CARROLL COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: SIMONTON, SETH S. (published 1887)
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BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL RECORD OF JAY AND BLACKFORD COUNTIES, INDIANA
The Lewis Publishing Company, Inc., 1887
Page 826

        SETH S. SIMONTON, section 15, Harrison Township, was born in
Carroll County, Ohio, February 23, 1829, a son of Thomas and Elizabeth
(Oswalt) Simonton, natives of Pennsylvania, his father of Irish and his
mother of German descent. His parents were married in Ohio, where the
mother died in 1841. They had a family of ten children. In 1842 his father
moved to what was then Jay County, and located on section 14, Harrison
Township, on a tract of heavily timbered land, which he cleared and
improved, making it his home until his death, July 4, 1863. He was married
again after the death of his wife, in 1842, to Nancy Shull, and to his
second  marriage were born five children. Seth S. Simonton remained with
his father until manhood, and assisted him in clearing and improving a
frontier home. In 1862 he located on the farm where he now lives, which
contains 121 acres of good land, well improved, and his residence and farm
buildings are among the best in the township. Mr. Simonton enlisted
February 8, 1865, in Company G, One Hundred and Fifty-third Indiana
Infantry, and served until the close of the war. He was married in 1853 to
Margaret Blount, who died in May, 1856. In 1859 Mr. Simonton married Eliza
Shannon, who died in February, 1868. In June, 1868, he married Catherine
Ann Downhour. They have one son -Albert S., born in May, 1869. In politics
Mr. Simonton is a Republican, but of late has affiliated with the National
Greeback party. He is a member of the Christian church, is a licensed
preacher, and is an active worker in the cause of Christianity.


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