Notes for: John Hathaway
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From the Hisory of Fountain County, Indiana - 1881 - Fulton township - pages 426-427
written by H. W. Beckwith & Sons
Press of Knight & Leonard - Chicago
John Hathaway, farmer and stock raiser, Snoddy's Mills, is a son of Nimrod and Cynthia (Insley) Hathaway. Nimrod Hathaway was born in Circleville, Ohio, July 4, 1797, and was raised on a farm. When about fifteen years old he apprenticed himself to a tanner to learn the trade, his father having died when he (Nimrod) was young. Not far from 1825 he came to Fountain County, Indiana, and started a tannery, which he continued for about five years. This not paying him, he worked at anything he could get to do. He entered eighty acres of land, and added till he owned nearly 200 acres. He entered part of the land on which John now lives. He married in Ohio, but lost his wife before leaving there. He came to Indiana, bringing one son, Henry. Here he was married to Cynthia Insley, a native of South Carolina. They lived in a round-log cabin till three children were born to them. He then built a small one-story frame house, hewing most of the plank himself. In 1853 he erected a large frame building. He died in August 1868, after burying his second wife and marrying a third time. John Hathaway was born in a log cabin April 11, 1829. At the age of twenty-four he married Sarah J. Penner, who died in 1860, leaving one child, James Monroe. He was next married to Mrs. Mary J. Clifton, a native of Ohio. She was born in Ross County July 30, 1829, and moved with her parents, Cyrus and Mary (Raney) Clifton, to Vermilion county, Indiana in 1831, and to Fountain county, Indiana in 1845. Mrs. Hathaway had two children, Isabel and Isaac F. Furgeson, by her first husband. Mr. Hathaway has been the architect of his own fortune, has never moved but once, and then only three-quarters of a mile. His first eighty acres cost $1,000. He owns 385 acres, 11 acres of which he received from his father's estate. He has one child by his second marriage, Julia, now Mrs. Samuel Rhodes. Mrs. Hathaway has been a Baptist many years. Mr. Hathaway has been a thorough and lasting democrat.