Carroll-Miami County IN Archives Biographies.....Ayres, John W. 1838 - 1909
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

JOHN W. AYRES.

   The career of the late John W. Ayres was one marked by earnest and
indefatigable application, not only to his personal affairs, but to the welfare
of the public generally. At the time of his death, on January 2, 1909, in
Democrat township, Carroll county, Indiana, he was one of the best-known
citizens of the township. He served as a valiant soldier in the Civil War and
there laid the foundation of a lofty character, which marked all of the
relations of his life. He enjoyed a large measure of the popular confidence and
esteem, and at his death had a host of friends, who mourn his loss, besides the
widow, who had journeyed with him along the pathway of life, and his children.

   The late John W. Ayres was born on June 20, 1838, the son of William Ayres, a
native of Virginia. John W. Ayres was born in Virginia, and at the age of two
years, his mother having died, the family was brought to a farm near Peru,
Indiana. Later, however, the father took the family back to Virginia. John W.
lived in the Old Dominion state until a young man and then came back to Indiana
a couple of years before the outbreak of the Civil War.

   In 1861 John W. Ayres enlisted in Company H, Third Indiana Cavalry, and was
attached to the Forty-fifth Regiment He served for three years and then returned
to Indiana and was married on January 3, 1867, to Caroline Tinkle. Mrs. Ayres is
the daughter of Isaac T. and Mahalia (Douden) Tinkle, the former of whom was
born in the Old Dominion state, of Dutch ancestry, his father being Henry
Tinkle. Isaac Tinkle came with his parents to Indiana when a mere lad. He
entered one hundred and sixty acres or more of land from the government and grew
up on this farm. His wife was the daughter of Augustus Douden, whose family
emigrated to Indiana from Preble county, Ohio. Mahalia Douden accompanied her
father to Indiana when a young woman. Her mother died in Ohio and the family
settled on the farm now known as the Parse farm, near where Isaac Tinkle lived.
Mahalia Douden grew up in this neighborhood and there she met Isaac Tinkle.
After their marriage, they settled on a farm one and one-half miles south of
where Mrs. John W. Ayres now lives. They lived there for two or three years and
then moved to the farm now known as the Butcher farm, where Mrs. Ayres was born
on March 28, 1851. They lived here for a great many years. He died at Greenwood,
Indiana, on February 11, 1914, and his wife in Frankfort, Indiana, a good many
years previously. They had ten children, all of whom, except two, grew to
manhood and womanhood. Six are now living, as follow: Alvah L. is a resident of
Newark, Ohio; Mrs. Ayres is the widow of the subject of this sketch; Dorcas M.
is the widow of Jonathan Cook, of Frankfort; Eveline is the wife of Joshua
Straughn, of London, Indiana; Martha E. is the widow of Newton Lung, of
Frankfort; Warren E. is a resident of near Greenwood, Marion county, Indiana.
The deceased children are: Mary Jane, who was the wife of Hendricks F. Parse;
Milton, who died at the age of fifteen; William H., who died on April 13, 1915,
and Emma, who died in infancy. Mrs. Ayres lived with her parents until her
marriage to John W. Ayres, in 1867.

   After Mr. and Mrs. Ayres were married, they removed to a farm three miles
east of Cutler, on the Burlington and Cutler pike. This farm consists of one
hundred and fifty-eight acres and is situated in Democrat township.

   Mr. and Mrs. Ayres had ten children, seven of whom are now living, as follow:
Flavius J., who is a farmer by occupation and married, is the father of three
daughters and one son; Ora R. lives at Flora, is married and is the father of
two sons and one daughter; Loretta, who is the wife of Charles Maggart, of
Southport, is the mother of one son; Daisy D., the wife of U. B. Thompson, of
Burlington, is the mother of one daughter and one son; Mildred M., who is the
wife of E. R. Whitledge, of Flora, took a business course at the Central Normal
College; John G., who lives at Russiaville, Indiana, and who is married, is the
father of three children, two sons and one daughter; Clayton F., who was married
to Grace B. Stuart, on October 7, 1915. The deceased children are: Luella, who
died at the age of two years; Martha E., who died at the age of two years, and
June B., who died at the age of twelve years.

   The late John W. Ayres was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic post at
Flora, Indiana. He was a Democrat in politics and served two consecutive terms
as trustee of Democrat township. Mrs. Ayres is a member of the Methodist
Episcopal church, and her husband was a trustee in the church for a good many
years before his death.


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Biographical Section of
HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY INDIANA

ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS
BY
JOHN C ODELL
With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and
Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families

ILLUSTRATED
1916
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana

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