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Found in a scrapbook -- no date / name of paper, etc./ -- "Obituary" -- Felix Bowers, the grand old gentleman so well and favorably known throughout this country as Uncle Felix, the Country Blacksmith, was born in Davidson County, NC near Thomasville, Oct 16, 1824, and quietly and peacefully fell asleep Tuesday evening, july 23, 1918, at 8 o'clock at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Susan Zachmire, age 93 years, 9 months and 7 days. Passing out of the shadow, into eternal day, Why, oh why do we call it dying this sweet going away? Uncle Felix had been in really poor health for many months, and years but bore his infirmaties without complaint. In early manhood he united with the Lutheran Church in NC prior to his removal to this state and lived a humble, patient, christian life, doing as he wishe to be done by . He was united in marr. to Catherine Hepler in 1847, who preceded him in death in 1912. To this union three little girls came to brighten the home, now known as Mrs. Delphina Myers, decease wife of Eli Myers, Mrs Mary Zackmire and Mrs. Susan Zackmire. he with his wife emigrated to Fountain Co, In in 1858. They were among the early pioneer families of state and endured the hardships of early pioneer life. The little log cabin which they erected and live din until death of his devoted wife is still standing. He was engage din farming and as a blacksmith, during the active part of his life. He also made a home for his aged mother, who, after having suffered for four years, preceded him in death at a ripe age of 99 1/2 years. She lived in all the presidential administrations up to her death except Washington and Adams. he leaves two daughters, fourteen grandchildren, 27 gr. grandchildren and one great, great grandchild with a host of relatives and firends to mourn his departure. Uncle Felix is gone Today the home circle is again broken one more link is gone. There waits an empty chair but his kindly deeds and friendly helpfulness are his monument and our sorrowing tears his epitaph.
Waveland Independent May 9, 1919 - Marney Sowers, son of Tom Sowers has at last safely returned from army service overseas. He was at one time reported dead of wounds. Note: He lived until 1964
Crawfordsville Weekly Journal "RR #4" 12-8-1899 -- Early Tuesday morning the sad news flashed across the country that El Livengood was dead, after months of long suffering. He is at rest although the thought brings sadness into the hearts of all who knew him for to know Mr. Livengood was to know a man that was a friend in need to one and all, always thinking of self last. Bur words are not needed to praise him, his life speaks for itself. Interment at the Waynetown cemetery funeral preached at the family residence Thursday at 10 o'clock.
Tom Fine <tomfine(a)iowatelecom.net> wrote:
> Hello, I am looking to confirm date and exact name of my
> gr-grandfather , Alonzo Fine( possibly Alonzo Washington Fine or
> Alonzo Samuel Fine) born 1853 in Fountain County, son of Peter Fine,
> Jr. Thanks,Tom
Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, 12-1-1899 - Mrs. Rhoda Powell, nee Brown was born April 24, 1859, and died at her home, north of State Line, Ind Nov 25, 1899. She was married to Chas. Powell Sept 20, 1883. One son was born to this union. For 18 months she suffered as few mortals have to suffer. Amidst her terrible pain she was patient and kind, never complaining She leaves a husband and son, a father, two sisters and a brother, together with a host of friends to mourn her loss. She die din the triumphs of the gospel of Christ. The funeral was held at Walnut Corner Church, Rev. WG Smith of Delphi preached the funeral. For years she had been a faithful member of the Christian Church. She has gone to her reward. Truly she hath done what she could. The world is made better by such pure lives as hers. She enters into rest mourned by all who knew her.
Waynetown Despatch (sic) Friday, May 7, 1948 -- Mrs. Clara Westfall, resident of Waynetown for the past 18 years died at 1005 o'clock Wenesday night at her home here. She had been ill two years with a heart ailment. Born March 22, 1873 in Fountain County, the deceased was the daughter of William C. and Mary Short Gardner, both of whom died during Mrs. Westfall's early childhood. Mrs. Westfall was reared by Mr. and Mrs. William Biddle at whose home she was married Feb 5, 1893 to Jack Westfall. For 18 months immediately following her marriage, mrs. Westfall lived on a farm 4 miles north of Wayentown. Mrs. Westfall and her husband then moved to the Biddle farm where they resided until 1930 when residence was established in Wayentown. The deceased was a member of the Waynetown Baptist Church for 61 years. Surviving in addition to the husband, 4 sons: Clarence of New Ross, Leslie and Marion of Crawfordsville and Ora of Williamsport; two daughters, Mrs. Joanna Lewellen of Wayentown and Mrs. George Abbey of Hammond; one sister, Mrs. Anne haas of Mellott and six grandchildren. Funeral services were held from the Waynetown Baptist Church Friday afternoon with Rev. John Cassidy, assisted by Rev. Guy Tremaine in charge. Burial was in Waynetown Masonic Cemetery.
Crawfordsville Weekly Journal 12-29-1899 - p 8 -- Harry Allen of Wallace and Rena McClure of this vicinity were married at Waynetown by Rev. Miller Dec 24th. They are at present wiht his father, Thomas Allen. Mr. and Mrs. Allen are well known young people and have the best wishes of all.
This one is fun too, it will tell you how many people have your name.
There is only 1 Adina Dyer in the entire country! I'm one of a kind. lol
http://howmanyofme.com/search/
Adina
Karen Zach wrote:
> This is interesting. Type in your last name as a search (here's an example on my Darst family) and you'll see where all they live in the US :)
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> Replace darst with your/any family last name and find out where your "cousins"
> are found all over the U.S. Even shows a map for their locations. Pretty neat.
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> Happy St. Pat's to all
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This is interesting. Type in your last name as a search (here's an example on my Darst family) and you'll see where all they live in the US :)
try http://names.whitepages.com/last/darst
Replace darst with your/any family last name and find out where your "cousins"
are found all over the U.S. Even shows a map for their locations. Pretty neat.
Happy St. Pat's to all
Crawfordsville Journal Review 10 Sept 1942 - Veedersburg, Sept 10 - Mrs. India Galloway, 81, a native of this community died Wednesday in Frankfort at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Barkalo Meeker, with whom she had resided recently. Born Oct 1, 1860, naer Veedersburg, Mrs. Galloway was the daughter of Archibald Ward and Savannah Glover Ward, pioneer Fountain county couple. The husband, John A. Galloway died 10 years ago. Surviving, besides the daughter at whose home she died are: a daughter, Mrs. Anna Jones of Decatur, ill and 7 sons, OK Galloway of Crawfordsville, Urban and Huber of Lafayette; A.T. Galloway of Newtown, Jack of Hillsboro, Morris of Austin, Tx and Albert of Attica. Funeral services will be held at the Osborne Prairie Church, northwest of here, at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon with burial in the cemetery near the church.
Waveland Independent Feb 21, 1930 -- John Galloway, age 75, a pominent farmer of the Osborn Prairie neighborhood, died Friday afternoon at 5:20 at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Orville M. Meeker, on East Washington Street. Mr. Galloway is survived by his widow, India C. Galloway, two daughters, Mrs. Orvall M. Meeker of Attica, Mrs. Leslie Jones of Decatur, Ill, 7 sons: Urban of Lafayette; A.T. of Newtown; Hubert of Attica; O.K. of Waveland; Jack of Duncan, OK; and Maurice of Dallas, Texas. Funeral services wer eheld Monday at 2 o'clock from the Osborn Prairie CHurch - C'ville Journal and Review
WELCOME -- that's what we're here for :)
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Adina Watkins Dyer" <adyer(a)insightbb.com>
To: <infounta(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 11:48 AM
Subject: Re: [InFounta] Carter bio to add to both sites Jeff -- also the
Bounell one I sent you was page 1263 :) Sorry
Thanks for this Carter bio, he is part of my Carter family - his father
James was a brother of my ancestor, Samuel Carter.
Adina
Karen Zach wrote:
> Bowen, A. W. History of Montgomery County, Indiana. Indianapolis, IN:
> 1913, p. 1265 -- One of the best known and most representative
> agriculturists and business men of the northwestern part of Montgomery
> County is C.W. Carter of Wingate, Coal Creek Township, a man who has worke
> dhard and managed well and at the same time has so ordered his ways that
> he has avoided offense to those with whom he has had dealings or come into
> contact with in any way, being a man of proper conceptions regarding right
> and wrong and one who believes in following the precepts of the Golden
> Rule in the every day affairs as near as possible, consequently he has
> ever enjoyed the confidence of his neighbors and acquaintances. For many
> years he was an extensive dealer in hardware at Wingate, but he has
> recently abandoned that and turned his attention exclusively to his large
> and valuable farm just on th eedge of Fountain County on the west and he
> has proved that he has the capacity for most any kind o!
> f business that he cares to direct his attention to. Mr. Carter was born
> on August 17, 1869 in Davis Township, Fountain County, Indiana. He is a
> son of J. F. and Rachel (Washburn) Carter. The father was born Nov 18,
> 1843 in Fountain County and there he grew to manhood, was educated and
> devoted his active life successfully to farming and stock raising, being
> still in that vocation. His wife is also still living. They are the
> parents of three children, all living. C. W. Carter received his education
> in the common schools of Fountain County and when a boy worked on the home
> farm. On May 23, 1893 he was united in marriage to Hattie a. Wilson. She
> is a sister of J.D. Wilson, whose sketch, containing a history of their
> parents will be found on another page of this work. Mrs. Carter received
> a common school education. Four children have been born to our subject
> and wife: Lloyd is deceased: Avenalle is at home; Leslie and Ruth are the
> two younger children. Mr. Carter began !
> life for himself as a farmer which he continued with success until 190
> 4 when he came to the town of Wingate and opened a hardware store, and
> soon built up a very satisfactory and extensive business with the
> surrounding country, but about a year ago he found it to his advantage to
> return to the farm, and he is now devoting his attention to general
> farming and stock raising on a large scale. He has a finely improved and
> well cultivated farm of 240 acres just across the line in Fountain county
> also land in Fulton County. He has a good grade of live stock and no
> small part of his annual income is derived from this source. There is a
> substantial and convenient set of buildings on his land, and he resides in
> his beautiful, modern bungalow, of 9 rooms and neatly furnished which is
> one of the most desirable homes in this part of the county. Politcally,
> Mr. Carter is a Democrat, but he has never been especially active in
> public affairs, however assists in any way he can in furthering local
> improvements. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal chu!
> rch and fraternally is a member of the Knights of Pythias at Wingate.
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Bowen, A. W. History of Montgomery county, Indiana. Indianapolis, IN: p. 1001 -- The name of Llewellyn Glen Coppage has been carried throughout the US through his famous hats, the "Ben Hur Brand," which he has long manufactured at Crawfordsville and for which there is a great demand, for in this, his specific line of endeavor, as in everything else, he has sought to do honest and conscientious work, having been trained in his youth to do well whatever is worth doing at all, and this is one of the secrets of his large and ever growing success, which he deserves in every way. He is a booster for the city of Crawfordsville and has done much for its permanent development. Mr. Coppage was born July 25, 1876 in Hillsboro, indiana and he is a son of Llewellyn J. and mary E. Revercomb Coppage. Mr. Coppage of this review, received a good common school education in and near Crawfordsville. When 11 he joined a theatrical troupe with which he remained some time, during which period he picked up a musical education and later had charge of the Coppage Orchestra, a well known organization in its day which for several years played for all local social and public functions, also furnished the music for two years in the old Nutt House dining room. He later had charge of an orchestra at what is now Mudlavia, then went to Michigan City, Indiana and taught music for two years with much success. While there he purchased a dry cleaning and hat manufacturing business. He later went to Danbury, Conn where he learned thoroughly the hat manufacturing business. That city is the center of the hat manufacturing industry in America, at least one of the principal, and mr. Coppage still goes there once a year for the purpose of keeping fully abreast of the times in his chosen field of endeavor, and he thus keeps up with modern styles and methods of manufacture. He understands every phase of the manufacturing of hats and is recognized as one of the best in his line, and becaue of the superior quality of his products there has long been a great demand for them. He established his present business inC rawfordsville in 1906, his plant, which is well and modernly equipped, having a capacity of from 12-15 dozen hats, the "Ben Hur Brand," which has been very popular for the past six years all over the country. He has also been very successful in the cleaning business and he purchased the Dema-Gilbert Block in 1910, a splendid, substantial 3-story building, with large floor space and with a commodiuos addition in the rear. Mr. Coppage is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and is Past Chancellor of K of P. He is now colonel of the 4th Regt of the Indiana Patriarchs Millitant is past chief patriarch of Bethesda Encampment, NO. 15 is also past grand of C'ville Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is also a membe rof the Rebekahs, Tribe of Ben-Hur, and he has the "Decoration of Chivalry," a high Odd Fellow distinction. He has long been very active and prominent in fraternal circles and is widely known throughout the state. he is a member of the State and national Dyers and Cleaners Association in which he takes a great dael of interest. Mr. Coppage was married Sept 30, 1902 to Bessie Mina Ryan, a lady of culture and representative of a fine family of Michigan City, Indiana.
WONDER IF THIS IS THE DRY CLEANERS HAP TALKED ABOUT -- they ruined something he sent :)
Joseph J. Messersmith, Jr. jjmessersmith(a)comcast.net wrote:
Considerable circumstantial evidence indicates that I descend from John
James and Lavinia "Melvina" Smith who married in Botetourt County in
1802. Although the book of Botetourt marriages indicates that she was
the daughter of John Smith, I have been through the Botetourt marriage
records at the courthouse, and I have not been able to verify that.
On 10 April 1806, a deed between Mathais Snider, executor of John
Smith's estate and Mary Smith, wife of John Smith, sold land to Peter
hack that adjoined land of Samuel Harshbarger and was on the east bank
of Tinkens Creek in Botetourt County. Mary Smith signed her name in German.
Now fast forward to 7 August 1845 in Botetourt County when Catherine
James, daughter of John and Lavinia James, married Alexander Rogers. Now
fast forward to the 1860 census in Montgomery County, IN and the
dwelling owned by Jacob Harshbarger and his wife Salome. Living in the
same household is the family of Alexander Rogers. In fact, Catherine
James Rogers was actually enumerated as Catherine Harshbarger. Also
living in the household was Melvina James, age 67, my ggg grandmother.
Based on the ages and locations of the births of the Rogers children,
Alexander must have taken his family to Indiana from Virginia about 1853
or 1854. I mention this because one of the biographies you posted said
that Jacob and Salona Harshbarger went to Indiana in 1831.
Here is the reference for the 1860 census to which I referred.
Year: 1860; Census Place: Scott, Montgomery, Indiana; Roll: M653_283;
Page: 80; Image: 81.
Since the Harshbargers left Virginia more than 20 years prior to
Alexander Rogers moving to Indiana, I feel that there may be some
connection between my James or Smith family, or possibly the Rogers
family, and the Harshbarger family.
Any assistance that you can provide in breaching this brick wall will be
appreciated.
Jim Messersmith jjmessersmith(a)comcast.net
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I don't have a will, but I have that she died 1839 and left two sons :
Sampson Reed born Feb 1826 and Joseph b. 20 Aug 1831. May be more.
Karen Z
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From: <DBRscottky(a)aol.com>
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Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 2:27 PM
Subject: [InFounta] Query--Stephen Reed
> Seeking info on Stephen Reed in 1850 and 1860 Fountain Co census with 2nd
> wife Sarah. He died about 1866. Need to know if he left a will naming
> children
> of first wife Elizabeth Castleman?
>
> Doris B. Reed
>
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>
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Seeking info on Stephen Reed in 1850 and 1860 Fountain Co census with 2nd
wife Sarah. He died about 1866. Need to know if he left a will naming children
of first wife Elizabeth Castleman?
Doris B. Reed
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Bowen, A. W. History of Montgomery County, Indiana. Indianapolis, IN: 1913, p. 1265 -- One of the best known and most representative agriculturists and business men of the northwestern part of Montgomery County is C.W. Carter of Wingate, Coal Creek Township, a man who has worke dhard and managed well and at the same time has so ordered his ways that he has avoided offense to those with whom he has had dealings or come into contact with in any way, being a man of proper conceptions regarding right and wrong and one who believes in following the precepts of the Golden Rule in the every day affairs as near as possible, consequently he has ever enjoyed the confidence of his neighbors and acquaintances. For many years he was an extensive dealer in hardware at Wingate, but he has recently abandoned that and turned his attention exclusively to his large and valuable farm just on th eedge of Fountain County on the west and he has proved that he has the capacity for most any kind of business that he cares to direct his attention to. Mr. Carter was born on August 17, 1869 in Davis Township, Fountain County, Indiana. He is a son of J. F. and Rachel (Washburn) Carter. The father was born Nov 18, 1843 in Fountain County and there he grew to manhood, was educated and devoted his active life successfully to farming and stock raising, being still in that vocation. His wife is also still living. They are the parents of three children, all living. C. W. Carter received his education in the common schools of Fountain County and when a boy worked on the home farm. On May 23, 1893 he was united in marriage to Hattie a. Wilson. She is a sister of J.D. Wilson, whose sketch, containing a history of their parents will be found on another page of this work. Mrs. Carter received a common school education. Four children have been born to our subject and wife: Lloyd is deceased: Avenalle is at home; Leslie and Ruth are the two younger children. Mr. Carter began life for himself as a farmer which he continued with success until 1904 when he came to the town of Wingate and opened a hardware store, and soon built up a very satisfactory and extensive business with the surrounding country, but about a year ago he found it to his advantage to return to the farm, and he is now devoting his attention to general farming and stock raising on a large scale. He has a finely improved and well cultivated farm of 240 acres just across the line in Fountain county also land in Fulton County. He has a good grade of live stock and no small part of his annual income is derived from this source. There is a substantial and convenient set of buildings on his land, and he resides in his beautiful, modern bungalow, of 9 rooms and neatly furnished which is one of the most desirable homes in this part of the county. Politcally, Mr. Carter is a Democrat, but he has never been especially active in public affairs, however assists in any way he can in furthering local improvements. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and fraternally is a member of the Knights of Pythias at Wingate.