Abraham DeMott claimed the old Buckeye state as the place of his nativity, having
  been born on a farm in Preble County, Ohio, on the 29th of January, 1831.
     Abraham's father was John DeMott and his mother was Magdaline (Monfort) DeMott.
  They became parents of seven sons and three daughters, namely Abraham, the subject
  of this sketch; Mary M.; Hannah; Henry - who served three years in the Civily War as
  a member of the 21st Indiana Volunteer Infantry, Cornelius; and Martin L., who died
  in childhood; Peter; Susan M.; John R.; and Jacob.
     The family were devoted members of the Baptist Church.
     Abraham remained on the old homestead farm, in Morgan County, Indiana, until he
  had attained the age of nineteen years. His educational advantages were such as were
  afforded in the common schools of the locality and period. Thereafter he continued
  to devote his time to farming until the outbreak of the Revolution when he was among
  the first to respond to his country's call, his intrinsic layalty and patriotism
  being aroused to responsive protest when rebel guns thundered against the walls of
  old Fort Sumpter in 1861, he enlisted as a private in Company B., 59th Indiana
  Volunteer Infantry, with which he proceeded to the front and with which he remained
  during the long period of arduous and important service. Our subject was thus a
  participant in the battles at Jackson, Mississippi, and Black River Bridge. He was
  in service during the entire seige of Vicksburg, was with Sherman in his memorable
  March to the Sea, also at Richmond, the Confederate Capital, in which vicinity the
  command was located at the time of Lee's surrender.
     Mr. DeMott was thus in service during the entire course of the war, obtaining the
  rank of First Lieutenant, and he received his honarable discharge at Louisville,
  Kentucky, on the 17th of July, 1865.
     Abraham, being past 30 years of age at the time of his enlistment, could recall
  with vivid momeory many of the incidents in the life of "Honest" Abe Lincoln, even
  the long before martyred man was called to the president's chair.
     At the close of he war, he returned to his Indiana home and remained there a few
  years; took Horace Greeley's advice to go west and grow up with the country.
     Abraham DeMott was numbered among the successful and representative farmers and
  stock-growers of Barber County, Kansas, where he maintained a residence for nearly
  twenty years, coming to that county at the time when the reclamation of the virgin
  prairies had scarcely progressed beyond the point of initiation.
     His home farm was located in section 26, Sharon township, having located there in
  the year 1884.
     On the 13th of April, 1887, Mr. DeMott was united in marriage to Mrs. Armintie
  Lucinda (Richardson) Benard, "the best woman in the world" as Mr. DeMott would say,
  widow of Blan P. Benard, who was a soldier in the Union Army during the Civil War
  and who died in Barber County, Kansas, leaving seven children who were William A.;
  Asa T.; Nettie A.; Ethel A.; EArl; Thomas D.; and Lavara Eliza. Abraham and Armintie
  were the parents of two daughters, Bertha A. and Luella.
     Abraham's religious faith was that of the United Brethren Church, of which his
  wife was also a member and in which he had served as a member of the board of trustees.
     The family sold the farm at Sharon, Kansas, and moved to a farm near Harper, Kansas.
  They sold the farm at Harper and moved to a farm 10 miles northwest of Kiowa.
     Mr. and Mrs. DeMott and daughters, Bertha and Luella, moved to Cherokee, Oklahoma,
  from their farm near Kiowa, where he retired from farming; this was about 1904. The
  DeMotts lived in Cherokee for almost fifteen years. At the time they moved to Cherokee,
  Mrs. DeMott had two sons, Asa and William Benard, and one daughter, Mrs. John Sanborn, 
  living near Cherokee, and one daughter, Mrs. Ed Self, near Carmon.
     Abraham died March 30, 1921, at the age of 90 years while living with his daughter
  and her husband, Luella and J. LeRoy Graves, near Hardtner, Kansas.
     Armintie died February 21, at the age of 74 years, while living with her daughter
  and husband, Bertha and J>P. Humphrey, near Kiowa.
               
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 154 
     Submitted by: Mrs. L.R. (Jean Graves) Vogel