Greene County IN Archives Biographies.....Story, James 1826 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

    JAMES STORY, one of the most successful farmers of Stockton Township, is a
native of Fleming County, Ky., where he was born in the year 1826. When six
years old, he came with his parents, Lewis and Annie (McGhea) Story, to Greene
County, Ind., where the former died the spring of 1870, preceded by the latter
in 1862. They were natives respectively of Virginia and Pennsylvania, of Irish
descent, and parents of these children: Mary, Matilda, Sarah, George W.,
Elizabeth, Ruth Ann, James, Amanda, Margaret J., Maitha, Elijah, Oliver, Lewis,
John, Rebecca and William. James Story and Charlotte C., third child of Rev.
Martin and Phebe (Hinkle) Hail, were married, Mrs. Story being-a member of the
following family of children: Florence, Clara, Lucretia. Stephen, Marion, John.
Phebe, Martin W. and Mary S. Rev. Martin Hail, father of Mrs. Story, is one of
the oldest living settlers of Stockton Township. He was born in Virginia in
1799, and when twenty-one years of age came to Greene County, Ind. In 1826, he
was united in marriage with Miss Phebe Hinkle, daughter of Nathan and Rebecca
Hinkle, who were among the early pioneers of Washington County, Ind. Mr. Hail
was an early Baptist preacher of this locality, and his father, Richard Hail,
came from Virginia to Greene County in 1824, where he died in 1836. James Story,
subject of this sketch, is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, owns a
fine farm of 253 acres, and he and wife are parents of this family: Rebecca E.,
Wesley M., Charlotte C., Margaret, Lovicey, Martha T., John T., Araminta A. and
Hiram H.

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Stockton 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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