Sandy - John A.
Source: Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana Historical and Biographical Charles Blanchard, Editor F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers Chicago, 1884 Page 291
JOHN A. SANDY, stock-raiser and farmer, was born in Montgomery County, Indiana, March 19, 1843, and is the sixth of the eleven children of William H. and Lucinda (Thompson) Sandy, natives respectively of Tennessee and Kentucky, and of English and Irish descent. William H. Sandy emigrated to Washington County, Ind., about 1810, thence moved to Owen County about 1812, and after his marriage settled near Gosport, about 1830 and thence moved to Montgomery County, locating near Crawfordsville. In 1852, the family moved to Morgan County, where Mr. Sandy yet resides. John H. Sandy passed his boyhood on the paternal farm, and in going to school. In 1861, he enlisted in Company H, Thirty-third Indiana Volunteer Infantry; was assigned to the Fourth Corps, Army of the Cumberland; was mostly engaged in skirmishes, and was discharged November 1862, after which, being unable to work, he went to school for a time, then farmed until February, 1865, when he re-enlisted in Company F, One Hundred and Forty-eighth Regiment, and served until September. August 30, 1866, he married Susanna, daughter of Robert and Nancy Walters, to which union was born one child -James S. Mr. Sandy owns eighty-two acres of good land, well-cultivated and improved, thus being in comfortable circumstances. In 1880, he engaged in the drug business for one year with fair success. Mr. Sandy is an Odd Fellow, and he and wife are members of the Christian Church.