ok, how does one go about getting a "certified" copy of these records. I found record of one of my relatives at that on-line site. Virginia Gandrup -----Original Message----- From: Barb Marshall <marchado@pacbell.net> To: INDIANA-L@rootsweb.com <INDIANA-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, February 15, 2001 3:35 PM Subject: Re: [INDIANA] Indiana Marriage Records 1850-1890 >The records are on line: > >http://www.statelib.lib.in.us/www/indiana/genealogy/mirr.html > >Caglejoe wrote: >> >> Indiana Marriage Records 1850-1890, Does anyone have these records?? >> Please!! >> >> > > >============================== >Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history >learning and how-to articles on the Internet. >http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library > >

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Hi Kathy: Thanks for your reply. Sorry but I know so little about this family I can't tell if you are related or not. This family has been a brick wall for me. Have searched for a couple of years finding little. Thanks again. John At 02:44 PM 2/15/2001 -0500, you wrote: >I'm looking for a pair of Cunninghams myself - Scott and Jennie - my >great-grandparents on my father's side. Their daughter was Doris May >Cunningham and she was born in Illinois, so I don't know if they were or if >they were Indiana or Kentucky linked.... >Kathy >----- Original Message ----- >From: "John Emmitt" <jwemmitt@mindspring.com> >To: <INDIANA-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 2:23 PM >Subject: [INDIANA] CUNNINGHAM, HOFFMAN, JOHNSON & MANUEL > > > > Hi List: > > > > Do you have any connections to the following: > > > > Alexander (Aleck) H. CUNNINGHAM b. 19 Oct. 1865, in Cincinnati > > Ohio., m. Bertha HOFFMAN, Aleck died 8 July 1929 in Cincinnati OH. > > > > Aleck's siblings: Robert M., George H., William A, and Mary C. JOHNSON > > > > Parents of the above: William & Maria Manuel Cunningham both > > born in Scotland. There may be KY and IN connections. > > > > John > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ============================== > > Search more than 150 million free records at RootsWeb! > > http://searches.rootsweb.com/ > > > > >============================== >Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history >learning and how-to articles on the Internet. >http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library

I'm looking for a pair of Cunninghams myself - Scott and Jennie - my great-grandparents on my father's side. Their daughter was Doris May Cunningham and she was born in Illinois, so I don't know if they were or if they were Indiana or Kentucky linked.... Kathy ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Emmitt" <jwemmitt@mindspring.com> To: <INDIANA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 2:23 PM Subject: [INDIANA] CUNNINGHAM, HOFFMAN, JOHNSON & MANUEL > Hi List: > > Do you have any connections to the following: > > Alexander (Aleck) H. CUNNINGHAM b. 19 Oct. 1865, in Cincinnati > Ohio., m. Bertha HOFFMAN, Aleck died 8 July 1929 in Cincinnati OH. > > Aleck's siblings: Robert M., George H., William A, and Mary C. JOHNSON > > Parents of the above: William & Maria Manuel Cunningham both > born in Scotland. There may be KY and IN connections. > > John > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ============================== > Search more than 150 million free records at RootsWeb! > http://searches.rootsweb.com/ >

Hi List: Do you have any connections to the following: Alexander (Aleck) H. CUNNINGHAM b. 19 Oct. 1865, in Cincinnati Ohio., m. Bertha HOFFMAN, Aleck died 8 July 1929 in Cincinnati OH. Aleck's siblings: Robert M., George H., William A, and Mary C. JOHNSON Parents of the above: William & Maria Manuel Cunningham both born in Scotland. There may be KY and IN connections. John

It depends on the county. I was successful in getting several by going to the historical societies or libraries or city/county facilities. Keep trying. Betty -----Original Message----- From: KMP <kathybear@home.com> To: INDIANA-L@rootsweb.com <INDIANA-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, February 15, 2001 5:38 PM Subject: Re: [INDIANA] Indiana Marriage Records 1850-1890 >The request for purchasing a record goes through a third party vendor - and >records of marriages before 1850 aren't available - I tried for my >great-greats in Washington County.... >Kathy >----- Original Message ----- >From: "JaSEn" <jsend@hpcisp.com> >To: <INDIANA-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 8:06 PM >Subject: Re: [INDIANA] Indiana Marriage Records 1850-1890 > > >> Vital Records Information for Indiana >> http://vitalrec.com/in.html >> >> Janet Endris - jsend@hpcisp.com >> INGenExchange Lawrence Co. Contact >> http://www.genexchange.org/county.cfm?state=IN&county=LAWRENCE >> USGenExchange - http://www.genexchange.org/us.cfm >> National Bio-Bin - http://www.genexchange.org/biobin.cfm >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Virginia Gandrup" <mieka@thevision.net> >> To: <INDIANA-L@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 7:13 PM >> Subject: Re: [INDIANA] Indiana Marriage Records 1850-1890 >> >> >> | ok, how does one go about getting a "certified" copy of these records. >I >> | found record of one of my relatives at that on-line site. >> | Virginia Gandrup >> | >> | -----Original Message----- >> | From: Barb Marshall <marchado@pacbell.net> >> | To: INDIANA-L@rootsweb.com <INDIANA-L@rootsweb.com> >> | Date: Thursday, February 15, 2001 3:35 PM >> | Subject: Re: [INDIANA] Indiana Marriage Records 1850-1890 >> | >> | >> | >The records are on line: >> | > >> | >http://www.statelib.lib.in.us/www/indiana/genealogy/mirr.html >> | > >> | >Caglejoe wrote: >> | >> >> | >> Indiana Marriage Records 1850-1890, Does anyone have these >records?? >> | >> Please!! >> | >> >> | >> >> | > >> | > >> | >============================== >> | >Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history >> | >learning and how-to articles on the Internet. >> | >http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library >> | > >> | > >> | >> | >> | ============================== >> | Search over 900 million names at Ancestry.com! >> | http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp >> | >> | >> >> >> ============================== >> Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate >> your heritage! >> http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog >> >> > > >============================== >9 Health Tips for Computer Genealogists >http://www.thirdage.com/features/tech/ouch/ > >

They are available online however I do not recall the correct Database. I would try www.ancestry.com and put in Indiana marriages l845-1920. There is a book at the State library Indiana Index to Marriage Record l850 - 1920. I got all mine this way but unfortunately my paperwork does not indicate other than above. Good luck. Betty -----Original Message----- From: Caglejoe <Caglejoe@netzero.net> To: INDIANA-L@rootsweb.com <INDIANA-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, February 15, 2001 3:07 PM Subject: [INDIANA] Indiana Marriage Records 1850-1890 > > > Indiana Marriage Records 1850-1890, Does anyone have these records?? >Please!! > > >Shop online without a credit card >http://www.rocketcash.com >RocketCash, a NetZero subsidiary > > >============================== >Add as many as 10 Good Years To Your Life >If you know how to reduce these risks. >http://www.thirdage.com/health/wecare/hearthealth/index.html > >

Surnames: Lowe, Elliott, Waters, Jennings, Roach, Councellor Compendium of Biography Of Henry County, Indiana B. F. Bowen 1920 GEORGE LOWE Few men of Henry County were as widely and favorably known as the late George Lowe, of New Castle. He was one of the strong and influential citizens whose lives have become an essential part of the history of this section of the state and for years his name was synonymous for all that constituted honorable and upright manhood. Tireless energy, keen perception and honesty of purpose, combined with everyday common sense, were among his chief characteristics and while advancing individual success he also largely promoted the moral and material welfare of his community. George Lowe was born in Limerick, Ireland, on the 25th of September 1812, and was the son of David and Elizabeth Lowe. In early childhood he accompanied his parents upon their emigration to America. They located in Monongalia County, Virginia, and there he was reared. In the fall of 1834 he came to New Castle in company with George Waters and here learned the carpenter’s trade with Jacob Elliott, after which he entered actively into the work of contracting. He was a good workman and a careful and painstaking overseer of all contracts, which he undertook, so that he soon earned an enviable reputation as a successful contractor. Along about 1852 the subject erected a residence near where the Lake Erie railroad water tank now stands and which was at that time a dark and wooded ravine. He was away some distance from his nearest neighbors and many times he had to leave the house early in the evening while at work on its construction because of the wolves in that locality. He remembered New Castle when there was but one brick building in the town, that being where the Jennings store now stands. He was long an active factor in the city’s progress and development and continued the business of contracting until prevented from doing so by the loss of his ‘eyesight. He always made this city his home, excepting one period of four years, which he spent upon a farm in Cass County, this state. As soon as he was able he bought land here and upon it erected a number of houses, the plot of ground being located east of the Jennings mill. He erected nearly all the houses in that part of the town and also several in the central part of the city. He platted four different additions to the city of New Castle, known as additions Nos.1, 2, 3 and 4, amounting in all to about ten or twelve acres. Upon his death his estate was left entirely to his wife, with full responsibility. This property she has since continued to manage, having sold off many of the lots, and she is now dividing the property. Mr. Lowe died on the 28th of September 1898, at the advanced age of eighty-six years and three days. His death was a sad loss to this community and many were the expressions of profound regret at his decease. Mrs. Lowe still maintains her residence in the comfortable home, which Mr. Lowe built shortly after his return from Cass County. At the age of twenty-four years Mr. Lowe was united in marriage with Miss Mary Ellen Roach, who was then nineteen years old. She was born in Rockbridge County, Virginia, and at the age of two years was brought by her parents to this county. She remained here, though her parents subsequently removed to Wayne County, thence to Brown County, this state. Their marriage took place in New Castle, at the home of Henry Schroyer. To them were born eleven children, of whom those now living are briefly mentioned as follows: William is a wealthy contractor residing at Warrensburg, Missouri; Charles and John are also contractors residing at the same place; George is a brick contractor and resides in Muncie, this state; Henry lives on the farm at New Castle. Another son, David, died and left to the care of the subject’s wife two small children, who both died, so that she has had altogether the care of thirteen children: The only surviving daughter, Virginia, is the wife of Henry Hurleman. Mrs. Lowe also has seventeen grandchildren and two great grand children. A noteworthy fact is that the subject and his wife owned the first cook stove ever used in New Castle and also the first heating stove. The latter was for many years in use in the office of the county clerk, but is now stored in a barn loft. Mr. Lowe started the first Sunday school in New Castle, having seven small boys as the first pupils. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and at one time when the church had communion with closed doors, as was then sometimes customary, he with his wife attempted to enter, but were refused admission by the door keeper, which caused Mr. Lowe to make some decidedly pointed remarks. He always maintained a deep interest in his church and Sunday school and was an active worker in the latter as long as able to attend. He was a faithful attendant upon the old camp meetings, which were then held on the site of the present Springer residence on the hill on North Main Street, and which was then considered out of town. Mr. Lowe served for many years in the capacity of class-leader. Mrs. Lowe is now a remarkably well-preserved lady and retains to a notable degree her physical and mental faculties. She was prior to and for a time after her marriage a poor girl, but she and her husband wisely resolved to live strictly with in their means, going without many luxuries and oftentimes even without necessities. She has in recent ‘years made several handsome bedspreads, stand covers, portieres, etc., of silk scraps, and which evidence her remarkable skill as a nneedlewoman She is a kind neighbor, a warm-hearted lady, a congenial friend, and a consecrated Christian woman whose friends are numbered by the score. Henry S. Lowe, sort of the late George Lowe was born on the 28th of May 1861, in New Castle in the house in which his mother now resides. He was reared at home and received the benefit of a good education in the city schools, passing all the grades. Upon leaving school he commenced working with his father at the carpenter’s trade, but the greater part of his life was devoted to the care of his father’s farm, on which he still resides. He was married September 23, 1882, to Miss Emma Councellor, she being seventeen years old at the time of their marriage. They commenced housekeeping on the farm of sixty acres, which adjoins the city of New Castle. He is executor of his father’s estate, valued at about ten thousand dollars. He rents other land and carries on general farming, being quite successful in his operations. He is the father of four children, as follows: Eva has finished the grades in the city schools and is very accomplished in music; Ella has also finished her school work; Georgia and William are promising youths, full of life and sunshine. Mr. Lowe is a Republican and is an earnest worker in the party ranks. Religiously he and his wife’ are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church arid active workers in the Sun day school. Fraternally he is a member of the Improved Order of Red Men, holding membership in Iroquois Tribe.------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------

Surname: Phelps, Newby, Hall, Shaffer, Camplin, Reece Compendium of Biography Of Henry County, Indiana B. F. Bowen 1920 ELIAS PHELPS Elias Phelps, one of Henry county’s oldest and most venerated citizens and at one time custodian of a very important public trust, is a native of Randolph County, North Carolina, where he first saw the light of day on the 3oth day of August, 1819. His father and grandfather were also natives of the same county and state, the family settling there many years ago, as early perhaps as the colonial period. Mr. Phelps remained near the place of his birth until 1830, in the fall of which year, in company with his parents, Samuel and Sarah (Newby) Phelps, he migrated to Henry County, Indiana, settling about three miles south of his present place of residence. Samuel Phelps was a man of limited means and his journey to the new Indiana Country was made in a wagon, which, beside his own few household effects, carried the goods of a neighboring family that came with him. He first bought forty-six acres of land, for which he went in debt and after working hard finally reduced the greater part to cultivation, although hardly able to do manual labor on account of a severe physical affliction. By good management he succeeded in adding to his possessions until he had a comfortable home, but his bodily infirmity continued to increase the meanwhile, finally reaching a stage where he became so helpless that he could not take food without assistance. Notwithstanding this deplorable condition, he exercised his indomitable will and while lying abed, almost unable to move, managed his business affairs and frequently negotiated trades with neighbors greatly to his own advantage. Samuel and Sarah Phelps were the parents of ten children: Henry, James, Elias, Elenor, Jonathan, Frederick, Ezekiel, Mary, Joseph and Jabez, all deceased but Elias of this review, and Jonathan, who lives in Los Angeles, California. When a boy Elias had few opportunities for acquiring an education, but in such schools, as he was able to attend he obtained a limited knowledge of the fundamentals, spelling, reading and arithmetic, with the ability to write a fair, legible hand. He worked on the home farm until nineteen years old when he began earning money for himself at such labor as he could find to do, working by the day, month or job as the case might be. On the 2nd day of December 1847, he chose a life companion, the lady of his choice being Miss Anna Hill, of Rush County, Indiana, whose parents were natives of North Carolina and early settlers near the town of Carthage. Mr. and Mrs. Phelps began their wedded life with but little of this world’s goods in their possession and no very flattering prospects for the future. Becoming the possessor of a tract of woodland in Howard County, entered from the government, he worked upon it until it was paid for, after which he returned to Henry County and for some years cultivated his mother’s farm on the shares. Subsequently he disposed of his Howard County real estate for twelve hundred dollars in cash and with this sum purchased eighty acres of his present farm in Harrison Township, Henry County. Moving to his new home, he began with renewed energy the work of its development and in due time his labors were rewarded with abundant success, the original purchase gradually increasing in area until it now contains a quarter section of as fertile land as the township can boast. Mr. Phelps early became a very prosperous farmer and successful businessman as is attested by the comfortable fortune, which he has accumulated. In addition to the fine farm and other valuable property in his possession he has assisted his children to obtain good starts in life, giving to each a thousand dollars in money besides helping them in many ways. He and his good wife have heartily cooperated in all of their work and the success now theirs was mutually earned. Mr. Phelps has worked hard and experienced many of the vicissitudes of life. His way has not always led through pleasant places, but on the whole he has enjoyed many of the world’s best blessings, among which are good health and the confidence and esteem of his neighbors, without which life would indeed be a cheerless and discouraging experience. To him and his wife have been given five children, the oldest of whom, Thomas C., was born September 30, 1848; this son is a well-educated man and a prosperous farmer of this county; his wife was formerly Miss Mary E. Shaffer. Sarah J., whose birth occurred on the 29th of September 1850, was educated in Spiceland Academy and for a number of years taught in the public schools of Henry County, also clerked for some time in a mercantile establishment; she married R. O. Camplin and a few years ago exchanged the robes of flesh for garments of immortality. John M. born on the 30th day of August 1856 married Mary E. Newby, of this county; Martha A., deceased, was born November 11, 1858, and became the wife of Albert Reece. Mr. Phelps and all of his family are members of the Society of Friends and are classed with the most highly respected people in the communities where they live. They were reared in this rather strict faith and their Christian characters have never been darkened by the shadow of any thing disreputable. Originally Mr. Phelps was a Whig and cast his first presidential ballot for Gen. William Henry Harrison. As long as that old party lasted he continued faithful in his allegiance thereto, but when in the course of time its mission was ended he cast his lot with its legitimate successor and has remained a prominent Republican to the present day. He has voted for every national nominee of the party from Fremont to Mc Kinley and for many years his influence has been felt in the political affairs of Henry County. In 1860 he was elected a member of the board of county commissioners and it was during his incumbency that the present courthouse and jail were erected. He discharged his duties faithfully and well, earned the reputation of a safe and reliable official and three years after the expiration of his first term was again elected to the same position, in all he served nine years in this most important office within the gift of the county and made a record of faithfulness and efficiency of which he has every reason to feel proud. As a citizen no man in Harrison Township stands higher than Mr. Phelps. His public and private life are alike above reproach and few men in the county are as widely and favorably known. He and his good wife hare been traveling life’s pathway together for a period of fifty-five years and now as the evening draws nigh and the journey nears its end, the blessings and benedictions of their many friends attend them on the way. Their lives, like heaven’s gentle dew, have cheered the world and made humanity better, their influence, always for good, will be a perpetual memorial after their bodies have crumbled to dust, and the future whither they are tending contains nothing they need fear. Mr. Phelps has in his possession an old parchment deed executed under the administration of President Martin Van Buren.

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Surnames: Van Matre, Sayford, Hall, McFarland Compendium of Biography Of Henry County, Indiana B. F. Bowen 1920 CASSIUS E. VAN MATRE, M. D. The medical profession is well represented in Henry County, Indiana, and the city of New Castle is favored with more than the ordinary proportion of truly talented physicians and surgeons usually found in cities of its size, even in much older portions of the world. Among the younger members of the healing fraternity who are noticeable in this community for their professional ability and successful treatment of the ills that afflict mankind will be found the subject of this sketch. Cassius E. Van Matre is a native of Henry County and was born near Middletown, November 13, 1868. His parents were Cyrus and Catherine (Sayford) Van Matre, the former a native of Delaware County, Indiana, and the latter of Roanoke County, Virginia. Cyrus Van Matre, a son of David, a pioneer of Delaware County from Ohio, was reared on a farm, and soon after marriage came from Delaware County to Henry County and established his homestead near Middletown, where he still resides. Catherine Sayford was a daughter of Rev. Samuel Sayford, a Lutheran clergyman who was graduated from Gettysburg Seminary at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and came from Virginia to Indiana when his daughter Catherine was nine years of age, and located on a farm in Delaware County, but continued in his vocation of preacher through all his neighborhood. Richwoods church was built on his farm and he, being the pastor, erected it himself, with possibly some little outside financial assistance. He was an eloquent pulpit orator and a devout and earnest laborer in the vineyard of the Lord. Mrs. Catherine (Sayford) Van Matre was called away June 27, 1901, having passed her sixty-second birthday the 13th of the previous February Cassius E. Van Matre passed his boyhood on the home farm and until eighteen years old attended the district school, after which he was a student in Wittenberg College at Springfield, Ohio. He began reading medicine with Dr. W. W. Hall, a well-known physician at Springfield. Ohio, and afterwards took a course at Miami Medical College in Cincinnati, from which he was graduated with the class of 1895, and began practice at New Castle in April of the same year. Since then he has felt no regret at his selection of this city as the field for the exercise of his acknowledged ability as a physician, his patrons being of the better class of citizens and his remuneration quite satisfactory. Dr. Van Matre keeps well abreast of the advanced progress of medical science, to which some new features are yearly added. In this his place is by no means retarded by his association with brother professionals in various organizations. He is a member of the Henry County Medical Society and the National Medical Association, and of the former has been secretary and treasurer for two years. In the meetings of these societies he has heard read many valuable papers, and has, besides, contributed many himself, no less valuable. The marriage of the Doctor took place at Springfield, Ohio, September 16, 1896, to Miss Minnie McFarland, a native of Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio. She was graduated from the high school, from which time she taught until she was married. She is an amiable and accomplished lady and an adept at painting on china, an art that she indulges in only for her home ornamentation. She is a very ardent member of the Presbyterian Church and active in the work of the ‘societies attached thereto; the Doctor is also a member of this congregation and is a liberal contributor of his finances toward its maintenance; no children have yet come to crown this marriage. Dr. Van Matre is a member of the blue lodge, F. & A M., and also of the Improved Order of Red Men. He is passionately fond of good horses and greatly enjoys witnessing a well-conducted race. He is one of the most agreeable of men and his good-natured face and genial conversation add as much to the recovery of a patient as do medicine and nursing.---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------

Surname: Ice, Hickman, Allen, Bond, Jackson, Harvey, Haines, Leggett, Mower, Winters, Bryan Compendium of Biography Of Henry County, Indiana B. F. Bowen 1920 EZEKIEL T. ICE The gentleman whose name appears above is widely known as one of the honored citizens of Henry County, Indiana, where for many years he has been prominently identified with the varied interests of his community. His well-directed efforts in the affairs of life, his capable management of his business interests and his sound judgment have brought to him prosperity, and his life demonstrates what may be accomplished by the man of energy and ambition. Ezekiel T. Ice was born August 5, 1832, in Prairie Township, Henry County, Indiana, the son of Jesse and Sarah E. (Hickman) Ice, both natives of Virginia. His father was married in Virginia and moved to Prairie Township, this county, in the spring of 1832 and here remained until his death. He was a captain in the war of 1812 and his father was a Revolutionary soldier, living to the advanced age of ninety- two years. Jesse and Sarah Hickman were the parents of twelve children, who are briefly mentioned as follows: Mary, deceased; Andrew J. died in 1901; Joshua, deceased; Josiah, deceased; Ezekiel T., the subject; Frederick M. is a resident of Prairie Township, this county; Abel W. is a resident of St. Louis, Missouri; Jesse enlisted for service during the Civil war and at the battle of Kenesaw mountain was shot through the brain, living for five days after the brain was exposed; Sarah Elizabeth is the wife of Louis Allen, a farmer and Baptist minister living near Hagerstown, this state; Dallas died in childhood and two others died in infancy. The subject is indebted to the common schools of his district for his education, attending there until he was eighteen years old. He then attended the New Castle high school, being under the instruction of Profs. Ferris and Abbott. When he had attained his majority lie left the parental roof and engaged in the milling and lumber business at Mt. Summit, being thus engaged for twenty years. During this time, however, he was also interested in farming, having several valuable agricultural properties under his control. He also at that time carried on the grain, stock and implement business. For twenty years he was the junior partner in the firm of A.J. & E T. Ice. He was very successful in all his operations and attained a good reputation among commercial circles. During the past twenty years he has been very extensively engaged in agriculture, having the oversight of over five hundred acres of land. He also attained quite a reputation as a horse breeder and developer, having been for ten years engaged in this line. He owned several valuable animals, among them a mare for which he was at one time offered fifteen hundred dollars, but which died shortly afterward from a broken neck. Besides his farming property he owns eight lots and three buildings in Mt. Summit, Indiana. For the past eighteen months Mr. Ice has been engaged in constructing a Streetcar line from Muncie to New Castle. He has been very successful in this enterprise, having secured a franchise in every town through which the road is to pass. It is a connecting link between Fort Wayne and Cincinnati and passes through the finest part of Indiana, both from a commercial and a scenic standpoint. Springport, which is located on this line, offers the best facilities as a watering place of any town in the state, and close to this line there is also the beautiful Shively Park, One of the beauty spots of central Indiana, which is located near Mt. Summit. On the 18th of November 1858, the subject was united in marriage with Miss Rebecca Bond, the daughter of Adam Bond, a native of Pennsylvania. To this union were born the following children: Jessie F. born August 20, 1859, became the wife of Dr. F. G. Jackson of Muncie, and they have two children. Lulu I. and Sarah; Lulu B born April 12, 1861 married James Harvey, of Muncie, and they are the parents of three children, Edna. Ruby and Sarah: Joseph P. born May 26. 1864, is a farmer in this county, and married Bertha Haines and has one child. Trammel; George A., born August 24, 1866, is a traveling salesman for the Champion Harvester Company; Harry H., born June 18, 1872, who now lives in Muncie, married Virginia Leggett and they have one child, Virginia E. Mrs. Rebecca Ice died October 17, 1878, and for his second wife the subject married, December 13, 1882, Mrs. Hester A. Hickman, the widow of Charles Hickman and the daughter of Nicholas Mower, a native of Pennsylvania. By her former marriage she was the mother of two children, as follows: Carrie M., born March 6, 1861, is the wife of Robert Winters; Joshua L., born March 8, 1876, is a resident of St. Louis. The subject and his family spend their winters in Muncie and their summers at their country home. Mr. Ice was reared a Democrat and has never seen any reason for changing his allegiance. He is an ardent admirer of William J. Bryan, in whom he has the utmost confidence, and believes that the Farmers Alliance has done a vast amount of good in educating the people along the lines of agricultural and political economy and in harmonizing the differences formerly existing between the north and the South. He was reared a Baptist, but in his later years has formed the belief that eventually universal salvation will prevail. Fraternally he is a Mason, having taken his degrees as soon as he had attained his majority. He belongs to Blue Lodge No. 91, Chapter No. 54, council and commandery, all of New Castle, and was the first chancellor commander of Mt. Summit Lodge No. 49, K. P. The following incident is related by Mr. Ice, Josiah Hickman, a cousin of the subject, was trustee of Prairie Township, and while in that position located a schoolhouse one and a half miles west of Mt. Summit. The citizens were much dissatisfied with the location and decided to defeat him for reelection. A convention was called and the result was the nomination of the subject. Shortly afterwards the citizens from the northern part of the county called on Mr. Ice and asked of him a pledge that he would erect a school house in Springport. He refused to accede to this request, saying that if elected to the office he would enter it free of any pledges. Thereupon the citizens referred to, Democrats, caucused with the Republicans and at the election following succeeded in defeat

Surname: Fleming, Miller, Jones, Beniah, Harvey, Ball, Harter Compendium of Biography Of Henry County, Indiana B. F. Bowen 1920 WILLIAM R. FLEMING This native-born citizen of Henry County, Indiana, had his nativity on the site of his present home in Fall Creek Township, June 23, 1838, and is of Virginia extraction and ante-Revolutionary descent. His parents, William and Sarah (Miller) Fleming, were natives of the Old Dominion, having been born long before the new state of West Virginia was partitioned off from the old, and William Fleming was the first child to see the light of day in the fort at Fairmont in Marion County, West Virginia, his birth having taken place in 1787. Bose Fleming, the father of William, was a soldier in the patriot army during the war for American independence. William Fleming, the father of William R., was first married in Virginia and came to Indiana with four children, about 1830. He first located in Delaware County, four miles north of Middletown, Henry County, where his wife died two years later. A year or so after this event Mr. Fleming was united in marriage with Miss Sarah Miller, daughter of William Miller. This lady was a native of the Shenandoah valley, Virginia, and was a child of three years when taken to Clermont County, Ohio, but was a woman grown when she accompanied her parents to where Tabor, Delaware County, Indiana, now stands. Mr. Fleming thence came to Henry County and purchased the tract of land to which he brought his newly-made bride, which tract was improved with what was then considered to be a large frame house, but which would now be looked upon as a small affair, and in this house William R. Fleming was born. The original farm was increased to about four hundred acres before the death of the elder Mr. Fleming, to which he added still more, of which he gave his eldest son a fair share and cleared up two hundred acres for his own use, being still the owner of four hundred at the time of his death. November 24, 1862. His death was caused by exposure while flat boating on the Ohio River and his age at the time of his death was seventy-five years. To the first marriage of William Fleming were born the following named children, who reached mature years: George, who was a farmer in Delaware county and died about 1862 at the age of seventy years; Mary, who was married to William Jones and died when past sixty; David H., who had lived on a part of the old farm as a bachelor and died at seventy; Norville, who resides at Sulphur Springs. To the second marriage was born William R. Beniah, who had enlisted in 1861 for three years or as long as the war might last, was assigned to Company E, Eighth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, died of pneumonia in March. 1863, when but nineteen years old, when passing through the state of Missouri: William R. also enlisted at the same time on the same terms, was assigned to the same company and regiment and was with his brother at the time of the latter’s death. The Eighth Indiana was in the service three years. Mr. Fleming took part in many marches, skirmishes and battles, among the latter of which was Pea Ridge, Arkansas. After this battle he was assigned to the Sixty-ninth Indiana Regiment and took part in the memorable Banks expedition up the Red river. He was at Vicksburg, and was sent across the Gulf of Mexico into Texas. Subsequently he joined his own regiment at New Orleans, and they went aboard the boat St. Mary’s, bound for Fortress Monroe. >From the latter place they were sent to the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, when the subject received his honorable discharge, September 5, 1864. He was never wounded and never missed roll call and now receives a pension from the government of twelve dollars per month.When Mr. Fleming returned to his home he bought out the interest of the heirs to the old homestead of two hundred and forty acres, but it required about twenty years for him to clear up his indebtedness. - On this farm lie has made all the improvements, building the dwelling in 1870. He now owns two hundred and eighty acres, on which he grows grain chiefly and fattens hogs, depending on the latter for his profits. June 22, 1865, Mr. Fleming married Miss Nancy J. Harvey, a daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Ball) Harvey, who at that time resided near Sulphur Springs. Indiana. Mrs. Fleming was born April 28, 1840, in Delaware County. Indiana, and when a child was brought to Henry County by her parents, who originally came from Monroe County, West Virginia. Mrs. Fleming was not a very robust lads’, was for two years a confirmed invalid, and passed away March 31, 1887, the mother of five children, namely: Harvey B., a farmer living near the parental homestead; Henry Everett, who died in infancy; Ludoska, who died at the age of fifteen years: Maude, wife of Rutherford B. Harter, who lives on the Fleming homestead, and Nellie, who passed through the common school course, was well educated in music and is now the housekeeper for her father. Mr. Fleming is a gentleman of strong will power and is sufficiently broad minded to learn the lessons of experience, a faculty in which many Hoosiers are lacking: never the less he was very impressible in his early clays and dropped into many follies which he rectified in later moments of reflection, never again to resume them. At the age of twenty-one he began to chew tobacco, but soon abandoned the pernicious habit. At the same age (1839) he went to Pike’s Peak, Montana, where he passed nine months in prospecting for gold, but with no satisfactory results. On his trip to that then Mecca of adventurers in seek of a fortune he saw for the first time a gambling game going on, on aboard a steamboat on the Missouri river on the voyage from St. Louis, Missouri, to Leavenworth, Kansas. Mr. Fleming took a hand in the game, which in fact was no game at all, but simply a one-man trick and that one man a blackleg. Mr. Fleming lost fifty dollars, but was allowed by the operator to win it back again, together with the invaluable advice to gamble no more, advice Mr. Fleming has since implicitly followed. In his early days Mr. Fleming was also greatly addicted to the use of alcoholic beverages, and when he and his brother-in-law got “full” they slept off their intoxication in the orchard, until one day he saw his wife approaching in tears at his deplorable condition and this ended the bad habit forever. He had the will power to do so, and his word then, as now, was as good as his bond. In politics Mr. Fleming is a stanch Democrat and stands on the Chicago and Kansas City platforms of the party. Fraternally he has been a Mason since June 1865, and is a member of Lodge No. 271 at Middletown, but attends meetings only when it is necessary to take part in the work on the “trestle board.” Mr. Fleming is in fact the “architect of his own fortune,” his success in life being the result of his individual efforts, and no residents of Henry County stand higher in the esteem of their fellow citizen than Mr. Fleming and his family, of Fall Creek Township.

Do you have an idea about a location in Indiana??? Where born, married, etc?? Janet ----- Original Message ----- From: "Susan Jones" <chipper1@cox-internet.com> To: <INDIANA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 11:40 PM Subject: [INDIANA] Nelson Graham | Would someone be so kind to look up in a death index or something for Nelson Graham. I know he was born in Indiana in 1823 and was still living there in 1870, but I can't find anything on him before his birth like his parents, etc. And I can't figure out where he died. I'd appreciate any help you can offer! | | Thank-you, | Susan Jones | | | ============================== | Search more than 150 million free records at RootsWeb! | http://searches.rootsweb.com/ | |

I got from a census that he was born in Indiana at about 1823. No county was listed. I've found him in Sullivan county from 1850 to 1870, then he moved his family to Lake county. He was married in Montgomery county in 184?. My gggrandfather, Samuel Nelson Graham, was born in Lake county in 1872. From there they moved to Illinois. ----- Original Message ----- From: JaSEn <jsend@hpcisp.com> To: <INDIANA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 10:54 PM Subject: Re: [INDIANA] Nelson Graham > Do you have an idea about a location in Indiana??? > Where born, married, etc?? > > Janet > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Susan Jones" <chipper1@cox-internet.com> > To: <INDIANA-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 11:40 PM > Subject: [INDIANA] Nelson Graham > > > | Would someone be so kind to look up in a death index or something for > Nelson Graham. I know he was born in Indiana in 1823 and was still living > there in 1870, but I can't find anything on him before his birth like his > parents, etc. And I can't figure out where he died. I'd appreciate any > help you can offer! > | > | Thank-you, > | Susan Jones > | > | > | ============================== > | Search more than 150 million free records at RootsWeb! > | http://searches.rootsweb.com/ > | > | > > > ============================== > Create a FREE family website at MyFamily.com! > http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST2 >

Would someone be so kind to look up in a death index or something for Nelson Graham. I know he was born in Indiana in 1823 and was still living there in 1870, but I can't find anything on him before his birth like his parents, etc. And I can't figure out where he died. I'd appreciate any help you can offer! Thank-you, Susan Jones

Im looking for any descendents of THOMAS C> PHIPPS alive in1880 in Martin Co. INDIANA . He was 65 yrs old the. He married a grandson ----Wall in Martin Co. 1893. Where is he buried and when. His last wife was Nancy Spaulding, His first wife was Rebecca Weddle . She died in 1859? mjfivekids@aol.com

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Surname: Hoover, Garrettson, Wickersham, Cammack, Stratton, Bond, Hewitt, Garretson Compendium of Biography Of Henry County, Indiana B. F. Bowen 1920 ELI BOND The subject of this sketch is a representative of an old family that has been well and prominently known in Wayne and Henry Counties from a very early day. Jesse Bond, grandfather of Eli, was a pioneer of the former county and took an active part in its early growth and development. Enos Bond, his son and father of the subject, was born in 1810, came to Indiana when a young man and on the 23rd day of February, 1830, was married in Wayne county to Miss Susannah Hoover, whose birth occurred May 1, 1813. Immediately after his marriage Enos Bond came to Henry County and settled on land, which his father had purchased from the government some years previously. To reach his new home he was obliged to cut a road through the dense woods, after which he hastily constructed a rude log cabin for the reception of his newly wedded bride. This building differed somewhat from the conventional backwoods dwellings of the period in that it had no floor and no window, the only means of entrance being through an opening in the wall made by the removal of a section of two logs. As a protection from the cold and rainy weather a bed quilt was hung over this aperture, but later a small window was made and in due time a puncheon floor and other needed improvements were added. Mr. Bond worked diligently while clearing his land and experienced many of the vicissitudes and hardships common to the pioneer period of this part of the state. He became one of the substantial farmers of his community, also one of its best known and most highly respected citizens. He dealt considerably in livestock and is said to have been one of the best judges of cattle and horses in the county. It is stated that he could by a hasty inspection tell to within a pound the weight of an animal and his estimate of its value was generally accepted without further discussion. For many years he was a leader of the Hick site branch of the Society of Friends worshipping at Dublin and an active participant in the deliberations of the yearly meetings. He followed agricultural pursuits as long as he was able to perform manual labor, but having acquired a competency, spent his latter years in retirement among his children, and was visiting with his daughter at Pendleton when his death occurred on the 27th day of February 1883. Nine children were born to Enos and Susannah Bond, all of whom grew to maturity, the first one to die departing this life shortly after attaining his majority. Two of the number died recently, Calvin in 1897, at the age of sixty-six years and two months: then Catherine, in April of the same year, aged fifty-four years and eight months; the former was a resident of Dwight, Dakota and the latter died at Richmond from the effect of an operation, though a resident of Ridge Square, this county. The following are the names of the living members of the family: Mary Ann, widow of the late Joel Garrettson, resides in New Castle: she formerly lived at Pendleton, where her second husband, Mr. Garrettson, farmer and stock raiser, died at the age of seventy-three. By former husband, Jesse Wickersham, she had two children. Lee Wickersham, of Indianapolis, and Carrie. Wife of Walter Cammack, O Anderson, this state. Hannah, wife of Edward K. Stratton, lives near Spiceland; Isom Bond lives in the old homestead in Liberty Township; Jesse is a resident of New Castle; Phoebe is the wife of John H. Hewitt, a farmer of Liberty Township, and Eli is the subject of this review. Eli Bond was born on the old home place in Liberty Township, Henry County August 11, 1844;nd remained with his parents until his twenty-first year. Meantime he attended of winter seasons the common schools, became familiar with the varied kinds of farm labor and grew to manhood with a proper appreciation of the true dignity of honest toil. On attaining his majority he took charge of the homestead and managed the place for several years thereafter with results satisfactory to his father and to himself. Purchasing property in New Castle, he subsequently removed to the city and after living there seven or eight years decided to make a tour of the west with the two-fold object of recuperating his health and finding a favorable business location in view. For some years Mr. Bond had suffered much from chills and ague and their periodical recurrences actuated him to seek a more healthful climate. During a long and interesting western tour, covering a period of many months, Mr. Bond traveled over the greater parts of Colorado, California, Wyoming and other western states and territories, going as far north as British Columbia and other of the English possessions, visiting many places of interest and greatly building up his worn-out bodily energies. While in the west he was variously engaged at different towns and upon his return to Henry County was strong and healthy physically, having gotten rid of the last vestige of malaria in the course of his travels. Since his return Mr. Bond has made his home with his sister, Maryann Garretson, widow of the late Joel Garretson, who is now a resident of New Castle, though formerly resided in Pendleton. They have a beautiful and pleasant home, supplied with all the comforts and conveniences calculated to make life desirable. He owns a valuable farm within one and a half miles of the city limits and devotes his attention largely to agriculture and stock raising, although interested in various local enterprises, among which is the shovel factory at New Castle, in the organization of which he was one of the principal movers. He is a large stockholder in this establishment and realizes from his investment no inconsiderable part of his income, although his efforts in the line, of farming and stock raising have brought him liberal financial returns. As a man and citizen Mr. Bond enjoys the confidence of the people of the city and county and none stand higher than he in publicity, preferring to live a quiet life and to be known merely as a citizen. Reared a Republican and having always supported the principles of the party, he has kept out of active politics, having no taste in that direction and no ambition to gratify in the way of official honors. In religion he is a birthright member of the Hick-site branch of the Society of Friends and has always endeavored to make his life correspond to the beautiful and simple teachings of that excellent body of worshippers. Personally he is one of New Castle’s most popular men and the county of Henry is honored in having such as he numbered among its intelligent, progressive and representative citizens.

Surname: Reynolds, Hinshaw, Payne, Knight, Willis, Starr Compendium of BiographyOf Henry County, Indiana B. F. Bowen 1920 EDWIN REYNOLDS It is with a large degree of pleasure that the biographer essays the task of recording the, more salient facts in the life career of the gentleman whose name appears above. His efforts towards advancing the material interests of the county are so well known that they form no secondary part of his career of signal usefulness. He belongs to that class of representative Americans who, While gaining individual success, also pro mote the public prosperity. Such men stand pre-eminent among those who have conferred honor and dignity upon their places of residence, no less by well-con ducted business interests than by upright lives and commendable conduct. Edwin Reynolds was born at Fountain City, Wayne County, Indiana, on the 4th of November, 1834, and is the son of Isaac and Sarah (Hinshaw) Reynolds. The Reynolds family is of English extraction, though the more recent ancestry of the subject are from North Carolina. Isaac Reynolds was born in the latter state and was there reared to manhood and received his education. He married Sarah Hinshaw, also a native of North Carolina. He was reared to the life of a farmer, but afterward learned the trade of milling. He came to Indiana and located, at Fountain City, where in 1834 he built the first steam gristmill erected in Wayne County. There he followed the milling business for seventeen years. At the end of that time he disposed of his mill there and went to Dalton, the same county, where he engaged in the manufacture of lumber. He passed the remainder of his life at Dalton, dying there in 1884. He was a public- spirited man and his purse was always open to all worthy enterprises or movements for the public good. He was an ardent abolitionist and did all in his power to abate the institution of slavery. He was a Republican from the organization of that party and in religion was a member of the Friends Church. He was the father of twelve children, seven Sons and five daughters. Whose names were as follows: Clarkson, Milton, Francis. Edwin, Albert. Henry. Harvey, Martha, Julia A. Emily J., Louisa and Ellen. Edwin Reynolds was reared at the Wayne County home and was early accustomed to the hum of the sawmill and decide to make that his life work. He had attended the common schools of his neighborhood and acquired a fair education, but remained at home assisting his father until he had attained his majority when, in 1858, he came to Henry County and engaged in the lumber business near the town of Moorland. He remained in that location until 1873, when he moved his mill to Straughn, which remained his business location until 1900, when he retired from an active participation in business. He has always been a moneymaker and has lived comfortably, though he has not amassed very much property.Mr. Reynolds has been three times married. His first wife was Amanda C. Payne, widow of Jesse Payne. To his union with this lady one son was born, Charles, who died in infancy. This wife died in 1864, and his second marriage was with Miss Phoebe J. Knight. To the subject and this wife was born one child, Martha, who married William E. Willis and resides in Dudley Township, this County. Mrs. Phoebe J. Reynolds died in 1875, and the subject subsequently married Mrs. Almira Starr, by whom he became the father of one child, Frank S., born September 18, 1880. He was educated in the common and high schools at Straughn and also took a course in a business college at Indianapolis, and is now bookkeeper for Cox & Yockey at Rushville, Indiana.Politically the subject has always been a stanch Republican and has been active in advancing the interests of that party. While residing in Wayne County he was elected to the position of trustee of his township and served in that position seven years, resigning upon his removal to Henry County. He has also served in the office of trustee of Dudley Township, this County, for four years and performed the duties of the office in a most acceptable manner. In religion he and his Wife are both members of the Christian church and are active and faithful in the performance of their church obligations. Fraternally he is a member of the subordinate lodges of Masons, Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias. He has been a member of the first-named order for the long period of forty-four years and was a charter member of the Knights of Pythias lodge at Lewisville. He has twice been a candidate for the nomination for county auditor, but each time failed of nomination. He is a man of strong personality and strength of character, which easily places him among the most influential residents of the county and his zeal in whatever cause he espouses is the signal of its success. He is public spirited to a degree and gives his most earnest support to all measures which promise to advance the public welfare.