Albert H. Boughn
Albert H. Boughn, farmer, P.O. Jeffersonville, Fayette Co., born in Fayette County, Ohio, September 12, 1846, and is a son of Joseph H. and Elizabeth (Fults) Boughn. The former was born June 2, 1810, and his wife in August, 1820. They were both natives of Ohio, where they married and settled in Fayette County, where they reside. Our subject was united in marriage with Mary Ervin, December 23, 1870. She was born in Madison County August 30, 1852. He engaged in farming as a renter, when he was twenty years of age, and thus continued for three years, when he went into mercantile business, which he followed for three years; he then sold out and bought forty-two acres of land in Fayette County, Ohio. He has, at present eighty-four acres of land, where he resides. He acquired a common school education, is a member of the I. O. O. F., and a Trustee of Stokes Township. He and wife are the parents of four children – Nettie L., born January 7, 1871; Lizzie F., born January 9, 1874; Loa, born March 19, 1876; and Lila, born June 24, 1881. Mr. and Mrs. Boughn are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
From HISTORY OF MADISON COUNTY - W. H. Beers [Chicago, 1883]