Isaac N. Kable
Isaac N. Kable, proprietor of a farm in Beavercreek township, situated on rural mail route No. 8 out of Dayton, was born on that farm and has lived there all his life. He was born on April 5, 1855, son of Samuel and Catherine (Garver) Kable, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of Maryland, whose last days were spent on the farm on which their son Isaac is now living.
Samuel Kable was born at Kabletown, in Jefferson county, Virginia, now a part of West Virginia, and there grew to manhood, later coming to Ohio with his brother James and locating in Greene county, for a time the brothers making their home here with the family of Moses Shoup. Not long after his arrival here Samuel Kable married Catherine Garver and made his home at Osborn, where he became engaged in the milling business. He later moved from there to a point northwest of Carlisle, down in Warren county, where he began to operate a mill and was thus engaged there until the fall of 1854, when he returned to Greene county and bought the farm on which his son, Isaac, is now living in Beavercreek township. That place then included a tract of one hundred and six acres and was but partly improved. Samuel Kable made improvements on the place and there died in November, 1864. His widow survived him for nearly ten years, her death occurring in 1873. He was a member of the Reformed church and she was a member of the Dunker church. They were the parents of seven children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the last-born, the others being Ann Rebecca, Mary, Joseph, Ella, Martha J. and John, of whom all are living save the first three. Ann Rebecca Kable married David Merrick, a farmer of this county, who died in 1904. She died in February, 1917. Mary Kable married Hiram Roscell and died in May, 1869. Joseph Kable married Harriet Hawker, became a farmer in the neighboring county of Clark and there died in 1910. Ella Kable was married in October, 1864, to Henry H. Stafford, of Miami county, who three years later .came to Greene county and after living for some years on a rented farm bought the farm of ninety acres on which he is now living in Beavercreek township. Henry H. Stafford was born in Miami county, son of William E. and Harriet (Newell) Stafford, the latter of whom died in 1848 and the former in 1849, who were the parents of seven children, of whom three are still living, Mr. Stafford having a brother, William, living in Indianapolis, and a sister, Mary, living in St. Louis. Mr. and Mrs. Stafford have six children, namely: Catherine, who married W. J, Engle, a Montgomery county florist, and has four children, Elberta H., W. S., Paul and Elizabeth; Franklin K., superintendent of schools of Crawford county, this state, who married Viola Dill and has two sons, Carl and James; Edwin L., who is now farming the home place and who married Ella B. Shultz and has five children, Jerome, Florence, Irene, Henry and Paul; Carrie Edith, who died in 1890 at the age of seventeen years, and Herbert S. and Harry H., twins, the former of whom married Louise Pierce and is now living at Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, where he is engaged as secretary of the local branch of the Young Men's Christian Association at that place. Dr. Harry H. Stafford married Gertrude Pierce and is engaged in the practice of medicine at Dayton. Martha J. Kable married David Hawker, now living at Dayton, and has four children, Herbert K., William S., Marietta and Bessie M. John Kable, a farmer of Sugarcreek township, this county, married Jane Ferguson and has three children, Gertrude, Charles R. and Carrie.
Isaac N. Kable grew to manhood on the farm on which he was born and received his schooling in the neighborhood schools. His father died when he was nine years of age and he thus early assumed responsibilities that ordinarily do not fall upon the shoulders of boys. He was but eighteen when his mother died and he continued to make his home on the farm, after his marriage establishing his definite home there and in due time bought from the other heirs their interests in the place and thus became the owner of the farm, which he has since improved, remodeling the house and barn. Mr. Kable has enlarged the original acreage of his father's place by purchase of a bit of land adjoining and now has one hundred and twenty-three acres, besides a tract of forty-five acres north of his home place. In addition to his general farming Mr. Kable has given considerable attention to the raising of live stock, beef and dairy cattle of the Durham and Holstein strains and Duroc-Jersey hogs. He is a Republican, but has not been a seeker after public office. Isaac N. Kable was united in marriage to Sarah Lafong, who also was born in Beavercreek township, a daughter of Orlander B. and Rebecca (Black) Lafong, the latter of whom is still living, a daughter of Robert and Mary (Koogler) Black, and further mention of whom is made elsewhere in this volume. To this union four children have been born, namely: Oscar, who continues to reside on the home farm, assisting his father in the management of the same; Pearl, wife of Howard Cosier, a Beavercreek township farmer; Clay, who died at the age of seven years, and Ella Marie. The Kables are members of the Mt. Zion Reformed church and Mr. Kable is an elder in the church.
From History of Greene County Ohio, Its People, Industries and Institutions, vol. 2. M.A.Broadstone, editor. B.F.Bowen & Co., Indianapolis. 1918