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JAMES DUSKY settled at Cincinnati in 1825.  He was a native of Virginia, but was compelled to flee the State on account of a threshing he had administered to an overseer, who was abusing a slave.  He died on the Ohio river, of yellow fever, in 1836.  His wife, Elizabeth Stone, died in 1846.  They had eight children, three of whom survive:  George Washington, Henry, and Silas; the latter married Elizabeth, daughter of James Robison, of Gratis township.  They have had two children born to them; Charles Henry and Richard Randall.  Mr. Dusky is the principal blacksmith in West Elkton.  He has been in the county for over twenty-five years. Source: History of Preble County, Ohio - H. Z. Williams & Bro, Publishers - 1881 - Page 194

JOHN F. DAVIS was born in Warren County, Ohio, in 1820.  In 1850 he  settled in section six.  His wife, Mary Corwin, born in Warren county in 1818, is still living.  Mr. Davis was drafted in the war of the Rebellion, but did not serve, inasmuch as the citizens subscribed and cleared the township.  Three of his four children are living.  James C. Davis, his eldest son, volunteered during the late war and became a member of the Seventy-ninth Ohio volunteer infantry,  company A.  He was in the battles of Rocky Face, Snake Creek Gap, and Resaca.  He was mustered out at the close of the war in 1865, after three years service.  He lost a finger in one of the engagements with the enemy.  Judge W. W. Wilson, of Lebanon, Ohio, was captain of his company, and H. G. Kennett, of Cincinnati, colonel of the regiment.  B. F. Davis was in the one hundred days' service. Source: History of Preble County, Ohio - H. Z. Williams & Bro, Publishers - 1881 - Page 210

R. W. DAVIS was born about 1826, in Warren County, Ohio, and with his brother settled in section six about 1850.  His first wife, Rebecca Bradenburg was born in 1829, and died in 1849.  His second wife, Mary E. Smith, was born in 1829.  By his second marriage he had four children, all of whom are living. Source: History of Preble County, Ohio - H. Z. Williams & Bro, Publishers - 1881 - Page 210

ABRAHAM S. DYE settled in Euphemia, Harrison township, in 1840.  He was born in Butler Co., Ohio, in 1818.  He was married five times.  His first wife was Mary Marshall, of Montgomery county, died 1840; his second, Esther Ann Baker, of Darke county, died 1848; his third, Elizabeth Marshall, of Preble county, died 1849; his fourth,  Sarah Angel, died in 1862, and his last wife was Sarah, widow of Alexander Cooper, of Preble county.  Of his children, William married Angeline Bonner, and resides in Harrison township; Clark B. married Miss Bunger (deceased; his second wife was Mary Bunger; he is living in Harrison township; Charles W.  married Amanda Ebersole, and lives in Missouri; Edmund S.  is studying law with Judge Campbell, of Eaton, Ohio; Carl Dewitt and Joseph Earl live at home.  Seth Dye, the father of Abraham, was born in Middlesex county, New Jersey, in 1790, and died in Harrison township in 1860. Source: History of Preble County, Ohio - H. Z. Williams & Bro, Publishers - 1881 - Page 209

 

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