Jay County IN Archives History - Books .....Chapter XVII 1896
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Book Title: Reminiscences Of Adams, Jay And Randolph Counties

CHAPTER XVII.
SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF JAMES ROONEY.

    I was born March 4th, 1815, in Burkly County, Virginia. Was married the 1th
day of May, 1838, to Rebecca Murphy. Moved to Clinton County, Ohio, in the fall
of 1838; lived there until i860, when I moved to Jay County, Indiana, onto a
farm in Jackson Township, on the 14th day of October, 1860. While on our way to
Indiana my wife was taken sick and died and was buried at Xenia, Ohio. After she
was buried I, with my six children, came on to the farm in Jay County, that I
had already purchased in the summer of 1861. I built a cabin on my farm and
moved into it, where I and my children lived till April 15th, 1868, when I was
marreid to Elizabeth Sisk, who I lived with until December 13th, 1893, when
death again deprived me of my companion, since which time I have lived with my
daughter. I lived at Polingtown during the time I lived with my second wife,
nearly twenty-five years. When I move onto my farm it was nearly all in woods.
It is now all under cultivation except about six acres. In the year 1840 I
joined the new Christian church in Clinton County, Ohio, of which I remained a
member until I came to Indiana. In the fall of 1866 I united with the Christian
church at West Liberty, where I still hold membership.
                                JAMES ROONEY.



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Extracted from:

Reminiscences of Adams, Jay and Randolph Counties

Compiled by Martha C. M. Lynch

Ft. Wayne, IN: Lipes, Nelson & Singmaster

Circa 1896


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