"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
BROWN TOWNSHIP AND MOORESVILLE
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ABNER HADLEY, farmer, Brown Township, Morgan Co., Ind., is a native of
Hendricks County, Ind., and the third of four children of JOSHUA B. and MARY
T. (HADLEY) HADLEY, natives of North Carolina. He was born December 28,
1828; reared upon a farm; at the public schools of Indiana acquired a good
English education, and in his early manhood taught two terms in Hendricks
County. His father died in the twenty-eighth year of his age when our
subject was about three years of age. His mother died in Hendricks County
November 19, 1880, in the seventy-third year of her age. Subject lived with
his mother until he was about twenty-one years of age, when he set out in
the world for himself. On March 21, 1850, he was married, at West Union,
Morgan County, to ANN, daughter of DAVID and MARY LINDLEY, natives of North
Carolina. By this marriage he had born to him four children--CHARLES
(farmer in Hardin county, Iowa), MARY E. (wife of THADEUS S. TOWNSEND, now
at Albany, Oreg.), FRANKLIN M. (in Morgan County), AND FLORA E. (wife of
JAMES P. HENLEY, of Hendricks County, Ind.). The mother of these children
died February 1, 1862, in the thirty-third year of her age. On April 15,
1863, he was next married to BEULAH, daughter of WILLIAM and ANN HADLEY,
natives of North Carolina. By this marriage two children were born, JOSHUA
and EDGAR. Mr. Hadley's second wife died February 24, 1867, in the
thirty-seventh year of her age, and on January 14, 1869, he married for his
third wife SALLIE A., daughter of WILLIAM B. and LUDAH E. HUBBARD, natives
of North Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. Hadley are both birthright members of the
Friends' Society, and are at present Elders in the White Lick Church of that
denomination; Mr. H. is also one of the Trustees of this church. He is a
liberal giver to all churches and schools in his vicinity without regard to
sect or creed. In politics, he is a Republican; is also an ardent
temperance man and advocate, and a friend of prohibition at all times. From
the estate of his father, he inherited a tract of land of small value. The
rest of his property he has acquired by his own industry. He owns at
present a fine farm of 285 acres, nearly all in cultivation, well improved
and stocked with horses, hogs and cattle. The farm and stock receive his
personal supervision and management. He came into Morgan County in the
spring of 1863, and located upon the farm since owned and occupied by him,
about one-half mile north of the town of Mooresville. He is a reputable and
influential citizen, respected by his neighbors and esteemed by his church
as one of its most substantial pillars and supporters. His wife is a woman
of unquestionable merit, and noted for her charities and Christian conduct.
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