Thanks so much. Nicholas and George are my husbands family. The spelling should be "Crist". Is it Grist in the book or hard to read. Again Thanks. Wanda Crist 04:48 PM 11/24/2002 -0700, you wrote: >This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > >Surnames: Luther, Stroud, Bowman, Matson, Grist, Gobel, Biggs, Barton, >Sherfey, Weinland, Randall, Scovill, >Classification: Biography > >Message Board URL: > >http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xh.2ADE/1607 > >Message Board Post: > >This book has no cover, and no index, and no author. I bought it on Ebay; >it just has the insides, but it is full of Indiana biographies. I am not >researching this family, just thought I would share. I do not know anymore >about these families or these surnames. NOTE: I don’t know if there is >any additional mention of this family in the book, it has no index. I do >not want to sell this book. I am typing the biographies from it. > >Typed by Lora Radiches: > > > >Surnames in this biography are: Luther, Stroud, Bowman, Matson, Grist, >Gobel, Biggs, Barton, Sherfey, Weinland, Randall, Scovill, > >HON. PETER T. LUTHER in his profession as a lawyer and as a public >official and citizen was an interesting link between the modern present >and the rather remote past of Clay County. At the time of his death, on >August 29, 1929, citizens revived many memories of this veteran lawyer, >who had spent more than sixty years in the harness as a practicing >attorney and had been repeatedly honored with the dignities and >responsibilities of public leadership both in office and in his party. Mr. >Luther was born in Clay County, October 18, 1844, and was nearing his >eighty-fifth birthday when he died. His parents were William and Charlotte >(Stroud) Luther, and he was the last survivor of their eleven children. >His father was born in Randolph County, North Carolina, October 27, 1804, >and came when a youth to Indiana, and married a girl from Crawford County, >this state. About 1828 they located on a farm in Harrison Township, Clay >County, and were among the industrious homemakers and pionee! >rs of that region. Peter T. Luther grew up on the home farm, made the >best of his advantages in the public schools, and when nineteen years old >began teaching. Teaching enabled him to pay his expenses while in Indiana >University. In 1866, after returning home, he was nominated by the >Democratic Party as candidate for county surveyor. He was elected and >served two years, and during the winter resumed teaching. In 1868 >he was elected county recorder for a term of four years. His first defeat >as a candidate for office came with the landslide of 1872, which >swept all of the Republican nominees into county offices. At that time he >was candidate for clerk of the Circuit Court. He was deputy sheriff from >October, 1878, until October, 1880. Mr. Luther was regarded as one of the >old warhorses of the Democratic party of the Fifth District. He described >himself as a dyed in the wool, rock-ribbed Democrat. He was very proud of >his party regularity, and could ne! >ver understand a man who would scratch a ticket or move from one party >affiliation to another. It is said that he never missed a local political >meeting of his party and for more than fifty years had stumped the county >in every political campaign and had often been drafted by the district and >state committees. He was never too busy or too tired to lend his services >to his party whether as a precinct worker or as a political orator. After >his last term in office Mr. Luther joined another former recorder, L. J. >Bowman, in an abstract business. Mr. Bowman retired in 1882 and was >succeeded by Charles E. Matson, and the firm of Matson & Luther continued >for seventeen years as a law firm and also as abstractors of title and >real estate dealers. With the retirement of Mr. Matson, in 1899, Mr. >Luther was joined in the law and the abstract business by his son, William >P. Luther, and the firm of Luther & Luther continued until the death of >the senior partner. Mr. Luther was also vice ! >president and a director of the Davis Trust Company, was president of the >Clay County Building & Loan Association, and owned and operated a large >farm in Harrison Township. For several years he was in the newspaper >business at Bowling Green and Brazil. A native son of Clay County, >he was extremely interested in every- thing pertaining to its >history, and be supplied a great deal of valuable information to >the county centennial committees when the centennial celebration >was held. He was prominent in fraternal orders, holding high offices and >for many years attended grand lodge meetings. Mr. Luther’s death >occurred on the sixty-second anniversary of his wedding. He married, >August 29, 1867, Miss Mary Elizabeth Grist, daughter of Nicholas and Sarah >(Gobel) Grist, and a granddaughter of Nicholas and Nancy (Biggs) Grist, >while her great-grand-father was George Grist. Her grandfather, Nicholas >Grist, was born in Kentucky, came to Indiana and first ! >settled in Clark County and afterwards in Clay County. He served with the >Kentucky Volunteers in the War of 1812. Nicholas Grist is buried in the >Friendly Grove Church Cemetery in Lewis Township, Clay County. Mrs. >Luther’s father, Nicholas Grist, was a farmer and stock raiser who spent >all his life in Lewis Township, and both he and his wife are buried in the >Friendly Grove Church Cemetery. They had nine children, Mrs. Luther, David >T., Eunice, Sarah, Matilda, Rebecca, James, Rachael E. and one that died >in infancy. Mrs. Luther, her brother David and her sisters Eunice and >Rachael are the only survivors. Mrs. Luther was born March 7, 1847, in >Clay County, attended the common schools and received tutoring at home, >and during all her residence here has been active in social welfare and >civic work, being the only living charter member of the Woman’s Reading >Club of Brazil. She resides at 617 Meridian Street in Brazil. Mr. and Mrs. >Luther had five children; Minn! >ie L. is the wife of William E. Barton, of Indianapolis. William P. >married Mary M. Sherfey, and they have two children, William, a graduate >of the Indiana University, A. B., with the class of 1929, admitted to the >bar in 1930 and now associated with his father in the law firm of Luther & >Luther, and Lois Helen, a graduate of the DePauw University and the New >England Conservatory of Music at Boston. Nellie L., the youngest daughter >of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Luther, is the widow of Harry E. Weinland, who for >many years was a prominent druggist of Brazil, in the firm of Schultz & >Weinland. They had two children, Joseph L., a graduate of Purdue >University, and Mary E., a graduate of the class of 1981 from the >Brazil High School. The two deceased children of Mr. and Mrs. Peter T. >Luther are James C., who died in childhood, and one who died in infancy. > > > > > >==== INCLAY Mailing List ====