"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
CLAY TOWNSHIP, MORGAN CO., INDIANA
PAGE 266
O. C. MOON, farmer, was born in Brown Township, Morgan County, Ind., May 1,
1852, and is the second of three children born to L. D. and Rachel
(Thornburg) Moon, natives of Warren County, Ohio, and of Morgan County,
Ind., and of English ancestry. O. C. was reared upon a farm, and received
sufficient instruction to enable him to teach school, later, in the schools
of this county. He was very successful in this, and followed it for ten
years. He attended the business college at Indianapolis, and graduated from
there in 1877. March 13, 1879, he was married to Jennie Griggs, a native of
this county and township, and daughter of Clark and Margaret (Marrow)
Griggs. After marriage, Mr. Moon engaged in farming, and is now living upon
a farm of 360 acres, near Brooklyn, and which belongs to his father-in-law,
Clark Griggs. Mr. and Mrs. Moon belong to the Methodist Episcopal and
Christian denominations respectively. He is a member of the I. O. O. F.,
and a Republican.
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