Carroll County IN Archives Biographies.....Leib, Joseph F. 1844 - 1902
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

JOSEPH F. LEIB.

   The union soldier during the great war between the states builded wiser than
he knew. Through four years of suffering and wasting hardships, through the
horrors of prison pens and through the shadows of death, he layed the
superstructure for the greatest temple ever erected and dedicated to human
freedom. The world calls those soldiers sublime. Although it was theirs to
strike the chains from off the slaves and preserve the country from dissolution,
the cold type of history fails adequately to measure the service which they
performed. To the children of the generations yet unborn, it remains to record
the full measure of appreciation of these valiant American soldiers of the dark
days of the sixties, numbered among whom is the late Joseph F. Leib, of Democrat
township, Carroll county.

   Born in Fairfield county, Ohio, on December 16, 1844, the late Joseph F. Leib
was reared on the farm and educated in the public schools at Bremen, Ohio. He
received a good education and lived at home with his parents until his
enlistment in Company H, First Ohio Cavalry at the age of seventeen years. He
served in many engagements of the war and after the war returned home and lived
with his parents until October 11, 1866, when he was married to Martha J. Watts,
the daughter of Joseph F. and Luanda (Barbee) Watts. Mrs. Martha J. Leib was
reared on a farm in Franklin county, Ohio, and educated in the public schools,
at Westerville and Otterbein Universities. For some time, she was a teacher in
the public schools. Her father, Joseph F. Watts, and her mother, Lucinda
(Barbee) Watts, were both born and reared in Franklin county, Ohio, and grew up
in the same neighborhood. They lived in Franklin county until their deaths,
being farmers by occupation. They had eight children, six of whom lived to
maturity and three of whom are now living. John Watts is a resident of Columbus,
Ohio; Joseph Watts resides at Greenville, Illinois; Mrs. Martha J. (Watts) Leib
is the widow of the late Joseph F. Leib.

   To Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Leib were born three children, of whom one died at
the age of four years. Of the other two, Joseph E. married Jane Hufford and
operates a part of Mrs. Leib's farm; Nellie is the wife of Cyrus Richards and
they live on the Mrs. Leib's farm.

   After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Leib located in Champaign
county, Illinois, where Mr. Leib was engaged in farming and stock raising. He
became a well-known breeder of trotting and draft horses and was exceedingly
prosperous. In 1901 the family removed to Carroll county, Indiana, and located
on a farm of one hundred and eighty-seven acres in Democrat township. Mrs. Leib
still owns that farm. Her husband died on August 12, 1902.

   Although the late Joseph F. Leib was not a member of any church, he was a man
of strong religious prepossessions and one who gave liberally to the support of
all religious movements and enterprises. Fraternally, he was a member of the
Grand Army of the Republic. Mrs. Leib is a member of the United Brethren church.
She lives on her well-kept farm three and one-half miles northeast of Rossville;
a quiet unassuming woman, refined and cultured, devoted to good work and highly
respected in the neighborhood where she resides.


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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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