BIO: Peter, Jonathan s/o Peter, Wm. & Elizabeth Stephens 
               - Unknown Co  

PETER,  BALL,  STALCUP,  STEPHENS,  WELLMAN,  TARR

"HISTORY OF LAWRENCE, ORANGE AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES, INDIANA"  GOODSPEED
BROS.  1884

SOUTHEAST TOWNSHIP, ORANGE COUNTY, INDIANA
PAGE 623

JONATHAN PETER, a prominent citizen and farmer of this township [Southeast],
was born here July 16, 1830, and was one of the following family: Charles,
Simon; Hannah, wife of George W. Ball; Benjamin F.; Rebecca, wife of Mr.
Stalcup; Jonathan, John A., William, Amos, and Elizabeth (deceased). These
were the children of William and Elizabeth (Stephens) Peter, natives of
Kentucky, who were married in Harrison County, Ind. They were people of much
worth and respectability. The father died in 1841, and the mother in 1884,
the latter death being occasioned by the buttings of an enraged sheep.
Jonathan lived with his mother until the age of nineteen, receiving in youth
a fair education, and then commenced learning the tanner's trade, which
business he followed about ten years, but later engaged in farming and
stock-raising. He now owns 153 acres of fertile land. April 30, 1856, he
married Mary Ann, daughter of Jonathan and Rebecca (Wellman) Peter, and to
this union two children have been born: Enoch W. and Stephen W. March 9,
1881, Enoch married Martha E. Tarr. Our subject is a Democrat, and he and
wife are Regular Baptists. The county has no better people.

Transcribed by: Diana Flynn 
<ivie@tima.com>
Date: 5 Oct 1997