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- JOHN INCH, a prominent citizen of Waymart, Wayne county, now retired from active business cares, is one of the men who make old age seem the better portion of life. He was born in Devonshire, England, March 7, 1808, a son of Zachariah and Elizabeth ( Yodden) Inch. His paternal grandparents, John and Mary (Callaway) Inch, spent their entire lives in England, living upon the farm which the father of our subject owned.
Thev died within a day of each other, were buried in the same grave, and a large double tombstone now marks their last resting place. The maternal grandfather, Edmond Yodden, was throughout life a farmer in England.
Zachariah Inch (our subject's father) was also was an agriculturist, and followed his chosen calling in the Parish of Bridgerule, Devonshire, England,
Upon the home farm John Inch remained until twelve years of age. His father having died, he was forced to begin the battle of life for himself, working on farms in England until he attained his majority. He then crossed the Atlantic, landing at Quebec, Canada, where he remained, however, only a short time. For a few months he worked on a farm in Orange county, N. Y., and then came to Wayne county, Penn., where he had cquaintances living. He purchased a farm of fifty acres in Prompton, upon which he made his home for twenty-two years, and on selling that place bought another farm, in Dyberry township, which he operated for four years. His next purchase consisted
of a farm in Canaan township, where he successfully engaged in agricultural pursuits for twenty years. Since 1884, however, he has lived in Wavmart, having laid aside the cares and responsibilities of business life. ...
In Honesdale, Wayne county, Mr. Inch was married, February 29, 1844, to Mrs. Chloe H. (Dibble) Tiffany, Rev. Rowland, a Presbyterian minister, performing the ceremony. She is a native of the county, born in Damascus township. April 1, 1821, and was first married to Ferdinand B. Tiffany, of Gibson, Penn., a farmer by occupation, who died August 3, 1840, one month after their marriage. Her parents were Hiram and Naomi (Parsons) Dibble, the former a native of Danbury, Conn., the latter of Herkimer county, N. Y. About 1819 they came to Wayne county, Penn., and after living in Damascus township for a few years removed to Bethany. In 1828 they located on a farm near Honesdale, where he died in June, 1861, at the age of sixty-four years. The
mother then made her home with her son Hiram, in Mt. Pleasant, Wayne county, where she died four years later, also aged sixty-four, and the remains of both were interred in Dyberry cemetery. Having been injured internally, Mr. Dibble was unable to perform any very arduous labor, and usually tended canal gates or did odd jobs about
the court house in Honesdale. Ho was a Republican in politics, and was a Pfesbyterian in religious belief, his wife also belonging to that Church. Their children were Chloe H., wife of our subject; Marian P., who wedded Henry Lockwood (both are now deceased) ; Nancy P., who died in childhood ; Jarius, deceased ; Betsy T., who died in childhood ; Ann M., who married Joseph Bishop, and after his death wedded John Markey, a machinist of Tracyville, Penn.; and Abigail and Hiram, both deceased. Mrs. Inch's paternal grandparents. Peter and Rachel (Judd) Dibble, were natives of Connecticut, and died in New York State, where the former followed farming for some time. Loring and Betsy (Wood) Parsons, the maternal grandparents, were also natives of Connecticut,
and in 1819 migrated to Wayne county, Penn., spending their last days in Damascus township. By occupation the grandfather was a clothier and dyer.
To Mr. and Mrs. Inch have been born the following children:
Elizabeth A. married David W. Robertson ; both are now deceased.
Edmond, a section boss on the railroad at Carbondale, Penn., was in the Civil war ; he has been married three times, (first) to Mary Torbin, (second) to Emma Bryden, and (third) to her sister, Mary Bryden.
Hiram F. married Eliza Robinson, and is manager of Fair View Park, at Farno, Wayne county.
Sarah P. is the wife of J. Edward Grannis, who now owns the old Inch homestead in Canaan township.
Mary is the wife of Clark Hedzel, a trainman at Carbondale, Penn.
J. Henry married Orilla Day; he is watchman on the railroad in Lackawanna county, Penn.
J. Mark married Mrs. Sophia Buckingham, and is engaged in farming in South Canaan township, Wayne county.
Lucy J. is the wife of Emery W. Rolls, an engineer on the O. & W. railroad, residing in Carbondale.
Alice M., wife of Frank Thompson, a farmer and railroad man residing in Waymart, died April 7, 1889.
Mr. and Mrs. Inch are both earnest and sincere members of the Presbyterian Church, and give liberal support to all measures which they believe calculated to promote the moral or material welfare of their community. In political sentiment he is an ardent Republican. He began life in the New World in limited circumstances, and may be properly numbered among the self-made men of Wayne county, who have attained a good position among their fellow-citizens by the exercise of their native resolution and industry.
-- source: "Commemorative biographical record of northeastern Pennsylvania, including the counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike and Monroe". Publication date 1900 --
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