386                    HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY

married and at her death left one child; Adrenia is the wife of William
Diel; Albert married Carrie Grigsby, and they are the parents of three
children, Georgie, Albert and McDonald; and Ada, wile of Charles
Grigsby, has nine children, Edgar, Clara, Emily, Eunice, Ollie, Flossie,
Nellie, Harold and Ernest.

Henry F. Weber, one of tile well known agriculturists of Sugar
Ridge township, is a native son of the fatherland of Germany, born in
Hanover May 20, 1865. His parents, Christian and Mary (Wellman)
Weber, both died when he was small, and he was reared by relatives of
his father. There were hut two children in his parents' family, Henry
and a sister, and both came to America to join relatives in Poland, In
diana? where Henry remained for two years. He went thence to McLean
county, Illinois. but in two years returned to Clay county and bought

eighty acres of land in section 36, Sugar Ridge township, all of which
was covered with timber with the exception of tell acres He cleared
the remainder of tile land and prepared it for purposes of cultivation,
and in the meantime has also planted one acre to an orchartl of apple
trees and has erected a pleasant and commodious residence, barns and
other farm buildings. Me has aclrlcc! to tile boundaries of his farms at
different times until it now contains one hundred and sixty-four acres of
as fine and well improved land as lies in Clay county, and in addition to
his general farming he raises the double standard Durham and Short-
horn cattle, I'oland China hogs and I-'crcheron Norman and German
Coach horses.
       Mr. Weber was married on the 26th Of January, 1887, to Dena W.
'Asherman, who was born in Poland, Indiana, June 4, 1865, a daughter of
Henry and Caroline (Schrocler) Asherman, who were born in Hesse-
Castle, Germany. The mother died in 1869. when her daughter was lint
four years of age, and she lived with her brother until her marriage.Mr.
Weber has membership relations with the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, lodge No. 835 Of Saline City, and lie is an earnest and active
member of the United Brethren church at Saline City, in which he is
serving as a trustee and as the superintendent of the Sunday-school.

      Isaac Miller..The part of Indiana in which Clay county is
included has been developed by some of the most active and enterprising
men of this enterprising Country and age, and no portion of it has
responded more readily to the persuasions of axe and plowshare than
Harrison township. SumherecI among the earnest workers that have sc,
ably astisted in transforming the original wilderness into a rich and fer-
tile agricultural region Mr. Isaac Miller, Who has succeetletl to the owner-
ship of the homestead which his father. Christian Miller. redeemed from
the forest. He was born November 21 1838, in Lehigh count!-, Pennsyl-
vania, coming from honored patriotic stock, his great-grandfather on the
paternal side having as a Revolutionary soldier fought at the battle of
Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775. Jacoh Miller, grandfather of Isaac was
born in Carroll count-, Pennsylvania, and spent his entire life in his
native state. being employed as a tiller of the soil. His wife survived
him and died at the home of her son-in-law in Summit countv, Ohio,
aged ninety-two years.
      Born and reared in Lehih county, Pennsylvania, Christian Miller
resided there until 1843 In that year. joining a colony of fifty- people. all