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ABRAM RYNEARSON, farmer; P. O. Ithaca. Born in Warren Co., Ohio, April 27, 1812, and is a son of Nicholas Rynearson, born in New Jersey in 1769, and about 1792, married Miss Jane Elison, who was born in New Jersey Aug. 25, 1769; by this union they had ten children; in 1806, they emigrated to Warren Co., Ohio; Mr. Nicholas Rynearson came from New Jersey to Ohio in a large wagon; he died in Warren Co. Feb. 24, 1822. The subject of this sketch remained at home with his parents till 1829, at which time he entered upon the apprenticeship of wagon-making. On Dec. 18, 1834, he was united in marriage with Rachel Ball, who was born in Deerfield Township, Warren Co., Ohio, Aug. 12, 1817; her father, Luther Ball, was born in New Jersey in 1777, and Miss Elizabeth Fry, his wife, was born in Maryland in 1793; they had four children; the children of Abram and Rachel (Ball) Rynearson were nine in number, six daughters and three sons, of whom there are two daughters deceased; Abram, after marriage, lived in Warren Co. until 1836, at which time he moved to Twin Township, and, when he came, found plenty of deer and turkeys; on moving to his farm in Sec. 29, where he now lives, he found it densely covered with huge oaks, beech, and a heavy growth of underbrush, which he and his family have, through industry, opened, so that it makes a beautiful farm home, where he and his companions are comfortably situated for life. Mr. and Mrs. R. have for many years been consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Ithaca, thereby lighting up the path of Christianity, that their children may not stray from it.