Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Twiddy, Thomas 1811 - 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   Thomas Twiddy, farmer, Pleasant Hill, Montgomery county, Indiana, was born in
Perquimons county, North Carolina, about 1811. Not far from 1830 he emigrated to
Wayne county, Indiana, and worked for Exum Palin. In 1836 the latter removed to
this township, and Mr. Twiddy came with him and worked for him the first year.
The next season he hired out to Mr. Maharry, and the third year returned and
rented Mr. Palin's farm. At the time he left North Carolina his father also
came, and brought his family. The first two years after their arrival both he
and his father were in the employ of Mr. Palin; and then he hired for a term of
three years for $100. His father's family came to Richland township in the
latter part of the year after his removal to this place. He worked for Mr. Palin
altogether seven years. Soon after settling here Mr. Twiddy bought two small
tracts of land on the head of Turkey Run aggregating forty acres. In 1840 he
sold these and purchased seventy-six acres, where he now lives; and from that
time until the present he has steadily increased his homestead by small
purchases; and his landed estate amounts at this time to 537 acres, 150 being
timber. In view of his beginning and the handsome property he has made, it is
unnecessary to add that he has been a hard working man and good economist. He
married Phebe Ann Oliver January 9, 1853. She was born August 1, 1825. Following
is the record of their children: Sylvester, born December 29, 1853; Marion,
December 31, 1855, killed by a felling limb while coon hunting December 15,
1874; John Isaac, January 3, 1858, died July 14,1880; Mary Maria, June 16,1860,
wife of Henry Shultz; Charles Thomas, December 17, 1862; George Washington, July
7, 1866; and Lucy Ann, March 27, 1869. Mr. Twiddy is a staunch and enthusiastic
republican.

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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