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JOSEPH CONRARD, undertaker and wagon-maker, Fayetteville, son of Joseph and Mary A. Conrard, was born in France February 15, 1831. In 1832, his parents came to this country and settled in this township, three miles west of Fayetteville, where they bought a farm of fifty-two acres. Joseph was reared on the farm till twenty-one years of age, when he went to Vera Cruz and learned the wagon-making trade. He worked at his trade in Lynchburg, Highland Co., Ohio, three years; three years in Cincinnati pattern-making; then went to Newport, Ky., and opened a wagon shop, where he remained eight years. He then returned to Fayetteville and opened a shop on Pine street. In 1873, he bought his present site, quarter acre, corner Pike and Russell streets, where he built his shop, and also owns blacksmith shop adjoining. He makes wagons, carriages, buggies, etc., also does general repairing. He is also the village undertaker. In the spring of 1882, he opened a furniture store, where he keeps a good assortment of house-furnishing goods. He was married in Cincinnati in 1855, to Catherine, daughter of Harrison and Mary Bevens, born in this township. They have eight children — Charles, Lillie, Katie, John, William, Joseph, Mary and Gertrude. Mr. Conrard has a residence and quarter acre of land in the southeast part of village.