HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY                          446

Chili. Improving a good farm, he resided upon it the remainder of his
life, passing away when upwards of eighty years old. He married a
Miss Albert, who was of German parentage, and who had a sister that
attained the remarkable age of one hundred and six years. She reared
six of her children, William, Nicholas, Henry, John, Jacob and Margaret.
    Henry Cutshall was born on the parental homestead near Chili, Ohio,
and was there brought up as a farmer. Starting in life on his own ac-
count, he bought a farm one and one-half miles west of Bakersville, on
White Eyes creek, and lived there until 1863. Disposing then of his Ohio
property, he came to Noblesville, Indiana, with a view of settling there.
Not pleased with the place, however, he returned to Ohio, and remained
in that state a few months. In 1864 he again came to Indiana, and after
spending a month in Owen county settled in Clay county, moving with
his family intQ a log cabin standing in the southern part of Brazil town-
ship. The following year he purchased a tract of land in section twenty-
six, Dick Johnson township, receiving a quit claim deed to the property.
Clearing an opening in the forest, he erectecf a log house, and had lived
there but five or six years when a man came along, claimed the land, and
paid him one hundred and fifty dollars for the improvements he had made.
He then purchased another tract of land in the same section, which in-
cludes the farm now owned and occupied by his son William. At that
time it was covered with the virgin timber, from which he cut down trees
to make room for a log house. He improved a valuable farm, replaced
the log cabin with a frame house, and there resided until his death. Sep-
tember 27, 1902, aged eighty-three years.. He married Anna Roshong,
who was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, a daughter of Daniel and Fanny
(Barnthouse) Roshong, the former of whom was born in France and the
latter in Ohio, of German ancestry. She died in October, 1902, aged
seventy-seven years, leaving the following-named children, Susan, Frank,
William H., Elizabeth, James M., Margaret, Daniel H. and Louisa.
    Eleven years old when he came with his parents to Clay county, Will-
iam H. Cutshall continued the studies which he had begun in Ohio in the
public schools, one of his teachers having been A. J. Doak, now of Terre
Haute. Since attaining manhood he has been a resident of Dick Johnson
township with the exception of the few years when as county treasurer
he lived in Brazil, and during the time has been engaged in agricultural
pursuits. Succeeding to the ownership of a part of the old homestead,
Mr. Cutshall has made valuable improvements, and in 1902 built the house
he now occupies. He is busily employed in general farming, gathering
pleasure as well as profit in his congenial occupation, and he has also for
thirty years been engaged in carpentering and contracting. Since 1895
he has contracted for and built a number of concrete bridges in Clay and
Vigo counties.
    On August 25, 1880, Mr. Cutshall married Lucy Crabb, who was
born and bred in this township, a daughter of Silas Blunt Crabb. Her
great-grandfather, William Crabb, Sr., emigrated from England, the place
of his birth, to Ohio, and for a number of years lived in either Highland
or Clinton counties. Later in life he came to Indiana, and as a pioneer
of Clay county entered a tract of government land not far from the pres-
ent site of Brazil, and there spent his remaining years, dying at a good
old age. William Crabb, Jr., the grandfather of Mrs. Cutshall and a
native of Ohio, came to Indiana in 1837, settling in Posey township, where
he entered forty acres of government land, which he occupied a number