Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Olvey, Elisha K. July 21, 1839 - 
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Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884)

Perry Township
p. 702 & 703

Elisha K. Olvey, druggist, Economy, Ind., was born in Randolph County, Ind., 
near the Wayne County line, July 21, 1839, a son of Edward and Mary (Low) 
Olvey, natives of North Carolina, who came to Wayne County, Ind., in 1836, and 
subsequently moved to Randolph County, where our subject was born and reared. 
He resided at home till the breaking out of the civil war, enlisting Nov. 8, 
1861, in Company E, Fifty-seventh Indiana Infantry. He participated in the 
battles of Stone River, Chickamauga, Shiloh, Corinth, Atlanta and Franklin. At 
the latter place he was taken prisoner, was taken to Columbus, Tenn., and a 
short time after, while, as they supposed, en route to Marietta, Miss., he, 
with three comrades, escaped, near Corinth, and after passing four days and 
nights of untold hardships, reached the Union lines. In the fall of 1862 he 
was detailed on the recruiting service, and spent the fall and part of the 
winter in Indiana, and in November, 1863, was detailed in the same service. He 
was discharged Jan. 28, 1865. In 1869 he moved to Economy, and opened a drug-
store, and has built up a thriving business. In 1872 he was appointed 
Postmaster. Dec. 28, 1868, he was married to Bell, daughter of John and Martha 
(Johnson) Atkinson, of Wayne County. 

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