Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical.
Charles Blanchard, Editor. Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884. 

MORGAN COUNTY
JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP
PAGE 332

JAMES R. MOSIER was born in Lawrence County, Ind., August 16,
1844, and is a son of John and Esther (Burris) Mosier, natives of North
Carolina and Ohio respectively, who moved to this county in 1845, where
Mr. Mosier died twenty years later.  Mrs. Mosier subsequently married 
Joseph Lain, and still latter George Moore.  Our subject, James R. Mosier,
enlisted August 14, 1862, in Company H, Seventy-ninth Indiana Regiment
Indiana Volunteers, and served until April, 1863, having been shot through 
the shoulder at the battle of Stone River. September,1863, he re-enlisted
in Company D, One Hundred and Seventeenth Indiana Regiment, serving
six months, and again enlisted March, 1864, in Company K, First Indiana
Regiment, and served until January, 1866.  August 28, 1868, he married
Mrs. Ann, widow of David Anderson, and daughter of John and Ann
Dixon, by which union they had five children--Sarah R., James R., Hester
A., and two infants, deceased.  Mr. Mosier is a highly respected citizen.

Data Entry Volunteer:  Diana Flynn 

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