SHELBY COUNTY OHIO - BIOS:  DICKENSHEETS, John

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>From The History of Shelby County, Ohio, published by R. Sutton & Co., 
Philadelphia, 1883.
				
Page 203  Green Township

John Dickensheets, Farmer;  P.O. Plattsville, Ohio

Mr. Dickensheets was born near Dayton, Ohio, in Montgomery County, September 
30, 1819, and came to Shelby County in 1836 with his parents, Henry and Mary 
Dickensheets, who settled in Green Township, where they passed the remainder 
of their days.  Mrs. Dickinsheets died in February, 1861.  Mr. Dickinsheets 
died in September, 1869.  They reared a family of five children, viz., John, 
Margaret, Rachel, Thomas, and Nancy.  All are yet living except Thomas, who 
was killed in the late war.

John Dickensheets, the subject of this sketch, married Mss Martha Bird, 
Green Township.  By this union he had five children, two of whom are yet 
living, one son and one daugher.  His companion died.  He then married Mrs. 
Sarah A. Williams, nee Lewis, May 4, 1854, by whom he had ten children, 
seven of whom are now living.