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Below is a family biography included in The History of Darke County, Ohio published by W. H. Beers & Co. in 1880. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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JEREMIAH WHITENACK, farmer and stock-raiser, Sec. 7; P. O. Arcanum. To the subject of this sketch we are pleased to accord a place in the front ranks of the early pioneers of Darke Co.; he was born in Somerset Co., N. J., Oct. 19, 1802; he assisted his father in the labors of the farm, and removed with his parents to Warren Co., Ohio, in 1823, and still continued to assist his father in farming and weaving till 1828. He was united in marriage, June 26 of the same year, to Miss Lavina, daughter of George and Elenore Camblin, residents of Pennsylvania; one child has been given to this union, viz., John C., whose sketch appears in this work. Mr. Whitenack settled in Darke Co. in 1837, upon 68 acres of land, where he still resides. He and his wife are members of the Reformed Church, and are greatly interested in the advancement of the Christian religion, and have borne the cross for upward of fifty years; his house has been the house of God, where his neighbors congregated to worship their Maker in their wilderness home. In the year 1858, the parents of Mrs. Whitenack, becoming old and infirm, came to her home and lived with her until their death; Mr. Camblin died at the age of 81 years, and Mrs. Camblin at the age of 73.
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This family biography is one of 659 biographies included in The History of Darke County, Ohio published in 1880 by W. H. Beers & Co. For the complete description, click here: Darke County, Ohio History and Genealogy
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