"History of Lawrence, Orange and Washington Co.'s, Indiana"
Goodspeed Bros. and Co., 1884


J. G. FERGUSON was born May 28, 1832, in Perry Township, Lawrence County,
Indiana, son of RALSTON and LETITIA (ARMSTRONG) FERGUSON.  He is next to the
eldest in a family of twelve children and is of Scotch-Irish extraction.
The father of our subject was born in LAUREL COUNTY, KY., and when eight
years of age came to Greene County, Ind., in company with his parents.  Mr.
Ferguson was united in marriage in 1859 to Miss TABITHA COX.  To this union
were born two children, viz: CANAAN and NETTIE.  Mrs. Ferguson died in 1870
and the subject of this sketch was married again in 1871 to MRS. MARTHA
RAINBOLT, who was deceased in 1878;  and Mr. Ferguson was a third time
married, in 1879, to MRS. SARAH SMITH.  Mr. Ferguson began life properly for
himself at a not very early day in his existence.  He worked five years by
the month on the farm.  For nineteen years he has been engaged in farming
and stock-raising, at which he has been most successful.  He now possesses
more than 300 acres of well improved land.  In 1880 he built his present
residence;  the same is a frame, and cost about $2,000.  He is one of the
unswerving Republicans of Indian Creek Township and cast his first
Presidential vote for John C. Fremont.  Mr. Ferguson is one of the
enterprising men of Lawrence County and one of its most public-spirited
citizens.  He has been a resident of this county more than half a century.


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