532                 HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY

No. 264, Ancient Free & Accepted Masons. Religiously both he and
his wife belong to the Christian church.

    Lewis ENGLEHART, who is known as one of the most prominent
business men and agriculturists of Jackson township, is a representative
of a pioneer family of Clay county, and the history of his parents is given
in the sketch of his brother, John W. Englehart, in this work. When a
boy of twelve Lewis Englehart came with his parents to Clay county,
Indiana, and he completed his educational training in the district schools
of Jackson township. His birth occurred in Tuscarawas county, Ohio,
June 21, 1853, and after leaving school he spent three years as a clerk in a
mercantile store in Bowling Green. Returning then to his father’s home-
stead he took charge of the farm, and this valuable old place has ever
since been his home. He helped to clear its land, and at the time of his
father’s death he rented eighty acres of the place, and has since become
the owner of one hundred and fifty-one acres, all of which is under an
excellent state of cultivation. He makes a specialty of the raising of
stock, handling thoroughbred English Berkshire hogs and short-horn
cattle, and he also owns a house and lot in Terre Haute and property in
Indianapolis.
    Mr. Englehart married, November 6, 1875, Rosanna Raab, and the
history of her father, Valentine Raab, also appears on other pages of
this work. She was born in Ohio, but was reared in Clay county,
Indiana, and in her girlhood days attended the district schools of Jackson
township. The union of Mr. and Mrs. Englehart has been blessed by
the birth of four children, namely: Phoebe, the wife of Homer Boyd,
a Jackson township farmer; Margaret, deceased; and John A. and
Charles F., all of whom were born on the old Englehart homestead.
The politics of Mr. Englehart are Democratic, and he is a member of
the Red Men and of the Lutheran church.

    WILLIAM FRANCIS—Prominent among the native born represen-
tatives of the brave pioneers of Clay county is William Francis, who
is one of the most thrifty and prosperous farmers of Harrison township,
and possesses in a marked degree those principles that constitute him
an honest man and a worthy citizen. A native of Clay county, he was
born January 26, 1856, in Washington township, a son of William Jacob
Astor Francis, The grandfather, named Joseph Francis, was born, it is
thought, in Virginia, but subsequently settled in Kentucky, and from there
in the later years of his life came to Clay county, Indiana, to spend his
last days.
    William J. Francis was born in Crab Orchard, Kentucky, in 1818,
and was the sixth of a family of eight children born to Joseph and Millie
(Grizzard) Francis, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of
North Carolina, and both were of German extraction. Shortly after he
reached his majority William J. came to Clay county, Indiana, where
he spent the remainder of his life with the exception of four years, which
he spent in Terre Haute. On his return he was married to Rebecca
Stevens, a native of Clay county and a daughter of James and Wealthy
Stevens. Mrs. Francis died in less than a year after marriage, and about
three years after her death Mr. Francis married for his second wife
Mrs. Almira (Luther) Kendall, a widow and the daughter of William
and Patience (Long) Luther. Mrs. Kendall was a native of North