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THOMAS F. CHENOWETH, farmer and brickmason, Sec. 32; P. O. Darke; was born in Franklin County, Ohio, July 17, 1808; his father, John Chenoweth, was born in Virginia, and married Betsey Foster; she was born in Maryland July 16, 1788; he died in Tippecanoe County, Ind., in 1865; she died in Darke County, Ohio, in 1876; the family moved to this section in February, 1818. (See biography Of Jacob B. Chenoweth.) The subject of this sketch attended school with about an equal number of white and colored children, as the Clemens (colored) settlement was made soon after they moved here; up to the age of 21, Mr. Chenoweth followed farming, then learned the brickmason’s trade, which, with farming, he has ever since followed; was elected Justice of the Peace in 1852, and served until 1879 (twenty-seven years). He maried Christina Thomas Nov. 10, 1831; she was born in Anderson County, Tenn., Feb. 1, 1810; her father, John Thomas, married Catherine Albright Oct. 31, 1799; she was born March 14, 1784; both were born in North Carolina and died in Preble County, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Chenoweth have had the following children, viz., Lewis A., born Aug. 6, 1832, died April 4, 1836; John, born Nov. 19, 1833; Louisa, Dec. 16, 1835; Nelson born Oct. 8, 1837; Emeline, Dec. 7, 1839, died Feb. 18, 1840; Catherine, born Jan. 13, 1843; Joel T., Dec. 29, 1844; Mary Jane, Sept. 18, 1848; and Benjamin F., Sept. 27, 1852; Louisa married Milton Jefferis, Catherine married Daniel Clapp, Mary Jane married George McClure. In the winter of 1830 and 1831, Mr. Chenoweth hauled with a four-horse team out of Greenville all the wheat that was marketed there at that time, i.e., two loads a day, twenty-five bushels to the load; it was sold for 37 ½ cents per bushel in merchandise. He owns a good farm of 160 acres.