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

LAFAYETTE TOWNSHIP IN OWEN CO., IN.
PAGE 963

TUNIS EVERLY, farmer and stock raiser, is the fourth of the ten children
of Jacob and Lydia (Miller) Everly, the former a native of Pennsylvania
and the latter of Ohio, and both of German descent. Tunis was born in
Carroll County, Ohio, May 4, 1828, obtained what schooling he could and
was reared a farmer. After the death of his father, when seventeen years 
old, he engaged as a farm hand for his board, clothers and two months
schooling. 
September 27, 1852, he emigrated to Indiana, and located in this township
where at that time but little improvement had been made, but in which
Mr. Everly afterward took active part. 
June 6, 1856, he married Matilda J., daughter of John and Ann Kerr, and
a native of Holmes County, Ohio to which union succeeded ten children--
Emarine, Walter, William B, Armstrong Ellsworth, John Zelmon, Anna E, 
Rosa Belle, Horatio, Guy I, and Mary Hattie. Mr. Everly died July 14,
1877, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Everly is a 
successful man, having begun life poor and unassisted. He owns 305 acres
of land, improved, cultivated and stocked and all acquired by thrift
and energy. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and a 
valued citizen.

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