BROWN COUNTY OHIO 
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Contributed to the Brown Co., OH Biographies Project by
pligman
pligman@interconnect.net 
May 18, 2001
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From Historical Collections of Brown County, Ohio, page 685-686
>From the Ripley Bee, November 1910

Ephraim Flaugher

Pioneer Farmer; Mr. Ephraim Flaugher died at his home in the country Sunday 
morning, November 13, 1910, from the effect of a stroke of paralysis, which he 
suffered the Thursday before.

Our subject was born in Huntington township in 1822. His early years were spent 
on the farm and the winter months devoted to securing such schooling as the 
log school houses of that day afforded. He was an apt scholar, and became 
qualified as a teacher (although he never acted as one) under the tuition of 
Henry Brown, a teacher of that day.

Mr. Flaugher had acquired a speculative taste, and at 21 years of age added to 
his farming pursuits the business of dealing in horses, buying here and selling 
in Kentucky. This he followed until 28 years of age. In 1850, he was married to 
Mary J. Gray, daughter of Louis Gray, and in the same year he entered into 
partnership with Louis gray & Company in the pork packing business at Ripley. 
In 1860, the firm purchased the Buckeye Flouring Mill and Pork House, in which 
they carried on an extensive business for several years. In 1860-1861 the pork 
packing establishment represented the names of Louis Gray, George K. Snyder, 
James Gilliland, Jack Henry and Joe Bennington, being the strongest and 
wealthiest in the county at that time. Mr. Flaugher was engaged principally in 
purchasing and supplying the house with stock and he was considered a very 
successful and efficient businessman. He followed the milling business with 
slight intermissions, until 1868, when desiring better educational advantages 
for his children, he took up his residence near Ripley. Four years afterward, 
he returned to his residence in Union Township, upon which he settled in the 
spring of 1855.

Mr. Flaugher had a large and attended acquaintance throughout the county, 
having been identified with its interests all his life. He served as Township 
Clerk for one year in his native township when a young man, and as Trustee of 
Union Township for several years. Politically, he was a Democrat. He was 
selected by the people as Representative to the Lower House of the Sixty-second 
General Assembly and served in that body during the years 1876-1877. He took a 
deep interest in the Brown County Agricultural Society of which he was a 
Director for ten or twelve years.

Mr. Flaugher's marriage was blest with three children, of whom but one, Mary 
Etta, is left to mourn.

He has been a member of the Masonic Fraternity since 1846, of Union Lodge, 
Number 71, Ripley Chapter, Number 82, and Georgetown Council. He was also a 
Knight Templar.

The funeral was held at the late residence on Tuesday under the auspices of 
Union Lodge, No. 71, F. & A. M. Reverend B. C. DeWeese, pastor of the Third 
Street Christian Church, of which the deceased was a consistent member, 
preached the funeral sermon. Burial was in Maplewood Cemetery.