ky-footsteps Saturday, 6 December 1997 Volume 01 : Number 296 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Diana Flynn Date: Fri, 05 Dec 1997 20:33:44 -0500 Subject: KY-F: BIO: Province, Elizabeth J. w/o Lindley, Dr. Chambers M. - Pleasureville, Shelby Co LINDLEY PROVINCE "COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL." CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884. F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE CLAY TOWNSHIP, MORGAN CO., INDIANA PAGE 264 DR. CHAMBERS M. LINDLEY was born in Crawford County, Ill., on January 1, 1832. His father came from North Carolina, and settled in Orange County, Ind., while the country was yet a wilderness and inhabited by the Indians. Shortly afterward, he moved to Crawford County, near Huntsville, Ill., and the country being wild and unsettled, he with all the early settlers, endured many hardships and privations. He was a member of the Friends' Church, and this ten children were brought up under its influence. He died in 1837. Chambers M., the subject of this sketch, was reared on a farm. At the age of fifteen, he lost an arm by a runaway horse. After a season at the pioneer schools, he came to Parke County, Ind., and attended the Bloomingdale School, conducted by the Friends. Then he taught for a period of three years. He then began the study of medicine, and attended the medical colleges at Ann Arbor, Mich., and Cincinnati, Ohio, graduating from the latter institution in 1860. He then began the practice of medicine at Waverly, Morgan County, where he continued in his profession ten years. Failing in health, he retired to a farm, where he remained six years; thence came to Brooklyn, where for twelve years he has been actively engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery. In May, 1856, he was married to Elizabeth J. Province, of Pleasureville, Ky. She has borne him two children--Ella and Minnie. The Doctor and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is also a member of the Brooklyn Lodge, No. 471, A. F. & A. M. As a farmer, he owns 260 acres of well-improved land. The Doctor has a fine medical library, as well as the works of nearly all the standard authors on miscellaneous subjects. ------------------------------ From: Diana Flynn Date: Fri, 05 Dec 1997 21:16:54 -0500 Subject: KY-F: BIO: McNeff, William A. s/o McNeff, Thomas W. - Unknown Co MCNEFF SMITH RINKER "COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL." CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884. F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE CLAY TOWNSHIP, MORGAN CO., INDIANA PAGE 265 WILLIAM A. MCNEFF, farmer, was born in Brown Township, Morgan County, Ind., March 25, 1838, and is the seventh of the ten children born to Thomas W. and Sarah (Smith) McNeff, natives of Kentucky and Pennsylvania, and respectively of Scotch-Irish and German descent. William A. was reared upon the home farm, and attended the subscription schools. His father brought him to Indiana in an early day, coming to Harrison Township. There he was married, and afterward came to Morgan County. In 1852, William A. went from Indiana to Iowa with his father, and there remained until 1862. Mr. McNeff, Sr., died in 1856. After returning to Indiana, William A. went to Washington County, and afterward went to Orange County, and came to Morgan County in 1871. Since that time, he has resided in this township. He is engaged in cultivating a farm of 120 acres, improved, and having a fine residence, besides other appliances necessary to a finished farm. It is also stocked with horses, hogs, cattle and sheep. On December 28, 1872, he was married to Mary C. Rinker, a native of Clay Township, Morgan County, and a daughter of William and Eleanor Rinker. They have had two children--Leslie, born February 8, 1874, and Don Clyde, born September 13, 1882. Mrs. McNeff is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and is a Democrat, having cast his fist ballot for James Buchanan. In earning a competence, he has been aided by no one, having been dependent entirely upon himself. ------------------------------ From: Michael & Maureen Reed Date: Sat, 06 Dec 1997 01:00:00 -0600 Subject: KY-F: MILITARY: Vietnam Casualties, Paris, Bourbon Co Vietnam Casualties from Paris, Bourbon County, KY Contributed by Trooper McCracken, TMCCRACK@ppd.uky.edu, Dec 5, 1997 http://files.usgwarchives.net/ky/bourbon/military/vietnam/casualties.txt Walter MORRIS April 18,1927 October 24,1963 SSGT Air Force Donald I RANKIN April 14,1940 November 24, 1966 SP/4 Army Benjamin M BROTHERS III September 25,1947 June 20,1967 PFC Marines William D COLLINS July 22, 1946 July 29 , 1967 SN NAVY Willie J HOLLAND March 19,1938 November 5,1967 SSGT Army Luther C BERRYMAN March 10,1948 October 24,1968 PFC Army Willie R TUCKER January 30,1948 October 24,1968 PFC Army Jerry W JEFFERSON June 26,1948 November 30,1968 PFC Army Edwin D CASWELL October 21,1948 February 23,1969 SP/4 Army Roy A.FRYMAN December 9,1933 August 24,1969 CY SGT Marines. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ End of ky-footsteps V1 #296 *************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free genelaogical information on the Internet, data may be freely used for personal research and by non-commercial entities as long as this message remains on all copied material. 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