BIO:  James Story, Fleming Co., Ky

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"HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES, STATE OF INDIANA, FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO 
THE PRESENT;  TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, 
ETC."  CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS.  1884.

GREENE CO., IN.
STOCKTON TWP.
PAGE 379
JAMES STORY, one of the most successful farmers of Stockton Township, is a native of 
Fleming County, Ky., where he was born in the year 1826.  When six years old, he came 
with his parents, Lewis and Annie (McGhea) Story, to Greene County, Ind., where the 
former died in the spring of 1870, preceded by the latter in 1862.  They were  natives 
respectively of Virginia and Pennsylvania, of Irish descent, and  parents of these 
children: Mary, Matilda, Sarah, George W., Elizabeth, Ruth Ann, James, Amanda, 
Margaret J., Martha, Elijah, Oliver, Lewis, John, Rebecca and William.  James Story 
and Charlotte C., third child of Rev. Martin and Phebe (Hinkle) Hail, were married, 
Mrs. Story being a member of the following family of children:  Florence, Clara, 
Lucretia, Stephen, Marion, John, Phebe, Martin W. and Mary S.  Rev. Martin Hail, 
father of Mrs. Story, is one of the oldest living settlers of Stockton Township.  He
was born in Virginia in 1799, and when twenty-one years of age came to Greene County, 
Ind.  In 1826, he was united in marriage with Miss Phebe Hinkle, daughter of Nathan 
and Rebecca Hinkle, who were among the early pioneers of Washington County, Ind,.  Mr. 
Hail was an early Baptist preacher of this locality, and his father, Richard Hail, 
came from Virginia to Greene County in 1824, where he died in 1836.  James Story, 
subject of this sketch, is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, owns a fine 
farm of 253 acres, and he and wife are parents of this family:  Rebecca E., Wesley M., 
Charlotte C., Margaret, Lovicey, Martha T., John T., Araminta A. and Hiram H.