My Genealogy Hound

T. W. MADDOX, farmer, P. O. Hiett, was born in this township in the year 1834, and is a son of Thompson and Sarah (White) Maddox, old settlers in this county. Our subject was reared on the farm and in the district schools received the rudiments of his education; he was married to Dorcas, the daughter of Thomas and Lucy (Shelton) Weeper, of Brown County, Ohio, in 1856. After his marriage, he located in Sprig Township in Adams County, Ohio, where he lived for some years, when he returned to the neighborhood of his birth. He owns 135 acres of well improved and highly cultivated land. He is a member of the Patrons of Husbandry, and he and wife are members of Methodist Episcopal Church, to which they have been connected for a number of years. He began exhorting in the Methodist Church, and in 1870 was licensed as a local minister in the same church. Since then he has labored whenever his health would permit, filling local appointments made by himself. They are both exemplary and consistent members of the church. To Mr. and Mrs. Maddox nine children have been born, of whom eight are living, viz., Samuel E., Lizzie, Thompson W., Lucy. David D., Sarah A., Robert, Katie and an infant. He has been successful in his business enterprises and his accumulations have resulted in a good home. Mrs. Maddox was born in this township in 1844.