Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Whitesel, David 1819 - 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   David Whitesel, farmer, Newtown, was born in Montgomery county, Ohio,
December 19, 1819. His parents, George and Elizabeth, (Yazel) Whitesel emigrated
in 1823 to Vermilion county, Indiana. In 1825 they moved into Fountain county
and settled a mile south of Mr. Whitesel's present residence. Four years
afterward they went back to Ohio to live and remained there ten years; then they
removed to Randolph county, Indiana. In 1842 Mr. Whitesel left home, and coming
to this county, finally settled in Richland township, where he has since
resided. He was married March 19, 1844, to Nancy Abolt, who was born December
23, 1820. She died April 14, 1847, and left two children: George, born May 15,
1845, and Mary, born October 30, 1846, who is the wife of Louis Aiken, of Warren
county. On October 23, 1853, he was married to the widow of Alexander Furr,
formerly Rebecca Boo, who was born September 9, 1818. She has borne two children
by her second husband: Jasper, August 13, 1854, and Martha, July 12, 1856. The
former was married October 3, 1874, to Hattie Carlile, born April 11, 1855.
Their children are Josie May, born February 22, 1875; George, born June 7, 1878.
Martha was married to Charles S. Handy October 11, 1874. They have one child,
Ulysses Carl, born May 26, 1877. Mr. and Mrs. Whitesel are members of the
Christian church. He, in company with Conrad Lighty, attended the first.
Sabbath-school ever held in Fountain county; this was where the Union church now
stands, three and a half miles west of Newtown. He is a charter member of
Richland Lodge, No. 205, A. F. and A. M. He owns 120 acres of land, and is a
democrat. Mr. Whitesel once narrowly escaped death by accident while walling a
well. Leonard Royal was working at the windlass and was violently precipitated
with a half-barrel of stone into the well. Serious temporary injuries were
sustained by both.

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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