Ann Parrett

As printed in 1881

Mrs. Ann (Fletcher) Parrett, is a daughter of Thomas and Ann (Higby) Fletcher. She was born in Pennsylvania, in 1811, and came to Ohio with her parents the same year. They located in Clermont County, where the parents died. She came to this county about 1820, and married George Parrett, son of John and Catharine (Windle) Parrett, March 4, 1828. Seven children are the result of this union: Elmira, Thomas F., Mary C, Elizabeth E., Belinda A., Susan L., and Lucy O. Susan E. died at the early age of fifteen months. Mr. Parrett died July 29, 1872, aged fifty-nine years. He was a member of the Methodist Protestant Church, in which faith he died triumphantly.

Mrs. Parrett has a farm of one hundred acres, well improved, situated seven miles northwest of Washington, on the Jefi'ersouville pike. She and five of the children are members of the Methodist Protestant Church. Elm;ra joined the Methodist Episcopal Church after marriage. This is an esteemed family.

George H. Pattoii, farmer, is a son of John M. and Sarah (Little) Patton, and was born in Frederick County, Virginia, October 5, 1813, where he was reared. He came to Ohio when twenty-one years of age, and located near Jeffersonville, where he remained three years, and then removed to the northern part of the township, remaining there until 1850, when he came to the farm where he now lives, and where the father died, at the age of seventy-seven years. Mrs. Patton died at the age of sixty-nine years.

Our subject has been twice married; first, to Miss Lucinda Sheely, January 1, 1845. One child was the result of this marriage — John A., who lives on a farm adjoining his father's, on the south. He Avas married to Miss Martha Moon in December, 1871. They have one child — Edith.

Mrs. Patton died September 29, 1846. He then married Miss Elizabeth Pagan, October 25, 1849. They have one child, Genetta, who married Eli S. Parret, December 25, 1873. They have two children: Earle E. and George.

Mr. and Mrs. Patton are members of the Methodist Protestant Church, of Pleasant View. When Mr. Patton came to Ohio he had but a few cents in money; but by his industry he has accumulated sufficient means to live at his ease in his declining years. He has a well-improved farm of two hundred and eighteen acres, on which he lives, and has given each of his children fifty acres.

As printed in History of Fayette County : together with historic notes on the Northwest, and the State of Ohio, gleaned from early authors, old maps and manuscripts, private and official correspondence, and all oth (1881). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.