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HENRY T. FULLENWIDER, a farmer, post office, Mechanicsburg, a son of Jacob and Sarah Agnes (Bullard) Fullenwider, was born in this county
March 1, 1846. He was raised on a farm, and on December 28, 1871, married Sarah C. Lindsly, daughter of Henry C. and Julia A. (Hickman) Lindsly, who was born in Christian county, Illinois, October 21, 1849; her father was born in New Jersey and her mother in Kentucky. Mr. and Mrs. Fullenwider have had four children, namely: Charley W., born December 22, 1872, died February 11, 1873; Arthur E., born September 8, 1874; Agnes, born December 15, 1876; and Thomas I., born March 8, 1881. Mr. Fullenwider owns two hundred and eighty-three acres of land, valued at $50 an acre; raises grain, cattle and hogs, and feeds them for market. The farm is well cultivated, with fields divided by osage orange hedges. Mrs. F. is of English and Scotch extraction, and he of German, and both have had good educational advantages - Mrs. F. having attended the high school at Springfield. Both
are Methodists and are in politics Republicans.