RUFUS CLINE, farmer, was born in Lincoln County, North Carolina, July 16, 1822. He was the sixth in a family of eleven children. His parents Phillip and Elizabeth (Abernathy) Cline, natives of North Carolina, came to Indiana in 1829, and settled on a farm about four miles east of Spencer. His father died on a farm near the one on which he first located when he came to Owen County. Rufus Cline received an ordinary education in the district schools and when twenty five years of age he was married to Nancy A. Waldron, daughter of Lewis Waldron, a pioneer of Monroe County. After his marriage, he began farming about three miles east of Spencer. In 1847, he purchased eighty acres of land, and five years later he purchased sixty fives acres more and at present has about 200 acres in all of as good land as there is in the county. He ran a saw mill for about four years and then again went to farming. He is a Democrat, politically, and both he and his wife are members of the Separate Baptist Church. They have two children--Emily C. and Rufus H.


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
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