One hundred twelve years ago in the town of Johnsville, Kentucky, Noble Stairs died at the age of eighty-nine. He was last surviving child in a family of eight children. Born on 15 October 1811 in New Sewickley, Pennsylvania in Allegheny County, his father brought the family to Higginsport, Ohio on a flatboat down the Ohio River from Pittsburgh when Noble was two years old. The family eventually settled in Clermont County.
On 22 May 1836, Noble and Mary Holmes Wilson were married. The family would grow to include thirteen children. In 1870, a move was made to Bracken County, Kentucky where Noble would farm the land. He died 2 September 1900 and is buried in the Odd Fellows Cemetery in Johnsville.
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