Francis Morion HEWITT

  Noted events in his life were:

• Biography. The following is from an article written on Randolph Co and Francis Hewitt:
Frances M. Hewitt was born in Ross Co, OH in 1836, the eldest son of Joseph and Sarah (Putnam) Hewitt, natives of PA, born in 1802 and of Irish descent.
Joseph and Sarah were the parents of ten children: Catherine deceased wife of Joseph Glimmer; Lucinda, widow of John T. Thornburg; Sophia, married to William Adkins of Kansas; Sarah, widow of John Oakerson of Muncie; Francis M., named at the head of this sketch; Philip of MO; William, deceased; Joseph of Delaware Co, IN, Peter of Farmland, and Mary, the deceased wife of Elza McIntire.
Soon after marriage, Joseph and Sarah Hewitt settled in Ross Co, Ohio, on 130 acres of land, but twelve years later, in 1840, sold the farm and came to Randolph Co, IN, where he bought 160 acres of land, then in it's primitive condition. This farm they cultivated until 1867, when they retired to Farmland, where Mrs. Hewitt died in 1887. Mr. Hewitt died in 1891, and both having long been faithful and active members of the Methodist church.
Francis M. Hewitt was but four years of age when brought by his parents to Randolph Co. Here he was reared on the home farm, and between his coming and the present he has beheld some wonderful changes. He secured a fair education and assisted his father until his marriage, Apr. 15, 1858, to Margaret, the eldest daughter of John and Susannah Thornburg, natives of North Carolina. For the first four years of their married life, they lived on a rented farm, and then purchased ninety-three acres at Windsor, on which they lived seven years, at which time they purchased the home farm of 160 acres, to which they later added 100 acres, thus making a compact and extensive farm of 280 acres. In 1882, he erected a fine dwelling at a cost of $4,000. In religion Mrs. Hewitt is a Methodist. In politics Mr. Hewitt is a stanch Republican.

Francis married Margaret THORNBURGH, daughter of John THORNBURGH and Susannah BEALS, on 15 Apr 1858. (Margaret THORNBURGH was born on 31 Mar 1840 in Randolph County, IN.)