SHELBY COUNTY OHIO - MOYER, George W.

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History of Shelby County  R.Sutton & Co.  Philadelphia Pa  1883
                         page 315  Loramie Township
  

        George W. Moyer was born in Cynthian Township, Shelby County, Ohio,
March 5, 1834 where his boyhood days were spent on a farm.  He is the son of
George and Sarah Moyer, who were natives of Pennsylvania.  They came to
Shelby county some time prior to 1825, and settled in Cynthian Township. 
        George W. Moyer, subject of this sketch, has made farming his principal 
vocation, and now owns a good farm of one hundred and twenty acres in 
Loramie Township, on which he has resided since the autumn of 1881.  In August,
1862, he enlisted in Company K, 1st Ohio Heavy Artillery, and served until August
7, 1865, when he was honorably discharged from the service and returned to his
home in Shelby County.  On the 20th of April , 1870, he married Miss Orilla
Clifford, of Loramie Township, who was born April 14, 1839, by whom he has five
children, one son and four daughters.