Transcription contributed by Arne H Trelvik 6 June 2005

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ARTHUR D. EASTON, farmer; P. O. Springboro; born in Montgomery Co., Ohio, Dec. 13, 1838; is a son of Daniel and Tabitha (Bradbury) Easton, he a native of Connecticut and she of Virginia. The paternal grandfather, B. G. Easton, was also a native of Connecticut, where he lived and died. The maternal grandparents were James and Elizabeth Bradbury, natives of Virginia, but who, about the year 1839, became residents of Ohio, thence of Kentucky, where they resided several years; thence returned to Ohio and located in Montgomery County, where they died, near Germantown; she died about 1863, and he about 1870. Mr. Bradbury was a soldier in the war of 1812, being in service till the war closed. Daniel Easton, after arriving at manhood, emigrated to Virginia, where he was married and resided till the fall of 1838; he removed with his family to Ohio and located in Montgomery County; thence removed to Kentucky about 1842, where he purchased military land, built a cabin and paid for his land; subsequently, another party laid claim to his land, and he paid for it again; finally, a third party laid his claim, and he paid the third time, thinking surely that would end all controversy; but it was but a short time before a fourth claim came against him, and he gave up his land, after having performed a large amount of labor in clearing up and improving his land; he then removed to Cincinnati with a broken-down constitution and much disheartened, and there he resided a few years, when death relieved him from all further toils and labors; he died in the fall of 1846, aged about 52 years; his death was sudden; he and his two sons, who were quite young, went out into the woods beyond Walnut Hills to dig out some snake-root, where he was taken suddenly ill, and attempted to return home, but died before reaching the city, as was supposed with heart disease. They had three children - Brewster G., Arthur D., and Mary E., now Mrs. Somers. His widow married for her second husband Michael Protzman, by whom she had two children - Hiram and Rebecca. Mrs. Protzman died in October, 1876. The subject of this sketch was about eight years of age when his father died; thence he lived with his grandfather for a time; thence, after his mother's second marriage, lived with her a few years; was married, Oct. 19, 1865, to Sarah, daughter of Marmaduke and Jane S. Crockett, natives of Ohio (see sketch of Marmaduke Crockett, deceased); by this union they have five children - Charles C., born Oct, 3, 1866; David Edwin, Sept. 11, 1869; William O., June 29, 1872; John C., April 19, 1874; and Earnest D., born Nov. 3, 1876. Mr. Easton located, after their marriage, on the place where he now lives, which he bought in 1861, and here he has since resided, and is one of the prominent farmers of Clear Creek Township, and one of her best citizens.