Wasson - Joseph
Source: 1881 H. W. Beckwith History of Fountain
co IN (Chicago: Hill)
Joseph Wasson, farmer and stock
raiser, Parkersburg, is a son of Samuel and Susanah ( McLEOD) Wasson, and was
born in Bourbon County, Kentucky, October 12, 1828. In the fall of 1835 he,
with his parents, emigrated in a four-horse wagon to what is now Brown
township, Montgomery County, Indiana, occupying twelve days in making the trip.
His advantages as regards education were very limited during his early youth,
though after he arrived at his majority he attended a graded school, after
which he entered his brother's store at Parkersburg as clerk. November 25,
1852, he married Miss Susan A., daughter of John and Sarah ( SEWEL) FRAME . She
was born June 24, 1834, and is a native of Kentucky, and came with her parents
to this County in its early history. They have four children: Cordelia J., John
C. and Minnie. Mr. Wasson now owns a neat little farm of 115 acres one mile
north of Parkersburg, on which is laid out the private family Cemetery of the
Wassons and Frames. He has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church the
last twenty-one years; is its present class-leader, and has aided largely in
building up and supporting the Church through its early history. Mr. Wasson is,
politically, a republican.
Thanks to Harry Bounnell for this
one --Karen - (Sic - text says four children, only three are named w/no mention
of any deceased child)