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Note: Moved from PA when very young
All records are from John Nesbit-Mary McClure bible records. These pages of the bible were inserted when Mary Allen Evans Woollen had this book rebound in 1909. The earlier entrees are presumably in the handwriting of John Nesbit. His son Doctor Joseph Allen Nesbit, cut out certain entries at the time he was having a monument made in memory of his grandmother, father, mother, brother, and sister, whch now stands in Crown Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana. The entrees have been verified by the investigation of Mary Allen Evans Woollen and her son Evans Woollen during several years.
John and Mary lived on a farm four miles from Millersburg, Bourbon Co., KY attending Stonermouth Presbyterian Church near Ruddells Mill. Thence, in 1828 or 1829, accompanied by his slave Mike he came to the quarter-section farm in Washington Township, Marion Co, IN, which was long the residence of his daughter, Maria Jane Nesbitt Evans and the north half which is now owned by her daughter Mary Allen Evans Woollen. Having erected a long shelter on this farm and having returned to Kentucky for his family he moved thence in 1830 to the Marion Co., IN farm accompanied by his mother, his wife and all their children except John McClure Nesbitt who, with his wife, Sarah Steele stayed and died in KY. The children who accompanied their father to Indiana were Margaret, Nancy Torrence, James, Marie Jane, Elizabeth Esther, William Alexander, Joan, and Joseph Allen.
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