Obituary: W. Unity Reporter Obituary, page 18-19. (No year)

James Wirick died at his daughter's home, Mrs. G D Kunkle of heart trouble. Born in Richland Co, OH, 3 Apr 1817, eldest of 16 child of Peter and Deborah Huntsman Wirick, nat of PA; Peter to Richland Co when young man and married there; War of 1812 vet; Peter d. 1882; Mrs. D.1880, both in Richland Co. 1849 came to Brady Twp w/wife & family. Married 1841, Mary Shaffer, native of Bedford Co, PA, d/o Henry & Catherine Shaffer, also of PA. 10 children. Not church member but sympath. w/Universalists; Repub; one of oldest Brady Twp settlers.

Biography: County of Williams, Ohio, Historical and biographical.

JAMES WIRICK is a native of Richland County, Ohio ; was born April 3, 1817, and is the eldest of sixteen children born to Peter and Deborah (Huntsman) Wirick, natives of Pennsylvania. Peter Wirick went to Richland County when a young man, and was there married. The country was a wilderness and full of Indians, and during the war of 1812 Mr. Wirick and the other settlers were compelled to build and occupy a block-house for self-protection. Mrs. Wirick died in Richland in 1880, and Mr. Wirick in 1882. James Wirick attended school and worked on his father's farm until twenty-one ; then worked out for ten years, and afterward farmed on rented land until 1849, when he came with his wife and family to Brady Township, bought eighty acres of unimproved land, built a cabin and cleared up his farm, which is now well improved. He was married, in 1841, to Miss Mary Shafer, a native of Bedford County, Penn., and daughter of Henry and Catherine Shafer, natives of the same State. James Wirick and wife became the parents of ten children, of whom seven are still living. Mr. Wirick is not a church member, but sympathizes with the Universalists. He is a Republican in politics, and is one of the old settlers of Brady Township.