1m: Catherine Oberchain on March 18, 1856. Seven children: George W., Samantha J., Charles S., Mary, Flora C., Emro J.C. and Joseph R. She died Jan. 4, 1869.

2m: Miss Sarah E. Young on July 4, 1869. Eleven children: Minerva, Dora E., William H., Chloe M., Jessie B., Sarah A., Franklin I. and Harry I. (twin brothers), a daughter that died in infancy, Earl and Clara.

JEREMIAH STIVER was born in Montgomery County, Ohio, August 8, 1832, the son of William and Harriet (Sterling) Stiver, who were born, reared and married near Harrisburg, Penn., and who, in 1830, moved to Montgomery County, Ohio, and thence, in 1848, to this township, where they located on the farm now owned by Stephen Gleason, and where they ended their days, the parents of five sons and three daughters. The father was a carpenter, which trade he followed the greater part of his time, although he owned a farm. He built many of the dwellings and barns in this and adjoining townships, which stand to-day monuments of his skill and industry. In 1860, he died, his wife having preceded him ten years.

Our subject was reared on his father's farm, receiving his education in the log schoolhouses of that day, and he and his brothers cultivating the land while the father was away working at his trade. March 18, 1856, he married Miss Catharine Obenchain, who was born in this township March 31, 1836, and by this union became the father of seven children—-George W., Samantha J., Charles S., Mary, Flora C., Emro J. C. and Joseph R. Mrs. Stiver died January 24, 1869, and Mr. Stiver, July 4, 1869, married Miss Sarah E. Young, who was born in Summit County, Ohio, October 6, 1846. To this union were born nine children Minerva, Dora E., William H., Chloe M., Jessie B., Sarah A., Franklin I. and Harry 1. (twin brothers) and a daughter that died in infancy. [Note that Earl was born after this publication].

Mr. Stiver has always followed farming, and owns 105 acres of well-improved land. He is a member of the Masonic order, and of the A. O. U. W., and, in politics, is a Democrat.

Counties of Whitley and Noble, Indiana: Historical and Biographical; By Goodspeed, pub. 1882