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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   Evans Claypool, farmer, Attica. The father of this subject, Wilson Claypool,
was born in Randolph county, Virginia, and in the spring of 1822 emigrated from
Ross county, Ohio, to Sugar creek, just below Yountsville, in Montgomery county.
There he entered 320 acres of land, going at that time to Terre Haute, the land
office not having yet been removed to Crawfordsville. Next year he sold it for
$1,100, and went back to Ohio and married in Highland county, March 2, 1824,
Sarah Evans. In October they arrived in Shawnee township, and here our subject
was born, on the place where he now lives, February 24, 1825. The house in which
he resides was built by his father in 1826, and was the second frame dwelling
erected in Shawnee township, another having been built a little earlier in the
same year. Thomas Clawson was the carpenter who did the work on both. This has
been repaired and re-clapboarded, and is the oldest occupied house in the
township. Mr. Claypool's father died July 18, 1876, aged seventy-eight years,
and his mother is living with him at the age of seventy-five, in good health,
and active for one of her advanced years. He has 260 acres in his homestead,
four miles from Attica. He is a republican in politics, and has lived a celibate
life. In his father's family were eight sons and two daughters. Evans and
Benjamin died in infancy, Horatio, Solomon, Richard W., Augustus L., Abram,
Jacob (dead), Elizabeth, wife of Nelson Case, of Oswego, Kansas, and Maria, wife
of Joseph Shannon, living in Woodson county, Kansas. Jacob served as a
three-months soldier at the beginning of the war. He re-enlisted, and was
mustered into the service August 6, 1862, as an orderly sergeant in the 63d Ind.
Vols.; he was promoted to second lieutenant, and had been recommended for a
captaincy, but when Sherman's army was on the Chattahoochie river he received an
injury there by a horse stepping on his breast when he was down, and died at
Allatoona, Georgia, July 17, 1864, before his commission came to hand. His
remains were brought home and deposited in the Shawnee cemetery, October 27,
1865. Horatio was a soldier two years. His biography may be found in "Troy
Township." Augustus served just a year as sergeant in Co. A, 63d Ind. Vols.,
from August 6, 1862, to August 6, 1863; he was then mustered out to be mustered
as adjutant of the 118th Ind. reg., and served his time of six months. In August
and September, 1863, four six-months regiments were raised and organized by the
state,—115th, 116th, 117th and 118th. Abram was captain of Co. C, 116th. The
Claypools are an ancient and honorable family, that trace their recorded
ancestry back to the remote past.

Additional Comments:
Shawnee Township

HISTORY OF FOUNTAIN COUNTY,

TOGETHER WITH
HISTORIC NOTES ON THE WABASH VALLEY,

GLEANED FROM EARLY AUTHORS, OLD MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS
PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC, THOUGH, FOR THE MOST
PART, OUT-OF-THE-WAY SOURCES.

BY H. W. BECKWITH,
OF THE DANVILLE BAR; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF
WISCONSIN AND CHICAGO.

WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHICAGO: H. H. HILL AND N. IDDINGS, PUBLISHERS.
1881.


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