Descendants of Peter Shriner
| Biographical Sketch from:
History of Whitley and Noble Counties, Indiana Written by Weston A.
Goodspeed and Charles Blanchard, and published in Chicago by F. A. Battey &
Co., in 1882, page 411
PETER SHRINER was born in Fairfield County, Ohio, April 19,1820, the son of Peter and Mary Shriner, natives of same place. He attended the district school in his native county, and at the age of seventeen came to Indiana with his grandfather, his father having died in Ohio, where his mother is yet living. In 1837, when our subject came to the county, this township was almost a wilderness, and there were only three families in Thorn Creek. March 17, 1853, he married Elizabeth Gradeless, daughter of Nathaniel Gradeless, and a native of Ohio. They began housekeeping on a rented farm, and the first land owned is his present farm of seventy acres, thirty-six of which are under fine cultivation. To his union with Miss Gradeless have been born four children-Mary (married and residing at the homestead), John (married, in Columbia City), Lucinda (married and living in the county), and Sarah (deceased). Mrs. Shriner, who was a member of the M. E. Church, died in 1873. |