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660 BIOGRAPHY AND REMINISCENCES<br />
station, and on December 1, that year, married Miss Lydia Danley, of<br />
Peoria county. In olitics he has always been Democratic.<br />
~Nm. Judith S. 1 oh, claughter of ~e'ter and Elizabeth (Fruin) Furbrushe,<br />
was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, in 1820. IIer father mas<br />
born on the Island of Guernsey, a French possession, in 1797. Caine<br />
with the Guernsey colony to Ohio, and here in 1818 marrierl Miss<br />
Frum, a native of Virginia. A number of. years later the faf~nily<br />
moved to Preble county, Ohio, and lnovecl thence in 1854 to this<br />
county. Peter Furbrushe diecl here in 1855, and twenty years later<br />
his ~viclo~~~ follo\ved hi111 to the pave. Of their seven children four are<br />
living; Mrs. Joh, ho\~~ever, being the only one resicling here. Mrs.<br />
Joh remained with her parents until 1841; when she manaied David<br />
Joh. Davicl Joh was born in Virginia about 1816. In 1833 he mpved<br />
with his parents to Preble county, Ohio, where lle met and married<br />
Miss Furbrushe. After four rears they inovecl to Butler county, ancl<br />
eight years later settled on a farm in Valley township, of this county,<br />
where, after a long. illness, he passed to rest in August, 1979. Of the'ir<br />
seven children, Elizabeth A. is deceased, John A. resides in Kansas,<br />
Mar,y E. is Mrs. 11. Martin, of Castleton ; Emina S., Mrs. A. Schl~ncB,<br />
resides here ; C-eorge L., in Colora~clo ; Clara L., engaged in school<br />
teaching in this county, and Nellie E., resicling at holl~e. Mrs. Joh<br />
has been for years a lnernber of the Methodist Episcopal church, of<br />
which her husband was also a member up to the period of his cleath.<br />
She resides on the olcl homestead in Valley mith two of her cllilclren.<br />
Thor~zns filly iliecl at his home in Valley June, 1884. He leaves a<br />
wife and four children. Was buriecl in the Camp Grove Catholic<br />
burying gro~~nd.<br />
Gotlie6 Klqjfer's body was found in the creek near Stark by his<br />
son ancl Miellael fleggenberger May 23, 1881. I-Ie was one of the old<br />
German residents of the county, wealthy, but the cleath of four of his<br />
chilclren within a few months preyed so heavily on his mind, he was<br />
driven to commit the rash act.<br />
Alonso A';i~~gsZey, son of John and Hannah (Russell) Kingsley, nTas<br />
born in Peoria county in 1839. I-Iis father mas born at Brattleboro',<br />
Vt., in 1815, learned the mason's trade there, and at the age of tmentvone<br />
yearhnmniecl Miss Russell, and both clzne to the wilds of ~eo4a<br />
county, where their f:n-ni ly was raised ancl educated, and tllemselves<br />
have resitled. Of their four cllililren three are among the best citizens<br />
of the state, ant1 one crossed over the river of time. John Kingsley,<br />
the father, was an artlent politician until his sudden cleath in November,<br />
1878. His widow resides on the old home. In 1861 Alonzo mnrried<br />
Miss EIannnh, claughter of James ancl Mary A. Demhurst, native<br />
of Heywood, Eng. This 1;~d.y was born there in 1841, and followecl<br />
her father, ~ ~ came h o in 1848. In l%0, mith other members of the<br />
family, a11 settled at Peoria, ancl fire or six years later settled in<br />
Valley, section 29. There the Demhursts resided for sixteen years,<br />
when they moved to TVyo~ning. ikIi11.s. Deivhurst, tvhile visiting Mrs.<br />
Kingsley in ISSO, (lied. Her husband movetl to Oswell, 13urtJon<br />
county, Inti., rv11ere he died, in 18%. He was a soldier of the late<br />
mar. Alonzo Ki ngsley enlisted in Colnpan . y . K, Sev~n t-y-seventh Illi-
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