"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
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SILAS RINKER was born September 17, 1835, in Clay Township, Morgan Co.,
Ind., and is the son of Levi and Elizabeth (Cracraft) Rinker. Silas was
reared upon a farm, received ordinary school advantages, and at the age of
eighteen started out for himself. Since that time he has followed farming,
with the exception of fifteen months in the mercantile business. He is
living now upon fifty-seven acres of land near Brooklyn. Mr. Rinker has
been twice married. On October 10, 1852, he was married to Melissa Jane, of
Monroe County, and daughter of Joseph and Lucinda (Harper) Hiatt. By this
union there were eight children, of whom four are living--George W., William
E., Louella J. and Silas E. The mother died Mary 26, 1876, a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Rinker was next wedded, on August 12, 1876,
to Lu E. Reaves, a native of Gibson County, Ind., and a daughter of William
and Eleanor (Burton) Reaves, Indianians, of Irish and German extraction
respectively. Two children have crowned this union--Levi R. and Burton C.
Both Mr. Rinker and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and
belongs to the I. O. O. F. Mr. Rinker is a politician of Democratic
proclivities, and through life has risen by his own efforts to his present
independent position.
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