Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Overman, Isaac November 6, 1800 - 
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Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884)

Wayne Township
p. 799 & 800

Isaac Overman, fifth son of Nathan and Tamar (Brothers) Overman, was born Nov. 
6, 1800, in Randolph County, N. C., and in 1808 came with his parents to Wayne 
County, Ind., where he grew to manhood and attended the common schools. He 
followed farming, in Randolph County, Ind., from 1826 till 1856, inclusive, 
when he bought a farm and saw-mill near Williamsburg, Wayne County, where he 
was successfully engaged till 1876. He then rented his land and purchased 
property in Darke County, Ohio, where he resided till recently, since when he 
has made his home with his widowed sister, Mrs. Nancy Longfellow. Mr. Overman 
was first married in 1819 to Margaret, daughter of John Davis. She died in 
1861, and he was again married to Julia A. (Mathis) Slater, widow of Ephraim 
Slater. She died in 1881. Mr. Overman belongs to the Methodist Episcopal 
church, of which both his wives were also members. His sister Nancy is the 
sixth child of Nathan Overman, and is a native of Randolph County, Ind., being 
born in 1798. She was married to James Longfellow, who followed farming till 
his death. They had ten children---John, of Tipton County, Ind.; Tamar, 
deceased, wife of Eli Boswell; William, of Tipton County; Cornelius, of 
Richmond, Ind.; Julia. A., at home; Jane, deceased, wife of Harlan Hunt; 
Polly, deceased wife of Jesse Hunt; Zebulon, deceased; Matilda, wife of Kinsey 
Mains, of Randolph County, Ind.; Albert, of Wayne County. Mrs. Longfellow is 
at present residing near Chester. She belongs to the New Light church. Our 
subject’s grandfather was a native of Germany. His father came with his family 
to Wayne County, Ind., in 1808, and entered a quarter-section of land east of 
Richmond. In 1816 he removed to Randolph County, Ind., where he followed 
farming till his death, at the age of sixty years. His wife died when seventy-
six years of age. They belonged to the Friends' Society. Their children were---
Joseph, died at ninety-two years of age; Reuben, died when sixty years old; 
Mabel, died when eighty years old; Cornelius, deceased at fifty-seven years; 
Abner, when sixty-eight years old; Nancy, widow of James Longfellow, living, 
in her eighty-sixth year; Isaac, our subject, aged eighty-four years; Jesse; 
died at ninety-two years of age; Rebecca when fifty-two years, and Zebulon 
when fifty-six years of age.

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