"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
MADISON TOWNSHIP
PAGE 356

JOHN SAWYERS, farmer and stock grower, was born in Guilford County, N. C., 
Janaury 22, 1825, and is the youngest of the eight children born to John and Sarah
(Tansy) Sawyers, natives of the same State, and of English descent.  The famly came 
to this State about the year 1832, the parents dying in this county.  John Sawyers was
reared on a farm, and after reaching his majority traveled throught a number of the 
Western States.  On his return, he married Phoebe Lindley, daughter of Edward and
Joanna (Kirk) Lindley, and to this union have been born ten children:  Dayton, Ella
(now Eversol), Anna, Ola, Lillie (now Pugh), Mattie, Ida, Lewis, Bernice and Wallace.
Mr. Sawyers has always provided for himself and is now the owner of 740 acres,
well improved and stocked.  He makes a specialty of stock-raising, and ships largely
to Indianapolis.  He is a member of the Society of Friends, while his wife is a member
of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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