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- NOTES FROM INDIANA BIOGRAPHIES- ORANGE;MCCUNE
ISAAC MCCUNE A PROMINENT FARMER IN JACKSON TOWNSHIP, ORANGE COUNTY, IND, IS A
NATIVE OF JESSAMINE COUNTY,KY, AND WAS BORN FEB 21 1817. HE IS ONE OF THE LARGE FAMILY OF FIFTEEN CHILDREN BORN TO JAMES AND KEZIAH (DEAN) MCCUNE, BOTH NATIVES OF KENTUCKY AND OF IRISH DESCENT. THEY SSSETTLED IN ORANGE COUNTY IN 1828.
ISAAC REMAINED AT HOME WITH HIS PARENTS UNTIL TWENTY-THREE YEARS OF AGE,
RECEIVING BUT A LIMITED EDUCATION IN THE EARLY SCHOOLS OF HIS TIME. HE WAS
UNITED IN MATRIMONY ON DECEMBER 19 1839, TO MISS ELIZABETH PINNICK AND ALTHOUGH HAVING NO CHILDREN OF THIER OWN, EIGHT ORPHANS HAVE BEEN REARED AND EDUCATED BY THEM AND THE NINTH ONE IS NOW LIVING WITH THEM. FARMING AND STOCK RAISING HAS BEEN HIS BUSINESS, AND HE NOW OWNS 280 ACRES OF LAND, A PART OF WHICH IS IN DUBOIS COUNTY. IN RELIGION MR AND MRS MCCUNE ARE MEMBERS OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, TO WHICH ORGANIZATION THEY HAVE BELONGED EVER SICE 1842, AND SUCCEEDE IN AMASSING MUCH OF THIS WORLDS GOODS, WHICH HE LIBERALLY BESTOWED UPON HIS CHILDREN. HIS FAMILY LIVED TO MANHOOD AND WOMANHOOD EXCEPT TWO.
SOURCE "HISTORY OF LAWRENCE,ORANGE AND WSHINGTON COUNTIES,INDIANA" GOODSPEED
BROS.AND CO, 1884,PAGE 654
Buried in Can Creek cemetery.
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1817 - 1885 (68 years)
