Cyrus Commisky

    Cyrus Commisky, farmer, Monroe Township, is the second son of Joseph and Rebecca (Baxter) Commisky.

    He was born in Monroe Township, Jefferson County, Indiana, July 3, 1849, on a farm and reared a farmer; attended the public schools. He was married at the age of twenty-two to Miss Sarah Walton. They are the parents of five living children: Rosette, John, Cyrus, Frank and Pleasant; their third child, Charlie, died at the age of four.

    Mr. Commisky owns 133 acres of land and is a thrifty, forehanded farmer. The family of Joseph and Rebecca Commisky consisted of six children: Daniel, who enlisted in the Twenty-second Indiana Regiment, and has never been heard of since a few months after the battle of Pea Ridge; Cyrus, John F., Joseph N., and two sisters, Anna and Susan, both of whom are married.

    Joseph Commisky was a native of Pennsylvania, of Irish descent. He came to Indiana when quite young, and died in 1856.

    Rebecca Baxter was the daughter of Daniel Baxter, whose sketch is in this book, and native of this county. She died in 1887.

Source: Biographical and Historical Souvenir for the counties of Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Floyd, Jefferson, Jennings, Scott and Washington, Indiana. By John M. Gresham & Co., 1889.