Biography of Abram McEntaffer, page 904.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Abram McEntaffer is one of the earliest setters of De Kalb County, and has 
seen this country grow from a wild tract of heavily timbered land to its 
present state of advance civilization.  He has been an energetic, 
progressive citizen, and has assisted liberally in both time and  money all 
projects that promise advancement to his adopted county,  He came to the 
county with his parents, John and Catherine McEntaffer, and located in 
Smithfield Township.  At that time there were but four or five white 
families in the township. Indians and wild animals were the principal 
inhabitants, and Mr. McEntaffer often visited the Indians and attended their 
dances in the early days.  Our subject was born in Stark County, Ohio, April 
20, 1821, and was, therefore, eighteen years of age when his came to Indiana.  
His education was received in his native county, and after coming to De Kalb 
County his time was devoted to clearing his farm.  He was married July 4, 1842, 
to Margaret Crawford, a native of Stark County, Ohio. To them were born four 
children---Susan, wife of Samuel Rodenbaugh; David, now of Ohio; Hannah, 
wife of Lafayette Miser; Louisa, wife of Oliver Wharton, of Waterloo.  
Mrs. McEntaffer died in June, 1882. She was a devoted mother, a faithful 
wife, a kind neighbor and a consistent Christian, a member of the old 
Lutheran church.

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