James F. Gearhart
James F. Gearhart, a younger son of Lewis M. Gearhart, was born in Miami County in 1834. Came with the rest of his father’s family to Shelby County in 1840. Here he received a limited education. He learned the carpenter trade, which he followed some ten years, but has followed farming the greater part of his life. In the year 1860 he married Miss Elizabeth Miller. By this union they have had seven children. Their names are: Harry M., born 1861; Edwin E., born 1862; Lucinda C., born 1864; Augusta D., born 1867; William L., born 1869; Jennie D., born 1870; and Otis E., born 1877.
William Miller, the father of Mrs. Gearhart, came to Shelby County in 1824. Caleb Goble, the grandfather of Mrs. G., was born in New Jersey in 1760. About 1792 he came to Ohio, and settled near where Lebanon, Warren County, now is, with his wife and four children. Here, in the year 1809, the mother of Mrs. G. (Lucinda Goble) was born. Caleb Goble, her father, came to what is now Shelby County in the year 1814 or 1815, and first located where Sidney now is, lived there a year or two, then moved up the river, and located on school land, near where Pt. Jefferson now is The exact time of their settlement cannot be given, but from what we can gather from Mrs. Miller it was immediately after the close of the war of 1812.
From History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883