Martin Utterback stone, Stoner Cemetery.

Martin Utterback.

Martin Utterback was a native of Virginia, born in the Old Dominion in December 1798 and was a son of Henry and Tabitha (McDowell) Utterback. When Martin was young the family moved to Henry County, Kentucky, where his parents spent the rest of their lives, dying when their children were young and they were all bound out. Martin having been bound out to learn the carpenter's trade. There he grew to manhood and married Elizabeth McDowell. It was in 1830 that they removed to Montgomery County, locating in the southeast part of Clark Township, near the south corner of the county. In 1831 Mr. Utterback entered 160 acres from the government in that locality and in 1832 moved thereon. It was totally unimproved, wild and presenting a discouraging prospect, but he was a man of true pioneer courage and grit and he went to work with a will, soon having part of it cleared and improved. In connection with farming he worked some as a carpenter, and reared his family there. He worked at his trade before there were any saw mills in this locality. Such lumber as there was, being riveted out. He was an elder in the Christian church, of which his wife was also a member.

from the biography of Martin Hicks,
History Of Montgomery County, Indiana, A.W. Bowen & Co., Indianapolis, 1913