Transcription contributed by Martie Callihan 8 January 2005

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ROBERT RALSTON, farmer; P. O. Lebanon; was born in Turtle Creek Township, Warren Co., Ohio, May 18, 1805; his parents were Edward Ralston, a native of Scotland, and Martha (Buchanan) Ralston, a native of York Co., Penn., of Irish descent They emigrated to Ohio in 1798, and settled in Turtle Creek Township, where our subject was reared and educated, and where he has spent the whole of his long life. He has witnessed the many changes that have taken place since the wilderness that then surrounded him was made to become the thickly settled and highly cultivated country that it is to-day. He was married, in 1848, to Miss Maria D. Buckley, who was born in Baltimore, Md. Her father was born in 1792; was a Captain in the war of 1812. Mr. and Mrs. Ralston have had two children born to them, viz., Edward C., who is married and well-to-do, and Joseph T. The parents are both members of the Presbyterian Church, Mrs. R. is a woman of remarkable energy and very earnest in whatever she undertakes. Mr. R. is a Democrat in politics.