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Subject: [RHEA-L] Morgan Co. In. - Rhea
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 13:10:11 EST


Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical.
Charles Blanchard, Editor. Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884.
MORGAN COUNTY, ADAMS TOWNSHIP; PAGE 319

ELLISON SLIGER, cabinet-maker and undertaker, was born in Bullitt County, Ky.,
October 11, 1822, and is the youngest of ten children born to David and
Margaret (Stafford) Sligar, both of whom were natives of Pennsylvania, and of
German and Scotch descent respectively. David Sligar was educated and married
in his native State. In about 1797, he emigrated to Bullitt County, Ky., then
an unbroken wilderness. Himself and wife, with several other families, came
down the Ohio River in flatboats from Pittsburgh, landing at the present site
of Louisville, Ky., which then contained only a few log cabins. He proceeded
immediately to Bullitt County, where he entered 263 acres of land, which he
was obliged to pay for twice in consequence of a defective title. Here he
improved a farm, upon which he resided until his death, which occurred January
4, 1832, in his seventy-fifth year. Ellison Sligar, the subject of our sketch,
received such an education as could be obtained at the primitive log
schoolhouses of the Kentucky frontier. After his father's death, he resided
with his brother Thomas until he was seventeen years old. He then went to
learn the carpenter's and cabinet-maker's trades, serving an apprenticeship of
three years, and has followed one or both of these trades ever since. In 1843,
he removed to Gosport, Owen County, Ind., where he resided two years; thence
to Adams Township, Morgan County, Ind., and settled near the present site of
Eminence, where he still resides. He erected the first two buildings in the
village of Eminence. In 1851, he bought wildland and has since improved the
farm where he now lives, and for the last twenty-five years has been engaged
in agricultural pursuits in connection with his trade. He was for a time one
of the Trustees of Adams Township under the old constitution. He was married
March 25, 1844, to Margaret Gilliland, a native of Pennsylvania, and a
daughter of Thomas and Margaret (Stogdal) Gilliland, natives of Ireland, who
emigrated to the United States in 1793. They were lifelong members of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. The former died in 1825, in his sixty-sixth year,
and the latter in 1869, in her one hundred and second year. To our subject and
wife have been born one daughter, viz., Sarah J., now Mrs. James H. Rhea. Mr.
and Mrs. Sligar are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is also a
member of Eminence Lodge, No. 440, A., F. & A. M., of which lodge he has been
Chaplain for some ten years. In politics, he is a Democrat.

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