My Genealogy Hound

JOSEPH TILBROOK, farmer, post office Stewart’s Station, was born in 1822, within five miles of his present residence, a son of William and Martha (Taylor) Tilbrook, natives of Pennsylvania. His grandfather, Mr. Tilbrook, came from England; was a schoolteacher, and had a small farm in Versailles township, whereon he reared his family; his wife was a Virginian, or English. William, their son, settled on a farm in Patton about 1818. He was an elder in the Murrysville Presbyterian Church, afterward in the Cross Roads Church, and politically he was a republican. Joseph is the second of nine children, and has passed his life in Patton township. In 1846 he married Lucinda McDowell, a native of Penn township, and settled on his present farm. Alexander McDowell, father of Mrs. Tilbrook, a native of this county, and of Irish descent, served under Gen. Harrison in the campaign against the western Indians. His wife, Jane, was a daughter of Gen. Lapsley, an English soldier of the Revolution. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Tilbrook are Zachariah, Hiram McDowell, John Francis, Andrew Austin, Jennie M.; William Alexander, the eldest, was killed by a flat-car which he was trying to stop on a switch at Stewart’s Station in 1883; he was very intelligent, and greatly respected. Mr. Tilbrook is a republican, a member of Cross Roads Church.