Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Graham, W. M. 1825 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/in/infiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com August 25, 2006, 4:36 am Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881) W. M. Graham, farmer, Covington, was born in Fountain county in 1825, and is the son of Washington and Elizabeth L. Graham. They were both natives of Kentucky, and in early youth emigrated with their parents to Ohio, where they were afterward married, February, 5, 1824, and where they both publicly professed religion. In the same year of their marriage they moved to Fountain county and settled in Wabash township, where they resided until their death. Mrs. Graham died May 3, 1875, aged seventy-one years, ten months and twenty-four days, and on May 18, just two weeks after the death of his wife, Mr. Graham died, aged seventy-four years, six months and fourteen days. They had lived happily together for fifty-one years, and had raised a family of five sons and two daughters, one of the latter dying a few years prior to the death of her parents, and the other remaining with them unmarried till the last. The sons are all married and are numbered among the most substantial citizens of the county. Mr. W. M. Graham was raised on his father's farm and received a limited education. In 1852 he married Miss Cita Carnaga, daughter of Wm. and Rebecca (Cook) Carnaga, who were also among the early settlers of Fountain county, it being the native county of Mrs. Graham. The issue of this union is two children: Seymour and James W. Mr. Graham owns a finely improved farm of 290 acres, a part of which is land that his father entered upon settling in the county. He is a republican in politics, and a gentleman whose name and reputation are above reproach. Additional Comments: Troy Township Extracted from: 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. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/fountain/bios/graham658nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/infiles/ File size: 2.6 Kb