350 HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY on the 14th of December, 1864, and returning home attended two terms of school at Westfield, Illinois, when he became totally blind as a result of his army service. For two years he was confined at St. Luke’s Hos- pital in Cincinnati, where his sight was considerably improved, and on leaving the institution returned home for a week and then started on a trip to the Rocky Mountains in Wyoming, where he spent three years and a half. Returning once more to his Indiana home, he in time earned money with which to buy one hundred acres of land in section eight. Sugar Ridge township, to which he has since added until he now owns one of the finest farms in the county, consisting of two hundred and forty acres of well improved land and on which he has beautiful and convenient farm buildings. Mr. Moss was born in section nine of Sugar Ridge township October 15, 1843, and he attended the district schools of this neighborhood and the United Brethren College at Westfield, Illinois. He is a son of Jacob B. and Zorada (Jenkins) Moss, both of whom were born in Shelby county, Kentucky, the father a son of George and Lydia (Bilderback) Moss. They were born October 17, 1786, and March 24, 1789, were married in 1808, and died March 12, 1871, and October 12, 1871, respectively. The mother was a daughter of Ezekiel and Henrietta (Woodsmall) Jenkins, from Kentucky. The grandparents on both sides came to Sugar Ridge township. Clay county, Indiana, about 1820, enter- ing many acres of timber land in the vicinity of Center Point, and they lived here when the Indians were yet very numerous but friendly, and endured the many trials and hardships which are the concomitants of life on the frontier. Jacob B. Moss was given one hundred and sixty acres of timber land in section eight, which he cleared and placed under culti- vation, and he was a conservative farmer and a member of the Metho- dist Episcopal church. John C. was the third of his ten children, five sons and five daughters, and three of the sons and two of the daughters are yet living, but Rufus R., the last born, and John C. are the only ones living in Clay county. John C. Moss married, July 3, 1868, Melissa C. Bucklew, who was born in Lewis township, Clay county, October 4, 1846, a daughter of Joel A. and Susan Jane (Edmondson) Bucklew, of Tennessee. Her grandparents were William and Nellie (Hohtz) Bucklew, of Tennessee, the former a soldier in the war of 1812, and John and Sarah (Grayson) Edmondson, also from Tennessee and the maternal grandfather was a Methodist Episcopal minister. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Moss are: Quincy, the wife of Charles Burris, of Lewis township; Yonnie, wife of Angus Wills, of Terre Haute; Zora, wife of Albert Hoag and a gov- ernment teacher in the Philippines; Nena, who became the wife of C. W. Smith and died in February, 1887; and John C., born March 24, 1884. Mr. Moss is a member of Governor Mount Post No. 82, G. A. R. He organized Company G of the Cuban Guards and was made its captain. while D. C. Witty was the first lieutenant, but they were never assigned to service. He is also a member of the Odd Fellows fraternity, Lodge No. 251, of Ashboro, and affiliates with the Populist party. JAMES H. THROOP.—Prominent among the well known and highly esteemed citizens of Carbon is Janies H. Throop, who is there successfully engaged in mercantile pursuits, carrying a good stock of drugs and general merchandise. A son of Dr. George A. Throop, he was born