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Surnames: Cole, Hard, Dale
Classification: Biography
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Frederic Mortimer Cole was born in Rodman, Jefferson Co., New York on August 2, 1818. He
was brought to Indiana as an infant when the family emigrated there in 1820, settling
first in Fayette County and relocating to Shelby County the following year. The group
included Fred's grandparents Benjamin and Prudence Hard Cole, and their seven children
and their families. Banjamin Cole and all his male family members claimed 160 acres in
Hanover Township near the present Morristown.
Fred Cole and Martha Dale were married in Noblesville, Hamilton Co., Indiana, Oct. 8,
1843. Eight children were born to them, six surviving, including sons Scott, Clark and
William, and daughters Viola, Louisa (Ida), and Lucy. After living several years on a farm
in Shelby County and later in Noblesville, where Fred was a merchant, the family moved in
1868 to Antioch (now Andrews) in Huntington County.
Fred Cole served as postmaster in Andrews from 1877 to 1885, then practiced law and served
as notary public. His son Scott Cole later became postmaster in Huntington. Fred's
wife Martha died Oct. 24, 1890. Fred died March 20, 1903 and is buried next to Martha in
the Cole family plot in Riverside Cemetery, Andrews.
The children of Fred Cole and Martha Dale married as follows: Scott Cole to Lida H. James;
Clark Cole to Elmira James (sister of Lida); William Dale Cole to Mary Emma Lucas Lee and,
after her death, to Dot Fox; Viola to Dr. Archibald W. Spain; Ida to Charles Morgan Long;
and Lucy to Abram J. Boughton.
References: History of Huntington County (1887), pp. 609-612, 730; Combination Atlas Map
of Huntington County, Indiana (1879), p. 24; The Descendants of James Cole by Ernest B.
Cole (New York: Grafton Press, 1908); History of Shelby County, Indiana (1909) by E. H.
Chadwick, p. 36; research notes of Lucy Dale Zeldenrust, descendant of Fred Cole, in
Shelby County Public Library, Shelbyville; and copies of Huntington local newspaper
articles in Cole family file, Indiana Room, Huntington Public Library.