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Marriage: Children:
  1. Lavina Personett: Birth: 1803 in Monongalia, West Virginia, USA. Death: 12 APR 1868 in Wabash, Indiana, USA

  2. Rolla Personett: Birth: 19 MAY 1805 in Monongalia, West Virginia, USA. Death: 15 DEC 1877 in Green, Hancock, Indiana, USA

  3. John Personett: Birth: ABT 1807. Death: 1836 in Ohio, USA

  4. William B Personett: Birth: 11 JUL 1809. Death: 2 SEP 1855

  5. Joseph H Personett: Birth: 1815 in Ohio, USA. Death: 15 JUL 1898 in Richmond, Wayne, Indiana, USA

  6. Lorenzo D Personett: Birth: 1 NOV 1817. Death: 5 AUG 1886 in Wayne, Indiana, USA


Sources
1. Title:   Public Member Stories
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006;
2. Title:   Indiana, Wills and Probate Records, 1798-1999
Page:   Will Records; Author: Indiana. Circuit Court (Wayne County); Probate Place: Wayne, Indiana
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2015;
3. Title:   U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;
4. Title:   1850 United States Federal Census
Page:   Year: 1850; Census Place: Green, Wayne, Indiana; Roll: M432_180; Page: 112A; Image: 231
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2009;
5. Title:   1860 United States Federal Census
Page:   Year: 1860; Census Place: Green, Wayne, Indiana; Roll: M653_308; Page: 352; Family History Library Film: 803308
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2009;
6. Title:   Virginia Marriages, 1740-1850
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 1999;

Notes
a. Note:   JOSEPH PERSONETT, a native of Maryland, removed from Hamilton Co., O., in the winter of 1821-1822, and settled 1 3/4 miles south of Williamsburg, on the land now owned by Frank Beverlin, where he lived until his death, in 1864, aged 84 years. Susannah, his wife, who was a native of Virginia, died several years earlier. They had a daughter and five sons: 1. Lavina, who married Wm. Case; removed about 1854 to Wabash Co., and died there in 1868. 2. Rolla, who married Thamer Livingston; lived in Ohio several years; and lives now in Hancock Co., Ind. 3. John, who married Jane Clingon, and died near Troy, Ohio, in 1836. 4. William, who married Julia Ann Fulton; taught school in this county several years; served two terms as county a surveyor; removed to Hancock Co. about the year 1854, and died there in 1857. 5. Joseph H., who married Therissa Jane Murray; lived on the homestead until 1870; now resides in the north part of this county. 6. Lorenzo D., who married Ann E. Ogborn; taught schools about three years; was engaged in mercantile business about three years; studied medicine with Dr. John Pritchett in Centerville, from 1841 to 1844, and removed to the town of Washington, where he has been, and is now, in the practice of his profession and in the mercantile business. Will of Joseph Personett Record of the last will and testament of Joseph Personett deceased, filed in the Clerks Office of the Wayne Court of Common Pleas September 22nd 1864. In the name of the Benovolent Father of all I Joseph Personett Sen of Wayne County and State of Indiana do make and publish this my last will and testament: Item 1st: I devise and bequeath to my son Joseph H. Personett the farm on which I now reside situate in Wayne County and State of Indiana, and described as follows to wit: lying and being in the County and State aforesaid. It being the South West quarter of Section Seventeen in Township Seventeen of Range Fourteen East of the Second principal Meridian line containing one hundred and Sixty acres with all of the appearances thereto belonging forever. Item 2nd: I also devise and bequeath to my son Joseph H. Personett the Reaper and Mower now attached to the farm on which I now reside; Item 3rd: I devise after paying all my just debts that the balance of my assets arising from my personal property and monies on hand be equally divided between my legal heirs towit: my sons Joseph H. Personett, Rolly Personett, Lorenzo D. Personett and my daughter Lavina Case and the heirs of the said John B. Personett are only to(?) heir an equal share with the said Joseph H. Personett, Rolly Personett, Lorenzo D. Personett and Lavina Case. Item 4th: I hereby nominate and appoint Ezekiel H. Johnson and Jonathan Mulen(??) Executors of this my last will and testament hereby authorizing and empowering them to compromise adjust release and discharge in such a manner as they may deem proper the debts and claims due me. I do hereby revoke all former wills by me made. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 11th day of May in the year 1864 Joseph Personett (Seal) Signed and acknowledged by said Joseph Personett Sen as his last will and testament inour presence and signed by us in his presence. John B. Catey (??) Griffin Davis State of Indiana Wayne County SS Before me Sanuel B. Schlagle Clerk of the Wayne Court of Common Pleas personally came John B. Catey(??) one of the subscribing witnesses to the foregoing last will and testament of Joseph Personett late of Wayne County Indiana deceased, and being duly affirmed on affirmation says that he was present at the execution of said last will that the same was duly executed that at the time of the execution of said testament was of full age(?) to devise his property of sound mind and memory and not under any coercion or restraint, that said testator requested him to sign said will as witness thereto which he accordingly did in the presence of said . . .


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