BIO:  DEARING, John B.T., s/o William and Elizabeth (Morton) Dearing

Submitted by:  phill@redrock.net   (Phyllis Hill)

DEARING   MORTON   SELBY

History of Pike and Dubois Counties, Indiana, Goodspeed Bros. & Co., 
Publishers,   1885,   Chicago 

Pike County, Patoka Twp, p. 419

JOHN B.T. DEARING, a farmer of Patoka Township, Pike County, Ind., was born
March 31, 1842 in Kentucky, and is a son of William and Elizabeth (Morton)
Dearing.  The parents came from the Blue Grass State to Pike County about 
1844.  Here the father died in 1852 and the mother in 1869.  When twelve
years old John B.T. was bound out to John Selby with whom he staid until he
was nineteen years old, he then enlisted in Company I, Forty-second Indiana
Infantry.  He was at Perryville, Stone River, Chickamauga, and was with 
Sherman on his march to the sea.  He served his country faithfully and well
for nearly four years and from a private was raised to the office of first
lieutenant.  November 23, 1865, he was married to Bettie A. Selby, born June
11, 1849 in Pike County, and they became the parents of two children:  
Larentus S. and William P.  Mr. Dearing's political views are Republican,
having cast his first vote for Grant.  He and wife are members of the 
Baptist Church and he is a successful farmer, owning 212 acres of good land.
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