Eber F. Mede
Eber F. Mede was born in Greene County, Ohio, on the 12th of April, 1822. He is a son of Jonathan and Zilpah Mede. His father died when he was yet a small child, leaving him without the paternal care. His mother married Joseph Brunner in 1826. In 1834 he came to Shelby County with his mother and stepfather, and located in the southeast corner of Dinsmore Township, and he has since been a citizen of Dinsmore Township. In 1837 or ’8 he attended the first term of school taught in the township. This school was taught by William D. Johnston, in a log-cabin school house which stood on the ground now occupied by the Botkins burying ground. He attended the common school during the winter months until he was nineteen years of age. He then attended school at Sidney one year. In 1842 he began teaching during the winter months, and attend ing school through the summer, which he followed as his vocation until in 1848, when he turned his attention to farming during the summer months, and teaching four or five months each winter. He continued to make farming and teaching his vocation until 1874, when he retired from teaching, and has since been giving all of his time to farming, which he has conducted with success, and now owns a good farm of eighty acres in the northeast quarter of section 20, Dinsmore Township, on which he has resided since the summer of 1848. On the 20th of April, 1848, he married Miss Amanda, daughter of Richard C. and Hannah Dill. Miss Dill was born in Hamilton County, April 26, 1826, and came to this county with her parents in October, 1832, who settled in Dinsmore Township. By this union he reared four children, viz., Franklin L., Richard D., Hannah S., and William. Franklin L. and Hannah S. are now dead. Mr. Mede served as justice of the peace for Dinsmore Township two terms, clerk of the township one term, and trustee one term. He is highly esteemed by all that know him, and is classed as one among Dinsmore’s leading citizens.
From History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883