Biographies and Obituaries
In loving memory
J. W. Ransbury
Biographical Sketches, History of Daviess County
An enterprising young farmer of Van Buren Township, Daviess Co, Indiana, he was born September 21, 1854 in Monroe County, PA and is one of five children born to the marriage of Henry Ransbury and Elizabeth Kern. the father is a native of the Keystone State and was born in 1828. He is a tiller of the soil, and at the time of his marriage was a resident of his native state, where he now resides. The mother was born in the same place as her husband in 1832. Our subject attended the common schools and at the age of nineteen years began teaching school, continuing at that occupation four terms. He remained at home with his people until attaining his majority. In 1882 he and friend by the name of George Kern came West and purchased a farm of 240 acres in Daviess County and remained partners for about two years; then Mr. Ransbury purchased his partner's share of the farm. His sister, Sally, who came to Indiana in 1883, is keeping house for him. In politics he is a Republican, and cast his first vote for Rutherford B. Hayes.
Contributed by: Shirley H. Platt