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JOHN SARGENT, farmer, Sec. 6; P. O. Heyworth; born in Pike Co., Ohio, Oct. 5, 1814; his father, Eli Sargent, was probably born in Virginia. He was married twice; his first wife’s maiden name was Wood; she was born in Kentucky, and died in Pike Co., Ohio; his second wife was Christine Nesselle; they were married in Ohio; they were the parents of two children. Mr. Sargent died in Illinois in 1824; his wife died in 1817 in Ohio. The subject of this sketch was left an orphan at 10 years of age, and lived out and worked upon different farms until Dec. 14, 1841, when he was united in marriage with Deborah Thomas, of Scioto Co., Ohio; she died Sept. 13, 1865, leaving one child — Mary E. Sargent, now Mrs. Thomas J. Sargent, living in Sumner Co , Kans. His marriage with Mrs. Margaret Miller was celebrated April 17, 1866; her maiden name was Glover; she was born in Ohio in 1827; three children were the fruit of this union, all deceased. In the fall of 1843, Mr. Sargent located in Jersey Co., Ill., where he followed farming nearly fourteen years, when he removed to Logan Co., where he resided twelve years, and, upon the 3d of March, 1868, located upon his present place, where he has since lived, and where he owns 153 acres of land, upon which he has good farm buildings, all of which he accumulated by his own hard labor and exertions. Mr. S. was an old-time Whig, casting his first vote in 1836 for Harrison, and labored continuously for the Whig party until the organization of the Republican party, since which time he has been identified with the same; he is a strong temperance man, and has never used tobacco in any form; he has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for nearly half a century, his first and second wife and daughters being members of the same church. Mrs. Sargent was married April 30, 1859, to Madison L Miller; he was born in New York, and died Dec. 20, 1862, while serving in the army for the protection of the Union during the late war of the rebellion; they have one child, now living, by this union — Margaret V., born March 14, 1861, now making her home with Mr. and Mrs. Sargent.