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JOSEPH TEAGUE, retired farmer; P. O. Covington; is a son of Moses Teague, who was a native of South Carolina and emigrated to Ohio in the year 1805; stopped in Warren Co. about six months; then came to Miami and located near Ludlow Falls; they lived there forty-three years; moved then to Indiana and remained there ten years; came back to Miami Co. and lived here until death. The subject of this sketch was born in Newton Township, Miami Co., Sept. 15, 1818, and lived with his parents upon a farm until he attained his majority. He married Miss Mary A., daughter of David Patty, a native of South Carolina; after his marriage, he learned the tanning business, and followed it about ten years on the old home farm in Newton Township; he then purchased a farm in Darke Co., mostly all timber; opened and improved it, living there about twenty-five years; in 1879, he traded his farm in Darke Co. for the J. M. Mahler farm in Newberry Township, Miami Co., situated on the Mott pike; this is a splendid farm of 118 acres, with a spring upon it that has few equals.