MERCER COUNTY OHIO - BIO: Thornton Spriggs (pub 1882)

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From "History of  Van Wert and Mercer Counties, Ohio" by Sutton pub 1882:

pg 370

Thornton Spriggs
was the son of William and Mary Wilson Spriggs.  They came to this county in 
1840.  William and Margaret Wilson are the parents of Mrs. Spriggs.  Mr. William 
Spriggs died in 1875 and his wife in 1859.
        Thornton Spriggs, their son, was born in Jackson County, Ohio, in 1836, 
and was raised on a farm, and is also a stock-raiser.  He married his wife, Jane 
Wilson, Oct. 21, 1858.  She was born in 1838.  Their children are William, Seth, 
Daniel, John, James, Henrietta, Lucretia, and Charles.
        He served four years as assessor, and sheriff of Mercer County four 
years, from 1870 to 1874.  He had three uncles in the Revolutionary war, one of 
whon was a colonel, another a captain, and the third a private.
        His wife's brother and his own brother were in the Rebellion, and he was
drafted, but furnished a substitute.