This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Buck, Burgeon, Ely, Johnson, Masters, Murphy, Sense, Young Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Hi.2ADI/1770 Message Board Post: Past and Present of Tippecanoe County, Indiana, Illustrated, Vol. II, pp. 1145-1146 B.F. Bowen & Company, Publishers, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1909 WILLIAM G. MASTERS JAMES and MARY (JOHNSON) MASTERS were Ohioans, and after the former's death his widow and children came to Indiana in 1834 and settled in Perry Township, Tippecanoe County. She bought forty acres in section 14, put up a log cabin and long before her death, January 4, 1874, had the pleasure of knowing that early trials had resulted in a comfortable home. As she was born April 1, 1797, she was about seventy-seven years of age when called to her final rest. Her children were as follows: MARY, born in 1818, died in infancy; ANN, wife of WILLIAM BURGEON, was born September 25, 1819, and died in 1889. SARAH, wife of WILLIAM Y. SENSE, was born April 22, 1822, and died in 1859. JAMES, the fourth child, died in 1824. SAMUEL was born in Butler County, Ohio, August 13, 1826. WILLIAM, born October 30, 1828, died in 1846. JOHN, who married MARY JOHNSON, was born September 9, 1830, and died in Livingston County, Illinois, January 15, 1906. SAMUEL MASTERS came to Tippecanoe Count! y with his mother in 1834; May 13, 1860, he married ELIZA JANE, daughter of GEORGE and CATHERINE YOUNG SENSE, who were Virginians, the former born April 23, 1789, and the latter September 17, 1787. They were married March 17, 1811. Their children were MARY, deceased, born September 17, 1813; DAVID, born March 24, 1817, and died in Perry township; INLYAM, born February 7, 1819; WILLIAM, born December 13, 1821, died at Milford, Illinois; ELEANOR, born September 22, 1824, died in Tippecanoe County; ELIZA JANE, who became MRS. MASTERS, was born March 16, 1831, died November 11, 1907. Her husband died October, 1898. After his marriage SAMUEL MASTERS located on the place that has been known as the MASTERS homestead. He owned one hundred and forty acres of land, much of which he cleared and improved. He became prosperous as a farmer and raiser of various kinds of livestock. He had two children, a son and a daughter. MARTHA V., who was born March 29, 1870, married WILLIAM C! LARK MURPHY, a farmer of Perry Township. WILLIAM G. MASTERS, the only living son and eldest child, was born in Perry Township, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, November 3, 1867. From the time he could handle a hoe he has been a farmer and, all his neighbors say, a good farmer. He has always remained on the old family homestead, has lived a quiet and industrious life and has prospered in his business. He has long been recognized as one of the progressive farmers and prominent citizens of the county, none being more highly esteemed. In 1907 he built his beautiful eleven-room, two-story house, with all the modern improvements. A fine barn, in keeping with the surroundings, was erected in 1905, and numerous other improvements have been made, making this farm up-to-date in every respect. MR. MASTERS bought the old homestead in 1899, has in all one hundred and thirty-five acres and one hundred and fifteen of these are under cultivation. He carries on diversified farming, raising all the crops suitable to this climate a! nd keeping the proper amount of livestock for such a farm as he owns. November 3, 1891, MR. MASTERS married EMMA G., daughter of DANIEL and SARAH (ELY) BUCK, of Perry Township. The father, who died June 5, 1905, was a native of Perry Township, and his wife, who now resides near Buck Creek, was born in Franklin Township. MRS. MASTERS is a model citizen in every respect, a member of the United Brethren church, highly respected throughout the county and esteemed by all who know her.