Ephraim Henkle
Ephraim Henkle, farmer and stock-raiser, Washington. His parents were natives of Virginia. They came to Ohio in an early day, and located on the waters of main Paint Creek, one mile and a half above Washington. Here the subject of this sketch was born, April 23, 1818. At the age of ten his mother died, and from that time up to the present, Mr. Henkle has had to care for himself (the father abandoning the family).
He married Miss Mary S. Carr, daughter of Joshua Carr, March 12, 1840. In 1848 he bought seventy-eight acres of land in this township, some three miles west from the town of Washington, paying eight dollars per acre for the same. He at once removed to this farm, and has remained there until the present time.
Mrs. Henkle died March 4, 1871. They were the parents of ten children, live sons and iive daughters: Ellen, died when a young woman, in the twenty-second year of her age; Mary Jane, married James A. Bush, and lives on her father's farm; William L., married, and lives on his farm in the neighborhood; Jason F., is thirty-four vears of age, married to his second wife, and living in the town of Jasper. He is an ordained minister of the gospel in the Methodist Protestant Church, has been in the regular pastoral work for nearly six years, and is now serving his church in that relation at home, where he was born and raised. Noah S. is single, remaining at home with his fatlier, and cultivating a portion of the home farm, Joel E. is married, and lives on his" own farm in the neighborhood. Jesse C. is married, and lives in Madison County. Catharine J. is married, and lives in Jasper Township. Amanda S. is married, and lives in Bainbridge, Boss County. Almeda Lorena is single, and keeps house for her father.
Probably no man in the county has been more successful in the raising of a good family of children than Mr. Henkle. He has seen them all grown up to manhood and womanhood, kind, honest, industrious, religious (all being members of the Methodist Protestant Church). He has always been a public-spirited man, a man of enterprise and activity. For many years he served the county as infirmary director, giving the most perfect satisfaction, and for four years acted as assessor of the township. Although over age, yet at the earnest request of his many friends, he served as captain in the hundred days' service, and was taken prisoner at Cynthiaha, Kentucky. He owns a most excellent farm of one hundred and sixty acres, where he resides, paying as high as one hundred dollars per acre, without any buildings, for a portion of it. This is one of the best farms of its size in the county.
From R. S. Dills' History of Fayette County