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MAJ. JOHN FIFE was born in this county in 1801. He is a son of John and Isabella N. (Thompson) Fife, the former of whom died in 1814, aged fifty-eight years, and the latter in 1854, aged ninety-two years. Maj. Fife was born and reared on the farm where he now resides. He has followed agricultural pursuits through life, and owns one hundred and ten acres of the original one-thousand acre tract purchased by his grandfather. Maj. Fife married, in 1824, Margaret Spark, who became the mother of seven children, as follows: Sarah Ann (deceased), Isabella (deceased), Elizabeth, Margaret, Hannah, John T. and Mary Jane. John T. was born in 1837 on his father’s farm; was educated at the public schools, and, like his ancestors, has followed farming. He enlisted in 1861 in Co. H, 62d P. R., and served three years, the last two years as third sergeant; was wounded at Spottsylvania May 12, 1864, and soon afterward returned home. He married, in 1866, Jane, daughter of William and Ruth Morton, and five children were born to them: Maggie E., Lula A., Anna R., J. Pearl and John M., all living. This family are members of the Presbyterian Church. Politically John T. is a republican.