Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Ferris, Joseph 1811 - 
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Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884)

Washington Township
p. 741 & 742

Joseph Ferris is a native of New Castle County, Del., and was born in 1811. 
His parents were John and Anna (Gray) Ferris, natives of Maryland. They 
emigrated to Indiana in 1828, and settled in the western part of Washington 
Township, on section 3, but subsequently removed to Milton, where he carried 
on a flour and feed store and also cultivated a small farm he owned adjoining 
the town. John Ferris died in 1853, aged eighty-two years, and Anna, his wife, 
died in 1856, aged seventy-eight years. They had four children---Edith, 
Matthew, William and Joseph. They were all members of the Society of Hicksite 
Friends. Joseph Ferris was seventeen years of age when he came with his 
parents to Wayne County, and is the only one of the original family living 
here now. He was married in March, 1831 to Deborah Atwell, whose native State 
is Mary1and. They have two children living--- William and Elizabeth A. William 
lives in Milton, Ind., and Elizabeth A., now Mrs. Myers, in Osage County, Kan.


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