HARMONAS ALKIRE, farmer, post office, Sherman, was born in Bourbon county, Kentucky, in 1804, son of Adam and Margaret (Hornbeck) Alkire. By their marriage there were eleven children, six sons and five daughters, viz: Michael, Samuel, John, David, Adam, Harmonas, Betsy, Dolly, Sarah, Margaret, Judy; mother died in 1812, and Adam married Miss Barbara Cherry, by whom he had three children, Lydia, Simon and Isaac; father moved to Ohio where he died. Harmonas left Ohio in 1828, and went to Indiana and remained one year when he came to Springfield, where he married Miss Martha M. McLemore, and then returned to Indiana, where he remained until 1832, when he moved to Fancy Creek township, where he has followed farming since. Mr. and Mrs. Alkire were parents to fifteen children, nine of whom are living, viz: Mary, James Y., Daniel, William, Albert, Margaret, Caroline, Percilla dnd Martha. Mr. Alkire has been identified with the county nearly fifty years, and has lived on the same place; has seen the county from its infancy to one of the finest counties in the State. Mr. Alkire has been one of the large farmers of the county, owning twelve hundred acres of land, which he has distributed to his children. The family are members of the M. E. Church.