Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. 
Charles Blanchard, Editor. Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884. 

MORGAN COUNTY
JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP
PAGE 326

WILLIAM BEST was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, February 11,
1814, and is descended from George and Sarah (Kelly) Best, both natives
of Ireland.  The grandfather of our subject, William Best, was born, married
and died in Ireland at the age of one hundred and four years, the father of
six children.  George Best was married in Ireland, and in 1812 emigrated
to America;  located in Muskingum County, Ohio, whence he removed to
Morgan County, Ind., where he and his wife died, the parents of twelve
children--Valentine, William, Robert, George, Walter, James, Elizabeth,
John, Richard H., Joseph, Isabelle and Sarah.  Our subject, William Best, 
began work when eighteen years of age in a flouring mill, which he continued
for twenty-one years.  September 15, 1836, he married Lydia, daughter of
Amos and Nancy Longshore, who died July 12, 1844, the mother of four
children--Sarah, George, Thomas E. and Josephine (deceased).  He sub-
sequently married Ann Bond, a native of New Jersey, who died in 1863, the
mother of nine children-- Harriet (deceased), James (deceased), Valentine,
Charles H. (deceased), William S. (deceased), Emma E., Lydia N., and
two infants deceased.  Mr. Best finally married, in 1864, Beulah L. Bond,
sister of his second wife, who gave birth to four children--Martha J., Albert
M., Franklin O. and Cora E.

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