Greene-Owen County IN Archives Biographies.....Gaskill, Rufus 1837 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   RUFUS GASKILL was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, August 14, 1837, one of
five children born to Thomas and Lucinda (Duling) Gaskill, he a native of New
York, who removed to the Buckeye State with his parents when three years old;
she a native of Virginia. They were married June 28, 1836. In 1846, they settled
in Owen County, and in 1861 came to Greene County. They were both members of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. Mrs. Gaskill died March 17, 1881. Our subject
received but an ordinary education, being engaged from childhood at work upon
the farm, and has followed farming all his life. He owns 235 acres of good land,
all improved, and raises some stock. December 23, 1860, he married Mary E. Wood,
who has borne him two children—Ludilla O., born November 26, 1862, and John A.,
born November 8, 1866. Mrs. Gaskill was born November 10, 1844, in Owen County,
Ind., one of three children born to David A. and Elizabeth (Leach) Wood,
pioneers of Indiana. Her parents died when she was quite young. Subject and
family are all members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is a Republican
in politics.

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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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