Richard Kilbury
Richard Kilbury, a native of Vermont, married Obedience Baldwin, and in the fall of 1814 emigrated to Ohio and settled in this township on land now owned by William Atkinson, in Survey 7386. Alter residing here a short time, it proved so sickly thai he moved to near Cleveland, and subsequently to the Maumee Valley. But after a short residence there, he returned to Madison County, and resided here till his death. He was a blacksmith by trade, which business he followed through life. He was a member of the Methodist Church; a man of firm and substantial character and undoubted integrity, and held several offices of his township. Mrs. Kilbury died in a few years after their settling here. Subsequently, he married Mrs. Calhoun. By his first wife he had eight children—Sophia, who married a Mr. Sherwood, and resides in Wisconsin; Thomas married Martha Finch (she died and he married Polly Clark); Richard, deceased; Dexter, deceased; Asa married Ruth Clark and resides in Union County; Laura married Mr. Dennich she is now a widow and resides in Wisconsin; Nancy married Guy Harris, both now deceased; Emily married John Finch he is deceased, and she is now a widow and resides in Darby Township. By his second wife he had one son, Alexander, who now resides in California. Mr. Kilbury died in May, 1854.
From History of Madison County - W. H. Beers [Chicago, 1883]