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WILLIAM HIGHT, farmer, P. O. Eastwood, son of Ellison and Nancy (Trout) Hight, was born in Brown County, Ohio, September 13, 1834. His father was born in New Jersey in 1798, and came to Ohio in 1816; his mother is a native of Ohio. Mr. Hight was raised on a farm and received a common school education. He learned the carpenter trade at twenty-one years of age, and has worked at that trade and farming since. He married Mary Ellen, daughter of John and Ari Ener (Chatmers) Davidson, a native of Ohio. They had born to them eight children — Allen, Elmeters, William Henry (died at eleven months of age), Ari Etta, Katie, Nannie, Rebecca, Belle and Emma. Mr. and Mrs. Hight are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is Trustee, class-leader and Superintendent of Sunday school. Mr. Hight in politics is a Democrat, and is at present one of the Township Trustees, and has been Supervisor of Roads and School Director. He owns a nice farm on the Williamsburg & Mt. Oreb Turnpike. He went into the army September 28, 1864, assigned to the Fifty-first Regiment and was in the following battles: Florence, Ala., Columbia, Tenn., Franklin, Nashville; followed Hood until he crossed the shoals and went into winter quarters at Huntsville, and was discharged January 28, 1865. His wife died April 6, 1880.