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CHRISTIAN VOLKA, merchant, P. 0. La Fayette, was born in St. Louis, Mo., November 25, 1837; he is a son of John
and Catharine Volka, natives of France, who emigrated to America while young; they grew to maturity and were married
in Columbus, Ohio. He was a shoe maker by trade, which business he followed in Columbus, Cincinnati and St. Louis.
He died of smallpox in Cincinnati. They had three children, two now surviving - Catharine (wife of David K Bradley),
and Christian, the subject of this sketch, who was principally raised in Madison County, brought up to farm labor
and was married, January 8, 1863, to Lucetta Bell, a native of this county, where she was born May 12, 1844, and
a daughter of Daniel Bell, a native of Virginia, and his wife Rebecca (Wagoner) Bell, a native of Ohio. Dr. Bell
was a practicing physician for many years, commencing his profession in Coshocton County, Ohio; thence coming to
Madison County and practicing in Somerford Township. He was an earnest worker in the Methodist Episcopal Church,
and gave freely of his means for the erection of the church edifice, and also for the schoolhouse that was built
near it, in honor of which the place was called Belleville. He purchased a farm in that township, upon which he
resided a short time; then he removed to Champaign County, and there bought a farm, where he resided about twenty
years; then he removed to London, this county, and entered upon the mercantile trade, but after a few months he
removed to La Fayette, where he died December 8, 1869, aged sixty nine years. His wife died November 29, 1858,
aged thirty nine years, dying on her thirty ninth birthday. They had thirteen children, five now surviving - Lucy,
Rachel, Lucetta, Laura Ellen and Charles. Mr. Volka and wife have had five children, two now survive - Nettie,
born October 3, 1865, and John C., born August 14, 1878. Mr. Volka first located in La Fayette, and has spent most
of his life in London and La Fayette, and the greater portion of it has been devoted to the mercantile trade. He
was employed as a clerk in London for several years; then he entered as an assistant with Dr. Bell to the time
of his death, when he took possession of the store and as since continued the business, conducting a general grocery
and drug trade, and has a good established business.
From:
History of Madison County, Ohio
Published by: W. H. Beers and Company
Chicago, Illinois
1883
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