Hugh Graham Biography, Carroll County, IN

Recollections of the Early Settlement of Carroll County, Indiana; by Dr. James Hervey Stewart; printed by Hitchcock and Walden, 1872. Pages 216-217.

HUGH GRAHAM

The father of Levi M., Henry M., Hugh M., Amos M., and Milton R. Graham, was born in Greenbrier County, Virginia, on the 12^th day of March, 1787, and removed to Clarke County, Indiana, in September, 1816. In 1818, he removed to Washington County, Indiana.

He started for Carroll County about the middle of December, 1828, and arrived here on the 6^th day of January, 1829.

In 1836, Mr. Graham was elected a county commissioner, which office he held for three years. He was a man of strict integrity, high-minded and honorable; a kind neighbor, a devoted husband and father.

Having lost his wife on the 14^th day July, 1838, he went, in May, 1839, to Washington County, where he married the second time. He died on the 18^th day of April 1844, leaving surviving, his wife and two children, and several by his first wife, some of whom still remain, highly respectable residents of this county.

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