DEATH-Isaac N. - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

ISAAC N. DEATH, farmer, Veedersburg, was born in 1829, and is the son of Aaron and Jemima (Allen) Death. The former a native of Virginia, born in 1786, and is the son of James Death. Aaron Death was reared in Virginia till a young man, when he emigrated to Ohio, where he was married in 1829, then came to Fountain county, and entered land in Van Buren township on Dry Run. He raised a family of eight children, only two living, Caroline Young, and Isaac N., both citizens of Fountain county. He by trade was a cooper. He and his wife were members of the Disciples church. He died in his eighty-sixth year; his wife in her seventy-sixth year. She was born in 1787. Isaac N. lives on the latter home place of his father’s, near Coal Creek. He was married in 1854 to Joanna Nicks, by whom he has one child, Joanna V., whose mother died in 1854, aged twenty-three years. He was married in 1858 to Margaret Swarned, who died in 1866, aged thirty-three years, by whom he had five children;, Joseph (deceased), Ida M., Ollie C., James S. He was married a third time in 1868, to Eliza J. French, by whom he has three children; Mary E., Bertha A., and Edgar. He and his wife are members of the New Light Christians at Cool Springs. He has a beautiful farm of 122 acres fairly improved and stocked. In politics he is a staunch republican.