Transcription contributed by Martie Callihan 9 October 2005

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GEORGE S. SALE, farmer; P. O. Waynesville; born on the place where he now lives, March 27, 1818; is a son of Robert and Magdalene (Smith) Sale; he was born in Amherst Co., Va., Feb. 3, 1784; she was born in Powhatan Co., Va., June 13, 1789, and were married Nov. 10, 1808. The grandfather, John Sale, also a native of Virginia, married Miss Frances, daughter of Philip Sanders, of Caroline Co., Va., and had eleven children — Mary, Anthony, Thomas, John, Ann, Cornelius, Samuel, Elizabeth, Alexander, Robert and Martha. The great-grandfather, Anthony Sale, was born in Essex Co, Va.; he was the father of eight children—Leonard, Robert, Thomas, Cornelius, Anthony, John, Richard and Elizabeth. Mr. Sale was a soldier in Washington's Regiment at the time of the defeat and death of Gen. Braddock in the French and Indian war of 1755, and was wounded in the hip, from which he was a cripple the balance of his life. Robert, the father of our subject, remained with his parents in Virginia till 22 years of age, and, about 1806, emigrated to Ohio and located with his brother, in Greene County, who had settled there some time previously as a Methodist minister. After his marriage, in 1808, he located in this county on the farm where George now lives, and here resided till his death, Oct. 1, 1823, in his 40th year of age; his wife died Aug. 5, 1839, aged 50 years. They had seven children, viz., John Fletcher, Elizabeth, Minerva, Thomas Coke, George Smith, Caroline Matilda and Cynthia Virginia. Our subject when his father died was 5 years of age, but his mother being a woman of remarkable energy and ability, managed to raise her children till they grew to maturity. Mr. Sale was married, Dec. 31, 1845, to Miss Mahala, daughter of Job and Ann (Fitzpatrick) Martin, natives of Virginia, who had six children; two now survive—Mahala and Nancy (now Mrs. Thornburg, residing in Iowa). Mr. Sale and wife by their union have three children— James C., born Nov. 11, 1846; Mathew Job, born April 18, 1848, and Mary Elizabeth, born April 10, 1850. After their marriage, Mr. Sale located upon the old homestead place, where he now lives and has made a continued residence of sixty-three years, and the farm has been occupied by the Sale family for seventy-three years. This is the genealogical history of one of the true pioneer families of Wayne Township, who have borne their share of the hardships of pioneer life; now they have a fine farm with good improvements and all the comforts and conveniences of life. And their descendants in the future may well and gratefully remember their ancestors for the great and noble work they have accomplished in bringing from the wilderness these fine farms and homes with all their comforts for their enjoyment.