"HISTORY OF OWEN COUNTY 1884"
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR.  CHICAGO:  F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS.  1884.
F. A. BATTEY.  F. W. TEPPLE

WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP IN OWEN CO., IN.
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GEORGE R. BABBS, a native of Washington County, Ind, was born July 25,
1848. His parents, Alex and Lucinda (Carter) Babbs, early in life came
to Indiana from Virginia and located in Washington County. They after-
ward moved to Illinois, where his mother died in 1858. The subject of
this sketch is the second child of a large family, and being left an
orphan at the age of fifteen years, he enlisted under Capt. Freid in
Company H, One Hundred and Thirty Seventh Indiana Volunteers, and in
October, 1864 he enlisted for one year in Company F, Sixth Indiana 
Volunteers, unter Capt McMillan. 
After the close of the war in 1865, he returned to Spencer and assisted
in the survey of the I & V Railroad, and was afterward made foreman for
a number of years in Schwitzer's Stone Quarries. In March, 1883, he
purchased the saloon of Heck & Co., and has made it one of the coziest
neatest little places for refreshments in Spencer. He was married in 
August, 1866, to Nancy J. Thomas, daughter of Wilson and Polly Thomas,
citizens of Spencer. They have had two children. Mr. Babbs is an active
member of the Republican party and has served as Town Trustee one year.
He is a member of the I.O.O.F., of the K of P., Lodge No. 99, and of
the Grand Army of the Republic.

DATA ENTRY: Debbie Jennings