Hugh McConnell

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Revolutionary War veteran

Hugh and Elizabeth McConnell, the former a native of Delaware, the latter of Pennsylvania, and of Scotch and Irish descent respectively. When young Hugh removed to Virginia where he married and engaged in farming until 1801, when be removed to Ross county, Ohio, where he farmed on shares, on land owned by Geo. Massey, for several years. He then went to Highland county, Ohio, where he resided some fifteen years. In 1828 he came to Fountain county, Ind., where he died in 1835. He was a veteran of the Revolutionary war, serving through the whole struggle, and immediately afterward in a war with the Indians, by whom he was severely wounded in a battle near Wheeling. W. Va. He was a member of the Presbyterian church.