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Welcome To Sullivan County, Indiana
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JOHN R. BOSSTICKJOHN R. BOSSTICK is the only son of two children of William and Alsannah (Milligan) Bosstick, and was born in this county December 25, 1842. His sister is Jane L., born December 12, 1839. When John R. was three months old, his father was drowned at the Wabash Rapids. He lived with his mother until the age of sixteen, when he started out to do for himself, going first to Illinois. Early in 1865, he returned, but soon enlisted in Company H, Twenty-eighth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and served until the expiration of the war, receiving his discharge at Brownsville, Texas, March 8, 1866. He has been fortunate in his labors, and now owns 135 acres of well-cultivated land. November 23, 1866, he married Miss Isabelle, daughter of Alexander and Sarah (Milligan) Rankin, who has borne him six children, as follows: Clara, Janette, Alsannah, Mirtie, Grace and Leonard. Mr. Bosstick is a Mason and a Democrat.SULLIVAN TWP. PAGE 797 FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC. ILLUSTRATED. 1884, CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS. |
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