Greene-Monroe County IN Archives Biographies.....Clifft, John J. 1837 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   JOHN J. CLIFFT, a native of Kentucky, born February 22, 1837, is one of seven
children, born to Thomas and Melinda (Jones) Clifft, natives respectively of
Tennessee and Kentucky, and maternally of Dutch descent. The family removed to
Monroe County, Ind., in 1838, and settled near the Greene County line, making
these two counties their home until the death of Thomas Clifft, in the latter
county, May 18, 1861, aged fifty-nine years. His widow afterward married a Mr.
Clark, and died in Illinois in about 1874. John J. Clifft was raised a farmer;
receiving but limited advantages, and on attaining his majority started in life
for himself. During the holidays of 1861 and 1862, he enlisted as a private in
Company B, Sixtieth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, the first battle of his company
being Munfordville, where the greater part of the Sixtieth Regiment was captured
by Gen. Morgan's command. At the time of this battle, Mr. Clifft was sick at the
Louisville hospital with typhoid fever and consequently escaped capture. He was
an active participant in the battle of Walnut Hills before the siege of
Vicksburg, and all through this remarkable siege, being wounded June 3, 1863, in
the left shoulder, from the effects of which he is yet a sufferer. He was next
in the engagement at Grand Coteau Prairie, where he received his second wound,
which was much more severe than the former one, it being through the right
shoulder and side, leaving a gaping and terribly lacerated wound. Not receiving
immediate attention and being unable to help himself, his wound attracted flies
in abundance, and erelong it was swarming with maggots. For about four weeks he
was in the hospital; then, although not really able to do so, rejoined his
regiment and remained in active service until his discharge in April, 1865.
After the war, he farmed and worked at the stone-mason's trade in Greene County
until July, 1883, when he came to Mineral City, and in partnership with R.
Haywood started a general store which they have since continued. Mr. Clifft is a
member of the National party, the I. O. O. F.; and was married in 1867, to Rhoda
Ann Minks, by whom he is the father of six children: Mary E., Ida M.(deceased),
Nora A., William L., James W. and Thursia J.

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Richland Township Biographies

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HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES,
STATE OF INDIANA,
FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1884.

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