Notes for: Thomas MCINDOO

Thomas McIndoo, merchant at Farmers, was born August 27, 1840 in this county, and is the second of the family of James and Sarah (Mounts) McIndoo, who came to this State in the earliest time, when it was but sparcely inhabited. Thomas McIndoo was reared to agriculture, attending school only during the winter season. He remained at home until 1862, when he enlisted in Company F, Ninety-seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry. After service of seven months, he was taken ill, and sent to a hospital at Memphis, from which he joined his regiment, but again became sick, and was place in a hospital in LeGrange, Tenn., and finally discharged August, 1863. Mr. McIndoo has been twice married, first to Miss Amands Williams, April 20, 1861, who left two children - Eva G. and Gertrude. About two and a half years after her death, October 18,1877 he married Miss Ellen Boling, who died October, 1881. Mr. McIndoo was formerly a member of a Washington lodge of Freemasons. He is a Republican in plotics and was for thirteen years Postmaster of this village. He began business at Farmers in 1869, and is one of the leading men in the mercantile line, and a respected citizen.