Biography of Roger Aldrich, page 800.  History of De Kalb County, Indiana.  
Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.  

Roger Aldrich, deceased, was born in Guilford, Vt., in 1798.  He received 
but a limited education, being reared on a farm in the early days.  In 1836 
he came to Indiana and entered 160 acres of land on section 18, Troy 
Township, De Kalb Co., and eighty acres in Franklin Township.  At that time 
it was heavily timbered and Indians were their neighbors.  He cleared a 
small patch and built a log cabin 20x24 feet in size, which at that time was 
the best house in the county.  The roof was covered with shakes, and the 
lumber for the floor was brought from Houlton’s mill in Williams County, 
Ohio.  Mr. Aldrich was one of the prominent men of the early days of the 
county, and for several years was Trustee of his township.  He died on the 
old homestead in December, 1869.  Mrs. Aldrich still lives with her 
daughter, Mrs. Rummel, on the old homestead, and although in the ninetiety 
year of her age is able to read, sew and knit, and goes about the house 
without assistance.  The day she was seventy years old she spun her daily 
work of forty knots of yarn.  Her maiden name was Lucy Tubbs, a daughter 
of Miah Tubbs.  She was married to Mr. Aldrich in September, 1820.  To 
them were born six children, but one of whom, Lucy M., wife of Talma 
Rummel, is living.  One daughter, Mr. Amelia Pinchin, died at the age of 
twenty-seven years, and another, Elizabeth, aged fifteen years.

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