Abraham L. Shuey
Abraham L. Shuey, former mayor of the town of Fairfield and justice of the peace in and for Bath township, was born in the vicinity of the town of Gratis, in Gratis township, Preble county, this state. On April 5, 1864, he became a resident of Greene county and remained here until in December, 1874, when he moved to a farm he had bought on the national road a mile and a half west of Donnelsville, in Clark county. Two years later he moved to Fairfield and in 1888 removed from that village to a farm just south of the village, where he remained until 1893, when he returned to the village, where he and his wife have since resided. Mr. Shuey has served as mayor of Fairfield and as justice of the peace, as well as in other official capacities, and is also a notary public.
Mrs. M C. Wilson Shuey, wife of Abraham L. Shuey, is a daughter of William Harvey Wilson, who was the eldest of the thirteen children of Isaac Wilson, who had come to this region wtih his parents from Kentucky in 1801, and she thus is a member of one of the very first famillies of Greene county. Isaac Wilson established his home in the neighborhood of the present village of Byron and became one of the large landowners of Greene county. One of his sons, Uriah Wilson, who died in 1900, was a soldier of the Civil War and was the father of thirteen children, some of whom are still living in the Fairfield community. Isaac Wilson died on April 10, 1860, and left a large estate to his family. William Harvey Wilson also became a large landowner and left a substantial estate at the time of his death in 1893. Three of his children are still living, Mrs. Shuey having two brothers, Cassius M. Wilson, a veteran auctioneer, now living retired at Fairfield, and James M. Wilson, a retired fanner, living just north of the village. Mrs. Shuey has for many years been incidentally engaged in journalistic work, has written for a number of the leading papers of the country and has contributed to this publication in the way of providing data relating to the histories of the Fairfield and Osborn neighborhoods. On March. 4, 1908, Mr. Shuey was taken down with an attack of la grippe from which an ailment of his left ankle developed. On April 2 following he was taken to the hospital and there his left leg was amputated. On April 5 of that same year Mrs. Shuey contracted blood-poisoning in her right thumb, the trouble quickly extending to her left arm and developing a condition which necessitated the amputation of that member, the operation being performed on May 9. Despite these physical disabilities and their advancing years, both Mr. and Mrs. Shuey are hale and hearty and full of the joy of living.
From History of Greene County Ohio, Its People, Industries and Institutions, vol. 2. M.A.Broadstone, editor. B.F.Bowen & Co., Indianapolis. 1918