Carroll County IN Archives Biographies.....Coble, William B. 1835 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/in/infiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com March 21, 2006, 4:01 am Author: John C. Odell (1916) WILLIAM B. COBLE. William B. Coble, who is one of the most extensive landowners of Adams township, Carroll county, Indiana, and who is now living retired after having spent a most active and useful life in agriculture, is one of the oldest citizens of the township and a native not only of Carroll county, but of Jefferson township, where he lives. Year by year he has added to his holdings in farm property until now, at the advanced age of eighty years, he owns, together with his wife, six hundred and seventy-two acres of fine farming land in this county. Mr Coble was born in Carroll county, Indiana, on July 19, 1835. and is the son of David and Mary (Brady) Coble, the former of whom was born near Dayton, Ohio, on September 10, 1810, and who died in Jefferson township, Carroll county, Indiana, in 1873, at the age of sixty-three years. Mary (Brady) Coble, to whom David Coble was married when twenty-five years old, was the daughter of William and Jane (Davis) Brady. The Bradys claimed relationship with Jefferson Davis, the president of the Southern Confederacy. Mary Brady was born in Tippecanoe county, Indiana, although her parents were natives of Maryland. She died on August 24, 1837, when still a young woman, leaving two children, William B., the subject of this sketch, and Jefferson R., who died in Missouri. After her death, David Coble married Deborah Hobson, the daughter of Benjamin Hobson, a native of North Carolina. She died on October 19, 1880, at the age of sixty-four years, having borne her husband seven children, Eliza, Nelson J., Sarah Jane, Daniel, John, Riley, and Manford. Eliza is the wife of Asbury Gosley. Nelson J., who served his country during the Civil War, died shortly thereafter. Sarah Jane, deceased, was the wife of Henry Heiny. Daniel married Louise Peterson and lives in Adams township. He has three children, Reilly, who married George Finley, lives in Indianapolis. Manford is deceased. The late David Coble, who had farmed for his father when a boy, later bought one hundred and sixty acres of land in Jefferson township, Carroll county, to which he added until, at the time of his death in 1873, he owned two hundred and forty acres. Before the organization of the Republican party, he was identified with the Whig party, but thereafter voted the Republican ticket. William B. Coble, having received a common-school education, began life on his own responsibility in 1857, at the time of his marriage. He first rented from his father a farm in Adams township, but during the following years bought eighty acres of land in Adams township, which he leased. He then farmed his father-in-law's farm for five years and after that moved onto his own eighty acres of land, farming this for six years. Recently he purchased fifty-three acres, most of which he cleared and to which he made valuable improvements, including the erection of buildings, drainage and fencing. In the meantime he bought one hundred and twenty acres more land and afterward two tracts of eighty and eighty-nine acres, making in all four hundred and thirty-eight acres, which he himself owned. In addition, Mr. Coble's wife owns two hundred and thirty-four acres, so that together they own six hundred and seventy-two acres. William B. Coble was married, on March 15, 1857, to Sarah Crowel, the daughter of Abraham and Catherine (Million) Crowel, natives of the Buckeye state. Mrs. Coble was born in Miami county, Ohio, on January 15, 1839. Her father, who was a farmer by occupation, a Democrat in politics and a member of the Dunkard church, emigrated from Ohio to Jefferson township, Carroll county, Indiana, where he spent the rest of his life. He was twice married, the first time to Catherine Million, by whom he had eight children, and the second time to Anna Newman, by whom he had seven children. Mr. and Mrs. William B. Coble have had six children, namely: Lawson, who is a farmer in Adams township, married Tina Shawhan and they have one child; Mayard Harry was killed when sixteen years old; Arthur married Nettie Fidler and lives near Rockfield; they have three children; Martha Emma, who lives at home with her parents, married David Showhand and they have one child; Abraham, who married Grace Gibson and has five children, lives on a farm east of his father; Ella May, who married James Tyner, lives on her mothers farm, near Lockport. Mr. and Mrs. Coble are members of the Christian church. Mr. Coble is a Prohibitionist in politics and served for several terms on the advisory board of Adams township. He is known throughout the community where he lives, not only as a successful farmer, but as an upright, honorable, highly respected man and citizen. Additional Comments: Extracted from: 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 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/carroll/bios/coble170nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/infiles/ File size: 5.6 Kb