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Local history was unveiled during First Friday tour
By Bob Robinson

GREENVILLE – Margaret Howard was the only female to serve as Sheriff in Darke County history. She lived above the former jail, now the Darke County Commissioners Building. She became the Jail Matron when her husband, Bob, was elected Sheriff in 1964. He served as Sheriff from 1965 until his unexpected death in March 1966. Margaret was sworn in as Sheriff in April and served until Jim Irwin was elected in 1968.

“My mother the sheriff,” said Judy Jones, smiling. She and her son, Robert Howard Jones, were on hand to talk to visitors to the Commissioners Building during Main Street Greenville’s First Friday Upper Floor Tour on May 2. Daughter and grandson said she was a special lady who had an impact on the life of many of the jail’s ‘residents.’

“There was one in particular who had been paid to drive a horse trailer. The job unknowingly involved him in a misdemeanor offense. He’d never been in trouble; he was in the wrong place at the wrong time,” Judy said. “Mrs. Howard saw the fright in his eyes and was good to him. He never forgot that. He came back for her funeral six years ago...

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