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

MONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP IN OWEN CO., IN.
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WILLIAM H. PETTIT, was born in Jennings Township, this county, April 19,
1840 and is the son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Kelley) Pettit, who were
born in Ohio, who there married in 1830, and who came to Indiana in 1832
locating in Henry County, and in 1839 coming to this county.
William H. was reared on the farm, his parents cleared from the wilder-
ness, and was educated at the public schools. August 26, 1861, he 
enlisted in Company B, Thirty-first Indiana Volunteer Infantry, under
Capt. Winans; served three years and took part in the engagements at
Shiloh, Stone River, Corinth, Perryville, Chickamauga, Mission Ridge,
Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain and marched with Sherman to Atlanta, where his
time expired and where he was discharged in September 1864. The 
following April he enlisted in Hancock's Veteran Corps for one year; did
duty about the capitol, and was honorably discharged in the spring of 
1866. He returned to the home farm and his father having died, he has
been managing for his mother ever since. The farm is a well improved one
of 160 acres; his attention is given to raising livestock and the usual
farm products. His mother and himself are members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church.

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