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We dedicate, with pleasure, a part of these pages to a family that has been long and well known in Henderson county. There are many others who have equal, and in fact prior, claims upon the community if we esteem only the date of their settlement in the county, but desiring to put upon record the prominent and worthy of the day in which we write , we take up the account of the family of David Gearhart. In doing so , we realize the fact that at best we can only leave a finger-board to guide the future biographer to a more sucessful account of the family. The subject of our sketch was born in 1819, in New Jersey, where he was educated at a common school and brought up to farming . he moved in 1852, to Fulton county, Illinois, where he immediately renewed his occupation. He was married ,in Fulton county, to Miss Catherine Young, September 24,1856. By his marriage he had four children. After a residence of eight years in Fulton county, he removed to Warren, where he remained two years . In 1854 he came to Henderson county, to visit and look at the country .Returning to Warren, he moved to this county in 1862, at which time he bought eighty acres of land on sec.12, and afterward 300 acres. By his second marriage , with Mrs. Elizabeth perrine, they have five children.