Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and
Biographical. Charles Blanchard, Editor. Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co.,
Publishers, 1884. Unknown County.

JOHN A. SANDY, stock-raiser and farmer, was born in Montgomerey County,
Ind., March 19, 1843, and is the sixth of eleven children of William H.
and Lucinda (Thompson) Sandy, natives respectively of Tennessee and
Kentucky, and of English and Irish descent.  William H. Sandy emigrated to
Washington County, Ind., about 1810, thence moved to Owen County about
1812, and after his marriage settled near Gosport, about 1830, and thence
moved to Montgomery County, locating near Crawfordsville.  In 1852, the
family moved to Morgan County, where Mr. Sandy yet resides.  John H. Sandy
passed his boyhood on the paternal farm, and in going to school.  In 1861,
he enlisted in Company H, Thirty-third Indiana Volunteer Infantry; was
assigned to the Fourth Corps, Army of the Cumberland; was most engaged in
skirmishes, and was discharged November, 1862, after which, being unable
to work, he went to school for a time, then farmed until February, 1865,
when he re-enlisted in Company F, One Hundred and Forty-eighth Regiment,
and served until September.  August 30, 1866, he married Susanna, daughter
of Robert and Nancy Walters, to which union was born one child - James S. 
Mr. Sandy owns eighty-two acres of good land, well-cultivated and
improved, thus being in comfortable circumstances.  In 1880, he engaged in
the drug business of one year with fair success.  Mr. Sandy is an Odd
Fellow, and he and wife are members of the Christian Church. 

Sandy Thompson Walters
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TN Crawfordsville-Montgomery-IN TN Washington-IN Owen-IN Morgan-IN

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