"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
MONROE TOWNSHIP, MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
PAGE 281
JEREMIAH L. WELMAN is a native of Oldham County, Ky.; was born June 10,
1831, and is a son of Andrew N. and Elizabeth (Williams) Welman, natives
respectively of Virginia and Kentucky. His father having died, his mother
and family moved to this county in 1845, where he has since lived, and where
his mother died August 1, 1883, in her eighty-fifty year. Our subject was
reared as a farmer, and followed the same until he was thirty-five years of
age. March 20, 1856, he married Elzina Lewallen, a native of Kentucky. Mr.
Welman began the carpentering business in 1863, and devoted himself thereto
for about ten years; and then, coming to Monrovia, engaged in the furniture
and undertaking line, which he has continued without competition. He owns a
comfortable residence and good business property. August, 1861, he enlisted
in Company A, Thirty-third Indiana Volunteers; served about eleven months,
and was discharged from physical disability, having contracted typhoid fever
in the service. Mr.Welman is Tiler of Monrovia Loge, 261, A., F. & A. M.
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