The History of Hendricks County (Chicago: Interstate Publishing, 1885)--Brown Township, page 478
Joseph Lemar, one of the prominent and enterprising farmers of Brown Township, is a native of Delaware, born June 26, 1807, a son of Luke and Nancy Lemar. He was reared in his native State and when twenty-seven years of age accompanied his parents and brother and sister to Franklin County, Ohio, where he remained a year, when he moved to Preble County, and in 1853 came to Hendricks County, Ind., and settled on section 17, Brown Township, where he owns a fine farm of sixty acres all well improved. Mr. Lemar was married in Preble County, to Susan Morrow. Of the four children born to them but one, Creighton, is living. Martha J., Clark and Frances A. are deceased. In politics Mr. Lemar is a Republican. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.