Andrew DeWitt
Andrew DeWitt, raiser of fine stock, Washington, was born in Fayette County, August 23, 1813. He is a son of John and Polly DeWitt, the former a native of Kentucky, and the latter of Pennsylvania.. The father came to Ohio about the year 1808, and the mother about the same time. They had a family of twelve children, ten of whom are living.
Andrew, our subject, was married April 19, 1842, to Miss Elizabeth Hire, daughter of George and Catharine Hire, of Ross County, this state. Twelve children, all living, is the result of this union : Mary C, Samantha, Thomas H., Harvey, Elizabeth E., Joan, John, Hannah B., Martin L., Jennie, Almeda, and George C.
Mr. DeWitt is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He received his eduoRtion in Washington and in Ross County, and has spent his whole life in this county. For thirty -five years he has been engaged in raising the Rose of Sharon, Young Mary's, Filicies, Jantha's, and Flora stock of cattle. He is the owner of the horse that produced Ben Hamilton. He is from Alexander Norman and a Denmark mare.
Mr. DeWitt's farm consists of eight hundred and fifty-six acres,, and he is one of the most extensive stock raisers in Ohio. In the pioneer days many wild animals, especially the black bear, inhabited the forests, and on one occasion when on his way home from the Rock Mills, in August, 1822, Mr. DeWitt treed two bears in one tree.
From R. S. Dills' History of Fayette County