Andrew Oviatt

OVIATT, WILLIAMS

Posted By: County Coordinator (email)
Date: 11/12/2006 at 12:08:43

Andrew Oviatt, farmer, sec 5, P O Moingona, was born in Massachusetts, January 22, 1818, and moved with his parents to northern Ohio in 1826, was raised and educated there, and learned the blacksmith trade, following it until the breaking out of the rebellion, in the fall of 1855, he came to this state, and located where he now lives, and owns 303 acres of land, two of his brothers came with him and settled here at the same time, and made the first wagon in Boone County, he raises considerable stock, sufficient to consume all he raises on his farm, October 15, 1845, he married Miss Eunice F Williams, a native of Lake county, Ohio, they have six children living: Horace, Henrietta, Eva, Arch, Hugh and Caroline, they have lost three

1880 Boone Co History Book