HISTORY, OF GREEN COUNTY. 
 
wife. Then he gave up his town business and be- 
came a contractor for drilling oil wells, and 
followed that occupation until he lost his prop- 
erty. He returned to Spring Grove in 1877, 
and bought lot 6, on section 2, thirty-three 
acres, where he now (1884) resides in a house 
built by an old settler, B. J. Tenney, who about 
thirty-four years ago sold out and went to Salt 
Lake with the Mormons. Mr. Dedrick's pres- 
ent wife was Sarah Jane Gordan. He was 
married to her in June, 1870. She was born in 
Pennsylvania, Their first child, Charlie, died 
at the age of thirteen months.  They have two 
daughters-Mabel F. M., born May 15, 1872, 
and Zada Bell, born Jan. 11, 1880. 
Charles A. Warner was born in Madison Co., 
N. Y., June 20, 1820. He learned the black- 
smith's trade when a boy,and at nineteen years 
of age was out from his apprenticeship. In 
May, 1842, he came west to Milwaukee, and in 
September of that year to this county, buying 
160 acres of land on section 11, town of Syl- 
vester, remaining only long enough to com- 
inence some improvements. He went to South- 
port, on Lake Michigan (now Kenosha) and 
worked at his trade the following winter, re- 
turning to improve his land the summer of 
1843. In the fall he returned to Southport and 
remained there at work until the fall of 1844, 
when he Went to McHenry Co., Ill. There he 
ran a shop which he owned four years, then in 
the fall of 1848 he returned to this county and 
located in the village of Decatur, then about to 
be platted. While in McHenry county, Mr. 
Warner was married to Elizabeth Ward, Dec. 
7, 1847. She was born in Vernon, Oneida Co., 
N. Y. At Decatur Mr. Warner built a shop 
and worked there about eight years, when 
(1856) he moved his family to the village of 
Clarence, in order to be able to improve 192 
acres of land which he had some years previ- 
ously bought on section 1, town of Spring 
Grove. Mr. Warner worked at his trade a 
short time in Clarence, but in the spring of 1857 
made his~ residee on his land on section 1, 
 
where he now (1884) lives. Mr. and Mrs. War- 
ner have had four children born to them-Ella 
E., born Nov. 1, 1849, now wife of Willie D. 
Bigelow, of Sun Prairie, Wis.; Francis Ward, 
born Nov. 20, 1851, and died Sept 26, 1856; 
Charles M., born July 8, 1857, and now lives at 
home; Catharine C., born July 18, 1861, now 
living at home. Mr. Warner has led an active 
life, never idle in his younger days, if not bard 
at work, could generally be depended upon to 
bring in game or fish. He and Dr. Springsted 
were fast friends, and it was a bad day for all 
kinds of game, when they started out for a 
hunt. Mr. Warner speaks kindly of his old 
friend as a man, and of his skill as a physician. 
Daniel Dunwiddie, one of the pioneers of 
Green county, is living on section 6. His fine 
farm comprises lots 3,4 and 5,fractional additions 
to section 6, '127 acres, and fifteen acres of ad- 
joining land. He also owns twenty acres of 
valuable timber near by in Decatur. He has 
occupied this place since 1847. Mr. Dunwid- 
die was born in Green Co., Ohio, Jan. 6, 1822, 
and is a son of John Dunwiddie, who reared a 
family of eleven children, ten boys and one 
girl, all of whom lived to be married, and rear 
families. Seven of the family were livinig in 
1884. At the age of twenty-one, (1843) the 
subject of this sketch came to Green county, 
and lived with his uncle, Thomas Woodle, an 
early settler. In 1845 he bought the southwest 
quarter of section 34, in the town of Sylvester, 
and in December of that year was married to 
Rebecca Austin. She was born in Burlington 
Co., N. J., but at the time of her marriage 
was a resident of Kosciusko Co., Ind. Her 
parents were, for nine years, residents of Green 
Co., Ohio, and it was there that Mr. Dun- 
widdie formed her acquaintance. Mr. and Mis. 
Dunwiddie first settled on his land in Sylvester 
and after living there one year, he sold, and pur- 
chased his present farm. They have had nine 
children born to them-Priscilla, wife of John 
Swan, born Feb. 5, 1846; Ezra, born Jan. 12, 
1848; Celista, wife of Alonzo Barnes, born Nov. 
 
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