WILLIAM H. BRELSFORD, farmer and stock-raiser; P. O. Fletcher; was born in Brown Township, Miami Co., in 1846, and is a son of Daniel and Nancy (Hand) Brelsford, and a grandson of Daniel Sr., and Mary (Townsend) Brelsford, both natives of Pennsylvania; in after years, they emigrated West and located in Brown Township, Miami Co., where they both died, she in 1840, and he in 1852. William H. was raised on the farm, where he assisted his father in opening out the same until his majority; soon after (in 1868), he married Hannah Staats, who was born in Clinton Co., Ohio, and was four years his junior; in the following fall, they emigrated to Cedar Co., Iowa, where he commenced farming, and resided one year, he also remained there, and has since been engaged in farming in Ohio. One child was the fruit of the above union - Frank, born in September, 1868. In the fall of 1876, William H. Brelsford married Sarah Jones, who was born in Indiana in 1855; they had two children - Tessie (deceased in infancy) and Carrie. William H., in September, 1878, purchased his present farm of 40 acres, in Sec. 21, Brown Township, Miami Co., where he located the following spring.