"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
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP AND MARTINSVILLE, MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
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MRS. MARTHA A. BROUGHTON (widow of JOHN BROUGHTON), is a native of Botetourt
County, Va., and was born May 9, 1837, the daughter of JACOB and NANCY
ECHOLDS, both natives of Virginia, where they married. They afterward moved
to Kentucky; thence to Madison County, Ind.; thence to Johnson, and
thence to Morgan County. Their family consisted of JEREMIAH, MARTHA A.,
NANCY J., WILLIAM, JENNIE, ELIZA, ANNA and JOSEPH. In Johnson County, Ind.,
our subject married JAMES CHILDS, and they moved to Effingham County, Ill.,
in which locality Mr. Childs died. In 1852, Mrs. Childs returned to Johnson
County, Ind., and was there wedded to THOMAS STOUT, with whom, in 1858, she
moved to this county, where he died in 1872; finally she wedded JOHN
BROUGHTON, who left the world in 1879. Mrs. Broughton has been the mother
of eight children, as follows: By Mr. Childs, two, ROAN H. and an infant
deceased; and by Mr. Stout, six--CHARLIE T., ALBERT L., NANCY A., WILLIAM
W., HATTIE F. and JOSEPH H. Mrs. Broughton is an exemplary and highly
esteemed lady.
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