THOMAS B. GADDIS, farmer, P. O. Martinsville, was born in Fayette County, Penn., June 30, 1839.  His parents, Thomas and Mary Gaddis, were also natives of Fayette County.  His father was born Dec. 10, 1805, and died March, 1842; and his mother, born June 6, 1809, died July 14, 1881.  When Thomas was nine years of age, he was bound out to a farmer, with whom he remained four years.  Then, in 1852, he came to his mother, in Highland County, and worked for James B. Herron, a farmer, for the term of three years.  He received, as wages for the first year, $6 per month, $8 for the second, and $13 for the third year.  He then obtained a situation as clerk, in the store of Enos West, of Berryville.  He occupied this position two years and went to Clermont County and engaged as book-keeper in the turning-mill of J. N. Henning, one year.  He then  took a course in Bartlett's Commercial College, and graduated in July, 1859.  He was then employed as traveling salesman for A. L. Burwell, a tobacconist, of Lynchburg, Va., till June, 1862, when he enlisted in Company H, Thirty-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.  He rendered able service in the Army of the Mississippi - participating in the three days' fight at Corinth.  He was then transferred to Grand Junction, Tenn., and was Private Secretary to John Eaton, Jr., Chaplain of the Twenty-seventh Regiment, for thirteen months.  Subsequently, he was commissioned Second Lieutenant of Company D, Ninth Regiment Louisiana Colored Troops, Oct. 2, 1863.  He was stationed at Cairo, Ill., for a time, receiving and forwarding supplies to the soldiers then at Memphis and Vicksburg.  At the close of the war, he came to Lynchburg, Highland County, where he followed merchandising for ten years.  He then pursued farming, in Clark Township, till April, 1881, when he removed to Martinsville.  In January, 1872, he was appointed Agent for the Royal Fire Insurance, of Liverpool, England, and still retains the agency.  Mr. Gaddis owns a fine farm of 336 acres, located in Clark and Washington Townships.  Also, 160 acres in Russell County, Kan.  He owns town property in Lynchburg, and a beautiful two-story residence and store building in Martinsville.  Mr. Gaddis was married June 16, 1866, to Uphamy Rogers, of Fond du Lac, Wis.  She was born in Schuyler county, N. Y., Oct. 5, 1847, and died Mar. 16, 1867.  Mr. Gaddis again married, June 30, 1868; this time to Carrie B. Sayers, daughter of John and Jane Sayers, and a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, where she was born Sept. 29, 1851.  They have one child living - Thomas Basil.  Lulu May and Grace Virginia are deceased.  Mr. Gaddis is identified with the I. O. O. F. and A. O. U. W. Associations.  His political opinions are with the Democratic party.
Source: History of Clinton Co., OH, Vol. 2, Published 1882 - Page 955

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AMOS R. GARNER, farmer, P. O. Martinsville, one of Clinton County's oldest and most worthy pioneers, was born in Dodson Township, Highland County, June 8, 1820.  He is a son of John and Eleanor (Ratcliff) Garner, natives respectively of Blount County, Tenn., and North Carolina.  His father was born June 1, 1795, and his mother June 11, 1799.  Mr. Garner's parents James Garner and Mary (Moon) Garner, were natives of Randolph County, N. C.  Mr. Garner was born Mar. 9, 1772, and Mrs. Garner was born Jan. 30, 1775.  They removed to Blount County, Tenn, in 1796, and to Clinton County, Ohio, in 1811, where they both died the former Mar. 29, 1856, and the latter Aug. 11, 1840.  Mr. Garner, the father of our subject, died in Clark Township June 8, 1831, and his wife died July 23, 1834.  Mr. Garner, our subject, was reared on a farm till fourteen years of age, when he began an apprenticeship at tanning, and at the expiration of the term of seven years, he engaged in the business and followed it extensively for over forty years, and it is said that his leather excelled any other manufactured in Southern Ohio.  In 1874, Mr. Garner retired from active business. Mr. Garner’s early life was spent in the primitive forest of Clark Township, whose principal inhabitants were then but wild animals; and it was not unfrequently that Mr. Garner would see a drove of forty deer.   His father was a great deer hunter, and Mr. Garner himself became quite an expert as a hunter, and particularly so in dispatching wild turkey, which were very numerous.  Mr. Garner’s advantages for securing an education were very limited.  The schoolhouse was built with poles and furnished with split rail seats, greased paper window lights and a monster fire-place.  Mr. Garner was married the first time, June 8, 1843, to Susan Betterton, daughter of Joshua and Mary Betterton, born in Clark Township, Sunday, Feb. 8, 1818, and died Jan. 30, 1872.  Mr. Garner again married, Dec. 12, 1872, to Martha Sewell, a native of Vernon Township, born Sept. 2, 1835, and a daughter of David and Martha Sewell.  One child was given to bless this union—Eldon C., born Oct. 13, 1875.  Mr. and Mrs. Garner are consistent members of the Society of Friends.  Mr. Garner’s political affiliations were with the Whig party till the organization of the Republican party, when he enlisted in its ranks.  He served as a member of the Board of Trustees of Clark Township for twenty-four years, and within this period of time he aided in removing to the County Infirmary 117 paupers, of whom eighty were driven there by tobacco and strong drink.  He also assisted in obtaining the grant for making thirty miles of township ditch in Clark Township.  Thus Mr. Garner's labors as Trustee were very efficient.
Source: History of Clinton Co., OH, Vol. 2, Published 1882 - Page 956