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(pg. 196) In 1780, when he was sixteen years old, Revel Colburn volunteered to go to the war,
as a substitute for a man who had been drafted. He swerved in Captain Polk’s company, and was promoted to the office
of lieutenant. A friendship sprang up between the young man and his superior officer which led to the marriage of Lieutenant
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(pg.196) Revel Colburn, whose parents were of Scotch origin (pg. 202) (pg. 203) Revel and Margaret Colburn were well educated and though advanced in years,
he taught several terms of school after coming to Indiana. His wife was a physician and went for miles around, on horseback,
through forest and mud, to attend the sick. One of the pioneers’ foes was malaria, causing ague. A sovereign remedy
for rheumatism and other diseases, was “Rock Oil,” put up in small bottles. It was an oil that oozed through the
fissures of the rocks, and was found floating on the surface of several springs, the petroleum of today, and it was a sign,
unknown then, of the vast oil wells and natural gas which have been developed in recent years by their grand-children and
others. The Colburns were Methodists and lived devoted Christians lives. Before a church organization was effected, Sally Hobson
became an invalid and she and her husband never again united in membership with any church. Child of Revel and Margeret Colburn is
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