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• Birth	1829
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I38852	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	17 Feb 2000 00:00:00
  Father	Johnson Cleveland MAIN, b. Abt 1796, Bristol,Hartford Co.,Connecticut
  Mother	Sarah WILSON, b. Abt 1810
  Family ID	F16309	Group Sheet
  Family 1	Abigail HAMILTON
  Married	3 Sep 1850	Dubois Co.,Indiana
  Children	1. George Samuel MAIN, b. 1851, Dubois Co.,Indiana
  Family ID	F15552	Group Sheet
  Family 2	Sarah SHOULDERS
  Married	16 Jun 1853	Dubois Co.,Indiana
  Children	1. Nancy MAIN, b. 1853, Dubois Co.,Indiana   2. Mary Elizabeth MAIN, b. 1855, Dubois Co.,Indiana   3. Rachel Jane MAIN, b. 21 Jul 1857, Dubois Co.,Indiana > 4. Sarah C. MAIN, b. 31 Mar 1859, Dubois Co.,Indiana
  Family ID	F15039	Group Sheet
  Family 3	Elizabeth BLACK
  Married	15 Mar 1861	Dubois Co.,Indiana
  Children	1. Martha Ann MAIN, b. 4 Mar 1861, Dubois Co.,Indiana   2. William T. MAIN, b. 1863, Dubois Co.,Indiana   3. Precious MAIN, b. 1865, Dubois Co.,Indiana   4. Simon Peter MAIN, b. 1867, Dubois Co.,Indiana   5. Joseph Samuel MAIN, b. Abt 1871, Dubois Co.,Indiana   6. John H. L. MAIN, b. 3 Nov 1873, Dubois Co.,Indiana   7. Nancy Ellen MAIN, b. 22 Oct 1876, Dubois Co.,Indiana   8. Samuel Wilson MAIN, b. 1878, Dubois Co.,Indiana
  Family ID	F15378	Group Sheet

• Notes

  THE MAIN TREE II, Second Edition, by Nancy (Portor) Childress, 1995. page176. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES JOSEPH MAIN, who is the son of Johnson C. and Sarah (Wilson) Main,was born June 28, 1829, in Dubois County, Ind., and is the eldest of tenchildren. The parents were natives of Pennsylvania and Kentucky, and cameto Indiana when quite young. They married and lived near Huntingburgh,where the father, who was a United Brethren minister, died in 1842. Themother's death occured December 22, 1884, aged seventy-six years. Oursubject passed his boyhood on a farm and received but little schooling.He has been married three times. His first wife, Abigail Hamilton,bearing one son, George Samuel (deceased), died in 1852; his second,Sarah Shoulders, bore four children, three now living; Mary E. Rachael J.and Sarah C. This wife died in 1859. He then married Mrs. Elizabeth(Black) Sullivan, the result of this union being nine children, eight nowliving; Martha Ann (deceased), Precious, William T., Jeremiah, Simon P.,Joseph M., John H. L., Nancy L. and Samuel W. This wife died in 1880.Joseph, our subject, started in life a poor boy, but by industry he nowowns 120 acres of good land. He is a Mason and a Democrat. Hisgrandfather came to this Satae in very early times, and he and familywere obliged to protect themselves from the Indians by means of a fort. Researching this line is Jackie Smith at gardenangel11851@yahoo.com