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���further West, where he could purchase farms for all of his sons, sold his farm to Aurelius at a reduced price. He has very materially improved the appear- ance of this farm since he became the owner of it; a few years ago his dwelling was destroyed by fire; he subsequently erected a splendid mansion in its stead. Of late years, he has paid considerable attention to the raising of live stock; as a breeder of fine horses and cattle, he has few if any equals in the county; he has been awarded many of the highest prizes, both at the State and county fairs, on horses and cattle of his own raising; he has also been awarded prizes on grain, fruit and vegetables. Ilis wife has been awarded prizes on flowers of her own culture. Mr. and Mrs. Tucker are the parents of five daughters — Laura, who died in in- fancy; Jane, who was married to John C. Ohler, Jan. 16, 1870; Lilly Margaret, who died when 11 months old; Emma J., married Dr. C. W. Skegs, of Lucas, Nov. 11,1877; Alice, died when about 6 years old; their de- ceased children were all buried in the Schrack grave- yard. Mr. Tucker and wife are active members of the Lutheran Church, at Pleasant Valley.

TUCKER, GOULD, farmer; P. 0. Perryville; was born in Merrimack Co., N. H., Oct. 16, 1823. His father, Daniel Tucker, was born July 13, 1794; his mother, whose maiden name was ^lary Philips, was born July 19, 1799; they were both born in Merrimack Co.; they were married March 6, 1823; they were the parents of four sons, of whom Gould is the eldest; John, their second son, was born April 9, 1826; Moses P., April 21, 1833; Harrison, Jan. 1, 1837 (he died March 13, 1855, and was buried at St. Johns). Daniel Tucker owned a farm containing 340 acres, in Merri- mack Co.; he lived on this farm about twenty-six years, when he sold it and removed to Richland Co. and pur- chased the north half of the southeast quarter of Sec. 26, in Monroe Township, where he lived the remainder of his days; his wife died Feb. 16, 1867; he died July 19, 1871; they were buried at St. Johns. Gould Tucker was married to Elizabeth Duston, daughter of John Duston, of his native county, about the year 1852; by this marriage he had five children, two of whom died in infancy; those who lived to man's estate are named as follows: John D. G., born Nov. 21, 1851; Wooster, Aug. 14, 1853: Orin T., May 25, 1855; their mother died May 18. 1859, in the 26th year of her age; she was buried at St. Johns. Mr. Tucker was married, March 28, 1867, to Mary Ann McDanel, daughter of Archibald and Margaret McDanel, of Beaver Co., Penn., and grand-daughter of William and Mary Mc- Danel, pioneers of Richland Co.; by this marriage h* has had one child, James Monroe, a bright, intelligent lad. Mr. Tucker learned the trade of stone-cutting when a young man; he worked at this trade a few years; he came to Richland Co. with his father; farmed for him till he died, when he bought his brother's interest and became the owner of the " old homestead;" he has very materially improved this farm, and now has it in a high state of cultivation; it is well calculated both for tho raising of grain and stock; ^Ir. Tucker has, of late years, dealt to some considerable extent in hogs, and is regarded as an honest dealer. His sons are well educated; three of them are engaged in teaching. He is a man of con-

��siderable energy; is temperate in his habits, and honest and upright in his dealings.

WELTY, CHRISTIAN, farmer; P. 0/ Lucas; he was born in the State of Maryland in 1814; his first years were spent on a farm; at 18 years of age, engaged as an apprentice for three years to learn the house-joining and carpenter trade; his wages were $24 per year and two weeks in harvest; at the expira- tion of the term he had saved $2(1; he earned $10 more by doing odd jobs for his neighbors; with $-')0 in his pocket, he started from Washington Co., Md., on foot to Ohio; after visiting relatives in Carroll, Stark Co., he commenced work as a jour carpenter in Mas- sillon; remaining there a few months, he set out to see more of the world; he traveled down the Ohio Canal to the Ohio River at Cincinnati, where he assisted in building steamboats; the first summer, having replen- ished his funds and procui'ed a small kit of tools, he set out to travel and obtain work by the way; he left Cincinnati in the fall, went lo Natchez, Miss., where he remained till the next spring, when he visited New Orleans, Mobile, and from there to New York via the Atlantic Ocean; he then went to Philadelphia and Bal- timore; then crossed the mountains to Cleveland, and back to Cincinnati, and down to Natchez, where he worked the second winter; he returned by way of Massillon, having worked at most of the principal places which he passed through; he landed in Monroe Township, this county, in 1837; he worked at the car- penter trade here for twelve years; times being dull and prices low, profits were small; he made about $150 per year; quite a number of houses and barns are to- day standing to testify it took much hard labor, as it had to be worked out of the rough. He was married to Mary Crawford in 1840. In 1846, he purchased an eighty-acre farm, 40 acres a few years after, and an- other 80 acres in 1861, having then a farm of 200 acres; it being the commencement of the war, farming proved a profitable business, a good time to pay debts and lay in store, as prices for farm produce ran high. Mrs. Welty was born in 1819, in Allegheny Co., Penn.; was brought to the township the same year by her par- ents, hence is one of the "pioneers; " David Crawford was one of the original settlers; he was strictly moral and temperate in habits; drunkenness becoming prev- alent, he and Solomon Gladden, his neighbor, resolved to abstain from all intoxicating liquors on all occasions while they lived, hence formed the first temperance society in the county; the family of C. and M. Welty consisted of five children, four sons and one daughter; the two elder sons volunteered in the service of our country, and died from disease contracted there, one serving fifteen months, the other nearly three years; one son lives in Kansas, and one is at home; the daughter married D. F. Tucker, of this township. Mr. Welty belonged to the old Whig party; since the organization of the Republican party has belonged to it. He has held nearly all the township oihces at different times, and been Justice of the Peace twice. Has always en- joyed excellent health, which he attributes to temper- ate habits; used tobacco twenty years, but for thirty years has abstained from its use; has abstained from liquor for forty years. The subject of this history has never engaged in speculation; what he has he accumu-

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