"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 

MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
RAY TOWNSHIP
PAGE 289

CASPER LINGLE, a prominent stock-raiser and farmer, was born in Burke County, 
N. C., March 7, 1823, and is the eighth of the ten children of Adam and Catherine
(Tipps) Lingle, of German descent.  In 1829, he came with his parents to what is now
this township;  was reared to farming, and has been an important personage in the
development of the county.  The first township election was held at his father's house,
and continued so to be for twenty years, when the same were held at Salem.  June
7, 1845, he wedded Matilda, daughter  of Henry and Rebecca (Goss) Ratts, who
died about three months after his marriage.  August 9, 1856, he married Catherine,
daughter of Thomas and Rebecca Sandy, to whch union succeeded five children--
John S., William A., James E., Jeremiah S. and Thomas Lincoln.  In 1857, he
removed to Missouri for three years, after which time he returned home.  While
there he built a Methodist Episcopal Church, the last payment on which he made
after leaving that State.  Mr. Lingle has been a successful man, having acquired a
possession of 700 acres of land, but now having sold some, and given much to his
children, retains only 132 acres, which are, however, well-cultivated, stocked, im-
proved and adorned.  His only ally was his faithful wife, who died August 9, 1882,
a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  Mr. Lingle is an enlightened citizen,
an advocate of public education, an active Republican and a member of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church.

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