William Blessing
William Blessing, farmer, is a son of Abram and Phoebe (Mock) Blessing; was born in Greene County, March 26, 1827, and came with his parents to this county, in 1847, where he married Miss Mary J. Costello, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, March 23, 1853, who bore him four children: Electa V., Lucy J., Alice P., and Rachel H. Electa died at the age of seven years.
Mr. Blessing invented the first successful corn-planter of Ohio, and is a genius who can make anything with tools. He has a farm of three hundred acres, well improved, situated two miles north of Jeffersonville, on the Harrold pike, where he lives. His father was born in Virginia, in 1801; came to Ohio in 1808; lived in Greene County until he came here, and was married there. Mrs. Blessing was born in Greene County, in 1802. There were nine children of the family, our subject being the second. The parents are exemplary members of the Methodist Protestant Church.
From R. S. Dills' History of Fayette County