Biography of William Fountain, pages 685 / 686.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

William Fountain was born in Lincolnshire, England, in 1811, a son of Simon 
and Rebecca Fountain.  His mother died when he was three days old.  He 
followed farming in his native country till 1848, when he moved to the 
United States.  He lived a short time in Ohio, and then settled in De Kalb 
County, Ind., on wild land , which he cleared and improved.  He was married 
Dec. 12, 1848, to Sarah, daughter of Thomas Truelove, a native of England.  
Together they commenced life, and with  energy and an ambition to make life 
a success they have been untiring in efforts and as a result have triumphed 
over every adverse circumstance and have accumulated a property that enables 
them in their declining years to live with ease.  They have 400 acres of 
good land, 200 acres of which is under a good state of cultivation.,  In 
performing the practical duties of life they have not omitted the higher and 
more important.  From childhood they have been connected with the Episcopal 
church, and have lived with strict conformity to all her tenets.  They have 
been at all time mindful of the needs of the poor, and are ever ready to 
assist them.  Hospitable, their home is always open to friends and strangers, 
all feeling that they are welcome.  Three children have been born to Mr. and 
Mrs. Fountain---Sarah Ann, Elizabeth, wife of Joseph Tarlton, and William 
Richard. Politically Mr. Fountain casts his suffrage with the Republican 
party.

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