460 HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY of Amos Hixson and granddaughter of Abner Hixson, who served for seven years as a soldier in the Revolutionary army, and spent his last days on a farm near Trenton, New Jersey. Amos Hixson was born in New Jersey and after learning the shoemakers trade removed to Penn— sylvania. locating near Harrisburg. A few years later he migrated to Hamilton county, Ohio, making the removal on horseback, and being nineteen days on the way. Coming to Indiana in 1835. he bought a small piece of land in the northwest quarter of section nineteen.Perry township and there during the remainder of his active years followed his trade of shoemaker, living until ninety—one years old. He married Elizabeth Wolverton, who was born October 25. 1783, and died at the age of seventy-seven years. Their daughter Mary , who married Samuel Jackson attained the age of eighty-eight years, passing away December 25, 1905. She reared nine children, as follows Thornton Andrew Maria J wife of Mr. Sparks Amos William F. John M. Samuel Edwin and Mary Ellen. All of these children married and reared children. Eight children blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Sparks, namely Sarah A., Mary E., Hiram, James, William, George M., Stella J., and Owen. Sarah, who married James French, died at the age of twenty- nine years, leaving one son, Ray French. Mary E., wife of Edgar Stone- burner, has five children, Harlan, Elmer, Guy, Worth A. and Audrey May. Hiram married Ella Vandyke, and they have three children, Orville, Everett and Carl. James married Ella Dalrymple, and they have one son, Austin. William married Roxie Larew, and they have one son, Floyd. George M. married Donnie Jackson, and they have two children, Elva May and Mary J. Stella, the wife of Charles Fiscus, has four chil— dren, Ethel, Goldie, Lucy and Hazel. Mr. and Mrs. Sparks have one great-grandchild, Archie, son of Ray and Lula (Longnecker) French. MARION McCULLOUGH.—Numbered among the successful agricul— turists of Perry township is Marion McCullough, a man of industry, thrift and enterprise, whose general worth impresses those with whom he comes in contact very strongly. A native of Indiana, he was born December 30, 1848, in Washington township, Putnam county, being the fourth son in succession of birth of West and Matilda (Mills) McCul- lough. Further parental and ancestral history may be found elsewhere in this volume in connection with the sketch of W. H. McCullough Reared and educated in his native township, Mr. McCullough remained with his parents until his marriage. Coming then to Clay county he lived for two rears in Cass township. On April 25, 1873, he bought one hundred and ten acres of land in section 10 Perry township, on which a few cleared acres, a log house and a pole barn constituted the only improvements. Laboring with characteristic energy and ambi- tion he cleared a large part of the place, and lived there until March 4, 1886. Selling out at that time, Mr. McCullough bought his present farm in section 3, Perry township, and is here busily employed in tilling the soil, having his one hundred and twenty acres of land in an excellent yielding condition, his annual harvests being most satisfactory in quantity and quality. He and his family occupied the log house which stood upon the place when he bought it until November, 1903, when they moved into the substantial and conveniently arranged frame house which he built.