ALFRED C. DEAN, deceased was born in Dearborn county, 
Indiana November 24, 1831 and died in Clay township, 
Owen county, Indiana on June 26, 1883. He was the 
youngest of eight children born to Noah and Sarah 
(Ellett) Dean, natives of Maryland, and who settled in 
Dearborn county in a very early day. At the death of his 
father, which occurred January 25, 1845, Alfred C. Dean 
removed to Ellettsville, in Monroe county and there 
followed the carpenter's trade till the year of 1859. 
September 14, 1856 he was married to Sophronia E. 
Jackson, who bore him five children--Homer H; Mary B; 
Emma F (deceased); Ida J and William H. From 1859-1862, 
he followed farming in Monroe county, whence he removed 
to Owen county and for the four years following, plied 
his trade of carpenter in Clay Township, where he spent 
the remainder of his life and where his widow, a good 
Christian woman, yet lives. Our subject was a consistent 
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, a Master 
Mason, and in politics an earnest Republican.


DATA ENTRY: Debbie Jennings
"HISTORY OF OWEN COUNTY 1884" CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884. F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
CLAY TOWNSHIP IN OWEN CO., IN.
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