Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Davidson, John H. 1819 - 1880
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   Rev. John H. Davidson (deceased), Newtown, son of Robert L. and Catherine
(Hilliard) Davidson, was born in Pennsylvania, November 26, 1819, and died
August 1, 1880. His father emigrated with his family to Ohio when he was very
young. About 1828 the family came to Fountain county and settled at Wrightstown,
in Richland township. (See biography of William Hamilton Wright, Richland
township.) Their home was at this place several years. He and his father
followed farming and brick-making; and on January 11, 1844, he was married to
Miss Mary Yeazel. Mr. Davidson had been an acceptable and efficient member of
the United Brethren church, and prior to his marriage had commenced giving
exhortations at the old Presbyterian church (abandoned years ago) and at Possum
Point, on the banks of Coal creek, in Richland township. He was ordained a
minister in the church at the annual conference held in Vermilion county,
Indiana, April 4, 1859. His certificate of ordination was signed by David
Edwards, bishop. After this he traveled on the circuit and preached until just
before the death of his wife, in 1862, when he was compelled, by a large and
constantly increasing family, to quit the pulpit, because the income from that
source was inadequate to their support. The children by his first marriage were:
William M., born November 20,1844; John A., May 17, 1846, died October 4, 1847;
Anna R., March 21, 1848, died September 10, 1850; Hernando, December 17, 1849,
died September 4,1850; Catharine, February 10,1851; Calvert, October 8, 1852
(deceased); Mary, January 30, 1854, died December 15, 1862; Robert Newton, June
23, 1855; Hamilton, January 29, 1857 (deceased); Celestia, August 4,1858;
Martha, April 4,1861. March 16, 1863, he was married to Mary Jane Keller, relict
of Henry C. Bever. Her children by her first husband were: Jacob Deloss
(deceased); Robert M., Joseph M. (deceased); Sarah E. (deceased): Barbara A.
(wife of John Crumley), and Henrietta (deceased). By her second marriage she had
the following: Ira B., died in infancy; Nettie E., born February 2, 1865;
Columbus, Samuel A., Fleming E., Truman O. and Latimore E. Mr. Davidson was on
the circuit no more after his last marriage, but during winters he assisted his
brethren in their protracted meetings until he was stricken with his final
illness, two years before his death. He had preached with practical success, and
was held in estimation by the community where he had always lived. He was-a kind
father, and a devoted and affectionate husband. He left his family in
comfortable circumstances.

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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