This is it for me...... Lori Ripley County COL. TOM SMITH was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in May of 1798, and died April 12, 1876, at Versailles. He received his education in the public schools of Pennsylvania. Hi father was a farmer and came to Indiana in 1819. Tom came to Ripley County in 1822. In 1821 he married Miss Francis watts, then of Dearborn County, but formerly of Kentucky. His father had set his slave free in 1816 and moved to Indiana. In 1839 he was elected to Congress. He was He was reelected in 1843 and again in 1845 by the Democratic party. He was elected various times to the Legislature. In 1852 he was a delagate to the Constitutional Convention. In 1854, being bitterly opposed to the Missouri Comp[romise, and Slavery, he joined the ranks of the Republican party. As a Democrat he acted accordingly, and as a Republican he did the same. He was a shrewd debator. By trade he was a tanner. During the campaignes he was often dubed "Tom the Tanner". He was too old for the war, but he hired a substitute ! to! go for him. Mrs. Smith also did her share. She knit forty pair of good heavy socks for the soldiers, besides helping to sew for them. Thomas W. SUNMAN was born at Holtby, in Yorkshire, England, September 27th, 1804, and died at Versailles, March 21st, 1872. His father was a jointer or stair-builder and was a man of considerable means. Thomas was educated in England as a navigator. He moved to Adams Township, and settled on a farm of 200 acres, in 1820. In 1842 he served as Justice of the Peace and later as trustee of his township. He married February 14th, 1853. In 1868 he was elected to the Legislature, which convened in 1869. He, with the rest of the Democrats, resigned rather than vote for the Fifteenth Amendment. Im March of 1869 he was re-elected upon that issue. This was his last public service. He was always a warm supporter of the Democratic party. He was a farmer, miller and distiller when not in office. T. W. W. SUNMAN was born in Adams Township, Ripley County, Indiana, the 2nd day of February, 1855. He was raised on the Sunman homestead, and educated in public schools. He married a Miss Jennie Robinson in 1876. The Democratic part elected him to the Legislature in 1885, as Joint Representative, from Ripley and Franklin Counties. The old homestead contained some of the most valuable timber, in this section of the state. Mr. Sunman had erected one of the finest sawmills in the county, and had an extensive lumber business. WILLIAM D. WILSON was born in Milan in 1839. His parents were of English and Irish descent, and emigrated as early as 1830. They settled in Versailles when Daily was two years old. He received his education in the public schools of Ripley County, and later took a course at the County Seminary. He made one trip to Iowa to assist his father in Engineering. While in Iowa he also studied law. In 1862 he married Miss Olive Huffater, whosefather was a pioner. He served as District Prosecutor one term, during the fall of 1864. In 1868 he was elected as Representative from Ripley County by the Republican party, and in 1872 made the race for Judge against Judge New, but was defeated. Mr. Wilson was the president of the Ripley County Bank and Proprietor of the Osgood flour, stave and saw-mills. He had the finest residence in the county. He, with his two brothers, Charley and Tom, owned nearly 2000 acres of land which was cultivated. He also dealt extensively in livestock and timber.