BIO:  RANEY, Jeremiah, son of James & Mary (Holland) Raney

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

RANEY   HOLLAND   HAYDEN   ARVIN   	

History of Knox and Daviess Counties, Indiana
Chicago:  The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1886

Daviess County, Barr Twp., page 830

JEREMIAH RANEY.  James Raney, the father of our subject, was born in Kentucky
in 1809.  When nine years old he came with his parents to Martin County, Ind.
where he grew to manhood, and lived for nearly sixty-four years on the same
farm.  He was a farmer, and owned at one time 1,000 acres of land.  He 
married May Holland, born in Ireland in 1820.  He died in 1882.  Subject was
born in Martin County in 1843, and aided his father on the farm until twenty-
seven years old.  In 1870 he led to the hymeneal altar Elizabeth A., daughter
of Joseph and Rose Anne (Hayden) Arvin.  She was born in 1847, and bore her
husband six children:  James, Helen, Mary, Charles, Anne and Margaret.  All
the family are Catholics, and Mr. Raney is a stanch Democrat.  He received
eighty acres of land from his father, and purchased forty more, but soon 
sold out, and purchased 147 acres in this county, on which he built a
residence.  His home caught fire and was consumed shortly after, and after
building another house he found he was in debt $1,900.  By industry and good
management he has increased his farm to 213 acres.  He keeps a strict
account of all receipts and expenditures, and at the end of each year takes
an invoice of all stock, implements, growing grain, etc.
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