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JARRETT, ELIAS, farmer., Sec. 36; P. O. West Point; born in Lincoln Co., N. C., Sept. 24, 1799; he is the youngest son of John Jarrett, who was born in Pennsylvania, in 1759, and afterward became a resident of Cabarrus Co., N. C., where he married Elizabeth, daughter of Frederick Fisher; she was born in Cabarrus Co., N. C., September, 1770; his father died in Lincoln Co., N. C, Jan. 29, 1829; his mother June 14, 1841, leaving a family of eight children, of whom Mr. Jarrett and a brother Absalom, a resident of Morgan Co., Ind., are the only members left. At the age of 20, Mr. Jarrett learned the tanner’s trade, which he followed to a greater or less extent until coming to Lee Co. On the 8th of March, 1827, he married Fanny, daughter of Samuel and Fanny Lantz, nee Hildebrandt; she was born in Lincoln Co., N. C., Oct. 11, 1807. In the fall of 1849, they emigrated to Lee Co., direct to where he now resides, and owns 309 acres of land, valued at $50 per acre. Had thirteen children, eleven now living — Harriet C., born Sept. 30, 1827, the wife of Geo. Sample, of this county; Sally E., born May 30, 1829 (she married Philip Ehart, deceased, a resident of Fort Madison); John E., born Aug. 27, 1830; Caroline, born Oct. 16, 1832, died Oct. 28, 1857; Mira Mary A., born July 27, 1834, the wife of Amos Logan, of Pleasant Ridge; Fanny L., born Aug. 16, 1836, wife of C. Martin, of West Point; Philip F., born Feb. 28, 1838 (married Rachel A., daughter of Edward Courtright, of Marion Tp. (deceased); she was born in Franklin Co., Ohio, Dec. 18, 1841; they reside near his father’s, where he owns a fine farm; they have but one child, Mary A., born July 10, 1873; Margaret J., born Feb. 5, 1840, the wife of Jacob McCracken, of this township; Eve Susannah, born Jan. 3, 1842, wife of James Boyle, of Worth Co., Mo.; Frances E., born Oct. 15, 1843, died May 31, 1852; Isabel, born Sept. 5, 1845, wife of James Stul, of Page Co., Iowa; Virginia C., born Oct. 21, 1847, wife of John Courtright, of Franklin Tp., and Barbara Iowa, born March 6, 1850. Democratic. Mrs. J., and several of her children, are members of the Presbyterian Church; some of them are Methodists.