Elyria Constitution -- Apr 12, 1877
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The death of John Templeton, of Swanton, Fulton County, is announced. Mr. Templeton was well known as the President of the Ohio Fat Men's Convention, which annually congregates at Put-In-Bay. Mr. Templeton weighed 500 pounds, while his wife weighs only about ninety-five.
History of Fulton county Ohio by Lewis Cass Aldrich 977.115 A12
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John Templeton, the progenitor of the Templeton family in Swan Creek township, was born in the southwestern part of Pennsylvania in 1807. Early in life he came to Ohio with his parents and settled in the thriving county of Wayne. Here he was married to Susan Watkins. She was a native of Ohio, and born near the western bank of that river in Jefferson county, and was two years older than her husband. They came with their children to Fulton county in 1853 and located in Swan Creek township. The Templetons, as the name would indicate, are of Scotch-Irish origin. They all are men of very large frame and most robust physique. Old John Templeton weighed nearly four hundred and fifty pounds, and it is no extravagant simile to say he was stout as an ox. He was known to lift a dead weight of a thousand pounds, but his splendid gifts of nerve and muscle were never expended in the physical opposition of any one. He had that kind of courage, stopping with the assertion of his own plain rights, asking nothing more and content with nothing less, which is the index of the highest type of manhood. His grandfather participated in much of that long struggle which raged between the Indians and the whites during the closing ten years of the last century for the mastery of the territory west of Ohio. He was with Colonel Crawford and lost his life in the battle of Sandusky Plains. John Templeton died at his home on section ten in Swan Creek township on the __ day of 18__. His wife preceded him to the grave about ___ years.