JAMES B. ROACH was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, October 17) 1842, and came to White County November 7, 1861, where he taught two terms of school, and then engaged in farming. August 9, 1862, he enlisted in Company G, Sixty-third Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and on the organization of the company was made Corporal. He was placed on detached duty in the office of Capt. Bradner, Provost Marshal at Indianapolis, where be remained about one year, and then joined his regiment at Camp Nelson, receiving his discharge at David's Island Hospital, Long Island, June 20, 1865. For thirteen years after his return, he engaged in clerking in Monticello, but is now employed in stock-raising and working his farm of eighty acres. He was married, December 181 1872, to Mary S. Berkey, daughter of Michael and Margaret (Logan) Berkey, who were among White County's oldest settlers. He has bad born to him two children-Margaret B. and Frank B.

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