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DANIEL SNELL, retired farmer, Sec. 28; P. O. Darke. He was born in Warren Co., Ohio, March 1, 1809, and moved with his parents, John and Mary (Shively) Snell, to the place where they now reside, June 4, 1817; they at once erected a log house, 18x20 feet, of round logs, with mother earth for the floor; the following winter, twenty persons found cover and home in this hut, not very comfortably, either, especially after the old sow and her pigs were given quarters in one corner, to keep them from freezing; four or five years later, they erected a more eligible house by adding another room; Daniel Snell resides near the spot where they first settled. He married Maria Rush Nov. 8, 1834; she was born in a block-house or stockade on Mud Creek, three miles from Greenville, in this county, in May, 1813; her father and mother, Henry and Rachel (Creviston) Rush, came from Pennsylvania and settled on the Scioto River, and moved to Darke Co. in 1808; she died March 14, 1852; Mr. and Mrs. Snell have had six children, viz.: Mary E., born Sept. 4, 1835, married Randolph Harrison; Thomas R., bora July 21, 1837, died March 5, 1852; Alonzo V., born Feb. 6, 1839, died March 9, 1872; William H., born March 16, 1841, died in November, 1863; Rachel J., born Dec. 17, 1844, married William Moyer, and John R., born Oct. 18, 1850; he married Margaret E. Wenger, youngest child of Elias and Catherine Wenger, Oct. 26, 1872; she was born in this township Dec. 19, 1850; they live in the old homestead, and have four children, viz.: Estella, born July 26, 1873; Katie M., born May 5, 1875; Walter W., born Nov. 21, 1876, and Jennie, born Feb. 17, 1878; they own the first farm her father bought and part of the first his grandfather bought in Darke Co.— 113 acres.