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WILLIAM HINDSLEY, farmer; P. O. New Madison; another of the old residents of Darke Co.; his father, John H. Hindsley, was a native of Maryland, and went to North Carolina when a boy; was married to Annie Stone, and they moved to Tennessee in 1823; to Preble Co., Ohio, in 1826, and came to Darke County in the spring of 1827; he entered land in Sec. 14, upon which they lived the remainder of their days. The subject of this sketch was born in North Carolina, in 1813; accompanied his parents to Darke County, in 1827, and has resided here ever since; purchased the old homestead in 1848; his father’s death having occurred in 1847, and his mother had her home with him until her decease, which occurred in 1866. The present neat and substantial buildings have been erected by him, and the farm is now in an advanced state of cultivation, situated on a free gravel pike near enough to New Madison to afford excellent school privileges. Mr. Hindsley may well feel a just pride in what has been accomplished by the developments of the past fifty years; he is now nearing the threescore-and-ten period of his life, and has been a quiet, unassuming, but enterprising and useful citizen. He was married in 1838, to Annie Butt, daughter of Samuel Butt, a native of Maryland, and at that time a resident of Darke County; they have nine children—Isabel (now Mrs. Jerry Runkle), Mary A. (now Mrs. Joseph Ray), David, Rufus, Franklin, Margaret, Eliza, Joseph and Harriet.