BIO:  WIBLE, Judge Samuel  -  Nelson Co

Submitted by:  Diana Flynn <ivie@tima.com>

Wible, Rigney, Mitchell

"HISTORY OF LAWRENCE, ORANGE & WASHINGTON COUNTIES INDIANA"  
GOODSPEED BROS.1884

Stampers Creek Twp.
Page 665

JUDGE SAMUEL WIBLE, who is probably the oldest man now living in Orange
County, and who is usually known by the title of Judge, was born in Nelson
County, Ky., June 14, 1792.  In the fall of 1814 he located on the same farm
where he now lives, in the eastern part of Stampers Creek Township.  He was
one of the foremost citizens of the county, and filled the office of Justice
of the Peace for eight years.  In 1840 he was elected to the office of
Probate Judge, and he held this position one term of four years.  Polly
Rigney, a native of North Carolina, became his wife May 25, 1815.  In
religion he was always an ardent member of the Baptist Church and belongs to
the Sinking Spring Society, which he joined in 1827, and was for over forty
years one of the Deacons.  His wife, who was a member of the same church,
died August 21, 1876.  William R. Wible was one of their eight children, and
was born January 22, 1821, near where he now lives.  In boyhood he attended
the "loud" schools of his time, where he received a common school education.
Although farming has been his principal occupation, he spent some years in
the blacksmith-shop with his father.  Besides this he followed threshing
about twenty-five years.  He married Sarah E. Mitchell, of Washington
County, February 3, 1842, and by her is father of ten children, these five
now living:  Benjamin F., Polly A., Samuel J., John M. and Melvina.  Mr.
Wible enlisted in Company G, Forty-ninth Regiment of Indiana Volunteer
Infantry, where he served in the Rebellion from November, 1861, to December,
1864, and was honorably discharged.  He participated in these battles:
Siege of Vicksburg, Champion Hills, Big Black, Alexandria, Cumberland Gap
and a number of minor engagements.  On his return home he continued farming
on his 120 acres of good land, where he now lives. Both Mr. and Mrs. Wible
are members of the Livonia Baptist church, near where they live.  He has
been a stanch Democrat all his life, and says he can see no reason to
change.  He was Justice of the Peace for eight years.
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