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AMOS HIRE, farmer; P. O. Saybrook; was born in Fayette Co., Ohio, Jan. 23, 1813; his father died in the year 1859, and his mother in 1832; he lived with them until he was 21 years of age, and then started into the world to carve his own fortune, and worked upon a farm for a year or two, and then learned the trade of a joiner and carpenter, and two years afterwards, Aug. 16, 1837, married Miss Mary Jeffers (daughter of Isaac and Nancy Jeffers, of Fayette Co., Ohio); her parents moved to Missouri, where her father died; her mother then returned to Ohio, and soon afterward came to live with Mr. Hire. Mr. Hire, after his marriage, moved to Fayette Co., Ohio, farming and working at his trade of joiner and carpenter up to March, 1875, when he purchased his present farm on Secs. 19 and 30, of this township, where he now resides, containing sixty acres; his wife was born April 22, 1817; they had twelve children — nine living — Lewis B., born Sept, 6, 1838; Martha (now Mrs. Eli Wood, of Ohio), May 23, 1841; Sallie M. (now Mrs. William Mills, of Fayette Co., Ohio), May 29, 1843; Hulda, June 24, 1848; Isaac G., Sept. 2, 1850; Zida E., Oct. 22, 1852; Rameth T., Aug. 16, 1859; Samuel A., March 8, 1863; three died — Amzi, born Feb. 10, 1840, and died July 9, 1863; Harlan B., born Sept. 12, 1854, and died Feb. 26, 1860, and an infant. His son Amzi enlisted in Co. G, 90th Ohio V. I., in our late civil war, and died from disease contracted in the army.