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From: mimi <>
Subject: [MERCER] Re: SPRY/ Mercer Co. Gen. Soc. Photo service
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 13:36:43 -0800
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> Do you live at a distance from Mercer Co.? Have you ever wished for a
> photograph of a building, location, or tombstone?
>
> For a limited time, the Mercer County Genealogical Society is offering a
> Photography Service.
Do you happen to know how SPECIFIC you need to be for this service ?
I really don't have any specifics, so my next question is.... are there any
types of indexes in existence for cemeteries.[Black Creek twp?]
This is what I have. I would be interested in finding a tombstone for
Jonathan Spry.
Thomas B. Spry, one of the most prominent and successful farmers of Black
Creek township, Mercer county, Ohio, was the first white male child born in
the township named. He is the son of Jonathan and Hannah (Henkens) Spry,
the former who was born in Pennsylvania about 1805, was of German descent,
was reared on a farm, and went to Knox county, Ohio, where he married Miss
Hannah Henkens, a daughter of William Henkens, who was born in Knox county.
To this marriage there were born eight children, as follows: Hiram, a farmer
born in Bloom City, Wis.; Thomas B., the subject of this sketch; Jonathan,
who served in the army of the Union several years, was wounded twice - at
Cold Harbor and at Williamsburg - and is now living in Wisconsin; Timothy, a
carpenter of Wisconsin; Cynthia, wife of Wesley Parrot of Mendon, who also
served in the war; Simon P., a livery stable keeper of Richland Center,
Wis.; Mattie, wife of Wesley Webley, of Wisconsin, who served in the war and
is now an invalid; and Mrs. Nancy Stevens, deceased.
After his marriage Jonathan Spry lived in Knox county until the fall of
1836, when he removed to Mercer county, locating in Black Creek township,
upon eighty acres of land which he entered, cleared and improved, and which
he later exchanged for another farm, upon which he lived until his death in
the fall of 1851. This event was caused by his being bitten by a wild hog,
during his first settlement here - probably 1836 0r 37 - the subject of
this sketch being, at the time of his father¹s death, fourteen years of age.
He was in politics a democrat, and a good, honorable man in all respects.
After the death of her husband his widow married James Young, and died in
Wisconsin in 1885.
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