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

WAYNE TOWNSHIP IN OWEN CO., IN.
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THOMAS LUKENBILL, is a native of Owen county, Indiana, born in Washington
township February 18, 1843. His parents, Samuel and Eliza J. (Thomas)
Lukenbill, natives of Indiana and Kentucky respectively were married in
Owen county in 1840 and located on a farm two and a half miles southwest
of Gosport. They lived there for forty years, when the father died. The
mother still lives on the old home farm. Thomas is the second in a 
family of eight children and was reared and educated on the old home 
farm. When eighteen years of age, he enlisted in Company G, Thirty-eighth
Indiana Infantry, under Capt. James Secrest. 
He was discharged during the next year on account of disability. In 
1863, he located on a farm near Gosport, remained there for fourteen
years and then moved to Gosport. He became a partner in a flour mill,
and after a short time sold his interest, became a dealer in furniture
and a year later went to farming which he does at present in connection
with running a meat shop in Gosport. He is a member of the Christian
Church. In 1863, he was married in Owen County to Charity Barnes, daughter
of James Barnes, an old and respected pioneer of Owen County. By this
union there are five children--Orrie M, Lillie M, Thomas L, Stella and
Matilda J.

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