HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY                              43

mother of Indiana. When quite a young man Samuel Cole came to Indi-
ana from Ohio, in 1849 locating at Cloverdale, Indiana, where he engaged
in the harness business and met his future wife. In 1872 he located at
Bowling Green, continuing in the same line for eleven years, and in 1882
making another change of business headquarters to Worthington, Greene
county. He is still actively engaged in business at that place, being in
partnership with his son, Charles B. Cole, who, with Mrs. Bogle, is the
only surviving child. The father has been an untiring worker in the
upbuilding of the Methodist church for the past fifty years. Fraternally
he is a Mason, and politically a Republican, He was master of the
Masonic lodge at Cloverdale for several years, and on his removal to
Worthington assisted in restoring the charter to Green Lodge No. 577,
of which lodge he was master for eight years.

    CHAUNCY NEAL ROBISON.—The Robison family have been identified
with the interests of Clay county since 1854, when John Robison, the
grandfather of Chauncy N., established his home in Dick Johnson town-
ship, and the name has ever since been prominently identified with its
agricultural development. Mr. Robison was a native of Ohio, and after
moving westward purchased eighty acres of land in Dick Johnson town-
ship, which he partly cleared and improved and which was his home until
within one year of his death, going then to Kansas and dying there. He
was a life-long supporter of Republican principles, a valued and worthy
member of the Christian church, and a man honored and revered by all
who knew him, and his acquaintances and friends were many. He mar-
ried Mary Baker, and they became the parents of ten children, six sons
and four daughters. The mother was a strict member of the Christian
church.
    One of this family was Thomas Robison, who was born in Ohio,
March 11, 1840, and he was but fourteen years of age at the time of the
emigration of his parents to Indiana. He attended in his youth the early
schools of Dick Johnson township, and in about the year of 1870 he moved
to Vigo county and bought a farm of eighty acres and remained there until
1895, when he left the farm to live with his children, He served two years
and eight months in the Civil war, participating in much hard service dur-
ing that time. He is not bound by party ties in his political affiliations, and
is a member of the Christian church. Mr. Robison was married in Brazil,
December 20, 1868, to Martha Jane Shattuck, who was born in Williams-
town and moved to Brazil at the age of six, and their family numbers
three children: John Franklin, born March 11, 1870; Chauncy Neal,
born February 16, 1873; and Theodore Ross, born January 8, 1875, the
eldest born in Clay county and the remainder in Vigo county. The mother
died when the youngest child was eight years of age. She was a member
of the Christian church.
    Chauncy N. Robison received his educational training in the schools
of Vigo county, and in Clay county, on the 23d of August, 1896, he was
married to Minnie Mercine Carter, a daughter of Lucius and Barbara A.
(Huffman) Carter, prominent and well-known farmers of Dick Johnson
township, where their daughter was born and reared. The only child of
this union is Josie May, born May 10, 1897. The wife and mother died
on the 29th of January, 1899, and on the 21st of October, 1902, Mr. Robi-
son wedded Katherine Kennedy, who was born in Dick Johnson township,
Clay county, November 12, 1881, a daughter of James and Martha J.