Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Rich, William C. June 24, 1830 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/in/infiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Glapha Cox rcoxfam@earthlink.net January 25, 2006, 9:57 am Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884) Wayne Township p. 801 & 802 William C. Rich, youngest living son of Joseph and Margery (Cox) Rich, was born June 24, 1830, on the farm where he resides. He was educated in the common schools, and in 1854 was married to Margaret, daughter of John and Mary (Allred) Duke, of Wayne County, Ind. They have seven children---Francis M., Willis D., Emeline (wife of Horace Ratliff, of Wayne County), Joseph, May, Oscar and Anna M. Immediately after his marriage Mr. Rich began farming on a portion of the homestead, and soon owned the entire farm. He then purchased land lying south and east, and now owns the Roberts farm, for which he paid $6,000. He has followed farming and stock-raising with success, and has his lands highly cultivated, and his residence is one of the best in West Wayne Township. In politics he is a Republican, and he and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Our subject's parents were born, reared and married in Randolph County, N. C., and in 1821 came to Wayne County, Ind., where Joseph Rich built a saw-mill which he operated a few years. He then bought 160 acres of land where William Rich resides. He died at the age of seventy years, and his wife at the age of sixty-eight years. They had eight children, four still living---Abijah, Polly, Daniel and William C. Jane, Reuben, Henry and Martha are deceased. Mrs. Rich's father was born in 1808 in North Carolina, and came to Wayne County, Ind., in 1834. He was married in 1834 to Mary Allred, born in Butler County, Ohio, in 1816. Their children are-- -Seramiss (deceased), Margaret, George W., Rhuhama, Ann E., James R., Serepta, Dora, Thomas (deceased) and John S. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/wayne/bios/rich271gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/infiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb