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H. R. RAYBURN, retired farmer; P. O. Saybrook; was born in Mason Co., W. Va., Jan. 26, 1815. In the fall of 1833, he left home and went to Ross Co.. Ohio, and lived with his uncle, David Corbitt, until the fall of 1835, and then went to Madison Co., and, in the fall of 1836, returned to Virginia and was engaged in the blacksmithing business, having a shop on his father’s farm during that winter, and, the following spring, went to Point Pleasant and worked in the blacksmith shop of William Dashner, and on Aug. 13, 1837, having married Miss Mary White, daughter of James White, of Pennsylvania, moved to Madison Co., Ohio, and farmed until the fall of 1852, when he came to McLean Co., and settled six miles southeast of Bloomington, on the farm of William Bishop, remaining there five years, and, having purchased a farm in Arrowsmith Township, of this county, moved there in the spring of 1858, and, on Dec. 10, 1873, came from there to Saybrook. He has been School Director and Trustee in Arrowsmith Township, and also was a member of the Town Council of Saybrook for one year. His wife was born Sept. 15, 1815, in Allegheny Co., Penn. They had ten children, eight living, four boys and four girls — Granville W., born May 8, 1838; Cooper M. C., Feb. 7, 1845; Calvin H., Oct. 8, 1846: John R., Oct. 14, 1850; four girls — Mary J. (now Mrs. Moses Durand, of Pike Co., Ill.), born Aug. 22, 1840; Martha A. (now Mrs. Cyrus Hartpence, of Caldwell Co., Mo.), Nov. 12, 1841; Isabella (now Mrs. James H. Wright, of Pike Co., Ill.), Aug. 23, 1848; and Margaret E. (now Mrs. Eldon T. Brigham, of Iroquois Co.), Aug. 10, 1854.