BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.  Clay City and Harrison Township.

Elijah CHURCH, pioneer farmer; was born in Rockcastle County, Ky,
May 30, 1826, and is the eldest son of Joel and Cynthia (Landford)
Church, natives of Kentucky, and of English descent.  His parents
emigrated to Indiana in the winter of 1829, and settled in this
township, where Elijah was reared a fsrmer, and remained at home
at the request of his dying father, the better to assist his mother
and care for the family in their bereavement.  Success has followed
his resolution and efforts; he has a fine farm in high cultivation,
comprising seventy acres, and with excellent improvements.  This
land he entered from the Government.  Mr. Church is a Democrat in
politics, and a patron of all benevolent, enlightened and
progressive movements.  He is a member of the Baptist Church at
Middlebury, and has been for many years Clerk thereof.  He has
never been married.