Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Locke, John A. May 22, 1819 - 
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Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884)

Dalton Township
p. 452

John A. Locke, farmer and stock-raiser, was born in Wayne County, Ind., May 
22, 1819. His father, William Locke, was a native of Granville County, N. C., 
a son of John Locke, a soldier in the Revolutionary war. His mother was 
Damaris (Mills) Locke, a native of Stokes County, N. C. His parents were 
married in Jefferson County, Tenn., June 6, 1808, and in 1815 came to the 
Northwestern Territory, and settled in Perry Township, Wayne Co., Ind., on 
land entered from the Government. William Locke was a man of untiring energy, 
and although he started in life with nothing he accumulated property till he 
was the owner of 1,900 acres of fine land, thus being able to give each of his 
children a good home. He opened the first store and established the first 
tannery in Perry Township, and was one of the organizers of the first bank in 
Richmond, being one of the Directors. He was a member of the Society of 
Friends, and was an earnest worker in the cause of Christianity, as well as 
any enterprise of benefit to his township. He died Nov. 3, 1868, his wife 
having preceded him ten years. They were the parents of ten children, six born 
in Wayne County. John A. was reared on a pioneer farm and was educated in the 
primitive log schoolhouse. When he was eighteen years of age, Aug. 24, 1837, 
he married Charity, daughter of Jesse Brooks, who came to Indiana from North 
Carolina in 1836. They had a family of seven children---Cecilia D., Jesse W., 
William M., Mary Ann, John A., Jr., Orlando B. and Charity Emma, the latter 
deceased. Mr. Locke has a fine farm of 200 acres, on section 35, and is one of 
the representative men of Dalton Township. He has served in various offices of 
trust in the township, and was Magistrate ten years. He and his wife are 
members of the United Brethren church. His son William and his son-in-law 
Caleb Lamb were soldiers in the late civil war. William participated in eleven 
hard-fought battles, and at the second battle of Bull Run was severely wounded 
and taken prisoner. They are building a church of the United Brethren in 
Christ 30 x40 feet, on Mr. Locke's farm, our subject being the largest donor.

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