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Elvin Rees
ELVIN REES,
of Sugar Creek township, Boone county, Ind., is a native of
the state, having been born in Parke county, September 10,
1839. His parents were William and Mary (Hunnicutt) Rees,
the former of whom was born in Tennessee, in 1805, and was a
son of James and Jane (Elmore) Rees. James Rees, also a
native of Tennessee, was of Welsh descent, was a farmer, and
the father of six children, viz: Thomas, William, Joel,
James, Nancy and Charity. The grandmother of our subject was
a daughter of a Cherokee chief and one of seven sisters, all
of whom married white men of the utmost respectability.
William Rees, father of Elvin, was reared in Hamilton
county, Ohio, and in Parke county, Ind., married Miss Mary
Hunnicutt, who was born in Petersburg, Va. From Parke county
he removed to Montgomery county, Ind., in 1840, and in 1844
came to Boone county and bought a farm of 220 acres, a part
of which is now the home of Elvin Rees. Here William died in
1858, his wife, Mary, surviving him until 1879, both having
been, like their forefathers, members of the Friends'
church. Elvin Rees, although reared a farmer, early fitted
himself for an educator, but ill health prevented his
following the profession. He had secured a school in Iowa,
but the morning it was to open diphtheria intervened and he
was obliged to abandon the calling for good. April 1, 1862,
he married Miss Tacy Cox, a native of Boone county, Ind.,
born in 1843, and a daughter of Isaac and Rachael
(Mendenhall) Cox, the union resulting in the birth of seven
children named as follows: Orpheus E., deceased; William;
Virgil, of Kentucky; Della M., at home; Cassie A., a
graduate of Thorntown academy; Howard and Olema. Mr. Rees
has a well-cultivated farm of 112 acres in this township, of
which twelve acres are devoted to the larger fruits, three
to raspberries, and one to strawberries, etc. He makes a
specialty of fine corn, and gives much attention to Chester
White and Berkshire hogs. He has a fish pond, supplied with
scale and carp, and his home is delightful in all respects.
Beside this property, he owns in Leavenworth county, Kans.,
a farm of 160 acres and valuable lots in several towns. In
politics Mr. Rees is a republican, and his religion, like
that of his wife; is in the faith of the Friends' church.
Transcribed by:
Chris Brown
Source: "A Portrait And Biographical Record of Boone and
Clinton Counties, Ind.," page 410, published in 1895 by
A. W. Bowen & CO. Chicago
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