My Genealogy Hound

JOSEPH C. WELLS, farmer, P. O. Higginsport, is a son of James Wells, who was born in Pennsylvania November 30, 1781, and about the close of the last century came to Augusta, Ky., where his brother Frank had previously settled. He became the owner of a mill on the creek about a mile above. While thus engaged, he married Sally, daughter of Joseph Clark, St., who settled in Lewis Township in 1795. They became residents of Brown County about the time of the war of 1812, and in this struggle James was a patriot. He came to Ohio with little means, but a capital of energy and honest principles which soon won for him the confidence of the people, who elected him one of the Commissioners of the county, he living in what was then Clermont County, but now Brown. He also served as Justice of the Peace for nearly a quarter of a century. He was a man firm in his adherence to the right, and whose actions were always in accordance with his words; he accumulated a fair competency and died a much respected citizen, July 30, 1857, and his wife, June 7, 1866, aged eighty-three years three months and seven days. Their children were nine in number, six boys and three girls. Of the children our subject is the sixth, and was born March 9, 1819, on the farm which he now owns; here he matured and has lived ever since. When forty-two years of age, he married Ellen C., daughter of James Hopkins, represented in this volume. She was born in Brown County in 1835. This union has been blessed with six children of whom three are now living. In 1863, he and wife moved to the farm of 227 acres which they now own. They are both members of the Presbyterian Church, and are well situated in life. Politically, he is a Republican.