Uriah Garringer [1494]

  General Notes:

Rick Hambrock “Descendants of Isaac Jacob Garringer” [Nov 2000]:
while posting 2 children accepted here, source posts a longer
list of children that apparently descend as grandchildren from
source accepted in this database; (rootsweb.com) “Family Tree of
François DeSerres”: vital statistics [used here] — see essay
below; Randolph Co., IN Marriage Records; ‘Uriah Garringer’
memoir (from Randolph Co., IN Genealogical Society, copied from
a published source [“Photos. & Bio. Records of Randolph &
Delaware Co., IN” in 1894): ‘married Miss Libbie Goodwin,
daughter of Thomas & Nancy (Euring) Goodwin’ — only 2 children
known to foregoing source — Family Group Charts by Dave & Eileen
Collins [27 Jun/18 Aug 2004]: vital data (with ‘Monroe township’
in birth data) — from Randolph County, Indiana History source:

‘Uriah Garringer was a farmer's boy, and was reared on the home
farm, receiving a good, substantial, common education. At the
age of twenty-five he was married to Miss Libbie Goodwin,
daughter of Thomas and Nancy (Euring) Goodwin. The marriage
occurred November 1, 1873. He began married life on the farm his
father gave him and afterward added twenty acres more to it, all
of which is well improved. His first house was a log one, built
by Jacob Bales many years ago. Uriah, like his father, is a
famous hunter, and makes annual trips to the woods of Michigan
and an occasional one to Missouri, for the purpose of pursuing
his favorite sport. His farm specialty is the raising and
feeding of hogs, in which he is more than ordinarily successful.
His breeds are the choicest, and always demand the highest
price. His home is a handsome and happy one, and all the good
and substantial things of life abundantly surround him. He has
made a success of his years and is now enjoying the results. He
has two children - Ona May and Russell G. Garringer. He is a
Republican in Politics, and is justly proud of his farm, his
home and his principles.

Isaac and Sarah (Boots) Garringer. His father was a native of
Fayette County, Ohio, and in the spring of 1859 came to
Fairview, where he purchased two eighty-acre lots, raised his
log cabin, made his pole shed and began the hard and active life
of a pioneer - by felling the heavy timber and clearing the
land. He was a hardy and industrious man and well fitted for
labor. He was also a famous hunter, and his reputation as such
extended beyond the confines of this county. Game was very
abundant and his sport was rare and exciting. He married a
farmer's daughter, Sally Boots, alluded to above, in 1843, and
this family of children was born to them: Simon, a grocer at
Antioch; Delilah, wife of Christian Ziegler; David, a farmer of
Green Township; Samuel, of Green Township; Lewis, a farmer in
Pike Township, Jay County; Phebe, wife of William Bales, of Red
Key; Isaac, farmer in Green Township; John, a farmer of Monroe
Township; George, farmer of the same township; Uriah, our
subject; Sarah, wife of W. H. Collins; Henry, a farmer. The
father of this family of boys and girls was one of the most
successful farmers in the county and owned at one time a tract
of 940 cares of land, of which he gave to each of his children
eighty acres. He began life with eighty acres, and the handsome
remainder was all made by his industry and good financiering. He
died in 1870, and the mother in 1883, both at a ripe old age,
and the latter a member of the Dunkard Church. His grandfather
was a resident of Ohio, and died at the remarkable age of
ninety-nine years; the grandmother died at the age of
seventy-three; both were buried on the home farm, owned by Isaac
Garringer.’

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Occupation: farmer.

Uriah married Mary Elizabeth (“Libby”) Godwin [1670] [MRIN: 690] on 1 Nov 1877 in , Randolph, Indiana, USA. (Mary Elizabeth (“Libby”) Godwin [1670] was born about 1858 in , , Indiana, USA, died in 1934 in , Randolph, Indiana, USA and was buried in 1934 in Hopewell Cemetery, Near Farmland (Randolph Co., Indiana.)