(From: 1901 Biographical Memoirs of Wabash County, Indiana, pp 661-662)
Caleb Storey, a pioneer of Wabash County, Indiana, and of English descent, is a native of Fayette County, Indiana, and was born May 14, 1828, the third of the fourteen children born to Caleb and Rebecca (Sain) Storey. Of his family of fourteen, seven are still living, namely: Caleb, whose name opens this biographical sketch; Frances, wife of a Mr. Lewis King, a farmer of Wabash County; Margaret, married to William Oswald of Noble Township; Isabella, now Mrs. William Alexander, of Bern, Indiana; Harriet, wife of Stephen Vandergrift, of Noble Township; L. A., also of Noble Township, and a prosperous agriculturist, and Sarah J., wife of John Hoover, of south Wabash.
Caleb Storey, as the name was originally spelled by his ancestors, was born in Guilford County, North Carolina, and was educated in the common schools. He was reared to agricultural pursuits in his native state, and there passed his life until he reached mature years, when he came to Indiana, and in 1849 purchased eighty acres of wild land in Wabash County, on which was a little log cabin. Indians were numerous in the neighborhood and deer abundant in the surrounding forest, while wolves and other wild beats were not at all scarce. But Mr. Storey succeeded in developing a fertile farm from this wilderness and managed to live comfortably and happily. In politics Mr. Story was a Jeffersonian Democrat, in religion a Universalist, and in that belief he passed away at the age of seventy-eight years.
Mrs. Rebecca (Sain) Storey was a native of South Carolina, and came with her parents to Indiana in a wagon at an early day. The family settled in the southeastern part of the state, where she passed many years of her life, and died at the advanced age of ninety-three years, in Wabash County, in the faith of the Christian Church.
Caleb Storey was educated in a log school-house in Fayette County. This primitive school building measured 18 x 20 feet and was crude in construction in all respects, as all backwoods school-houses were in that early day. The books used in the cirriculum were of the most elementary character, while information was imparted more through corporal chastisement than by moral suasion.
Mr. Storey was reared to the hardships of backwoods life and inured to the toil of a pioneer farm, and during his minority cleared off at least one hundred and twenty-five acres of forest land. At the age of twenty-one years his cash amounted to less than $100. But he had an immense store of vital energy, and in a few years acquired sufficient means to justify his taking to himself a partner in the person of Miss Icyphene Calvert, whom he married April 9, 1854. This union has been crowned with six children, four sons and two daughters, and of these there are five still living, namely: Hiram C., who resides in Springfield, Ohio, and is an expressman on the Big Four Railroad; Caleb E., of Toledo, Ohio, is a baggageman on the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad.; Elva, wife of Harley Amoss, a resident of Noble Township, superintendent of highways; Myrtle, wife of Frank Wilson, a carpenter of Noble Township; and Frank, who is married to Miss Rose Smith, daughter of Peter and Hester (Unger) Smith, while the other brothers still reside on the old homestead.
Mrs. Icyphene (Calvert) Storey was born in Cass County, Indiana, December 10, 1838. When she and her husband began their wedded life they were at the bottom of the ladder that reached to fortune, Mr. Story being simply a day worker. The girl-wife, however, was ever ready and willing to lend him her earnest aid and economical of his means. Their first purchase of land was a tract of forty acres, part of their present estate, not a foot of which had been cleared, and their first dwelling was a very rude structure indeed, of up-and-down boards. The young couple continued their earnest work and cleared away the forest and drained the swamp land, and in a short time increased their farm to eighty acres. This farm in its day was looked upon as one of the best of its dimensions in the township. To this estate they added another forty-acre tract, and their modern dwelling and barns are fully up to date in every convenience and comfort.
Mr. and Mrs. Storey and their children wrought out all the improvements on their estate, and toiled hard to redeem it from the wilderness, and this toil was happily remuncrated to their full satisfaction. For almost half a century Mr. and Mrs. Storey trod the path of life together, but on June 12, 1899, Mrs. Storey was called to a higher sphere. The esteem in which she was held by her former class is evidenced by the following:
RESOLUTIONS OF MRS. CALEB STOREY'S BIBLE CLASS
**Resolved, that we, as members of Glen Union Bible Class, bow in submission to the will of Almighty God in removing from our midst our dearly beloved sister, Icyphene Storey, who departed to that bourne whence none returneth June 12, 1899; and
**Whereas, Resolved, That while we miss one so much loved and esteemed by all, let us not forget to extend our heartfelt sympathies to the bereaved husband and children.
**And that a copy of these resolutions be recorded in the secretary's book of the Bible class. By order of committee,
--Mrs. La Selle, Mrs. Jones. Mrs. Kline
In politics Mr. Storey is a Democrat and fraternally a member of St. Anastasia Lodge, No. 46, I.O.O.F., at Wabash. He is a strictly moral man, and has so lived as to have won the sincere respect of all who know him.
Caleb Storey, a pioneer of Wabash County, Indiana, and of English descent, is a native of Fayette County, Indiana, and was born May 14, 1828, the third of the fourteen children born to Caleb and Rebecca (Sain) Storey. Of his family of fourteen, seven are still living, namely: Caleb, whose name opens this biographical sketch; Frances, wife of a Mr. Lewis King, a farmer of Wabash County; Margaret, married to William Oswald of Noble Township; Isabella, now Mrs. William Alexander, of Bern, Indiana; Harriet, wife of Stephen Vandergrift, of Noble Township; L. A., also of Noble Township, and a prosperous agriculturist, and Sarah J., wife of John Hoover, of south Wabash.
Caleb Storey, as the name was originally spelled by his ancestors, was born in Guilford County, North Carolina, and was educated in the common schools. He was reared to agricultural pursuits in his native state, and there passed his life until he reached mature years, when he came to Indiana, and in 1849 purchased eighty acres of wild land in Wabash County, on which was a little log cabin. Indians were numerous in the neighborhood and deer abundant in the surrounding forest, while wolves and other wild beats were not at all scarce. But Mr. Storey succeeded in developing a fertile farm from this wilderness and managed to live comfortably and happily. In politics Mr. Story was a Jeffersonian Democrat, in religion a Universalist, and in that belief he passed away at the age of seventy-eight years.
Mrs. Rebecca (Sain) Storey was a native of South Carolina, and came with her parents to Indiana in a wagon at an early day. The family settled in the southeastern part of the state, where she passed many years of her life, and died at the advanced age of ninety-three years, in Wabash County, in the faith of the Christian Church.
Caleb Storey was educated in a log school-house in Fayette County. This primitive school building measured 18 x 20 feet and was crude in construction in all respects, as all backwoods school-houses were in that early day. The books used in the cirriculum were of the most elementary character, while information was imparted more through corporal chastisement than by moral suasion.
Mr. Storey was reared to the hardships of backwoods life and inured to the toil of a pioneer farm, and during his minority cleared off at least one hundred and twenty-five acres of forest land. At the age of twenty-one years his cash amounted to less than $100. But he had an immense store of vital energy, and in a few years acquired sufficient means to justify his taking to himself a partner in the person of Miss Icyphene Calvert, whom he married April 9, 1854. This union has been crowned with six children, four sons and two daughters, and of these there are five still living, namely: Hiram C., who resides in Springfield, Ohio, and is an expressman on the Big Four Railroad; Caleb E., of Toledo, Ohio, is a baggageman on the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad.; Elva, wife of Harley Amoss, a resident of Noble Township, superintendent of highways; Myrtle, wife of Frank Wilson, a carpenter of Noble Township; and Frank, who is married to Miss Rose Smith, daughter of Peter and Hester (Unger) Smith, while the other brothers still reside on the old homestead.
Mrs. Icyphene (Calvert) Storey was born in Cass County, Indiana, December 10, 1838. When she and her husband began their wedded life they were at the bottom of the ladder that reached to fortune, Mr. Story being simply a day worker. The girl-wife, however, was ever ready and willing to lend him her earnest aid and economical of his means. Their first purchase of land was a tract of forty acres, part of their present estate, not a foot of which had been cleared, and their first dwelling was a very rude structure indeed, of up-and-down boards. The young couple continued their earnest work and cleared away the forest and drained the swamp land, and in a short time increased their farm to eighty acres. This farm in its day was looked upon as one of the best of its dimensions in the township. To this estate they added another forty-acre tract, and their modern dwelling and barns are fully up to date in every convenience and comfort.
Mr. and Mrs. Storey and their children wrought out all the improvements on their estate, and toiled hard to redeem it from the wilderness, and this toil was happily remuncrated to their full satisfaction. For almost half a century Mr. and Mrs. Storey trod the path of life together, but on June 12, 1899, Mrs. Storey was called to a higher sphere. The esteem in which she was held by her former class is evidenced by the following:
RESOLUTIONS OF MRS. CALEB STOREY'S BIBLE CLASS
**Resolved, that we, as members of Glen Union Bible Class, bow in submission to the will of Almighty God in removing from our midst our dearly beloved sister, Icyphene Storey, who departed to that bourne whence none returneth June 12, 1899; and
**Whereas, Resolved, That while we miss one so much loved and esteemed by all, let us not forget to extend our heartfelt sympathies to the bereaved husband and children.
**And that a copy of these resolutions be recorded in the secretary's book of the Bible class. By order of committee,
--Mrs. La Selle, Mrs. Jones. Mrs. Kline
In politics Mr. Storey is a Democrat and fraternally a member of St. Anastasia Lodge, No. 46, I.O.O.F., at Wabash. He is a strictly moral man, and has so lived as to have won the sincere respect of all who know him.
(From: 1901 Biographical Memoirs of Wabash County, Indiana, pp 661-662)
Caleb Storey, a pioneer of Wabash County, Indiana, and of English descent, is a native of Fayette County, Indiana, and was born May 14, 1828, the third of the fourteen children born to Caleb and Rebecca (Sain) Storey. Of his family of fourteen, seven are still living, namely: Caleb, whose name opens this biographical sketch; Frances, wife of a Mr. Lewis King, a farmer of Wabash County; Margaret, married to William Oswald of Noble Township; Isabella, now Mrs. William Alexander, of Bern, Indiana; Harriet, wife of Stephen Vandergrift, of Noble Township; L. A., also of Noble Township, and a prosperous agriculturist, and Sarah J., wife of John Hoover, of south Wabash.
Caleb Storey, as the name was originally spelled by his ancestors, was born in Guilford County, North Carolina, and was educated in the common schools. He was reared to agricultural pursuits in his native state, and there passed his life until he reached mature years, when he came to Indiana, and in 1849 purchased eighty acres of wild land in Wabash County, on which was a little log cabin. Indians were numerous in the neighborhood and deer abundant in the surrounding forest, while wolves and other wild beats were not at all scarce. But Mr. Storey succeeded in developing a fertile farm from this wilderness and managed to live comfortably and happily. In politics Mr. Story was a Jeffersonian Democrat, in religion a Universalist, and in that belief he passed away at the age of seventy-eight years.
Mrs. Rebecca (Sain) Storey was a native of South Carolina, and came with her parents to Indiana in a wagon at an early day. The family settled in the southeastern part of the state, where she passed many years of her life, and died at the advanced age of ninety-three years, in Wabash County, in the faith of the Christian Church.
Caleb Storey was educated in a log school-house in Fayette County. This primitive school building measured 18 x 20 feet and was crude in construction in all respects, as all backwoods school-houses were in that early day. The books used in the cirriculum were of the most elementary character, while information was imparted more through corporal chastisement than by moral suasion.
Mr. Storey was reared to the hardships of backwoods life and inured to the toil of a pioneer farm, and during his minority cleared off at least one hundred and twenty-five acres of forest land. At the age of twenty-one years his cash amounted to less than $100. But he had an immense store of vital energy, and in a few years acquired sufficient means to justify his taking to himself a partner in the person of Miss Icyphene Calvert, whom he married April 9, 1854. This union has been crowned with six children, four sons and two daughters, and of these there are five still living, namely: Hiram C., who resides in Springfield, Ohio, and is an expressman on the Big Four Railroad; Caleb E., of Toledo, Ohio, is a baggageman on the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad.; Elva, wife of Harley Amoss, a resident of Noble Township, superintendent of highways; Myrtle, wife of Frank Wilson, a carpenter of Noble Township; and Frank, who is married to Miss Rose Smith, daughter of Peter and Hester (Unger) Smith, while the other brothers still reside on the old homestead.
Mrs. Icyphene (Calvert) Storey was born in Cass County, Indiana, December 10, 1838. When she and her husband began their wedded life they were at the bottom of the ladder that reached to fortune, Mr. Story being simply a day worker. The girl-wife, however, was ever ready and willing to lend him her earnest aid and economical of his means. Their first purchase of land was a tract of forty acres, part of their present estate, not a foot of which had been cleared, and their first dwelling was a very rude structure indeed, of up-and-down boards. The young couple continued their earnest work and cleared away the forest and drained the swamp land, and in a short time increased their farm to eighty acres. This farm in its day was looked upon as one of the best of its dimensions in the township. To this estate they added another forty-acre tract, and their modern dwelling and barns are fully up to date in every convenience and comfort.
Mr. and Mrs. Storey and their children wrought out all the improvements on their estate, and toiled hard to redeem it from the wilderness, and this toil was happily remuncrated to their full satisfaction. For almost half a century Mr. and Mrs. Storey trod the path of life together, but on June 12, 1899, Mrs. Storey was called to a higher sphere. The esteem in which she was held by her former class is evidenced by the following:
RESOLUTIONS OF MRS. CALEB STOREY'S BIBLE CLASS
**Resolved, that we, as members of Glen Union Bible Class, bow in submission to the will of Almighty God in removing from our midst our dearly beloved sister, Icyphene Storey, who departed to that bourne whence none returneth June 12, 1899; and
**Whereas, Resolved, That while we miss one so much loved and esteemed by all, let us not forget to extend our heartfelt sympathies to the bereaved husband and children.
**And that a copy of these resolutions be recorded in the secretary's book of the Bible class. By order of committee,
--Mrs. La Selle, Mrs. Jones. Mrs. Kline
In politics Mr. Storey is a Democrat and fraternally a member of St. Anastasia Lodge, No. 46, I.O.O.F., at Wabash. He is a strictly moral man, and has so lived as to have won the sincere respect of all who know him.
Caleb Storey, a pioneer of Wabash County, Indiana, and of English descent, is a native of Fayette County, Indiana, and was born May 14, 1828, the third of the fourteen children born to Caleb and Rebecca (Sain) Storey. Of his family of fourteen, seven are still living, namely: Caleb, whose name opens this biographical sketch; Frances, wife of a Mr. Lewis King, a farmer of Wabash County; Margaret, married to William Oswald of Noble Township; Isabella, now Mrs. William Alexander, of Bern, Indiana; Harriet, wife of Stephen Vandergrift, of Noble Township; L. A., also of Noble Township, and a prosperous agriculturist, and Sarah J., wife of John Hoover, of south Wabash.
Caleb Storey, as the name was originally spelled by his ancestors, was born in Guilford County, North Carolina, and was educated in the common schools. He was reared to agricultural pursuits in his native state, and there passed his life until he reached mature years, when he came to Indiana, and in 1849 purchased eighty acres of wild land in Wabash County, on which was a little log cabin. Indians were numerous in the neighborhood and deer abundant in the surrounding forest, while wolves and other wild beats were not at all scarce. But Mr. Storey succeeded in developing a fertile farm from this wilderness and managed to live comfortably and happily. In politics Mr. Story was a Jeffersonian Democrat, in religion a Universalist, and in that belief he passed away at the age of seventy-eight years.
Mrs. Rebecca (Sain) Storey was a native of South Carolina, and came with her parents to Indiana in a wagon at an early day. The family settled in the southeastern part of the state, where she passed many years of her life, and died at the advanced age of ninety-three years, in Wabash County, in the faith of the Christian Church.
Caleb Storey was educated in a log school-house in Fayette County. This primitive school building measured 18 x 20 feet and was crude in construction in all respects, as all backwoods school-houses were in that early day. The books used in the cirriculum were of the most elementary character, while information was imparted more through corporal chastisement than by moral suasion.
Mr. Storey was reared to the hardships of backwoods life and inured to the toil of a pioneer farm, and during his minority cleared off at least one hundred and twenty-five acres of forest land. At the age of twenty-one years his cash amounted to less than $100. But he had an immense store of vital energy, and in a few years acquired sufficient means to justify his taking to himself a partner in the person of Miss Icyphene Calvert, whom he married April 9, 1854. This union has been crowned with six children, four sons and two daughters, and of these there are five still living, namely: Hiram C., who resides in Springfield, Ohio, and is an expressman on the Big Four Railroad; Caleb E., of Toledo, Ohio, is a baggageman on the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad.; Elva, wife of Harley Amoss, a resident of Noble Township, superintendent of highways; Myrtle, wife of Frank Wilson, a carpenter of Noble Township; and Frank, who is married to Miss Rose Smith, daughter of Peter and Hester (Unger) Smith, while the other brothers still reside on the old homestead.
Mrs. Icyphene (Calvert) Storey was born in Cass County, Indiana, December 10, 1838. When she and her husband began their wedded life they were at the bottom of the ladder that reached to fortune, Mr. Story being simply a day worker. The girl-wife, however, was ever ready and willing to lend him her earnest aid and economical of his means. Their first purchase of land was a tract of forty acres, part of their present estate, not a foot of which had been cleared, and their first dwelling was a very rude structure indeed, of up-and-down boards. The young couple continued their earnest work and cleared away the forest and drained the swamp land, and in a short time increased their farm to eighty acres. This farm in its day was looked upon as one of the best of its dimensions in the township. To this estate they added another forty-acre tract, and their modern dwelling and barns are fully up to date in every convenience and comfort.
Mr. and Mrs. Storey and their children wrought out all the improvements on their estate, and toiled hard to redeem it from the wilderness, and this toil was happily remuncrated to their full satisfaction. For almost half a century Mr. and Mrs. Storey trod the path of life together, but on June 12, 1899, Mrs. Storey was called to a higher sphere. The esteem in which she was held by her former class is evidenced by the following:
RESOLUTIONS OF MRS. CALEB STOREY'S BIBLE CLASS
**Resolved, that we, as members of Glen Union Bible Class, bow in submission to the will of Almighty God in removing from our midst our dearly beloved sister, Icyphene Storey, who departed to that bourne whence none returneth June 12, 1899; and
**Whereas, Resolved, That while we miss one so much loved and esteemed by all, let us not forget to extend our heartfelt sympathies to the bereaved husband and children.
**And that a copy of these resolutions be recorded in the secretary's book of the Bible class. By order of committee,
--Mrs. La Selle, Mrs. Jones. Mrs. Kline
In politics Mr. Storey is a Democrat and fraternally a member of St. Anastasia Lodge, No. 46, I.O.O.F., at Wabash. He is a strictly moral man, and has so lived as to have won the sincere respect of all who know him.
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