Elisha Kiser
Peter Kiser was born in Virginia in 1755, came to Montgomery Co., O., about 1799, where in 1802 Elisha Kiser was born, he being the eleventh of fourteen children. They lived in Montgomery County until 1807, when they moved to Miami Co. where he lived until 1829, when he married Amilla Corben, and the same year moved to Shelby Co. and located on sec. 7 Perry Township. The land on which be located was all in timber, without a road to or near it. It was here with his new wife he located in a rude cabin, without any means of support, except as he earned it by days’ work, having to go to Miami Co. to get work to do. He cleared his own land at intervals as fast as he could, and in a few years had a comfortable home, living happily in their self-made home until 1850, when his wife died, leaving him with seven children, viz., Susan, Thomas, Orrin, Laban, Elisha, Ann, and Matilda Jane. In 1851 he married Mary A.Wilkinson, his present wife, by whom he has five children, viz., Wm. B., Sarah E., Emma A., Mary B., and Alta M. John C. died 1880, aged twenty-four. Mr. Kiser had four sons and one son-in-law in the late war, who served their full time of enlistment. In 1878 Mr. Kiser retired from the farm, and is now living in Pemberton in the enjoyment of the fruits of his hard labor. May his last days be his happiest.
From History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883