From Memorial Record of Counties of Delaware, Union, and Morrow, Lewis
Publishing Co., Chicago, 1895:
William A. McMaster, a prominent farmer of Brown Township, was
born in Champaign county, Ohio, September 8, 1823, a son of Benjamin
and Aminda (Humphrey) McMaster, the latter a native of Liberty
Township, Delaware county, Ohio. The father was a native of Oswego
county, New York, and came to Ohio in 1811, and his death occurred at
the age of ninety-three years. He was the son of Robert McMaster, a
native of Scotland. William A. McMaster, the subject of this sketch, owns
a good farm of 103 acres in Bown Township, Delaware County, Ohio,
which contains a comfortable residence, barns, and all other necessary
farm improvements. He is one of the most prominent and successfulmen
of his township, and is respected by all for his honest dealings and
sterling worth. Mr. McMaster was married in this county at the age of
twenty-three years, to Margaret Eaton, a native of Morrow County, Ohio,
and a daughter of David and Elizabeth Eaton. They came to Delaware
County Ohio, in 1821. Our subject and his wife have the following
children: Aminda Norris, A.L., Amelia McDonald, Nettie Perry (deceased),
and Stella. A.L.McMaster was born November 10, 1848. In 1873, he
married Ellen Moore, a daughter of George Moore. At her death she left
two children, Maurice E. and Nellie M. In 1889 A.L.McMaster masrried
Jennie R. Forbes. Mrs. William A. McMaster died July 13, 1887, at the age
of sixty-one years. Our subject afterward married Louisa Gardner,
widow of Joel Gardner.

1. 2. Aminda Clementine MCMASTER   b. 1 Oct 1846; d. 29 Jan 1932.
2. 3. Alburn Larue MCMASTER   b. 10 Nov 1848; d. 1920.
3. 4. Amelia Eaton MCMASTER   b. 23 Mar 1851.
4. 5. Nettie Elmina MCMASTER   b. 3 May 1858, Delaware County,Oh; d. 1886.
5. 6. Stella MCMASTER   b. 24 Apr 1864.

1. 7. Early McMaster PERRY   b. 17 Nov 1882, Brown Township,Delaware County,Ohio; d. 28 Apr 1940, Leonardsburg,Ohio.
2. 8. Jessie Inez PERRY   b. 11 Oct 1884.

His family moved to a house across from the Baptist Church west of
Leonardsburg, Ohio. As Early grew, he worked on the McMaster farm,
where they had about fifty head of Percheron horses. He slept in the barn
at night; there was a stove in the barn in winters to keep the hired hands
warm. Later he worked for theDelaware County Home as a farm hand and
there met his future wife, Sarah JaneKeeton, who had come to Delaware
County to visit relatives and decided to work there.
After their marriage on March 31, 1907, in the parsonage of the William
Street Church in Delaware, they lived west of Leonardsburg at the
Whipplefarm. During the summer of 1910 they built a house one mile
north of Leonardsburg on Route 42 east of the railroad. They moved in in
December of that year.Early one morning of March 1917 the house caught
fire; it and its contents were totally destroyed. They then built a house
on the other side of the road .