"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
BROWN TOWNSHIP AND MOORESVILLE
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WILLIAM D. OVERTON is the third son of JAMES H. and ANN M. (PARKER) OVERTON,
who spent their lives in North Carolina; he was born in Northampton County
that State, July 4, 1852; came to Morgan County, Ind., in the winter of
1874, and up to the spring of 1882 farmed near Monrovia. At this town,
after a short trip West, Mr. Overton entered the hardware store of HOBBS &
JOHNSON, as clerk. In July, 1883, he bought out the Mooresville elevator
and has since been engaged in the grain business. On November 19, 1878, he
was married at Hillsdale, to MAGGIE LANKFORD, who died March 21, 1881,
leaving her husband one child--WILLIAM HENRY. In 1860, Northampton County,
N.C., cast 14 votes for Abraham Lincoln for President of the United States
and James H. Overton was one of the number. On account of his anti-Southern
principles, he was compelled to leave home during the war, and the mother
dying in the meantime, the family was completely broken up. So it will be
readily understood that so far in life William D. Overton has "paddled his
own canoe." He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, an earnest
supporter of the cause of temperance, belongs to the Masonic order and votes
the Republican ticket.
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