Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Parnell, Robert 1822 - 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   Robert Parnell, farmer and stock raiser, Newtown, son of George and Margaret
(Pearson) Parnell, was born in Greene county, Ohio, March 22, 1822. He was
reared a farmer, obtained a common school education, and in 1838 came with his
parents to Fountain county. They settled in the Bethel neighborhood, in Davis
township, where they passed the remainder of their lives, both dying on the
homestead, his father in November 1856, his mother in February 1868. They were
natives of South Carolina. Mr. Parnell was married December 1, 1857, to Minerva
Bowyer, of Warren county. She was born June 12, 1834. They have seven living
children: Thomas B., born December 5, 1858; Horace Edwin, August 7, 1860; George
W., January 20, 1863; Charles Bowyer, February 14, 1865; Delia Elizabeth, May
14, 1868; Robert, December 27,1870, died March 1,1873; Wilbur Fisk, January 18,
1872; and Minerva Alice, September 21, 1874. Mr. Parnell has lived in Fountain
county since the emigration of the family here, except two years he was in
Warren county, from 1863 to 1865. During all this time he has been engaged in
farming and the stock business. He is one of the leading men in his township,
and enjoys the fullest confidence and respect of his fellow citizens. He has
been a member of the Methodist church forty years, and his wife is one of
lifelong standing. He owns 320 acres of choice land lying two and a half miles
north of Newtown, making one of the most pleasantly located homesteads in this
section of country. His politics were originally of the whig school, but since
the republican party came into existence he has been a staunch member of that
organization.

Additional Comments:
Richland 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.

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