George Clinehens
George Clinehens, deceased, was born in Germany March 24, 1815. He made farming his avocation through life. In the beginning of the year 1838, he immigrated to America and located in Pittsburgh, Pa., where, on the 7th of November, 1838, he married Miss Eve Moot. Miss Moot was born in Germany February 12, 1815. She came to America in the summer of 1838, and located in Pittsburgh. Soon after marriage Mr.and Mrs. Clinehens moved to Richmond, Indiana, remained about four years, or until in 1842, when they came to Shelby County, and settled on eighty acres of land, which is the south half of the northwest quarter of section 29, Dinsmore Township, on which Mr. Clinehens died January 2, 1876. His companion is residing on the home farm. They reared a family of eight children, viz., Nicholas, Mary E., Conrad, George, Elizabeth, John G., David T., and Philip R., all of whom are now living. David T. is residing on the home farm in Dinsmore Township.
From History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883