PORTAGE COUNTY OHIO - BIO:  Fifer, Jeremiah (1885)

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Bios:  Fifer - Portage County, Ohio, from "History of Portage County, Ohio" 
published by Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885

Copyright © 1999 by  Betty Ralph. This copy contributed for use in 
the USGenWeb Archives.  bralph@hiwaay.net

JEREMIAH FIFER, farmer, P.O. Edinburgh, was born in Columbiana County, Ohio,
June 10, 1830, son of John and Polly Fifer, natives of Virginia and Ohio,
respectively, and who were married in Columbiana County, Ohio, August 15,
1829, where they remained until 1849, when they moved and resided in this
county, where the father died August 15, 1877.  Our subject was twice
married, on the first occasion, November, 25, 1852, to Anna Wilks, born in
Portage County, Ohio, in 1834, daughter of John and Anna Wilks, the former
now living, and the latter deceased.  Mrs. Fifer died in 1860, and our
subject then married Eliza Baight, June 20, 1861.  She was born in Portage
County, Ohio, July 4, 1838, daughter of David and Mary Baight, latter of
whom died September 1, 1879.  Our subject is the father of six children,
three now living:  Cynthia L., wife of Michael Adolph; Cyrus J.W., and
Addison.  The deceased are Angeline A.; Margaret, born October 18, 1863,
died March 24, 1866, and an infant.  Our subject, who is a farmer by
occupation, owns eighty acres of improved land, where he and his family reside.