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

JESSE R. STARKEY, second son and third child in a family of nine children,
was born August 12, 1849, in Madison County, Ill.  His parents, Joel W.
and Jane C. (Hagerman) Starkey, natives of Illinois and Indiana
respectively, were married in Illinois in 1844, and located on a farm in
Madison County, where they lived until 1869.  Removing thence to a farm in
Logan County, they have since resided there.  Jesse Starkey ws reared and
educated in his native county.  When he was twenty years of age, he
entered Lincoln University at Lincoln, Ill., from which he graduated in
1874 after four years of hard study.  During the winter following
(1874-1875), he was Principal of the schools at Broadwell, Ill., and
during the two succeeding winters taught select schools in Boyle County,
Ky.  In the fall of 1876, he took the Principalship of the Martinsville
Schools, where he at present resides.  On December 21, 1876, he was
married to Phibbie H. Caldwell, daughter of R. H. Caldwell, a resident of
Boyle County, Ky.  By this union there have been four children - Lucy D.
(deceased), Ella, Horace L. and Russell I.  Mr. Starkey is a member of the
I. O. O. F., Martinsville Lodge, No. 274, and in politics is a Democrat. 
Mr. and Mrs. Starkey are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. 

Starkey Hagerman Caldwell
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Madison-IL Lincoln-Logan-IL Martinsville-Morgan-IN

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