinced that any variety
was not suited to this section he rejected it.  He was also particular to
whom he sold trees, saying he wished to sell only to those who would take
care of and be benefited by them.  His close observation enabled him to tell
one variety of tree from another as readily as a backwoodsman distinguishes
the different forest trees.  Not only Indiana, but Michigan, Illinois and
Iowa are largely indebted to him for fine fruit trees.  He took pleasure in
studying the laws that govern the growth of vegetables and plants,
cultivating them year after year to obtain a particular variety.  For forty
years prior to his death he kept a meteorological record, making three
observations a day, and requested his family to keep it ten years longer.
His son Josiah is carrying out his wishes.  Valuable geological specimens
collected by him are still in the possession of his family.  Mr. Osborn was
married May 9, 1933, to Rachel, daughter of Josiah and Polly Johnson, of
Dover, Wayne Co., Ind.  Seven children were born to them -- Amanda M., born
Jan. 30, 1834, died Jan. 4, 1835; Emily, born Jan. 23, 1837; married Elisha
Wright; died Oct. 24, 1855; Elim, born Dec. 16, 1838, is a resident of
Economy; Ellen, born Dec. 8, 1843, married Robert Haxton; Josiah, born Jan.
19, 1846, also a resident of Economy; Sarah Zerelda, born July 15, 1853,
married Benjamin Limming, July 18, 1881, and died Feb. 14, 1883; Martha,
born Nov. 30, 1855.  Mr. Osborn died May 2, 1874.  His widow still resides
in Economy.


Bio. of Elam Osborn-1219


   Memoirs of Wayne County and the City of Richmond, Indiana, Vol. II,
   Madison, WI, Western Historical Association, 1912.  Page 728.  (transcript)

   Elam Osborn, former trustee of Perry township and recognized as one of
the representative business men and most public spirited citizens of the
attractive little village of Economy, is living practically retired in that
village.  Energy and progressive methods have brought to him a large measure
of success in his chosen fields of endeavor and he holds the unqualified
esteem of the people of his home village and county.  Mr. Osborn was born in
Economy, Dec. 16, 1838, a son of John and Rachel (Johnson) Osborn, the
former a native of Tennessee and the latter of Indiana.  John Osborn was
born at Lost Creek, Tenn., Nov. 28, 1801, and at the age of about fourteen
removed with his parents to Mount Pleasant, Ohio.  The paternal grandfather,
Charles Osborn, was a noted Friends preacher and in 1819 removed his family
to Economy, where he platted the first and second additions of the village,
in 1825 and 1828, respectively.  He traveled a great deal, crossing the
ocean three times to preach in England.  His first wife, the grandmother of
Elam Osborn, died in Tennessee, and before leaving that State the
grandfather married Hannah Swain, in 1810.  Later in life he removed to
Michigan and resided at Niles, that State, until his death.  John Osborn,
the father of Elam, came to Economy with his father, in 1819, but when he
attained his majority went to Belmont county, Ohio, where he taught school
and pursued the study of medicine.  When he had completed his studies he
became dissatisfied with the medical profession and decide to engage in the
nursery business.  He collected seeds in Ohio, had them taken down the river
on a flat-boat and then freighted over the country from Cincinnati to
Economy, where he established a nursery and continued in the business,
selling all kinds of seeds, sprouts, etc., until about 1855.  After that
time he lived practically retired, attending to his fruit and frequently
selling pears, apples, etc., for ten cents per bushel, and died in Economy,
May 2, 1874.  Beginning on Aug. 1, 1833, he kept a daily record of the
temperature of the weather, taking an observation at sunrise, another in the
warmest part of the day, and still another at sunset.  He continued this
practice throughout his life and requested his sons to continue the
observations at least ten years after his death.  After his demise his son
Josiah continued the practice until his death, in 1892, and since that time
Elam Osborn has kept the record faithfully, making his observations three
times daily, and expects to continue to do so the residue of his life.  The
mother of Elam Osborn was born in Richmond, Ind., March 22, 1816, and died
Feb. 15, 1895, having become the mother of sixteen children, but six of whom
reached the age of maturity, and but two of these are now living -- Elam and
his sister, Martha, wife of Allison Thorp, of Delaware county, Indiana.
John Osborn, the father, was a man of fine intellectuality and generous
attributes of character.  His integrity was inviolable and he ever merited
and received the unqualified esteem of his fellow men.  Elam Osborn was
reared in a home of culture and refinement and this influence proved potent
in results during the formative period of his character.  He gained his
rudimentary education in the schools of his native village and later
attended a private school taught by a Mr. Moore, who taught a six-weeks term
in Economy.  While he had a natural dislike for the schoolroom he completed
the course under Mr. Moore and became very proficient in mathematics.  When
about nine years old he worked for others for his board and clothes, later
receiving small wages for his labor, and in 1856 turned his attention to the
carpenter trade.  He worked at this trade for others until 1858, when he
worked as a partner with Nicholas Bennett, and in 1859 formed a partnership
with Henry Beard (see sketch of Jonathan S. Beard).  This partnership
existed until the time of Mr. Beard's death, first as contractors and
builders, then in the saw-mill business, and later in the manufacture of
furniture and the handling of all kinds of building materials.  After Mr.
Beard's death the partnership property was appraised at $11,000, while the
indebtedness of the firm amounted to $8,000.  Mr. Osborn assumed the
indebtedness of the firm and took over the business, which he continued
until it was closed out, in 1891.  He then purchased a small farm near
Economy and constructed an artificial lake, known as the Osborn Lake, and
conducted this place as a summer resort a number of years, finally selling
it to his son-in-law.  He now lives in the village of Economy, in
retirement.  He owns a twenty-acre tract of land, located one and one-half
miles south of the village, a fine tract of wood land two miles south, and
several lots in the village, in addition to his residence property, which
includes about eighteen acres adjoining the town.  For about forty years, in
addition to his other affairs, he was engaged in the undertaking business.
As a citizen Mr. Osborn has long been prominent by reason of his progressive
ideas and his interest in all that tends to conserve the advancement and
material and civic prosperity of his home community.  His political
allegiance is given to the Republican party, in whose cause he has rendered
effective service, although he reserves the right to act independently
whenever in his opinion the exigency of the occasion requires such action.
He served four years, from 1882 to 1886, as trustee of Perry township, in
which office he gave a most commendable and popular administration of
township affairs.  He at one time stood as an independent candidate for the
office of county treasurer and his popularity was evinced by the fact that
he came within 200 votes of being elected to that position.  Both he and his
wife are members of the Friends' church.  On Jan. 4, 1862, Mr. Osborn was
united in marriage to Miss Agnes Patterson, born in Valparaiso, Ind., Jan.
26, 1845, daughter of Samuel R. and Jane (Turner) Patterson, and of this
union were born eleven children: Helen C., born April 17, 1863, is the wife
of Alonzo E. Massey, of Richmond, and they have three children -- William
I., Fannie E., and Marshall O.; Charles A., born Oct. 12, 1864, died Oct.
21, 1893; William, born Sept. 21, 1866, died Dec. 7, 1874; Jennie, born
Nov. 22, 1868, is the wife of Jacob O. Ballenger, a merchant, of Economy,
and they have six children -- O. Howard, Albert, Mary H., William E., Irene
and Ada; John S., born Dec. 17, 1870, engaged in the wholesale produce
business in Richmond, married Cinthia Swayne and they have two children --
Agnes B., and Opal; Roland, born Jan. 20, 1873, an undertaker at Shreveport,
La., married Kitty Atkinson and they have four children -- Charles A., Percy
E., Henry R., and Martha; Ethel, born June 28, 1875, is the wife of Oliver
Vernon Marshall, a farmer of Perry township, and they have four children --
Thomas E., Malcolm O., W. Macy, and Jesse Ray; Frank E., born Feb. 28, 1879,
is a graduate of Purdue University, a civil engineer by occupation, at
Denver, Colo., married Mamie Mendenhall and they have three children --
Marjorie E., Rachel A., and Joseph C.; Daisy, born Oct. 8, 1883, resides at
the parental home; Robert Josiah, born Sept. 25, 1885, a civil engineer at
Indianapolis, married Mary Waldron and has one child, Robert Elam; and
Jesse T., born Aug. 26, 1887, a civil engineer, engaged with the New York
Central lines at Cleveland, Ohio, married Mary Ormsby.  Samuel R. Patterson,
father of Mrs. Osborn, was born in Vermont and came to Muncie, Ind., when a
young man.  He was a tinner by trade and died at the age of forty-six years,
leaving a family of nine children.  His widow resides at Portland, Ind.,
with a daughter.


Bio. of David Osborn-1485


   History of Hendricks County, Indiana, Chicago, Interstate Publishing
   Co., 1885.  Page 728.  (transcript)

   David Osborn, a pioneer of Union Township, was born in Virginia, Feb. 11,
1812, a son of Richard and Rachel Osborn.  When he as a child his parents
moved to Guilford County, N.C., where they remained till the fall of 1834,
when he accompanied them to Hendricks County, Ind.  They lived near
Plainfield several years, and subsequently moved to Iowa, where they died.
Of a large family of children but five are living -- David, William, Esther,
Rebecca and Polly.  David Osborn returned to North Carolina in 1835, and
married Abigail Newman, and soon after came again to Hendricks County, and
in 1838 located on the farm on section 15, Union Township, where he has
since lived.  He owns 187 acres of valuable land, and his improvements are
among the best in the county.  He has taken an active interest in all public
affairs, and has served his township as Trustee.  In politics he is a
Republican.  Of the seven children born to his first marriage but four are
living -- William, Abigail, Polly and John.  His wife died and subsequently
he married Elizabeth Wilson, daughter of William Wilson.  They have one
child -- Lyda.  Mr. and Mrs. Osborn are members of the Society of Friends.


Bio. of Zimri C. Osborn-1982


   Blackford and Grant Counties, Indiana, Vol. I, Chicago and New York,
   The Lewis Publishing Co., 1914.  Page 514.  (transcript)
   Also in Centennial History of Grant County, Indiana, Chicago,
   The Lewis Publishing Co., 1914.
   [See an older bio. of Zimri C. Osborn-1982]

   Zimri C. Osborn.  The Osborn farm in section three of Fairmount township
is one of the old estates of Grant county, and has been the home of Zimri C.
Osborn for nearly forty years.  He comes of a family which has been
identified with eastern Indiana, since pioneer days and is himself a Grant
county native, whose memory goes back to the years before the first
railroads were constructed in this locality.  It has been his privilege to
witness a remarkable development of all the modern facilities of life and
industry, and in his home community his part has been that of an
industrious, honorable, and intelligent citizen.
   The Osborn family back in North Carolina, lived either in Randolph or
Guilford county.  His grandfather Peter Osborn was born in one of those
counties, owned some land and did farming on a small scale, but his regular
occupation was that of skilled mechanic and wheelwright.  His life was
prolonged to old age, and he passed away in his native county and state.
His brother Charles Osborn was one of the most famous Quaker preachers in
the early part of the nineteenth century, and extended mention of his career
is printed in many books and can be found in standard collections of early
American biographies.  Peter Osborn married a North Carolina girl, and they
had a number of children.
   Henry Osborn, father of Zimri C. was born in North Carolina, May 9, 1804,
grew up in his native county, acquired a large part of his father's genius
for mechanics, and while never following the trade regularly was able to
make anything that could be fashioned with carpenter's tools.  Practically
all his household furniture was manufactured by his own hands.  He married,
in North Carolina, Miss Mary Parson, who was born in that vicinity, and died
in Grant county, Indiana.    Her mother was a member of an old-school
Baptist church.  Mary Osborn was born about 1810, and was the second wife of
Henry Osborn.  His first wife was a Miss Wheeler, who died a few years after
their marriage, leaving a son, Alveron.  By the second marriage Henry Osborn
and wife had one son, Jonathan, born in North Carolina.  Then, with his wife
and two sons, he started north, and one horse drew the wagon across the Blue
Ridge Mountains and over the long distance intervening between North
Carolina and Indiana.  After a journey of some five or six weeks, they
landed in Fairmount township, of Grant county, finding a location between
Glacier Lake and the Mississinewa River.  There he lived on the old
McCormick land, and also entered forty acres of government land.  Later, by
trading and purchase, he acquired property near the village of Fairmount,
where he and his wife spent the rest of their days.  Henry Osborn died in
1886, at the age of eighty-two, and his wife survived and passed away when
seventy-eight.  Their church was the Methodist, and for some years he had
been a class leader.  They were honored and substantial people, always held
in high respect in their community.  Henry Osborn is remembered as a skilled
Nimrod, and the old gun with which he had killed many deer, wild turkey, and
other game, is now owned as a prized heirloom by his son Zimri.  In politics
he was most of his life a Democrat.  The children of Henry Osborn were as
follows: Alveron, mentioned as the child of his first marriage, enlisted as
a Union soldier, and died of illness while in Kentucky, leaving a wife and
children.  Jonathan, the first child of the second marriage, was born in
North Carolina, was married four times, and had children by two of his
wives; he died at the age of sixty-two.  Emeline became the wife of William
G. Lewis, prominent among the old settlers of Grant county and equally noted
as a hunter, a class leader and preacher in the Methodist church, having
assissted in the organization of the church in Fairmount township, and as a
farmer.  William G. Lewis died about five years ago, while his widow is
still living.  Louisa J., first married James G. Payne, and is now Mrs.
Charles Thom of Fairmount township, and is the mother of a number of
children.  Emma and John both died in childhood.  William whose home is in
Missouri has children by his first wife.  The seventh child is Zimri C.
Rachael died in the prime of life after he marriage to Milton Brewer,
leaving no children.
   Zimri C. Osborn was born in Fairmount township, March 2, 1845.  His early
training was received in this locality and his education was acquired by the
somewhat primitive country schools of that day.  All his life has been spent
in Fairmount township, and farming with him has been a business pursued both
profitably and pleasantly.  In 1875 he bought the land in his home farm,
amounting to one hundred and ten acres, lying in section two and section
thirty-four, his residence being on section two.  The improvements are of
the best class, including a good eight-room house and a large barn, and one
of the features about the place which distinguishes it from many of its
neighbors is a large orchard, where he raises quantities of apples, peaches,
plums, cherries, etc.  His general crops are oats, wheat and corn, and he
feeds most of them to his own stock.
   Mr. Osborn was first married in Fairmount township to Miss Nancy Leach,
daughter of John Leach.  She was born in this section of Grant county, May
17, 1849, and died at her home, May 24, 1893.  She belonged to the Methodist
Protestant church.  He children were as follows: John, a farmer in Rush
county, Indiana, who married Clara Dugan, and they have one son, Luther.
William, who lives on a farm in Fairmount township, married Lela Davis, and
they had one son, Clyde, now deceased.  Emeline, died at the age of three
months.  Louisa is the wife of Ellsworth Smith, a farmer, and their three
children are Claude, Rosa, and Evert.  Jane, is the wife of John Ayers, of
Rush county, Indiana, a farmer, and they have as children, Maybell, Edna,
and Irene.  Cooper is a farmer in Whitley county, Indiana, and by his
marriage to Ida Cash has four children, Arthur, Roy, Jesse, and Edna.
Edmond whose home is in Fairmount township, married Nora Kirkpatrick and has
a son Charles.  Rachael, who lives with her father is the widow of Frank
Monohan, and her two children are Ovid and Gladys.
   The present wife of Mr. Osborn was a Georgian girl, Miss Martha Blair.
They were married December 9, 1897.  Mrs. Osborn was born in Georgia, in
1852, was reared and educated there, and her parents were Huston and Eliza
(Yarber) Blair.  Her father was born in Tennessee in 1831, and died in
Georgia, in 1910, while her mother was born in South Carolina in 1823, and
died in 1885.  They were members of the Missionary Baptist church, in which
Mr. Blair was a deacon.  Mr. and Mrs. Osborn are both very prominent members
and workers in the Methodist Protestant church of Fairmount township.  Mr.
Osborn has been a class leader, exhorter, and is the oldest member of the
society in this locality, having taken much part in the organization and the
upbuilding of the church for many years.  In politics he is a
Prohibitionist.


Bio. of Zimri C. Osborn-1982


   History of Grant County, Indiana, Chicago, Brant and Fuller, 1886.
   Page 731.  (transcript)
   [See a more recent bio. of Zimri C. Osborn-1982]

   ZIMRI C. OSBORN, farmer, Fairmount, was born in Grant County, Ind.,
March 2, 1845. His parents, Henry and Mary (Parsons<sic>) Osborn, were
natives of North Carolina; the former born May 19, 1804, his wife, January
26, 1809.  They were married in their native State and came to Grant County
in 1832.  His father located in Fairmount Township and was a resident of
the county until his death, in 1884.  Mrs. Osborn still resides in the
county.  Our subject was reared on his father's farm, and acquired a fair
English education by attending the common schools of his native county.
The inclination of his early life led him to adopt the vocation of farming,
at which he has ever since been engaged with marked success.  In 1867 he
was united in marriage with Miss Nancy L. Leach, who was born May 17, 1849,
in Grant County, Ind., and a daughter of John and Mary Leach. Seven living
children were born to this union, namely: John H. D., William O., Sarah
L.E., Martha J., Peter C., Edward J. and Rachel E. F. Mr. and Mrs. Osborn
are members of the Methodist Church.  They are upright and honest and
esteemed by all who know them.


Bio. of Eli Phillips


   History of Hendricks County, Indiana, Chicago, Interstate Publishing
   Co., 1885.  Page 556.  (Clay Twp)  (transcript)

   Eli Phillips, deceased, was one of the first settlers of Clay Township.
He was born in Stokes County, N.C. in 1805.  He was reared in his native
county and there married Peggy Cosner, who was born in 1814, a daughter of
John and Abigail Cosner, who came from North Carolina in 1832 and settled
in Clay Township, Hendricks Co., Ind., where the father died in 1849 and the
mother Jan. 1, 1861.  In 1833 Mr. Phillips moved to Indiana and settled on a
tract of wild land on sections 33 and 34, Clay Township, on which he lived
till 1867, when he moved to Amo, where he died Jan. 1, 1881.  To Mr. and
Mrs. Phillips were born twelve children, all in Clay Township; six are
living -- William; Pamelia wife of Bennet Osborn; Phoebe, wife of William
Beason; Abigail, wife of William Demoss, of Kansas; Jane, wife of John
Walls, of Stilesville, and Arcada, wife of Dr. H.C. Summers.  Mrs. Phillips
makes her home with her daughter, Mrs. Summers.  She has one brother and
four sisters living older than she.  The eldest, Mrs. Mary Vass, was born
Jan. 1, 1795.


1885 Bio. of John A. Osborne-1571


   History of Hendricks County, Indiana, Chicago, Interstate Publishing
   Co., 1885.  Page 601.  (transcript)
   [See the 1895 bio. of John A. Osborne-1571]
   [See the bio. of Nicholas Osborn-1572]
   [See the bio. of James H. Osborne-1575]
   [See the bio. of H.S. Osborn]

   Dr. John A. Osborne, druggist, Stilesville, Ind., is a representative of
one of the pioneer families of Hendricks County, a son of Hardin and
Priscilla (Tincher) Osborne.  Hardin Osborne was born in Rockcastle County,
Ky., in 1804.  His father, Nicholas Osborne, was a native of Virginia, and
when a young man moved to Kentucky, where he married Susanna Roberts, and in
1824, moved with his family to Hendricks County, Ind., and located in Clay
Township, entering the land now owned by Isaac Ratliff.  Seven or eight
years later he moved to Liberty Township where he died at the age of
eighty-seven years.  Hardin was the eldest of a large family.  He was
married near the present village of Amo, in August, 1829.  Four or five
years later he settled in Clay Township, where he died March 8, 1863.  His
widow is still living and makes her home with her children.  They had a
family of eleven children, eight sons and three daughters, nine of whom are
living.  Five sons served in the war of the Rebellion.  Thomas J. was a
member of the Ninety-ninth Indiana Infantry, and died at La Grange, Tenn.,
in January, 1863.  Nicholas served three years, a member of the Seventieth
Indiana Infantry.  He was wounded in the left arm, and has never recovered
from its effects.  Silas enlisted in October, 1861, in the Fifty-first
Indiana Infantry, and was killed in 1863, while with Colonel A.D. Streight
on his raid through Georgia.  William B. was a member of the same company
and was captured while on the raid and imprisoned several months.  He
re-enlisted and served about five years.  James H. served three years in the
Seventieth Indiana Infantry.  The other surviving children are -- Mrs.
Nancy Jane Bercham, of Lincoln, Neb.; Melinda, wife of William M. Reitzel;
John A., George W., Henry C., and Mrs. Sudie Harrison, of Vigo County, Tenn.
Dr. John A. Osborne was born in Liberty Township, Hendricks Co., Ind.,
May 6, 1841.  When twenty-two years of age he began the study of medicine
at Belleville, with Drs. Moore & Kennedy, and in 1864 attended lectures at
Rush Medical College, Chicago, Ill.  He graduated from the Indiana Medical
College, Indianapolis, in 1871.  He practiced two years in Clinton County,
Ind., and then returned to Hendricks County, where he has since lived.  In
1878 he was elected Recorder of Hendricks County and served four years.  His
health became impaired and he was unable to practice, and after the
expiration of his term of office engaged in farming till Feb. 18, 1885, when
he located in Stilesville, and became established in the drug business.  He
was married to Harriet W. Kay, a native of Ohio.  They have three children
-- Maud, Inez and Harry.


Bio. of H.S. Osborne-5970


   History of Fayette County, Indiana, Indianapolis, B.F. Bowen, 1917.
   Page 828.  (transcript)
   [See the bio. of John A. Osborne-1571]

H.S. OSBORNE, M.D.
   Dr. H.S. Osborne, physician and surgeon at Glenwood and the proprietor of
the Glenwood garage, is a native son of Indiana and has lived in this state
all of his life.  He was born at New Winchester, in Hendricks county,
December 16, 1877, son of Dr. John A. and Harriet W. (Kay) Osborne, the
former of whom was born in that same county and the latter, in the state of
Ohio, whose last days were spent in New Winchester, a pleasant village seven
miles west of Danville, where Dr. John A. Osborne was engaged in the
practice of medicine for forty-six years, or until his death on March 1,
1911.  He had served a term as recorder of Hendricks county and for sixteen
years was a member of the board of pension examiners for that district.
Fraternally, he was affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
His wife had preceded him to the grave a little more than one year, her
death having occurred on December 16, 1909.  She was born near Jamestown,
Ohio, and was about eight years of age when her parents moved to Hendricks
county, this state, where she was living when she married Doctor Osborne.
   H.S. Osborne grew up at New Winchester and supplemented the course in the
local schools there by a course in the high school at Danville, from which
he was graduated.  He then attended Bloomingdale Academy and after a further
course there entered the Central Normal College at Danville, from which he
presently has graduated.  From the days of his boyhood, under the able
preceptorship of his father, he had been devoting his thoughtful attention
to the study of medicine and upon leaving college entered the medical
department of the University of Kentucky at Louisville and was graduated
from that institution in 1900, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine.  Upon
receiving his diploma Doctor Osborne opened an office for the practice of
his profession at Pittsboro, in his home county, and was there engaged in
practice for twelve years, at the end of which time, in 1912, he moved to
Glenwood, opened an office there and has been engaged in practice there
ever since, having built up an extensive practice throughout that part of
Fayette county and in the neighboring county of Rush.  Not long after
locating at Glenwood, Doctor Osborne bought the garage at that place and has
since been operating the same.  He is a Republican and, fraternally, is
affiliated with the Connersville lodge of the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks.
   Dr. H.S. Osborne has been twice married.  His first wife, Grace McCowan,
died, leaving one child, a daughter, Gladys, and later the Doctor married
Madge Morgan, who was born in Benton county, this state, a daughter of
Wilbur F. and Addie (Blessing) Morgan, and whose maternal grandfather,
George Blessing, was a resident of Pittsboro.  To this union one child has
been born, also a daughter, Virginia.  Doctor and Mrs. Osborne have a very
pleasant home at Glenwood and take a proper interest in the general social
activities of their home town, helpful in promoting all agencies having to
do with the advancement of the common welfare thereabout.


Bio. of A.T. Osborn


   History of Wabash County, Indiana, Chicago, John Morris, printer, 1884.
   Page 369.  (transcript)

   A.T. OSBORN. This gentleman was born in Clinton County, Ohio, December
16, 1846, the oldest son of W.E. and Rachael (Murphy) Osborn.  A.T. Osborn
received a fair education, and followed farming until seventeen years of
age, when prompted by patriotic emotions in 1863, he enlisted in the
Forty-seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry, with which gallant regiment he
participated in numerous hard fought battles, among which may be mentioned
Port Gibson, Black River, Champion Hill.  He served until the close of the
war, and was discharged on account of physical disability in June, 1865.
Returning to Wabash County, he attended school two years, and on March 16,
1868, he married Miss M.A. Thompson, a native of Lake County, Ohio, born in
1847.  They are the parents of four children, viz.: William E., Estella E.,
Albert T. and Flora R.  After marriage Mr. Osborn resided on the premises he
now occupies, subsequently moving to Kokomo, Ind., and afterward to Xenia,
where in company with his father, he conducted an extensive hardware trade,
finally returning to his present home in 1879.  He is active in promoting
popular education, and is highly esteemed throughout the community.


Bio. of James Osborn-3142


  Biographical and Historical Record of Vermillion County, Indiana,
  Chicago, Lewis Publishing Co., 1888.  Page 498.  (transcript)

HON. JAMES OSBORN, a lumber dealer of Dana, Indiana, was born in Vermillion
Township, Vermillion County, Indiana, January 8, 1838.  His father, James
Osborn, was born in Ohio, and came to Indiana in 1820, settling in the
wilderness, where the principal inhabitants were Indians and wild animals.
Our subject was reared on his father's farm, remaining at home until
manhood.  He was given good educational advantages, attending the schools of
his native county.  He gave his attention to agricultural pursuits until
1882, when he moved to Dana, and engaged in the mercantile business, which
he continued about three years.  In the spring of 1886 he began dealing in
lumber, keeping on had a good supply of all kinds, both hard and soft wood,
and has built up a good trade.  While he was engaged in farming he also for
several years bought and shipped grain quite extensively.  Mr. Osborn has
always been a prominent man in this county, and represented his district one
term in the Legislature.  In 1874 he was elected treasurer of the county and
served two terms.  He is an active member of the Masonic fraternity.  Mr.
Osborn was married March 26, 1862, to Margaret M. Martin, a native of Bond
County, Illinois, and a daughter of John Martin.


Bio. of John W. Osborn


   History of Parke and Vigo Counties, Indiana, or
   History of Vigo and Parke Counties, Indiana, Chicago, H.H. Hill
   and N. Iddings, Publishers, 1880.  Page 169.  (transcript)
   [Portrait of John W. Osborn accompanies the biography]

   J.W. Osborn.  A biographical sketch written by the late S.B. Gookins of
the pioneer editor of the Wabash valley.  The editor and proprietor of the
first newspaper published in the town of Terre Haute, Indiana, was born at
St. Johns, New Brunswick, February 7, 1794.  He was the second son of Capt.
Samuel Osborn, a gallant and accomplished officer in the British navy.  His
grandfather and eldest brother, Capt. William Osborn, were also both
officers in the service of his majesty the king of England.  Also his
maternal grandfather, for whom he was named, held a captain's commission and
was an intimate friend of Gen. Brock, acted as commissary general, etc., and
filled many places of trust.  William Osborn, the eldest son of Capt. Samuel
Osborn Jr., was promoted to a captaincy very young for bravery during
several sharp engagements at sea.  Thus by the divine right of inheritance
and early associations Mr. John W. Osborn was fitted for the sturggles and
difficulties of pioneer life which need a brave heart, untiring devotion,
progressive and aggressive, to the principles of right.  Mr. Osborn's mother
was Alice Wilson, the daughter of John Wilson and Rebecca Thixton, his wife.
She was born on Staten Island.  She was educated in New York, where the
family lived always a part of each year, her father being an officer in the
British army, loyal to his king.  They left the United States and made a new
home in Canada, living sometimes at Halifax, Quebec, Montreal, Canancoqua,
and finally settling down at Toronto, buying land and laying, as they
supposed, a permanent foundation for a home.  Col. Wilson sent to Scotland
and brought out a hundred families and settled them upon his lands in
Canada, and, believing in the magic power of the press to enlighten and
civilize, he sent to England and had a printing press, type and men to do
the work sent out to the almost wilderness.  Col. Joseph Willcox, who was a
member of the provincial parliament, an ardent politician, an educated
Irish gentleman and a republican, was associated with Mr. Osborn in
publishing the "Upper Canada Guardian and Freeman's Journal."  Mr. Osborn
late in life spoke of Col. Willcox as one whose name he loved, and,
referring to his association with him, said: "I then and there drank in the
principles of free government which have remained with me until this hour,
and which changed the whole course of my life."  Mr. Osborn's devotion to
republican institutions and his belief in the justness of the American cause
led him, on the breaking out of the war of 1812, to espouse, with all the
fire and energy of his nature, the side of free government.  On August 14 he
left country, home, kindred and friends, and crossed Lake Ontario from
Toronto to the United States, when he joined the American army, at which
action of his he alienated and grieved his relatives, expecially his
grandfather, who disowned and disinherited him.  Mr. Osborn did not
anticipate giving up his love and interest in Canada, but was sanguine in
his belief that Canada would become a part of the United States, would be
annexed, when he intended to return there.  He was induced, through the
representations of Mr. Denny, a book publisher, of Albany, to go to Homer,
Cortland county, New York, where he took charge of and edited the Cortland
"Republican," a paper still published there.  He, however, soon removed his
office to Cortlandville, the county seat, for a time.  His paper was
ardently devoted to the United States government.  He continued the
publication until 1816.  In that year Indiana was admitted to the Union as a
sovereign state, and the spirit of adventure, at that time rife in the land,
led him, with many others, to the inviting fields of the then Far West.  In
1817 he came to Vincennes, and soon afterward secured the office of the
"Western Sun," the first newspaper published in Indiana.  At that time the
slavery question was much discussed.  The ordinance of 1787, excluding
slavery from the territory northwest of the Ohio river, was almost
universally disregarded.  Slaves were held at Vincennes and other places,
and were bought and sold.  Indiana had just been admitted to the Union, and
having by a clause in her constitution prohibited slavery, the holders of
slaves became uneasy, and as a consquence a scheme was adopted for making
what profit they could out of the stock on hand, which was to be carried out
by running the negroes off to the slave states and selling them.
Adventurers were found who were willing to go into the business of
kidnapping for a profit.  This was winked at by many of the most popular and
influential men, and for anyone to espouse the cause of the slave was to
subject himself to odium, not to say contemptuous persecution, of a majority
of the people in that region.  But the proscribed race were not without
friends, and one of the most active of these was Mr. Osborn.  Having
suffered immeasurably from separation from home, kindred and friends on
account of his devotion to the principles of freedom, he did not propose to
accept a mere sham and pretense for the precious boon he sought at so great
a sacrifice.  He not only protested, but defended, the negro, and pursued
the kidnapper and rescued his victims.  He, cooperating with others like
minded, carried the question to the supreme court, and obtained a decision
which set at rest forever the question of slavery in Indiana.  In 1823 Mr.
Osborn came to Terre Haute and established the "Western Register."  The
first number was printed July 21, and created quite a sensation.  A
newspaper really and truly printed in the wilderness!  Men, women and
children came from all the country around to see the great wonder,
especially on publication days.  The "Western Register's" motto was "No dupe
to party tool of power, nor slave to minions of an hour."  The paper was
conducted upon the most liberal principles, was instructive and wide awake
upon all questions of home and foreign government, and the development of
our rich and lively valley of the Wabash.  Mr. Osborn was cotemporary with
Robert Owen, Rapp, Flower, and many others of less note, would-be reformers,
but all his teachings had the true ring of patriotism and Christianity.
During the summer of 1823 Mr. Osborne<sic> made one of his characteristic
exploring trips on horseback up the Wabash river, intending to visit Fort
Dearborn, now Chicago.  Early one lovely morning he arrived at the
Tippecanoe battle-ground, where he discovered that after the soldiers had
left the field the Indians had returned and dug up the remains of the brave
heroes and stripped, scalped and tomahawked them and left them to be
devoured by wild beasts, and the bones had lain bleaching in the sun and
storms for twelve years.  When Mr. Osborn returned to Terre Haute he had an
interview with Capt. Nathaniel Huntington, and induced him to proceed with
his company of cavalry, the Wabash Greens, to Tippecanoe.  The remains of
the brave men were carefully collected by them and reinterred with military
honors.  Mr. Osborn was ever ready to render honor to the generous, noble
and brave, and quick scorn and flashing indignation for the mercenary and
selfish.  One summer day in the year 1828 he was passing by the court-house
square, and, lying partly concealed by some hazel bushes, he saw a man
senseless, apparently dead.  The man was only drunk!  Mr. Osborn had known
him in Toronto a prominent merchant, and honored man.  He covered the poor
wretch's face to protect it from sun, insects and the derision of
passers-by.  From that hour he was an uncompromising temperance man.  His
heart swelled with indignation toward the man who for a few cents would see
a fellow man degraded and wallowing in the dust, and from this incident
probably the first temperance movement in the country originated.
Education, free education, was another subject of intense interest to him.
During the year 1829 his health gave way, caused by his untiring exertions,
and he retired from the editorial chair and went upon his farm, five miles
south of the city, from which he received great benefit.  In 1834 his old
feeling in regard to the power and importance of the "press" returned, and
feeling that there was great value in the knowledge and talents that he
possessed, he looked about him for a field of action, and decided upon
Greencastle, Putnam county, considering it a healthy, desirable region of
country.  He purchased a printing office and sent out his paper, the
"Ploughboy," broadcast, and inclosed in it a small temperance paper which he
published in pamphlet form, of eight pages, and sent to his subscribers
gratuitously, called the "Temperance Advocate," the first temperance paper
ever published in the west.  Temperance in those days was as unpopular as
warning against slavery, and required unbounded moral courage and a trace of
"fighting blood," both of which he inherited in good measure from a brave
and chivalrous ancestry.  This paper was devoted to the interests of
agriculture, education and temperance, in the promotion of all which he was
a zealous and efficient laborer.  In Greencastle he was surrounded by
congenial associates, Dr. Alex. Stephenson, Dr. Tarvin and Judge Cowgill,
Rees, Hardesty and others.  To Mr. Osborn's exertions were due in a great
measure the establishment at Greencastle of the Indiana Asbury University,
the leading educational institution of the state of the Methodist
denomination, of which he was a conscientious, active member.  He was one of
the first trustees of Asbury University.  In 1838 he removed his
establishment to Indianapolis, changed the name to the "Indiana Farmer and
Stock Register," was elected state printer, also continued the publication
of his temperance paper.  At the close of his term of office he retired from
the press on account of ill health, but was a contributor to various local
journals during most of his life.  When the war of the rebellion broke out,
too old to take the field and too zealous a supporter of the government to
permit of his remaining idle, he went to Sullivan, county seat of Sullivan
county, and published a war campaign paper under the title of the "Stars and
Stripes," where he rendered valuable service to the Union cause.  This was
his last venture in journalism.  His health continued to decline until his
death, which occurred in Greencastle on November 12, 1866.  His latest hours
were marked by painful disease, patient resignation and Christian faith.


William Osborn-991 Family Bible


   Transcribed from photocopy contributed by Margaret Williams
   No publication information for the Bible.
   [See the Obit. for Anna (Osborn-9732) Lineberry]

Births
William Osborn was born May the 27th 1799
Elizabeth his wife was born the 11th 4mo 1802
Aseneth daughter of Willian<sic> and Elizabeth Osborn was born
   6th of 9mo 1819
Enoch son of William and Elizabeth Osborn was born the 20th of 2mo 1821
Elizabeth Osborn was born the 20th of 2mo 1821
David Lindsay son of William and Elizabth<sic> Osborn was born 2nd 10mo 1822
Eli son of William and Elizabeth Osborn was born 5th of 9mo 1825
Anna daughter of William and Elizabeth Osborn was born 22nd of 9mo 1827
Elizabeth daughter of William and Elizabeth Osborn was born 8th of 11mo 1828
Cyrene daughter of Willim<sic> and Elizabeth Osborn was born the
   16th of 8mo 1830
William Pembrocke son of William and Elizabeth Osborn was born
   22nd of 3mo 1833
Benjamin Frank<hole in page> son of William and Elizabeth Osborn was born
   21st of 9mo 1838
Eunice Loueser daughter of William and Elizabeth Osborn was born the
   9th of 2mo 1845

The following is from a transcript from Margaret Williams of additional
records in the Bible:

David Clakson<sic> son of Tobias and Elizabeth Julian was born
   19th of 6mo. 1851
Anna Elizabeth daughter of D.C. and Mary Jane Julian was born (page
   torn but looks like 1872.)
Joseph Albion son of Franklin and his wife was born October the 2nd 1871
   and died July the 22nd 1874.
William Marsh son of Benjamin F. and Helly (?) L. Osborn was born January
   the 20th 1874
Asa J. Martin born 7th 4mo 1824
Nancy Elizabeth Swift was bornd Apriel<sic> 6, 1859


Obit. for Anna (Osborn-9732) Lineberry


   Photocopy contributed by Margaret Williams.
   From a Marshall, IN newspaper, no date.
   [See the William Osborn-991 Family Bible]

OBITUARY.
   Anna Osborn, daughter of Wm. and Elizabeth Osborn was born in Randolph
county, N.C. September 22, 1827, died March 3<sic>, 1914, age 86 years, 6
months, and 23<sic> days.  She was married to Edwin W. Lineberry February
17, 1848; to this union was born seven children, one dying in infancy.  The
six living are: Wm G., Charles W., Elmina C., Louisa M., Addison A., and
Anna E.  These with the grandchildren were with her doing what they could to
relieve her intense suffering.  She was a true and loving mother, undergoing
much of sacrifice and privation in the raising of her children; especially
during the Civil War.  The husband was drafted into the army and forced to
leave the wife with the helpless family; yet the mother went bravely forward
with heroic efforts to supply a subsistance for them.  Early in her married
life she was awakened to a sense of her sins, and was wonderfully converted;
her ears were saluted by strains of music which could not be equaled, except
by the heavenly chorus.
   The family emigrated to this country in 1873 and she has since resided in
Parke county.  For over twenty-seven years, she knew the loneliness of
widowhood, and the most of this time has been an inmate of the home of her
youngest daughter, Anna E. Mills where all was done that could be done to
smooth life's rugged path way.  She was a life long member of the Friends
church, strictly adhering to the plainess of dress as was common in her early
days.  She was an ardent admirer of Robert Barclay's "Defense of Quakerism"
quoting therefrom easily as perhaps few, if any of the present generation
can.  Her last testimony was she had a good Master all the way along and she
hoped for the bright home free from pain and sorrow.
   She leaves to mourn her loss three sons and three daughters, sixteen
grandchildren, fourteen great grandchildren and a large
<Photocopy ends here>
<What follows is from a typed transcript also provided by Margaret Williams>
host of friends.  Funeral services were held at the Friends church at
Bloomingdale.  Services were conducted by Rev. Reagan, burial at Bloomingdale
cemetery.

   Another link is broken another dear one gone,
      To us is plainly spoken you soon must follow on;
   So let our lamps be burning at morning, noon or night,
      To Jesus always turning and thus walk in the light.