Surname: Prigg, Campbell, Clark, Alley, Nolan, Franklin Compendium of Biography Of Henry County, Indiana B. F. Bowen 1920 GEORGE H. PRIGG George H. Prigg, deceased, was born in Dayton, Ohio, January 12, 1829, and died in Fall Creek Township, Henry County, Indiana. May 1, 1894. When about ten years old he was brought to Indiana by his parents, William and Mary (Campbell) Prigg, who were born and married in Maryland, removed to Ohio and later to Indiana, and died two and a half miles west of Mechanicsburg, Henry County, the father at the age of eighty and the mother at seventy-five. George H. was the second born in a family of four sons; Edward, who lives on the old homestead; Parker, a merchant at Howard, Indiana, and William, in Middletown, he log the other three. George H. Prigg was married at the age of twenty-three to Miss Jane Clark, at the time nineteen years old, a daughter of Jesse and Priscilla (Alley) Clark, natives of Virginia, who came to Indiana about 1831 and settled on the farm on which the widow of George H. Prigg now lives. This farm comprised eighty acres, was improved with a small cabin, in which Jane Clark was born March 25. 1833. About eight years after locating here Mr. Clark erected a hewed-log house of two stories, and in 1857 put up the present dwelling. During the Civil war the premises were bought by Mr.Prigg and, Mr. and Mrs. Clark went to Fulton County, Indiana. Whence migrated about 1885 to Lawrence county, Missouri, where Mrs. Clark died when sixty-four years old and Mr. Clark at seventy. Of a family of five, three sisters and one brother live in Fulton and Miami counties. Mrs. Prigg being the only one to remain in Henry. After his marriage Mr. Prigg rented land for three Years, then purchased a farm; he next bought a second one three years later and three years afterward bought the Clark homestead, on which Mrs. Prigg has lived all her life with the exception of about ten or eleven years. Mr. Prigg acquired in all about five hundred acres and presented to each child at his or her marriage a tract of forty acres. George H. Prigg devoted the greater part of his life to the breeding of livestock, and eventually met his death through a kick from a horse. He was very domestic in his habits and very fond of the society of his wife and children, to all of whom he was kind, intelligent and affectionate. He was a Republican in politics, but was too domestic a man to seek public office, although he was truly a public-spirited man and charitable citizen, whose death was greatly deplored by the entire community. He died in the faith of the Bristol New Light (or Christian) church and freely contributed to the aid of the congregation west of Middletown, of which he was a pious and consistent member. To George H. and Jane (Clark) Prigg were born six children, all but one of whom have been schoolteachers. They were born in the following order: John, now in Middletown; William, agent for the McCormick Reaper Company at New Castle; Martha, wife of Lon Nolan, of Frankton, Indiana; Monroe: twin of Martha, in Sulphur Springs, Henry County: Joseph, a farmer in Delaware County, and Roberta, wife of Dolph Franklin, a farmer near the old Prigg homestead. There are eight grandchildren in the family and Mrs. Prigg resides on the old farm place, but rents the farm, and is frequently visited by such of her children as are within accessible distance, while her neighbors honor her with their constant attention.