Hi, Sutton cousins and Belinda Hughes, Belinda, you asked about the Philip Sutton and his wife Sarah who sold property in Preble County, Ohio in 1823. I know that fellow fairly well. Philip was the fourth of the eight children of Benjamin and Elizabeth Sutton (yes, Sutton was her maiden name). Elizabeth was the daughter of the Rev. James Sutton, one of the four Baptist minister brothers, and his wife Hannah Cox. Philip was born September 18, 1801, Preble County, Ohio; died November 2, 1848, Marion County, Indiana. He married Sarah L. Childre or Childers August 3, 1820, Preble County. Sarah was born January 10, 1801, Preble County, Ohio; died September 9, 1858. They moved from Preble County to Johnson County, Indiana in 1823, but eventually settled in Marion County, Indiana, just north of the Johnson County line. Philip and Sarah had ten children: Thomas, born October 2, 1821. Elizabeth, born August 31, 1824. Married Shelby Fullen and had eleven children. Jeremiah, born July 26, 1826. Married Eliza Jane Grove and had children, but I don't know how many or their names. Rhoda Ann Sutton, born August 18, 1828, and died in infancy. Benjamin F., born February 9, 1832. Married first to Margaret _____ and had seven children. Married second to Mary J. _____. Jacob, born May 9, 1835. Married Mary J. Futz and had nine children. John W., born February 12, 1837. Delilah F., born March 9, 1839. Married Ira Powell and had children. Sarah Jane, born May 21, 1841. Anna, born October 9, 1844. Married Owen H. Scott. Philip's father, Benjamin, died c. 1814 in Preble County, and his widow Elizabeth and the children were all located in Johnson County, Indiana by 1824. The book _A Historical Sketch of Johnson County Indiana_, D. D. Banta, 1881, says on pp. 141-142: Elizabeth Sutton was the widow of Benjamin Sutton, of Preble County, Ohio, mother of Jonathan and James Sutton. They constituted a family and lived on the morthwest quarter of Section 33, Township 14 North, Range 3 East, until Jonathan Sutton died, in the year 1826. They had emigrated only two years before. He left a wife and one child. James Sutton died also, a few years after his brother, on the same farm. Also a son-in-law of Elizabeth Sutton, named Miner, and several of his children, died about the year 1826 on the same land. The widow continued to reside in the neighborhood for many years after their death. She was an excellent woman, and full of religious fervor. She was a skillful and efficient female doctor, and was of great service in nursing the sick. Mary Lou Hermiller mhermil@uoft02.utoledo.edu