Union County, Ohio Biographies Project - David Mitchell

DAVID MITCHELL

    David Mitchell, a farmer, P. O. Unionville Center, is a grandson of David Mitchell, who was a native of Pennsylvania, and a son of Moses and Jane (Taylor) Mitchell.  His father was also born in Pennsylvania, and came West with his parents in 1812, and settled on land now owned by John Mitchell.  He had a family of six children by his first wife, and by his second wife, Jemima Cartright, had a like number.  He died at the age of eighty-one years, in 1863.  Our subject was married in 1851 to Miss Elizabeth Winfield, by whom he had eight children, seven of whom are living, viz.: Mary J., Arvilla, Fannie, Alice, Mattie, Rosa and Scott.