Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....LaBaw, Simon B. 1841 - 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   Simon B. LaBaw, farmer, Fountain (Portland), was born in Shawnee township,
July 15, 1841. He was the son of Benjamin and Phebe (Crane) LaBaw, who came by
wagon from Montgomery county, Ohio, probably as early as 1830, and settled on
the farm which is owned and occupied by John LaBaw. This couple reared twelve
children, seven of whom are living. Mrs. LaBaw died April 24, 1852, and Mr.
LaBaw married twice afterward; three children by his second wife, Elizabeth
Smith, are living; his third wife, Eliza Arheart, had two children, but both are
dead. Mr. LaBaw's eldest brother, David, was a member of the 86th Ind. Vols. He
was slightly wounded at the battle of Stone River, and being afterward
prostrated with typhoid fever, died; in hospital at Murfreesboro, April 4, 1863.
His brother, Derrick B., was in the same regiment, and was killed in the first
day's battle at Stone River, January 31, 1862. His brother, Benjamin F., was in
the 72d Ind. Vols. He shared in the hard service done by the Army of the Ohio,
in the last quarter of the year 1862. He was in a number, of skirmishes and on
long marches, and died of lung fever at Bowling Green, Kentucky, January 4,
1863. Mr. LaBaw himself was in the 154th Ind. Vols. (Co. C); he enlisted in the
spring of 1865, for one year, and served near Winchester, in the Shenandoah
valley, doing garrison duty. He was retained in the service until August 1865,
and then discharged. This was truly a family stimulated by no doubtful
patriotism. Mr. LaBaw was married to Sarah E. Deal, December 7, 1865. She died
December 15, 1866, leaving a son, Emory G., who was born November 27. December
10, 1867, he was married in Pennsylvania, by the Rev. Wolf, to Amelia Brame, who
was born April 9, 1838. The children by this union are Mary E., born December
29, 1868; Laura B., born May 11, 1871; Elizabeth E., born March 4, 1873; Edwin,
born September 9, 1874, died in infancy, and Lily Naomi, born August 25, 1876.
Mrs. LaBaw belongs to the United Brethren church, and has her membership at
Brown's chapel. He is a trustee of this church, but not a member. He owns 200
acres of land, 90 acres being timber, worth $10,000. He is a greenbacker.

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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