History of Rush County Indiana
1888
Brant & Fuller
Chicago
A. B. Vickery was born on the farm where he now resides February 16, 1839.
His parents were Salathiel and Sarah (Long) Vickery, the former a native
of Guilford County, North Carolina, born in 182_, and son of Jehu and Lydia
(Levenwood) Vickery, natives of North Carolina. In 1816, they
removed to Chilton County, Ohio, and removed to Fayette County, Indiana,
in 1820; this was then a wilderness. In 1826, they came to section
4, Washington Township, when it was all woods, and purchased eighty acres
from a man by the name of Griffin, who had entered it. Here Jehu and
Lydia ended their days, the former in his ninety-fifth year, and the
latter in her seventy-third year. Salathiel, the father of our
subject, died in 1868, in his fifty sixth year. The mother of A. B.
Vickery is still living, and is in her seventieth year. Our subject
has spent his entire life here on a farm; in his early days his education
was received in the common schools. He is now residing, in company
with his mother, on the old homestead, and is surrounded with the comforts
of this life. In politics he is a Democrat, and believes in the
principals of his party. He is one of the substantial farmers of
Washington Township. Lora19572@aol.com
