Tipton-Rush-Fayette County IN Archives Biographies.....Kirtley, Wilson 1826 - 
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Author: Charles Blanchard, Editor (1883)

   WILSON KIRTLEY, a pioneer of this township, was born in Fayette County, Ind.,
April 29, 1826, and is a son of Elijah and Catharine Kirtley, natives of
Kentucky and North Carolina respectively. Elijah Kirtley was a pioneer of
Fayette County, and there cleared from the forest a home. A few years later, he
located in Ripley County, Ind., and subsequently removed to Rush County; the
latter part of his life was spent in Grant County. In early life, he was a Whig,
but later a Democrat, and was a faithful worker in the Baptist Church. His wife
survived him until 1883, and died while living with her daughter in Missouri.
Our subject passed his youth on a farm, and at the age of twenty-one rented
land, and farmed until 1852, when he moved to this county and located on the
land which is now his home. Here he experienced all the privations of a new
country, but has made a good home for his family. Mr. Kirtley was married,
December 15, 1849, to Miss Mary Osburn, of Rush County, Ind., born December 29,
1834, daughter of Joseph Osburn. This union was blessed with nine children, six
of whom are living-Joseph, Daniel V., Sarah C, Martha M., Dora A. and Arzro. Mr.
Kirtley is a politician in the Democratic ranks, and has served a number of
terms as Supervisor. He and wife are the oldest settlers in this part of the
township, and both are members of the Missionary Baptist Church.

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COUNTIES OF HOWARD AND TIPTON, INDIANA.

HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL.
ILLUSTRATED.

CHARLES BLANCHARD. EDITOR.
CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO.
1883.

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