Jacob M. HARSHBARGER H. W. Beckwith History of Montgomery County, Indiana (Chicago: HH Hill, 1881) p 453 Jacob M. HARSHBARGER, farmer, Ladoga, was b. in Botetourt Co Va March 10, 1828 and is the son of Jacob and Salome Harshbarger. The father was b. in Lancaster Co PA June 24, 1792 and the mother in Botetourt Co Va May 17, 1796. They moved form Va. to Montgomery Co In in 1831, and settled in Clark Twp, where they lived an honorable and respected life. He died Feb 8, 1875 and his wife about 1872. Mr. H. the subject of this sketch, is one of the energetic and respected citizens of the County, and has taken an active part in its early improvements. April 13, 1848, he marr. Miss Mary MYERS, daughter of Henry and Hannah Arnold) Myers. She was b. in Botetourt Co Va Oct 28, 1826 and came with her parents to Mont. Co. in 1833 and settled in Scott Twp. They were among the respected pioneers of the County. The father departed this life Feb 25, 1875, in his 78th year and the mother Jan 7, 1876, in her 69th year, both having died of paralysis. Mr. H's family are: Salome E, wife of H. Davidson ; Amanda and George W, and two deceased, Marion m. and Henry M. Mr. H. is a member of the Masonic Fraternity, and is a stalwart republican. He owns 500 acres of land and Mrs. Harshbarger owns 750. Portrait & Biographical Record of Montgomery, Parke and Fountain County, Indiana Chapman Brothers, 1893 - p 373 Jacob M. Harshbarger, residing on Section 6, Clark Township, is one of the foremost of the citizens who have aided in the advancement and development of Montgomery County. He is a leading farmer and stock raiser, one of the ablest of its business men and financiers, and one who has been long and honorably identified with its public life. He is also prominently connected with some of its leading institutions, and has been very influential in advancing social, educational and religious interests in this community. Mr. Harshbarger was born March 10, 1828 in Botetourt Co VA on the old family homestead at the Harshbarger Grist Mill on Tinker Creek two miles from Roanoke City. In the fall of 1831 his parents left the old Virginia home with their children to seek a new one in the wilds of this county. His father purchased 1400 acres of land of the Government and lived in a rented cabin on Section 17, Clark Township temporarily. In the spring of 1833 he removed with his family into the more commodious house that he had built on his own land on Section 7 of the same township. Jacob M. Harshbarger was reared in that home, in which he lived some 17 years. His education was conducted in the subscription schools of Ladoga, and among his teachers was William R. Nefsinger, who afterwards became a member of the Legislature in this state. David Shannon was also one of his teachers. He subsequently became County Surveyor and he rose to the rank of the first educator in the county. At the age of 16 Mr. Harshbarger left school and worked on his father's farm until he was 22. In the meantime he was married at the age of 20 years, one month and three days, and two years later removed from his father's place, March 10, 1850 to that of his father-in-law, upon which he still resides. He and his wife lived with and took care of her parents until their death, when Mrs. Harshbarger inherited their property. Mr. H. has made many valuable improvements on the old Myers homestead since it came under his control, including a handsome and commodious residence and a large and well arranged barn. Our subject has his farm in a fine condition, its appointments of the best and everything is kept in good order. He and his wife owned at one time 1400 acres of land, and until very recently had 987 acres of realty. He is much interested in raising fine stock, and has some of the best in the county, making a specialty of breeding first class Shorthorn cattle, of which he has a noble herd, including a thoroughbred bull of that breed. He raises blooded horses, has a great many high graded Poland China hogs and keeps the celebrated Shropshire sheep, there being in his flock two ewes recently imported at a cost of $65 each. Mr. Harshbarger's character, keen insight into business matters, wide experience, large public spirit and eminent fitness in every way for responsible positions early brought him to the front and he has done valuable service in various official capacities, while his name is associated with many enterprises of incalculable benefit to the township and county. He was Co. Commissioner 3 years from Dec 1879 until Dec 1882, and for 27 years was School Director in his district, always a friend to education and doing all in his power to raise the standard of education. He was Director of the Co. Fair at New Ross for 3 years and Director of the Montgomery County Fair at Crawfordsville for 11 years. He has been repeatedly solicited by his friends to accept the nomination for Representative from his county but has declined the honor. Mr. H. is a republican, a strong protectionist and is unswerving in his allegiance to his party. He belongs to the Farmers' Mutual Benefit Association and President of the County Council of the association. He is Treasurer of the Farmer's Mutual Benefit Insurance Company of Montgomery and Fountain Counties and ever since the Bank of Ladoga was organized has been President of that bank. He has always used his influence to introduce public improvements and was one of the principal men who were instrumental in securing the Whitesville and Ladoga Free Turnpike as well as in having the roads graveled and bridges built to facilitate travel. Mr. H. is a member of the Horse Thief Detective Association and was one of its captains for a number of years. He has long been identified with the Masonic Fraternity and has held the office of Sr. Warden of the Ladoga Lodge NO. 187. In his church relations he is associated with the Christian denomination and is a deacon in the Christian Church at Ladoga. He was one of the building committee at the time their house of worship was erected being one of the prime movers in having it built, and he was very active in collecting money to pay for it, besides contributing liberally himself. April 13, 1848, our subject was united in marriage with Miss Masry M. Myers, a daughter of Henry and Hanna (Arnold) Myers. Her birthplace was near that of her husband on Tinker's Creek in Botetourt county, VA and she was born Oct 28, 1826. Her father was born Jan 1, 1798 about 1/4 mile from the early home of our subject, and her mother was born Oct 3, 1806 near Brough's Mill, Botetourt Co. The father of Henry Myers was John Myers, Sr., who was the son of a German and a native of Pa, whence he had migrated to Botetourt Co. Hannah Arnold was the daughter of Daniel Arnold, who removed from Pa. to Virginia in 1795. His father came from Germany to this country. In 1833 the Myers family left Virginia to settle in this state. For 3 years they lived in Scott Township, near Parkersburg, and then Mr. Myers bought the farm upon which our subject now reside and this was his home until his death Dec 27, 1875. His wife passed away Jan 8, 1876. They had but two children, Mrs. H. and her brother, Daniel who was born Dec 13, 1830 and died Feb 11, 1841. Mr. Myers was a reserved man, who attended strictly to business and accumulated a handsome property, including 524 acres. Mr. and Mrs. H. have had 5 children, of whom these 3 are living: Saloma E, who was born Jan 11, 1854 and is now the wife of Henry Davidson, Union Township; Amanda A. born Jun e17, 1845 now the wife of the Hon. EB Brookshire who is serving his second term in Congress as Representative of this district and George W, born Oct 20, 1858 married Eva J. Canine and resides with his father. He has two children: Earl M, born April 14, 1885 and Mary Ethel born Oct 29, 1886. Death has taken from our subject and his wife two children: Marion M who was born Feb 3, 1851 and died August 15, 1852 and Henry M. born April 5, 1852 and died Sept 20 1876. He had married Lavina Peffley, who was born in February 1855 and they had one child, Lula May born Aug 31, 1876. Mr. H. is a true lover of home and is intensely patriotic at least as regards this part of the great Republic. He has traveled in KS and as far north in the US as Wisconsin and not long ago spent 5 weeks in Baltimore and Washington, but his convictions remain unshaken that there is no place like central Indiana and no county equal to his own. Crawfordsville Daily Journal Monday September 15, 1919 Uncle Jacob M. HARSHBARGER as he was familiarly called will be sadly missed by the people of Montgomery County. We have been intimately associated with him for the past 30 years in every day life, in society and in farm organization sof different kinds and in all these different avenues, his sincerity was so pronounced that he was not only termed and interested worker but an admired leader. He was one of the originators of the Farmers' Mutual Insurance Company of Montgomery, Fountain and Parke Counties more than 40 years ago, was one of the prominent men in organizing the Montgomery County Fair Association and has done as much to keep up the interest of Farmers' Institutes in central Indiana as any other man. Not only was he a leader and a useful man years ago when these organizations were in their infancy but has always continued to be interested in his fellow men and the unusual knowledge that he had acquired was willingly imported to others he never grew tired of trying to help others his self acquired intelligence and broad minded views on all local and public affairs kept him apace with the times till the last. Scores of young farmers in this county have admired Mr. Harshbarger to the extent that they have endeavored to adopt and follow his plans. He has done much to dignify the vocation of farming, always placing it on an equality with the highest professions. He was a noble citizen and a man among men, admired and loved by men of all occupations. He possessed peculiar social acquirements that won those who came in contact with him. He has not lived in vain for such a life will continue to live, the nobility that he always practiced and the exalted prupose that he always had in mind placed him in the honored list and one of the most exemplary and useful men that ever lived in Montgomery County. Either in the capacity of an official or common citizen he always made good and this model life of 91 years that so peacefully was brought to a close is an important epoch in our history and will be sacredly referred to for years and years. All this did not come by chance but it took a pronounced effort on his part to accomplish all these things. The study of such a life decides the frivolous question that so often is to the mind of the young man whether or not it pays to try to be useful. County, state and nation need more such men, perhaps he died not knowing with what high esteem and admiration the people of Montgomery County had for him but did know that he had always tried to do his part in a noble, friendly conscientous way in the home, church or public affairs and he has been a witness to the result of some of that good seed sown and many of the rest of us will continue to profit thereby. Signed - CEB -- Jeffery G. Scism, IBSSG ~~ "Proponents of each side are vying with determination to prove their ignorance is greater than the other." President Andrew Jackson, discussing a bill going through the US Congress. Visit http://ibssg.org/ For The Blacksheep website, Montgomery County, Putnam County, and Fountain County USGenWeb sites. MORE... 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Daniel Himes ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Family Histories of Montgomery County, Indiana 1823-1988 (Paducah, Ky: Turner, 1988) p 196 Daniel and Mary Wrightsman HIMES Daniel Himes, Sr. was born May 24, 1795 near Bonsacks Station, Roanoke, VA in Botetourt Co. He married Mary WRIGHTSMAN who was born July 15, 1796. Their children were: John (1818-1894); David (1820-1865); Susanna (1821); Daniel H, Jr. (1823-1894); William (1824 -) ; Jacob (1829-1879); Mary Ann (1835-1910); Abraham (1836-) and Sarah Elizabeth (1838-). The first five of their nine children were born in Virginia. In the year 1826, the Daniel Himes, Sr. family emigrated to Ross County, Ohio. The last four children were born there. THe method of travel to Ohio was by wagon with the probability that some of the family walked. Two dogs accompanied them. While crossing the Ohio River on a ferry boat, one dog jumped off and swam back to the Virginia shore. Arriving in Ross County, Ohio, they built a log cabin on a hill top. At HIllsboro, Ohio the family farmed for 19 years, some sons worked at Rapid Forge, a place where iron products were made and some worked at a distillery nearby. That location is 10 miles north east of Hillsboro along Paint Creek. In the late fall of 1845, Daniel Sr. and son Daniel walked the entire distance to Montgomery County, Indiana. Arriving at William Gish's, their relative's home. Through him a lease was obtained from samuel Britts to clear some land and built a cabin. Mr. Britts furnished a team and Berniah Hostetter accompanied the two Himes men back to Ohio. When Mr. Hostetter and the Daniel and Mary Wrightsman Himes family arrived at Samuel Britts' home near Ladoga it was cold and a good lot of snow was on the ground. The date was Jan 5, 1845. Their home for many years was the cabin built in the fall of 1845. The usual hardships endured by the early settlers fell to the lot of the Himes family making this new home. The entire country was pracdtially unbroken forest and much labor was required in clearing land so a crop could be planted. John returned to Ohio living his whole life there. May Ann died at McCane, Ks. Daniel H, Jr. married Mary L. Harshbarger on May 16, 1850, the duaghter of Jacob and Salome Harshbarger. Mary was born Jan 30, 1833. Jacob Himes married Catherine Linn in 1853; after her death he married Catherine Kessler. Daniel Himes, Sr. died Feb 17, 1879 in his 84th year. Mary Wrightsman Himes died Oct 19, 1866 at age 70. Both died at the home of Daniel H. Himes, Jr. which was located one-half mile north of Ladoga. The Himes family were respected and useful citizens of the Scott Township community and have done their part to make it a worthy place to live. They have lived an honorable and exemplary life. -- Jeffery G. Scism, IBSSG ~~ "Proponents of each side are vying with determination to prove their ignorance is greater than the other." President Andrew Jackson, discussing a bill going through the US Congress. Visit http://ibssg.org/ For The Blacksheep website, Montgomery County, Putnam County, and Fountain County USGenWeb sites. MORE... Putnam County Indiana Biographies and Obituaries http://ibssg.org/putnam/bios/ Montgomery County Indiana Biographies and Obituaries http://ibssg.org/montgomery/bios/ Fountain County Indiana Biographies and Obituaries http://ibssg.org/fountain/vitals/bios/

Nathaniel G. Kesler 1881 Montgomery County In History of H. W. Beckwith, p 427 (Chicago: HH Hill) Nathaniel G. Kesler, farmer and stock raiser, Ladoga, the present gentlemanly trustee of Scott township, is a son of Mr. Benjamin and Elizabeth (GRAYBILL) Kesler. He was born in Botetourt County, Virginia, January 8, 1838, and in 1847, with his parents, came to Scott township, Montgomery County, Indiana. His father, by hard work and close attention to business, has made a large property, and is now living on his fine farm of 350 acres, just north of Ladoga, and each of his five sons are owners of good farms. Nathaniel's farm contains 207 acres, and he has just built on it a very fine and comfortable little residence. September 13, 1866, he married Miss Mary E., daughter of Mr. Samuel and Elizabeth (MYERS) HARSHBARGER, early pioneers of Scott township, the place of her birth and rearing. They have five children: Louie L., Samuel B., William H., Sarah A. and John M. Mr. Kesler is one of the leading men of his township, and is engaged in farming and stock raising, as well as filling the positions of trust elected to by his friends and constituents. -- Jeffery G. Scism, IBSSG ~~ "Proponents of each side are vying with determination to prove their ignorance is greater than the other." President Andrew Jackson, discussing a bill going through the US Congress. Visit http://ibssg.org/ For The Blacksheep website, Montgomery County, Putnam County, and Fountain County USGenWeb sites. MORE... Putnam County Indiana Biographies and Obituaries http://ibssg.org/putnam/bios/ Montgomery County Indiana Biographies and Obituaries http://ibssg.org/montgomery/bios/ Fountain County Indiana Biographies and Obituaries http://ibssg.org/fountain/vitals/bios/

Benjamin KESSLER Portrait & Biographical Record of Montgomery, Parke & Fountain Counties, Indiana (Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1893) p 517 Benjamin KESSLER, an excellent citizen honest, industrious and upright in all his dealings wit his fellowmen and at one time a prominent agriculturist of Montgomery Co In passed to his rest, leaving behind him a large circle of relatives and friends to mourn his loss. By the death of our estimable subject, the county was deprived of a firm supporter of its local interests and an earnest advocate of truth and justice. Training up his family to habits of industry, and guiding them into paths of self reliance and independent gained by manly toil, Mr. Kessler has given to the western country as representative tillers of the soil, a race of sturdy sons and capable daughters well versed in agricultural duties. Benjamin Kessler was a native of the sunny south and was born in Botetourt Co VA in 1802. His German ancestors left their father land in the early days of emigration to America, and found a home and honest livelihood among the sturdy colonists even then laying the broad foundation of our great republic. In the War of the Revolution the Kesslers fought bravely and well. Later, in 1812, they promptly came to the aid of the US and engaged in the final conflict with Great Britain. The parents of Benjamin Kessler were undoubtedly native sof PA and located early in Va, where they reared a family of 10 children, an only daughter and 9 stalwart sons. The father and mother of these children, Jacob and Elizabeth SHEARER Kessler, were of strong constitution and fine personal appearance and from them their daughter and sons received that inheritance of vigorous health and robust physique for which the whole family were noted. Through the various vicissitudes of childhood they each passed successfully, all living to a good old age and marrying in early life, raised up numerous descendants and worthy citizens. The son, Benjamin attaining to years of maturity, married Maria MANGUS, who was also a resident of Botetourt Co. Mr. Benjamin Kessler and wife made their home in their native state and there became the parents of two children, John M. and Elizabeth who was united in marriage with Daniel KEENY and resides in Warren Co, Iowa. The mother of these children did not long survive their birth and died in her native state, leaving to her husband's care the little ones. Mr. Kessler again married, his second wife being Miss Elizabeth GRAYBILL. By this union a family of 8 came into the home circle, all of whom are still living, and all engaged in agricultural pursuits. These children in the order of their birth are Cather, now the widow of Jacob HINES (sic - Himes); Solomon of Bates County, Mo; Nathan G, residing in Montgomery Co; Samuel P, a citizen of Scott Twp, Susan, wife of Samuel C. THOMPSON of Boone County; Mary; Nan, the wife of William MANGUS; Jacob now living in Clark Twp. In 1847 Mr. Kessler and his family removed from Va. to Indiana, and settled in Montgomery Co. Nathan G. Kessler, a prosperous farmer and progressive resident of Montgomery County, who held the official position of Town Trustee six years was also Supervisor and has occupied other public offices of trust with honor and ability. He has been a constant dweller in the county since he journeyed hither with his father about 45 long years ago. Born in the Old Dominion in 1838 he was but a boy of 9 years when he arrived in Indiana and and in the public schools of his neighborhood received his education. Surrounded by his brothers and sisters he grew to manhood and in 1866 was married to Miss Mary E. HARSHBARGER, a lady of intelligence and ability. Mr. and Mrs. Nathan G. Kessler have a family of 7 interesting young people. One died in infancy and the others have arrived at early manhood and womanhood. Their names are Louie L; Samuel Benjamin; William Harry; Sadie A; John Milton and Salome E. The homestead is pleasantly located and finely improved. Mr. Kessler has 360 acres of valuable land all int he townships of Union and Scott. This gentleman, a worthy son and descendant of his father, the subject of this sketch, votes as did his father before him the Democratic ticket and in the various position sof official trust connected with the town, has ever exhibited the sterling traits of character which distinguished his father's entire life. -- Jeffery G. Scism, IBSSG ~~ "Proponents of each side are vying with determination to prove their ignorance is greater than the other." 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Nathan G. Kesler AW Bowen History of Montgomery County, Indiana p 1139 In many respects the career of Nathan G. Kesler, for many decades one of the progressive agriculturists and stock men of Montgomery Co, is peculiarly instructive in that it shows what a well defined purpose, supplemented by correct principles and high ideals, can accomplish in the face of discouraging circumstances. It is an example of triumph over obstacles, the winning of success by honorable methods and as such may be safely followed by those whose life work is yet to be accomplished. He is a fine type of sterling pioneer, having invaded the forests of this locality when settlers were none too numerous and when there was much to be done before a comfortable home could rise and good crops he reaped from the virgin soil, but he is a man who has never permitted discouraging situations to influence him, but forged ahead despite of them, and won not only material success, but the good will and esteem of all who know him. By his upright and honorable career as a general farmer and citizen he has won the good will of his fellow citizens. It is always his endeavor to advance in every possible way the public good, and this cannot be too highly commended as it is only the narrow minded man who makes his chief object the acquisition of wealth, regardless of the rights and feelings of others. Mr. K. was b. in Botetourt Co, Va. Jan 8, 1838. He is a son of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Graybill) Kesler and grandson of Jacob and Elizabeth (Shearer) Kesler. Ther were 10 ch. in the family of whom Nathan G. was the fifth in order of birth. He was 8 years old when he accompanied his parents from the old family homestead to Montgomery Co making that long overland journey by wagon, at a time when wagon roads were few, when most streams were unbridged and they crossed but one railroad on the entire journey. Of this trip our subject recalls many interesting incidents, having a good recollectino of the same. The family located in the northeastern part of Scott Twp, this county, where Benjamin Kesler purchased 240 acres, a small part of which had been cleared. Nearly everybody in this locality at that time lived in log cabins, homes like the modern farm house were not to be found. Benjamin Kesler set to work on his virgin ground with a will and soon had a good farm developed and a comfortable home established, and here he spent the rest of his life, meeting death sudenly, being killed on the railroad in 1893. He had devoted his entire life to agricultural pursuits. His wife preceded him to the grave in 1886. They were both members of the Dunkard Church. 10 children were born to them, named as follows: John M, who devoted his life to farming but lived in Crawfordsville, d. about 1905, leaving a widow who still lives in Crawfordsville; Elizabeth married Samuel T. Keeney, moved to Iowa and later to Florida, where she died recently; Catherine, widow of Jacob Himes, deceased, lives in the Northern Part of Scott Twp; Solomon lives in Ladoga, In; Nathan G of this sketch; Samuel, who d. in Apirl 1910, lived in ladoga, left a widow but no living children; Susan is the widow of Samuel C. Thompson and she lives with her children near New Ross, this county; Mary is the wife of Washington Neff and they live in Ladoga; Nancy married WIlliam Mangus and they live near Whitesville; Jacob, the youngest lives on a farm near Ladoga. Nathan G. Kesler grew to manhood on the home farm in this county and there worked when a boy, attending the district schools during the winter months. When 21 he began farming for himself on rented land, also farmed some on his father's land. In 1866 he married Mary Elizabeth Harshburger, daughter of Samuel Harshburger and wife. Six children were born of that marriage, namely: Louie Lee lives with her sister, Mrs. Hester near New Market, this county; Samuel B, who remained un married, died in 1901; William Harry, who was in the clothing business both at Jamestown and Ladoga, sold out his stores in December 1912, is now engaged in buying and selling real estate, has a fine home at Jamestown and has 3 sons; Sarah J. who married Charles Buser lives in the northern part of Scott Twp. on a farm and they have two children, Cline and Bennie; John Milton who lives about six miles So. of Crawfordsville on a farm married Nora Davidson and they have three sons, Clyde and Clayton; Elizabeth E. is the wife of Elmer Hester and they live on a farm near the center of North line of Scott Twp. and they have one son, Donald. The mother of the above named children was called to her eternal rest in 1905, and in 1909 Nathan G. Kesler married for his second wife, Mrs. Rose (Frankebarger) Brookshire, widow of John Brookshire, deceased. Three children were born of her first union, namely; William lives on a farm in the southern part of Scott Twp; Sarah is at home with her mother and stepfather; Charles is a railway telegrapher and lives in Sioux City, Iowa. Nathan G. Kesler has farmed all his life in Scott Twp. Early in his career he bought a farm in the southern part of the township and lived there for a time, a large part of which he divided among his children. He has been a man of industry, sound judgement and enterprise and he farmed and raised stock on a large scale. He is now living in the southereastern part of Sec. 11, Scott Twp. He is a stockholder in the Farmers and Merchants Bank at Ladoga, also a stockholder in the Mont Co Agr. Soc. Politically, Mr. K. is a Democrat and has been active in the affairs of his party. He was trustee of Scott Twp. for three terms, having been elected first in 1880, again in 1882, and a third time in 1888. He gave eminent satisfaction in this capacity. He is a member of the Christian Church, while his wife holds membership with the Baptist Church. -- Jeffery G. Scism, IBSSG ~~ "Proponents of each side are vying with determination to prove their ignorance is greater than the other." President Andrew Jackson, discussing a bill going through the US Congress. Visit http://ibssg.org/ For The Blacksheep website, Montgomery County, Putnam County, and Fountain County USGenWeb sites. MORE... Putnam County Indiana Biographies and Obituaries http://ibssg.org/putnam/bios/ Montgomery County Indiana Biographies and Obituaries http://ibssg.org/montgomery/bios/ Fountain County Indiana Biographies and Obituaries http://ibssg.org/fountain/vitals/bios/

Clara Etta Mills Ghormley ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Waveland Independent, May 12, 1949 Clara Etta Mills GHORMLEY was born near Ladoga, Indiana Nov 16, 1858 and died in Waveland on May 4, 1949 at the age of 90 years, 5 months and 18 days. She was the daughter of Silas S. and Rebecca (Stoner) Mills, one of 7 children. A ll her brothers and sisters preceded her in death. Both of her parents were children of early settlers of Montgomery County. Her paternal grandparents, Lewis D. and Rebecca FITZPATRICK Mills came from Green County, Ohio, in 1829 and built a log cabin in Clark Township near Ladoga. Her maternal grandmother, Barbara GARST Stoner, after her husband, Jacob Stoner died in Botetourt Co, Va followed the directions of his will and brought her 7 stepchildren and 8 children of her own from Va. in the fall of 1837 to homestead near Ladoga. Clara Etta Mills attended the district school in her childhood and as a young woman received training at the Female Seminary of Ladoga, later known as Ladoga Normal. On Feb 15, 1881, she was married to Justice Miles Ghormley in the Mills homestead near Ladoga. Mrs. Ghormley survived her husband 13 years, Mr. Ghormley having passed away June 6, 1936. 7 children were born to this union and all but one son survive. Carl Justus, the oldest died on December 1, 1918. The six surviving children are: Mrs. John C. Cochrane (Lola E);, St. Cloud, Minn; Walter M. of Mountain View, Missouri; Mrs Arthur Williams (Laila M), South Bend, Indiana; Mrs. JD Reynard (May E), South Bend; Glenn M. of Waveland and Hubert M. of Indianapolis. She also leaves to mourn her 18 grandchildren and 22 greats. Mrs. Ghormley came with her husband and two children from Roachdale, Indiana to Waveland in 1884 where he began a business career in hardware and lumber. With the exception of 13 years, Mrs. Ghormley has lived in Waveland since 1884, more than 52 years. Mrs. Ghormley was a woman of strong Christian Character, a devoted wife and ever loving mother who put her home and loved ones first. She was a member of the Christian Church in which her husband had been a teacher, deacon or elder for many years. Two sons served in WWI and 8 of her 10 grandson in WWII. Mrs. Ghormley was a member of St. Cloud Chapter, DAR. Since her husband's death she has spent most of the winters with her children, being ministered to with loving hands throughout the closing years of her long life. Her summers have been spent in her home in Waveland where she so much enjoyed her home and kind loving neighbors. S he was ill only about two weeks, having come on Good Friday from her daughters home in South Bend in seemingly good health. -- Jeffery G. Scism, IBSSG ~~ "Proponents of each side are vying with determination to prove their ignorance is greater than the other." President Andrew Jackson, discussing a bill going through the US Congress. Visit http://ibssg.org/ For The Blacksheep website, Montgomery County, Putnam County, and Fountain County USGenWeb sites. MORE... Putnam County Indiana Biographies and Obituaries http://ibssg.org/putnam/bios/ Montgomery County Indiana Biographies and Obituaries http://ibssg.org/montgomery/bios/ Fountain County Indiana Biographies and Obituaries http://ibssg.org/fountain/vitals/bios/

CALAWAY PIERCE ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Delaware County, Indiana, Originally Published in 1894, by A. W. Bowen & Co., Chicago CALAWAY PIERCE, a retired farmer of Daleville, Salem Township, Delaware County, Indiana, was born in Montgomery County, in what is now West Virginia, September 26, 1822, and is a son of Thomas and Susanna (Thompson) Pierce, natives of the same state. They were married in West Virginia (then a portion of Old Virginia), in 1818, and resided there on their farm until 1828, at which time they removed to Clarke county, Ohio, and then to Miami in 1830, but were not over pleased with the country, and consequently tarried there but three years, when, in 1833, they came to Indiana, and settled in Salem township, Delaware county, when the mother died in 1840, and the father in 1855. Beside their son, Calaway, they had born to them ten children, viz: Malinda, Rebecca, Amanda, Susanna, Eliza, Arminda, Jane, Vorintha and two infants that died unnamed. The parents were devout members of the Methodist Episcopal Church; the father, who was a very successful man through life, was in politics a stanch democrat. Calaway Pierce remained on the home farm, sharing its hard toil and its rude enjoyments, until he was eight years of age, and doubtless found more of toil than he did of enjoyment in the rugged life; yet he learned many lessons in thrift, industry and frugality that were afterward of benefit to him and laid for him the foundation of a future competence in the same vocation, which he eventually adopted as his life pursuit. On leaving the home place, he employed himself at farm labor by the month for two years, and then engaged in carpenter work for nineteen years in Tipton County, Indiana. He then moved back to Delaware county, and in 1859 resumed his old occupation of farming, purchasing a tract of 120 acres of land in Salem township, which he cultivated with great success for several years, but which he later sold, and then bought a tract in of eighty-eight acres in Richwood, same township, which he continued to work with profit until 1892, when he retired to Daleville, to enjoy in peace, ease and honor the reward of his early toil. Mr. Pierce was first married in Delaware county, January 11, 1849, to Ruannah Goodpasture, of Warren county, born December 10 1827, and this union was fruitful in the birth of eight children, who were named as follows: Thomas; Walter, Flora, James E., Calvin, John, William, and Mattie. The mother of this family was called upon to part from her children November 28, 1870, and laid to rest in Palmer cemetery. After duly and sincerely mourning her loss, November 28, 1882, Mr. Pierce chose a second companion to share his joys and sorrows, and wedded Matilda McAllister, whose name has been adverted to elsewhere. Mr. and Mrs. Pierce are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and by their daily walk through life give evidence of the sincerity of their faith. Mr. Pierce is also a member of lodge No. 271, A. & F. M., and in politics is a republican, under which party he has filled several township offices. To such men as Mr. Pierce it is that the prosperity of every township is due. A Twentieth Century History of Delaware County VOL II, Biographical by G. W. H. Kemper, M.D. Originally Published in 1908, by Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago Calaway Pierce, one of the oldest residents of Delaware County, was born in Montgomery County, West Virginia, September 17, 1822, a son of Thomas Pierce, born in Botetourt County, Virginia, in 1796, and a grandson of Richard Pierce, who was born in the mother country of England. He came with six brothers to America in colonial times, and the seven brothers served their adopted country in its war for independence. Richard Pierce first located on Long Island, and after the war moved to Botetourt County, Virginia, where he purchased land and spent the remainder of his life. The maiden name of his wife was Peggy Knight, whom he married before leaving his native country, and there she was also born. She survived her husband many years and died at the home of a daughter in Michigan. Thomas Pierce, their son, ran away from home at the age of sixteen years and enlisted in the War of 1812, in which he served with two brothers, and after the close of the conflict he secured warrants for one hundred and sixty acres of land. At the time of his marriage he located in Montgomery County, Virginia, but in 1827 removed to Miami County, Ohio, and in 1832 came to Indiana. His family accompanied him on the trip to this state, and they made the journey with two yoke of oxen and one large, old-fashioned Virginia wagon, cooking and camping out on the way. On arriving in Delaware County he secured land in what is now Salem Township, Section 9, where he erected a hewed log house, cleared and improved his land, and there passed away in death in 1859. He had married a native daughter of Virginia, Susanna Thompson, but her father, John Thompson, was a native of Scotland, as was also his wife. He was a farmer and spent the last years of his life in Virginia. Mrs. Pierce preceded her husband in death, dying on the 23rd of August 1840, in her fortieth year, and of the eleven children born to them eight were reared, Malinda, Calaway, Rebecca, Arminta, Amanda, Jane, Susanna and Eliza. Calaway Pierce was a boy of ten years when the family home was established in Indiana, and at that time Delaware County was a wilderness, government land being then on the market and the Indians and the animals of the forest were its principal inhabitants. Muncie at that time was but a hamlet and now a railroad traversed the county, and for some years after the family located here, Cambridge, in Wayne County, was their nearest market for grain. The young lad remained with his father until he started out for himself in 1839, and he soon began learning the carpenter's trade and followed the occupation for twenty-one years. At the close of that period, in 1859, he purchased the old homestead farm of one hundred and twenty acres, but in 1864 traded the land for another farm in Mount Pleasant Township, which he sold one year later, and he then rented until 1867. In that year he bought eighty acres In Salem Township and maintained his residence thereon until he sold the land in 1882 and purchased a farm nearby. He also disposed of this by sale in 1891 and has since lived retired in Daleville. On the 11th of June 1849, Mr. Pierce was united in marriage to Ruanna Goodpasture, who was born in Warren County, Ohio, a daughter of Solomon and Sally Goodpasture. She was called to the home beyond in 1879, and in 1883 Mr. Pierce married Mrs. Matilda McAllister, who was born in Miami County, Ohio, on September 15, 1828, a daughter of Benjamin Luce, a native of Kentucky and a pioneer resident of Miami County, Ohio, where he spent the remainder of his life. He married Ann Ohio Girrard, a native of Ohio and a daughter of John Girrard, one of the prominent early residents of that commonwealth. Mrs. Pierce first married William Hand, who was born in Miami County, and died at the age of twenty-four years. She afterwards married Andrew McAllister, who came from his native state of Ohio to Delaware County, Indiana, in 1831, and his death occurred in 1881. To this union were born four children who are yet living, Frank, Henry, Morton and Joseph A. McAllister. A daughter, Katie A., married William Dillinger and died in Virginia in 1898, and another daughter, Belle, died in infancy. By his first marriage Mr. Pierce had eight children, but only four are now living, Thomas, Calvin, Walter and William. A son, John, met his death by accident at the age of twelve years. Florence married Frank Dietrich and died in 1888. James died when about forty years of age. Martha married Oliver Bowers and died in 1884. -- Jeffery G. 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William B. Pierce ------------------------------------------------------------------------ History of Delaware County VOL II, Biographical by Frank D. Hambaugh Originally Published in 1924, by Historical Publishing Co., Indianapolis William B. Pierce, former justice of the peace in and for Salem Township, formerly and for years engaged in the blacksmith business at Cross Roads, a former drainage commissioner for Delaware County and now engaged in farming, proprietor of a well improved farm in Salem Township, residing on rural route No. 1 out of Daleville; is a native son of Delaware County, a member of one of the real pioneer families here, and has lived here all his life. Mr. Pierce was born on a farm in the Cross Roads neighborhood in Salem township, June 9, 1861, and is a son of Calaway and Ruanna (Goodpasture) Pierce; the latter of whom was born in Warren County, Ohio, a daughter of Solomon and Sally Goodpasture, and died at her home in this county in 1879. The late Calaway Pierce, who lived to be ninety-five years of age, was born in Montgomery County, Virginia, September 17, 1822, and was a son of Thomas and Susanna (Thompson) Pierce, both also native Virginians, the latter a daughter of John Thompson, a native of Scotland. Thomas Pierce, who was a soldier of the War of 1812, was born in Botetourt County, Virginia, in 1796, a son of Richard and Peggy (Knight) Pierce, who had come to this country in colonial days from England and the former of whom had served the colonists as a soldier of the Revolution. Though but sixteen years of age when the War of 1812 came on, Thomas Pierce succeeded in enlisting his services in behalf of the army in that struggle, and for this service received from the government a land warrant. After his marriage he made his home in Montgomery County, in that part of the Old Dominion now located in West Virginia, and remained there until in 1827, when he moved with his family to Warren County, Ohio, making his home there until in 1832, when he came over here into Indiana with his family and established his home on an uncleared tract of land in section 9 of Salem Township, this county, where he developed a farm and where he spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring in 1859. His wifehad preceded him to the grave nearly twenty years, her death having occurred in 1840. Of the eleven children born to them eight grew to maturity, Calaway Pierce and his seven sisters, Malinda, Rebecca, Arminta, Amanda, Jane, Susanna and Eliza. As will be noted by a comparison of above dates, Calaway Pierce was but five years of age when his parents left Virginia for Ohio and he was ten when they left the latter state and came over here into the New Purchase and settled in Salem Township, in this county. Here he grew to manhood, early learning the carpenter's trade, and for twenty years or more followed that vocation, his building operations being carried on over a wide area throughout the region in which he lived. He then, in 1859, bought the old Pierce home place of 120 acres and began farming, later moving into Mt. Pleasant Township, but in 1867 moved back to Salem Township and continued farming there until his retirement in 1891 and removal to Daleville, where his last days were spent, his death occurring in 1917, he then being thought to be the oldest man in Delaware County. Calaway Pierce was twice married. By his first wife, Ruanna Goodpasture, to whom he was married on June 11, 1849, he was the father of eight children, of whom but three are now living, the subject of this sketch having two brothers, Thomas and Calvin Pierce; Another brother, the late Walter Pierce, died in 1914. There were two other brothers, John, who met death in an accident when twelve years of age, and James, who died at the age of forty. There were two sisters, Mrs. Florence Dietrich, who died in 1888, and Mrs. Martha Bowers, who died in 1884. The mother of these children died in 1879 and in 1883 Calaway Pierce married Mrs. Matilda(Luce) McAllister, a native of Miami County, Ohio, daughter of Benjamin and Ann Ohio (Girrard) Luce and widow of Andrew McAllister, a pioneer of Delaware County. This second wife died in 1912. Calaway Pierce was a Republican, a Freemason and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. William B. Pierce grew up on the home farm in Salem Township and received his schooling in the Cross Roads School (district No. 10). Until he was twenty-six years of age he continued working with his father on the farm and then, in 1887, set up a blacksmith shop at Cross Roads and started in business there, a vocation he followed for seventeen years, or until in 1904, when he bought a farm of fifty-five acres, the place on which he is now living in Salem Township, and has since been engaged in farming, meanwhile having increased his land holdings until now he is the owner of a well kept farm of 180 acres. Mr. Pierce is a Democrat. For three years he rendered public service as drainage commissioner for Delaware County and for eight years he served as justice of the peace in and for his home township. In 1881 William B. Pierce married Mary L. McLain, daughter of William and Johanna (Clevenger) McLain, of Monroe Township, and to this union eight children have been born, all of whom are living save one daughter, Ethel, the others being Earl, Fred, Kenneth, Carl, Lulu, Eva and Bertha, all of whom are married. Mr. and Mrs. Pierce have eleven grand children. Earl Pierce married Laura Davis and has one child, Marion. Fred Pierce married Daisy Heath. Kenneth Pierce married Bertha Hofherr, who died on April 2, 1924, and has three children: Freda, Edith and John Wm. Carl Pierce married Leda Minnick and has one child, Frances. Lulu Pierce married Homer Schafer and has one child, Mary Ann. Eva Pierce married Jesse Ross and has three children, Donald, Harry B. and Robert, and Bertha Pierce married Harry Fehrman and has two children, Boyce and Nina. -- Jeffery G. Scism, IBSSG ~~ "Proponents of each side are vying with determination to prove their ignorance is greater than the other." 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Daniel H. Prunk, MD BIOGRAPHY Prunk, Daniel H Civil War Rank: Asst. Surg. Civil War Regiment: 20th Place of Birth: Fincastle, Va Date of Birth: 11.3.1829 Place of Death: Indianapolis Date of Death: 8.2.23 Schools attended: Eclectic Medical Inst. Cinc. / Med. Col of Ind R. Central College of Phys. and Surg. Year Medical Grad or Attendance: 1856,1876 Obit location: Journal of the American Medical Association 81:676 Final Date: 6.28.1862 2 Comm: 3.13.1863 Dismissed to 11.15.1862 County: Marion (Indianapolis) Med. Reg./Exam.: 3.4.98 Sources: P1886 / Indiana State Board of Health 1884, 1890 Memoirs Of Indianapolis and Marion County, Indiana. 59 DANIEL H. PRUNK. There is no calling upon earth that demands greater self-sacrifice, unselfishness and devotion than that of the physician, who must needs incur the risk of contracting fatal disease and who must forego comfort and endure fatigues in the discharge of his duties. Nor is there to be found upon the globe a nobler spectacle than that of a physician who is true to himself, and conscientiously proceeds with the carrying out of the obligations resting upon him. He who is truly successful must needs live up to the full measure of his responsibilities and boar the burdens that rest upon him with a cheerful resignation. One recompense is his, at least, and that is the trust, confidence and the esteem of those who require his services in the times of illness; for no one gets closer to the hearts of those with whom he is associated than the good and worthy physician. Such thoughts are naturally awakened as one contemplates the life and the work of the estimable subject of this sketch, who not only has lived a life of great and disinterested usefulness in civil life, but who, also, in the time of his country's peril went to the front and with skillful hands ministered to the wants of the sick and the wounded, laboring unceasingly for the relief of suffering. Daniel H. Prunk M. D., of Indianapolis, was born near Fincastle, Botetourt County, Va., November 3, 1829; being the son of Daniel Prank, born in the State of Maryland in 1796, served his country in the War of 1 812 as a brave and true soldier and died in Illinois in 1861. The mother of our subject, Catharine (Edwards) Prunk, was born in old Virginia in 1 797 and (lied in Minnesota at the age of eighty four (in 1881). The father of our subject becoming impressed with the folly of endeavoring to compete with slave labor, left the old Dominion in the fall of 1831 with his wife and seven children, and on his journey Northward was compelled by the severity of the weather to winter at Xenia, Ohio. In the following spring, however, the family was again in motion, pressing forward over the most execrable of roads, the horses being¬ frequently stalled in quagmires, and again wading side-deep in and through great sloughs of mud. Again and again in the most difficult parts of the way, the children were trans-ported over the water and mud in the strong arms of their brave but wearied father. The westward journey was by way of Crawfordsville, Ind., which finally was reached and passed, the hearts of the parents growing lighter as the distance diminished, and their relief was infinite when at last they reached Hennepin, Bureau County, Ill., their final stopping place. But here their trials and hardships they soon found were but fairly begun. The travel-worn father proceeded at once, it being in the spring of 1832 when he reached his destination, to clear a farm and establish a home for his family in the then far West wilderness. The neighbors were few and lived far apart and the fear of the Indians was strong in the breasts of aIl, for this was the time when Black Hawk had stirred up the hearts of his savage followers to resist banishment across the Mississippi, and Mr. Prunk only saved his loved wife and children from the tomahawks of the red demons by taking refuge in the old Florida fort, situated about three miles from Hennepin. Notwithstanding the many besetments and perils, sturdy and brave Daniel Prunk did clear his land and erect a home, and in time golden stalks of the wheat waved in his field, inviting the blade of the sickle, and later, the tall tassels of corn proclaimed the presence of the ripened ears beneath. But society was imperfectly organized in those days and education was a precious quality, because the school-houses, always built, of logs, were so far apart, and the teachers so scarce. Subscription schools maintained for three months in the winter were the very best facilities enjoyed by the most favored, and parents rejoiced when this opportunity was offered their children. Those who were very poor were compelled to deny this limited privilege to their offspring. In truth, those who had settled in the wilds of Bureau, like the settlers of frontier country generally, had come together there imbued with the one great idea of accumulating property, the privations endured being a fresh stimulus to exertion, and the leading thought shut off in large measure the duties and obligations of cultivated life. Under such obvious difficulties and besetments the boyhood and youth of Dr. Prunk passed, and his ambitious spirit chafed under the privations he endured. His awakened mind demanded something above and beyond time drudgery of farm life, and bidding adieu to the home he made his way to Lacon, Ill., and there he worked mornings, evenings and Saturdays in order to defray his expenses at school, continuing thus until he was qualified to teach school. While engaged in teaching he conscientiously discharged his duties, earnestly seeking to impart, instruction to those consigned to his care. At the same time he diligently reviewed his studies and prosecuted them to further results, and with praisworthy economy saved every possible penny, so that in 1850 he entered the college at Mt. Palatine, Ill., where he remained one year, and then in 1851, he entered Rock River Seminary, where among his classmates were John A. Rawlins, afterward Secretary of War under President Grant, and Shelby M. Cullom, ex-governor of Illinois and now United States senator from that state. His limited means compelled him to return home at the expiration of a year and during the next fall and winter he again taught school. In the spring he began the study of medicine, under the preceptorship of Dr. Joseph Mercer, of Princeton, Ill., and during the winter of that year, 1853, he attended the Eclectic Medical Institute, at Cincinnati, returning the following winter, and the winter following that, finally graduating in 1856 receiving the diploma of a doctor of medicine and surgery. Having thus realized a dream and ambition that had fired his youth to energy and having endured much privation in order to accomplish his heart's great desire, he cast about for a favorable place for settlement, with the purpose strong within him to devote his life earnestly and conscientiously to his noble profession. He hit upon Carthage, a beautiful village in the suburbs of Cincinnati, where the gay and happy young people were wont to frequently gather from the city in picnic and other innocent and invigorating gatherings. It was at one of these happy parties that he met a most accomplished and estimable young lady from the Blue-Grass country, towards whom he was attracted from the first, and the acquaintance ripened into friendship, love and marriage, the auspicious event last named occurring one year later. In the year following, by a special arrangement, he took charge of the practice of Dr. A. Shepherd, of Springdale, Ohio, while that gentleman was absent on a foreign tour, and upon the return of the latter he yielded to the importunity of friends and settled at Rockford, Ill., which was then coining to the front. Every outlook was bright and he went there under the most encouraging prospects, it now seeming he had reached a point where he might begin to reap the reward of his long and faithful work. But he reached Rockford in the fall of 1857, the year in which the country was paralyzed by the great financial crash that spared no city or town or country place, and no power could resist its depression or rise superior to its influences. It was a keen and bitter disappointment to Dr. Prunk, when in the following fall he found it necessary to return to Princeton, but he kept it within his own breast and bravely did his duty. Reaching Princeton in October, 1858, he formed a partnership with his old precep for Dr. Mercer, which lasted until April 16, 1861, when special inducements offered led him to settle at Indianapolis, and this at the time when the great body of the North quivered because of the insult to the flag at Fort Sumter. In September of this year our subject was honored by Governor Morton with a commission as assistant surgeon in the Nineteenth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, to fill a vacancy. After passing a highly creditable examination before the regular board he was assigned to duty at the Marshall House Hospital, / Alexandria, Va., where he served several months, when the critical illness of his wife called him home. He was ordered June 28, 1862, by the governor to report to Col. Brown, of the Twentieth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, which lay at Harrison's Landing, Va., immediately after the Seven Days' battle. Rare indeed does it happen in the history of war that an army is so reduced as this was, by the ravages of disease, the casualties of battle and the fury of the elements. So decimated were the rank and file that scarcely sufficient men could be mustered to man the breastworks and trenches. It was said that such soldiers as Hooker and Kearney, who were inured to the most terrible of scenes, actually shed tears as they witnessed the trials and the agony of the army and saw the attenuated forms of the disease-ravaged men. Men and horses died so fast that there were none to bury them and the stench that arose was frightful, as well as threatening the safety of the living. Dr. Prunk moved among such terrible scenes as these, his strength taxed to the utmost to meet the demands made upon his professional services, and finally he succumbed (he had not been flesh and blood had he withstood it) and he was seriously attacked with a combination of camp diarrheea and typhoid fever. Hence, when the army was ordered to evacuate the place, he was shipped to David's Island Hospital, sixteen miles above New York city, where he was confined to his tent for six weeks. During his absence the Second Battle of Bull Run and of Centerville had been fought, and the veteran regiment lay near Arlington Heights, very much reduced in numbers and under marching orders, for the advance on Fredericksburg. Dr. Prunk was ordered by Gen. Barry to take charge of all the sick of the brigade and to conduct them to the Third Army Corps Hospital, near Alexandria, where he remained in charge until about the middle of December, 1862, when he resigned and returned home. But he did not remain long, his heart being with the brave boys who were bearing and suffering for the nation's cause, and he was soon again ready for active service. Having learned that there was a demand for competent surgeons at Nashville he proceeded thither, and after a two-days searching examination by the United States' army board, he was declared to be altogether satisfactory, when he immediately concluded terms with Dr. A. Henry Thurston, assistant surgeon general of the United States army and medical director at Nashville, and was ordered to duty at the officers' hospital. He subsequently assisted Dr. Salter in organizing the Cumberland Hospital, which had a capacity of 3,000 patients, and he remained here in the active discharge of his duties until October 12, 1863. During his leisure hours he had discovered a new preservative and disinfectant compound for embalming bodies, and he engaged in that business with a decided success during the remainder of the war, by permission of Gen. George H. Thomas, having his head-quarters at Nashville, with branches at Chattanooga, Knoxville, Dalton, Atlanta, Marrietta and Huntsville. He rendered valuable service to the remains of Gen. McPherson and other fallen heroes during the Georgia campaign. When the war was over Dr. Prunk returned to Indianapolis and has lived here ever since, devoting his time and energies to the practice of medicine, in which he has been signally successful. To smooth his professional journey, which had been made rough by the interposing barriers of "isms," and to divert the fire of enemies from without and within the profession, the took a course and graduated, at the close of the winter session of 1875-76, at the college of Physicians and Surgeons (allopathic school), just twenty years after he had received his first degree, and during all these years he had practiced with most gratifying success. Dr. Prunk has been eminently successful in his practice and his standing as a physician and surgeon is of the highest order. Always studious, he has prosecuted his studies and investigations throughout his career with the most unremitting ardor, while he has enjoyed the advantage of instruction in two medical colleges and had a large and varied experience in the army, to say nothing of what he has garnered in the may of knowledge in his extensive private practice. He is eminently fitted for the profession he adorns, being of a profoundly sympathetic nature, unselfish, sociable and possessed of charming conversational powers and the most agreeable manners. As a man, a citizen, father, husband, neighbor and friend in all the relations of life, he is an exemplar, worthy to be followed by all who appreciate the good and the honorable in living. As a citizen and patriot Dr. Prunk takes an active interest in public affairs, and in politics is a Republican, being in hearty accord with the teachings of that party. In religion he was reared in the Methodist Church, the faithful itinerants of that body having found their way into the great remote fastnesses of his old Illinois home, and he learned to love them for their devotion to the cause they professed. Hence he joined that body and consistently followed its teachings from the time of his connection with it at at Lacon, Ill., in 1849, until 1867, when he joined the Episcopal Church, his wife being a devout member of that church. The marriage of the Doctor to this most worthy lady, to whom reference has previously been made, occurred March 30, 1858, her name being Harriet Augusta Smith. The fruits of this union are: Frank Howard, born at Princeton, Bureau County, Ill., March 14, 1800; Harry Clayton, born at Indianapolis, August 17, 1861, and Byron Fletcher, born at Indianapolis, December 20, 1866. The accomplished mother of these children merits the highest distinction because of her true and womanly qualities, which endear her to a choice circle of friends. She is possessed of superior gifts and endowments of mind and heart, and whether as wife, mother or friend in the social circle, she reflects the virtues of highest womanhood. Hers are the qualities that attach persons to her strongly, and retain them under all conditions. Mrs. Harriet Augusta Prunk is a native of Cincinnati, although soon after her birth her parents, William J. and Lavinia (Lennox) Smith, moved to Covington, Ky., where she was reared and resided until her marriage. Her parents were natives of old Virginia, where the maternal name of Lennox has figured prominently for many generations, her grandfather Lennox having been a lieutenant in the war of the Revolution. Receiving a careful and thorough preparatory education, Mrs. Prunk at an early age entered the \Vesleyan Female College, an institution that had attained great prominence because of the thoroughness of its course, and that was one of the foremost educational institutions of Cincinnati, graduating from it in 1859, but a short time before her marriage. Very early in life she evidenced a rare talent in declamation and elocution, which developed into an exceptional quality of reading and dramatic power. This gift brought her into great prominence when. at college, so that she was assigned duties at all entertainments within its walls, as well as at social gatherings, amateur entertainments, etc. It was manifest to her friends that she possessed this quality in a high degree, and that application, which is inseparable from attainment of foremost places in any department of art or knowledge, would develop it into dramatic and elocutionary genius. In Mrs. Prank was the innate love, strong and abiding, for the art, and her will was all potent for the needed laborious study, and young as she was, she applied herself with assiduity, and with a continuity that would 1 we reflected credit upon a much older person. Her marriage did not end her progress in the line of literary work, nor cause her to terminate her studies, for she devoted ten years after to arduous study and close application, with the result of attaining to a high degree of perfection the ideal artist, qualification inherent and by nature given, only waiting to be nurtured by the warm sunlight of development into fruition and maturity. Her instructors were professors of eminence in the East, who were the more enthusiastic and painstaking in instruction, because they were impressed by her talent and admired the spirit that imbued her. Ambitious yet to acquire all possible perfection, she entered in October, 1877, the Boston University School of Oratory, under the control of the late Louis B. Monroe, and after the most diligent and persistent. application for a period of two years, she graduated from that celebrated institution in May, 1879, which was one year less than the regular course. She likewise enjoyed the high privilege of special instruction from Profs. Steele Mackaye and R. It. Raymond, of Boston and New York. The first appearance of Mrs. Prunk before the public in a professional capacity was in the Grand Opera House, Indianapolis, in October, 1878, in response to a pressing invitation from the leading citizens of that city, and the city, and press and critics united in praising her graceful presence, remarkable purity and quality of voice, and her high dramatic powers. Her second appearance was in Tremont Temple, Boston, May 19, 1879, before a large assembly composed of the elite of that cultured city. Her reception was an ovation, and the press of Boston teemed with adulatory praise of the distinguished Indianapolis lady. Since then she has appeared in public on many occasions, but principally in Indianapolis, and her wonderful ability and constantly augmenting powers have combined to urge her adoption of the plat-form as a profession, her friends insisting that such endowments and faculties as hers should not be lost to the people, and in response to numerous requests from friends and leading citizens, Mrs. Prunk established the Indiana Boston School of Elocution and Expression, of Indianapolis, in the fall of 1879, of which institution she has been principal since its organization. From this celebrated school there has been many graduates from different parts of the United States that are to-day doing good work in the various branches of the profession. Some are ministers, professors, teachers, elocutionists, readers and on the histrionic stage. Mrs. Prank and the public have a right to be proud of the work done in this school, which has been endorsed by some of the best known men in the United States. She loves her art, and from her soul. She is true and noble of heart, and has educated in the various branches of the art many pupils without recompense, because from her heart she desires to lend a helping hand to those who are deserving. Mrs. Prunk is also principal of the dramatic department of the School of Music of Indianapolis, and her work is endorsed by many distinguished men and women of letters, among whom may be mentioned, William E. Sheldon, editor of New England Journal of Education; Right Rev. D. B. Knickerbocker, Bishop of Indiana: Rev. Edward Bradley, of New York City; Rev. Dr. Cleveland, of Indianapolis; Rev. Dr. Haines of Indianapolis, and many others. It requires but the willingness on her part for her fame to become coextensive with the country. The highest and best authorities are agreed that she has no peer as a delineator of character and interpreter of dramatic art, and that has been acknowledged wherever she has appeared and by the numerous patrons of the school of which she is now principal. To the people of her own city and State and to the refined and cultured circles of the East she requires no introduction. Her friends place her alongside of Mrs. Siddons, the resemblance between the power and presence of both being marked. Mrs. Prank combines in a positive manner those mental and physical powers which constitute excellence in her art and which in any other situation or profession would cause some one or more of her splendid gifts to be misplaced or to lie dormant. Her face and form are highly attractive and she has attained that degree of perfection in her work that it has ceased to appear as art, but as nature itself. Mrs. Prunk has been a profound student of the forms and capabilities of language, so that a delicacy of emphasis is assured by which the meaning of an author is most intelligently conveyed, and no critic could suggest in her delivery a shade of intonation by which the sentiment could be more faithfully or fully expressed. With an unequaled genius and a passionate love for her art, and having the utmost patience in study, and a purely sympathetic nature, there is not a passage she cannot delineate, and the most delicate shade and nicest modification of passion she siezes with philosophical accuracy and renders with such immediate force of nature and truth, as well as precision, that what is the result, of deep study and unwearied patience and practice appears like a sudden inspiration. A Boston paper says of Mrs. Prunk: " There is not a height of grandeur to which she does not soar, nor a depth of misery to which she can not descend, nor a chord of feeling, from the sternest to the most delicate, which she cannot cause to vibrate at her will." One of Indiana's best-known writers, after attending one of Mrs. Prunk's entertainments, wrote the following of her voice: TO HATTIE AUGUSTA PRUNK Your voice! it is sweet as a day in June, When buds are in bloom and the birds attune Their songs to the gladness that pushes through The air and the flowers and the heart of man, And you clothe old thoughts with a meaning new When you read as an artist only can. Your voice! it is like an autumn wind That quavers and moans and falters behind The triumphant horns of summer days, But which be the sweeter - . June tones or sad, It cloth matter not, for the love always Throbs in the mournful as well as the glad. Your voice! it is clear as a tinkling stream That ripples and purls and glances between The wlllows that lean o'er its shining breast. You " Rock Me to Sleep" with the rhythmic flow Of words that you read, and a holy rest Cradles my soul when your voice falls low, low, Like a dream of a olden lullaby That sways the tired heart with its melody. "Her personal appearance and presence are stately and dignified, while her command of facial expression seems almost unlimited, now capable of delineating the sunniest of smiles, now picturing the sternest of expressions, now lighted up with the beams of hope, and anon shrouded in the gloom of despair." Unlike a good many, who seem not to live outside of their profession, Mrs. Prunk shines as brilliantly in the social circle as on the platform, is a versatile and brilliant conversationalist, quick as lightning's flash, apt at repartee, and in the arena of refined sarcasm able to cut and parry with all the polish and dash of the witty, refined and accomplished lady. In her domestic relations she is by nature pre-eminently happy, a noble wife and a devoted mother, having inherited the qualities of head and heart characteristic of her late much beloved mother, a Christian woman of broad ideas, unusual intelligence and charitable in the highest sense of the word, and between mother and daughter there existed a remarkable bond of devoted affection and companionship. Mrs. Prunk is now in the very prime of life and cannot have yet reached the zenith of her physical and intellectual powers. Assuredly higher honors await her than she has yet achieved. Record# 31121 in database 19th Indiana Century Physicians Source: 19th Century Database of Indiana Physicians <http://www.medlib.iupui.edu/hom/19thdoc.html> -- Jeffery G. Scism, IBSSG ~~ "Proponents of each side are vying with determination to prove their ignorance is greater than the other." President Andrew Jackson, discussing a bill going through the US Congress. Visit http://ibssg.org/ For The Blacksheep website, Montgomery County, Putnam County, and Fountain County USGenWeb sites. MORE... Putnam County Indiana Biographies and Obituaries http://ibssg.org/putnam/bios/ Montgomery County Indiana Biographies and Obituaries http://ibssg.org/montgomery/bios/ Fountain County Indiana Biographies and Obituaries http://ibssg.org/fountain/vitals/bios/

The Peffley, Peffly, Pefley Families in America, A historical and genealogical record of the Peffley, Peffly and Pefley families from 1729-1938; Published in 1938, By May Miller Frost and Clarence Earl Frost Call Number: R929.2 P375 7 - ELIZABETH PEFFLEY (dau. of No.5) married in Botetourt Co., Va. (by Rev. Samuel Mitchell) August 21st, 1809, MICHAEL RETTINGER, born Feb. 3rd, 1785, died Jan. 19th, 1875. Buried in Ben. Brubaker Cem., Hanging Rock, Va. Issue: All born in Botetourt Co., Va. 1 - HANNAH RETTINGER, b. 6-16-1810, d. 6-5-1892, Mont. Co. Ind. 2 - ELIZABETH RETTINGER. 3 - DAVID RETTINGER, b. 2-4-1818, d. 5-11-1869, Roanoke Co. Va. 4 - SUSANNAH RETTINGER, b. 2-16-1820, d. 1-14-1903, Roanoke Co. Va. 5 - SAMUEL RETTINGER, b. 6-29-1822, d. 3-29-1892, Mont. Co. Ind.

The Peffley, Peffly, Pefley Families in America, A historical and genealogical record of the Peffley, Peffly and Pefley families from1729 <cid:part1.03060805.00010108@roadrunner.com>-1938; Published in 1938, By May Miller Frost and Clarence Earl Frost Call Number: R929.2 P375 1004 - JONATHON PEFLEY (son of No.943 <cid:part2.02080708.09030803@roadrunner.com>) married in Botetourt Co., Va., ELIZABETH SHANK, born in Botetourt Co., Va., Feb. 15th, 1812, died 1842 (dau. of JOHN and NANCY SHANK). Jonathon moved from Virginia to Preble Co., Ohio then to Johnson Co., Ind. He is buried in Johnson Co., Ind. Issue: 1 - HENRY PEFLEY, b. 7-10-1829. 2 - LYDIA ANN PEFLEY, b. 6-26-1831, Preble Co., O., d. 6-2-1919. 3 - JOHN PEFLEY, b. May 1833, Preble Co. O., d. nr. Trafalgar, Ind. 4 - MARY A. PEFLEY, b. 9-8-1840, Preble Co. O., d. 12-30-1871. 5 - SUSAN PEFLEY, twin, b. 9-8-1840, Preble Co., bur. in Union twp., Johnson Co. Ind. Roanoke Co., Va. deed book 8, page 458. Estate extract: Jan. 5th, 1870 - Between George Shank and E. Shank, his wife, John Shank, M. A. Shank and his wife, J. H. Vandiver, Susannah, his wife, M. A. Dollins, F. W. Clemmer, Nancy C. Clemmer, his wife, George T. Bridges and Lydia A., his wife, Daniel Roberts and Maria his wife, Henry Pefley and Nancy, his wife, Jacob Shank and Lydia, his wife, Abraham Stover and Sally, his wife, William Shank, Lula E., his wife, John Lomax and Anna, his wife, parties of the first part and John W. Doosing and Caleb Huffman of the second part. Parties of the first part are the adult and married children and descendants of John and Nancy Shank. -- Jeffery G. Scism, IBSSG ~~ "Proponents of each side are vying with determination to prove their ignorance is greater than the other." President Andrew Jackson, discussing a bill going through the US Congress. Visit http://ibssg.org/ For The Blacksheep website, Montgomery County, Putnam County, and Fountain County USGenWeb sites. MORE... Putnam County Indiana Biographies and Obituaries http://ibssg.org/putnam/bios/ Montgomery County Indiana Biographies and Obituaries http://ibssg.org/montgomery/bios/ Fountain County Indiana Biographies and Obituaries http://ibssg.org/fountain/vitals/bios/

The Peffley, Peffly, Pefley Families in America, A historical and genealogical record of the Peffley, Peffly and Pefley families from 1729-1938; Published in 1938, By May Miller Frost and Clarence Earl Frost Call Number: R929.2 P375 1045 - ELIZABETH PEFLEY (dau. of No.943 <cid:part1.01030406.03090302@roadrunner.com>) married in Botetourt Co., Va., in Feb. 23rd, 1832 JOHN W. SMITH. They lived on a part of Henry's farm which Elizabeth inherited from her father. (no further record). -- Jeffery G. Scism, IBSSG ~~ "Proponents of each side are vying with determination to prove their ignorance is greater than the other." President Andrew Jackson, discussing a bill going through the US Congress. Visit http://ibssg.org/ For The Blacksheep website, Montgomery County, Putnam County, and Fountain County USGenWeb sites. MORE... Putnam County Indiana Biographies and Obituaries http://ibssg.org/putnam/bios/ Montgomery County Indiana Biographies and Obituaries http://ibssg.org/montgomery/bios/ Fountain County Indiana Biographies and Obituaries http://ibssg.org/fountain/vitals/bios/

The Peffley, Peffly, Pefley Families in America, A historical and genealogical record of the Peffley, Peffly and Pefley families from 1729-1938; Published in 1938, By May Miller Frost and Clarence Earl Frost Call Number: R929.2 P375 1046 - CATHERINE PEFLEY (dau. of No.943 <cid:part1.07050405.06070907@roadrunner.com>) married in Botetourt Co., Va., (by Rev. Joel Crumpacker) Mar. 21st, 1831 ABRAHAM GRUBB. -- Jeffery G. Scism, IBSSG ~~ "Proponents of each side are vying with determination to prove their ignorance is greater than the other." President Andrew Jackson, discussing a bill going through the US Congress. Visit http://ibssg.org/ For The Blacksheep website, Montgomery County, Putnam County, and Fountain County USGenWeb sites. MORE... Putnam County Indiana Biographies and Obituaries http://ibssg.org/putnam/bios/ Montgomery County Indiana Biographies and Obituaries http://ibssg.org/montgomery/bios/ Fountain County Indiana Biographies and Obituaries http://ibssg.org/fountain/vitals/bios/

http://www.rootsweb.com/~vaboteto/botetot.html I want to thank Bob Macoubrie, Lenexa, Kansas for providing me with the Lemon Bible and Cemetery, which has been added today. Rena

I have a request for photos in the Spangler Cemetery on Rt 43 in Botetourt County, Va. Can anyone help me with directions to this cemetery. I was there back about 10 years ago, and I can't remember exactly where it is. When I was there, I only found 5 markers, so it is important to document this small cemetery before a developer plows it under. Thank you in advance. Tomorrow is supposed to be a pretty day, and I wanted to go there and get the photos. Rena

Is by chance E.L Snodgrass relate back to Joseph Snodgrass of this county? My maternal grandfather is a Snodgrass and his father George Hunt Snodgrass moved from that county to Wise County VA. -----Original Message----- From: vaboteto-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:vaboteto-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Scism Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2008 10:06 AM To: vaboteto@rootsweb.com Subject: [VABOTETO] E. L. Snodgrass E. L. Snodgrass Montgomery County, Indiana H. W. Beckwith History of Montgomery County, Indiana (Chicago: HH Hill, 1881) p 475 E.L. SNODGRASS, planing miller, Ladoga. In writing up the industries of Ladoga we take great pleasure in mentioning the firm of Snodgrass & Huntington, proprietors of the Ladoga stave & planing mills, which was organized in 1876. E.L. Snodgrass is a native of Botetourt Co, Va and was b. in 1845. He is the son of Robert & Nancy Snodgrass. Mr. S. served two years in the confederate army, serving in the 2d Va. reg and was in over 50 battles. He was severely wounded at the Battle of Milford in 1864. In 1868 he came to Boone Co In where he worked at the carpenter's trade, and in 1876 came to this County. He is a member of the Masons & Knights of Pythias and of the Presbyterian Church. In 1868 he marr. Miss Virginia MOUNT, a native of this County and dau. of Alfred G. and Margaret Mount. His family are: Theodric; August O. and Maud G. -- Jeffery G. Scism, IBSSG ~~ "Proponents of each side are vying with determination to prove their ignorance is greater than the other." President Andrew Jackson, discussing a bill going through the US Congress. Visit http://ibssg.org/ For The Blacksheep website, Montgomery County, Putnam County, and Fountain County USGenWeb sites. MORE... Putnam County Indiana Biographies and Obituaries http://ibssg.org/putnam/bios/ Montgomery County Indiana Biographies and Obituaries http://ibssg.org/montgomery/bios/ Fountain County Indiana Biographies and Obituaries http://ibssg.org/fountain/vitals/bios/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Second Sunday in each month will set aside for a "Brick Wall" Roll Call. Please always put the surname you seek in the subject and tell us something about your Brick Wall person. To contact Listowner: Rena Worthen doreatr@rbnet.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VABOTETO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hello - Thank you. Let me study these some and see if I can find a connection. What I need is a document, Bible Record, estate, will, etc., that names the children of George & Mary Davies Gray. I have never seen such a list. The dau Ann is pretty old to be of a marriage dated 1778, but it is possible. Thank you again, it gives me something more to work with. John At 10:04 AM 3/1/2008, you wrote: > >From "Botetourt Children by Charles Burton" i see a George Gray & Mary with >a daughter Ann b. abt 1824 died 1/16/1867 md. ----Sheppard. > >Attaching Gray marriages from early Botetourt marriages. Please advise if I >can help with copies of any of these. I will need your mailing address if >so.

I have been informed by some kind ladies that there was a Charles Selby in the 1810 census. Could someone please check and tell me if there were any other Selby's in this county? One guess would be a Wesley Selby. Thank you for any help. Muriel

The Peffley, Peffly, Pefley Families in America, A historical and genealogical record of the Peffley, Peffly and Pefley families from 1729-1938; Published in 1938, By May Miller Frost and Clarence Earl Frost Call Number: R929.2 P375 1064 - DANIEL B. PEFLEY (son of No.943 <cid:part1.07050706.04070707@roadrunner.com>) married in Botetourt Co., Va., ANNA ELIZA WRIGHTSMAN (dau. of SAMUEL and ANNIE WRIGHTSMAN). Daniel and his wife moved to Wabash Co., Ind., where they spent the rest of their life. No issue. Roanoke Co., Va., Deed book F, page 52. Deed dated Sept. 7th, 1857, between Annie Wrightsman, widow of Samuel Wrightsman deceased, John Wrightsman, son of said Samuel deceased; Polly Wrightsman his wife, Sally Wrightsman, David Naff and Susan his wife, formerly Susan Wrightsman, William Ronk and Elizabeth Ronk, his wife; Minor Riffey and Polly his wife, formerly Wrightsman; and Daniel B. Pefley and Annie, his wife, formerly Annie Wrightsman, of the first part and Samuel Wrightsman of the second part. The parties of the first part have sold to said Samuel Wrightsman all right and interest in a tract of which the said Samuel Wrightsman, deceased died seized containing 171 1/2 acres at $15.00 per acre. Bounded by the land of George Garst, John Brubaker, Isaac F. Renn and John S. Balthis and A. R. McCorkle Signed. Minor Riffey, Polly Riffey. Deed book 8, page 18. Aug. 9th, 1869 Between Daniel Pefley and Anna Eliza, his wife, and John Henderson, two tracts of land, 120 acres lying on the waters of Craig's Creek. Sold to Daniel Pefley by Dinney Bradley and wife Jan. 29th, 1855, second tract by George Bechner, Jan. 29th, 1855. -- Jeffery G. Scism, IBSSG ~~ "Proponents of each side are vying with determination to prove their ignorance is greater than the other." President Andrew Jackson, discussing a bill going through the US Congress. Visit http://ibssg.org/ For The Blacksheep website, Montgomery County, Putnam County, and Fountain County USGenWeb sites. MORE... Putnam County Indiana Biographies and Obituaries http://ibssg.org/putnam/bios/ Montgomery County Indiana Biographies and Obituaries http://ibssg.org/montgomery/bios/ Fountain County Indiana Biographies and Obituaries http://ibssg.org/fountain/vitals/bios/

1065--SAMUEL PEFLEY (son of No. 4) married in Botetourt Co., Va., in 1799 ANNA BORNDRAGAR, born in Lancaster Co., Pa., Mar. 8th, 1783, died Aug. 5th, 1864, Mont. Co., Ind., (dau. of ANDREW and SUSANNAH BORNDRAGAR). Both are buried in the John B. Pefley cemetery near Ladoga, Ind. Note--The name Borndragar has many variations as follows: Burntrager, Bontrager, Burntrailler, Burndraker--See Borndragar will under Henry Pefley No. 943. <file:///D:/allgenealogy/000-genealogy-websites/ibssg.org/peffley/new-peffbook/efo%7E5.htm#943> Samuel and Anna (Nancy) moved to Indiana from Virginia in 1835 arriving in Mont. Co., and settling near Ladoga in the month of October. They were six weeks on the road from Salem, Va. They had one four horse wagon, one two horse, and a one horse carryall. They traveled on the National highway from Harper's Ferry to near Danville, Ind., and then on the Crawfordsville Road. *Records from Botetourt Co., Va. Deed book 6, page 148, Dec. 13th, 1796*, Samuel Pafley bought from Wm. McClanahan 110 acres for $500.00, bounded by Michael Frantz, Peter Evans and Myers. *Deed book 9, page 640, Jan. 8th, 1809*, Samuel Peffley **** 70 acres from Christian Harshbarger, executor of the will of Andrew Borndrager, as his heir, on Tinker's Creek. *Deed book 15, page 537, May 24th, 1823*, Samuel Peffley bought from Wm. McClanahan 140 acres for $1400.00, bounded by Benj. Markey and John Houtz. *Deed book 21, page 290*, This indenture made this 9th day of Sept. 1835 between Samuel Peffley and Anne his wife, of Botetourt Co., state of Virginia of the one part and Michael Miller and Jacob Shafer of the said county and state of the other part, witnesseth that for and in consideration of the sum of $4,000.00 in hand paid to them (???) receipt of which is hereby acknowledged hath granted, bargained and sold **** unto the said Michael Miller and Jacob Shafer and their heirs forever three certain tracts or parcels of land situated in the above mentioned county and state containing 237 acres **** bounded as follows: beginning at a hickory sapling corner to Jonathon Evans and Joseph Leonard, then with the line of Leonard south 160 poles to a white oak sapling, thence north 27, west 77 poles, crossing the Springs Road to a hickory and a white pine corner to George Garst, thence with a line of the same south 47 1/2, west 122 poles to a white oak and a black, corner to said George Garst and John Houtz, thence with Houts line south 40, east 52 poles to three white oak saplings by a road thence south 43, east 7 poles crossing the Springs Road to a white oak and a black oak, thence south 2 1/4, west 78 poles to the south of 2 black oaks, thence south 56, east 122 poles to an Apple tree, thence north 5 1/2, west 72 poles to two white oaks, thence north 25 3/4, west 46 poles to 2 black oaks, thence south 50, east 60 poles to a stake of said Evans line thence with the line of the same north 14, east 248 poles to the beginning. Issue: All born in Botetourt Co., Va. 1--HANNAH PEFLEY, b. 7-13-1800. 2--SARAH PEFLEY, b. 8-16-1802. 3--SUSANNA PEFLEY, b. 9-22-1804. 4--ANNA (NANCY) PEFLEY, b. 12-2-1806, d. 1-10-1874, Mont. Co. Ind. 5--ELIZABETH (BETSEY) PEFLEY, b. 11-4-1808, d. 4-4-1872, Iowa. 6--SAMUEL PEFLEY, b. 11-26-1810, d. 3-14-1892, Linn Co. Iowa. 7--JOHN B. PEFLEY, b. 3-19-1813, d. 9-24-1904, Mont. Co. Ind. 8--MARY (POLLY) PEFLEY, b. 4-18-1816. 9--ESTHER (HETTIE) PEFLEY, b. 8-25-1818, d. 2-22-1888, Mont. Co., Ind. 10--FRANCES (FANNY) PEFLEY, b. 11-4-1820, d. 9-27-1874, Mont. Co. Ind. 11--CATHERINE PEFLEY, b. 2-18-1826, d. 7-9-1830, Bot. Co. Va. 12--ANDREW PEFLEY, b. 5-18-1828, d. 7-28-1860, Mont. Co. Ind. The following is a translation from the *German Bible of Samuel Pefley*, now in possession of Charles Pefley (No. 1316) Reno, Nevada, copied by Margie Pefley (No. 1316)(In 1938). Samuel Peffley died May 10th, 1860 (85 years). Anna Peffley died Aug. 5th, 1864 (81 years). Catherine died July 9th, 1830. 1800--July 13th, Came into the world a daughter to me and her name is Hannah. The witness was Wider. 1802--Aug. 16th, Again a daughter and her name is Sarah. The witness was Wider. Again in 1804--Sept. 22nd, a daughter and her name is Suzanna. Her witness was Nihe. Again in 1806-- Dec. 2nd, a daughter and her name is Anna. Her witness was Jung frau (young woman). 1808--Nov. 4th, again a daughter and her name is Elizabeth. Her witness was Krehs. 1816--Apr. 18th, again a daughter. Her name is Mary. Her witness Numbok. 1818--August 25, a daughter named Esther. Her witness was Krehs. 1783--Mar. 8th, Anna, mother of children was born. 1820--Nov. 4th, again a daughter named Frena (Frances). 1775--Oct. 23rd, the writer, I myself, Samuel Peffley, was born. 1810--Nov. 26th, a son named Samuel. Witness was Seez. 1813--Mar. 19th, a son named Johannes (John). 1826--Feb. 11th, a daughter named Catherine. 1828--May 18th, a son named Andreas (Andrew). His witness was Krehs. -- Jeffery G. Scism, IBSSG ~~ "Proponents of each side are vying with determination to prove their ignorance is greater than the other." President Andrew Jackson, discussing a bill going through the US Congress. Visit http://ibssg.org/ For The Blacksheep website, Montgomery County, Putnam County, and Fountain County USGenWeb sites. MORE... Putnam County Indiana Biographies and Obituaries http://ibssg.org/putnam/bios/ Montgomery County Indiana Biographies and Obituaries http://ibssg.org/montgomery/bios/ Fountain County Indiana Biographies and Obituaries http://ibssg.org/fountain/vitals/bios/