Hybarger - James - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

James Hybarger, of the firm of Grimes & Hybarger, died at his residence two miles south of Alamo on Saturday night last. Mr. Hybarger was a pioneer in Jackson Township, being brought up in the suburbs of Jacksonville. Forty years ago Jacksonville was a hard place, and the chances for education and refinement were few and meager, yet young Hybarger, by dint of more that ordinary ability, and great industry, grew up a thoroughly cultivated, educated, and refined gentleman. He married about the year '46 or '47, to a daughter of Bloomer White, who  was a brother of Hon. Albert S. White, U. S. Senator, and who was long a leading public man of Fountain County of the grand old honest sort. Since Mr. Hybarger's marriage he has been in the milling business, first in partnership with Mr. N. W. Grimes, at Magnolia Milles, south of Alamo. Mr. Hybarger never aspired to public station, but had he done so, he could have filled with credit almost any office in the gift of the people. The sprouted wheat crop of 1865 crippled seriously all the millers in this part of the state. Mr. Hybarger suffered with the rest, but every honest man must admire the heroism with which he shouldered the load, and the patience and pluck which prompted him through evil as well as good report, to keep on the even tenor of his way, and wring success from embarrassments under which men of less moral courage would have sunk. His remains were interred at Alamo on Monday. -s

Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal Saturday, 6 June 1874