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History of Lawrence, ORANGE, and Washington Counties, Indiana
Goodspeed Bros. & Co., Publishers - Chicago, 1884

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           JOHN G. CLEMENTS was born in this township May 12, 1830, son
        of JAMES and ELIZABETH (GARR) CLEMENTS, the father a native of
        Virginia and the mother of Kentucky.  The parents married in
        Kentucky, and soon after the war of 1812 located in this town-
        ship, where they reared twelve children, and lived until their
        deaths.  They were excellent people, leaving a name above re-
        proach.  JOHN G. was brought up a farmer, and was educated at
        the common schools.  At the age of twenty-one years he began
        for himself, working for $7 per month, and later renting a farm,
        and still later bought part of the old place, to which he has
        since added eighty acres, now owning 180 acres.  He did all
        this by good management and industry.  He married JUDITH A. 
        SALLEE, December 19, 1855.  She was born in Washington County,
        this State, December 21, 1832, and has borne her husband five
        children:  JAMES E., CHRISTIANA E., MARTHA A., MARY E. and JOHN
        A. W.  MR. CLEMENTS is comfortably situated, and devotes himself
        to the intelligent management of his farm.  He is a Republican,
        and a member of the Presbyterian Church.
        
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