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JAMES PAUL, minister, P. O. Hiett, born in Huntington Township, this county, in the year 1828; he is a son of James and Fanny (Woods) Paul, natives of Pennsylvania, where they were reared and resided till after their marriage; they then moved to Kentucky and settled in Mason County, where they resided four years, after which they removed to Brown County and settled on Eagle Creek. John and Polly Woods, parents of Fanny, were natives of Pennsylvania, and settled on Eagle Creek in the year 1800. He (John) was a Colonel in the Revolutionary war, and was killed by the Indians in Byrd Township, while on an investigating tour. The Pauls made permanent homes in Brown County. Grandfather Paul’s family consisted of eight children, namely, Gabriel, Isaac, Andrew, James, William, Michael, Nancy and Malinda. Michael, father of James, Sr., was of American birth; his wife was one-fourth Indian of the Shawnee tribe, her father being a half-blood. The well-known Indian character Captain John was half-brother to the grandfather of our subject. To James, Sr., was born five children, namely, Andy, Margaret, Isaac, James and Fanny Ann. In 1830, he removed to Maryland, and four years later went to Illinois, where he died in June, 1879, aged eighty years. His wife died in 1837. Our subject was reared on the farm, and from the age of nine years, in the family of John Hiett, with whom he lived until twenty-three years of age. He was married in 1850, to Sallie Ann, daughter of Eve White, of whom mention is made in this work. Since his marriage, he has followed farming in connection with ministerial work. He was ordained in the Christian Church, in the Southern Ohio Christian Conference, at Higginsport in 1878. Previous to this, he was a licentiate minister for fifteen years. To Mr. and Mrs. Paul have been born thirteen children, all of whom are living, namely, Eliza J., Zoa A., Margaret, Henry L., Jacob B., William D., George M., John W., Delila E., James E., Maria E., Wesley W. and Charles T. Mrs. Paul was born in Adams County, Ohio, in 1834. James Paul enlisted in 1865, in Company K, One Hundred and Eighty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, where he did duty for several months, till sickness incapacitated him for duty.