Margaret Arick is my greataunt and her parents are Jacob H. Arick &
Elizabeth Tracy/Tracey. They are my 2nd g-grandparents. They are buried
in the Arick cemetery in Jackson Twp. Margaret & John are buried in the
Glenwood Cem. Roanoke. Here is an article about Jacob Arick
From the Roanoke Review, Roanoke, Indiana Friday Sept 4, 1936
History of the Jacob and Elizabeth Arick Family
The following history of the Arick families was read at the Arick Family
Reunion which was held at Sweeney Park in Fort Wayne on Sunday, Aug. 16, by
Mrs Viola Best a great-granddaughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Arick. Jacob
and Elizabeth Arick were the parents of Mrs. P. B. Settlemyer of Roanoke.
In a humble home in Pennsylvania in 1816 Jacob Arick was born December 28.
The following year 1817 over in Stark County, Ohio Elizabeth Tracy was born
October 8. This stalwart young man and dark haired madden were married
January 22, 1836 in Stark (error Wayne) County, Ohio, last one hundred
years ago last January. To them the following children were born:
Catherine the oldest was born Nov. 1, 1836. She was married to Jacob
Rathon (sic Rathfon) with six step-children. Jane, Ann, Elizabeth, Jim,
Dave, and Frank. Sarah Jane was born next on Feb. 3, 1838. She was
Married to Sam Smith. To them were born 3 children, Elizabeth, Ed. and
Will. Margaret was born Oct. 8, 1839, she was married to John S.
Settelmyre. To them were born Jim and Elmer. Elizabeth Ann was next, born
Mar. 23, 1841. She was married to Andrew Middaugh with two step-children.
Alma and Benton. To them were born Catherine Ann, Sidney, Mary Elizabeth,
Jacob, Amanda and Ephne. James was born next, April 6, 1843. He only lived
a few months. William was born March 31, 1844. He married Sarah Wallark
(sic Wallick) To them were born three children, Lissie, George, and Will.
After the death of William, Sarah married James Maddox (sic Maddux) and to
them were born Henry, Raymond, Minnie and Roscoe. In 1845 Mr. and Mrs.
Arick and family left their home in Ohio and came westward down the Erie
canal to Jackson Township, Huntington Co. Here they settled on the farm
now owned by Guy Brindle. In this new country, Mr. Arick acted as farmer,
carpenter, undertaker and coffin maker. He made his own coffins out of
pine boards and lined them with home spun. John was the first child born
to them in Indiana on March 10, 1846. He married Sarah Ann Wilson. To
them Zora was born. His second marriage was to Mary Catherine Hill and to
them were born Charley, Earnest, Jacob, John, Silas and Ola. Next came
Silas, born March 6, 1848. He went to Ohio and there married Mary Arick
(nee Galey). Elias was born March 1, 1850. He only lived a few months.
As death struck the family a hill north of the home was dedicated as the
family burying ground. Today this little cemetery stands just off of the
Allen-Huntington Co. line. Little Elias was the first one buried here.
Samantha was born Oct. 23, 1851. She was married to Sam Caley and to them
were born Rinde, Preston, and Jake. Alfred was born Dec. 20, 1853. He
married Amanda Smith and to them were born Allie, Will and Cliff. His
Second marriage was to Elizabeth Hill and to them were born Edna and
Elizabeth. Eanes (sic Enos) who died in infancy was born Nov. 15, 1855.
Mary Anne was born Jan. 11, 1857. She was married to Sidney Middaugh with
two step-children. Ira and Cora. To them were born Elva, Charley, Ruby,
Lawrence and Earnest. In 1859 they moved from the log cabin to a frame
house across the driveway. Here Nancy Marinda was born March 21, 1859.
She married Preston Settlemyre and to them were born Charles, Tillie and
Melissa. Silvester was born May 9, 1861. He died in childhood. After 57
years of married life death separated this husband and wife Elizabeth Arick
died Nov. 8, 1893 and December 10, 1894 Jacob Arick died. "May they rest
in peace" In 1917 the descendants of Jacob and Elizabeth Arick organized a
family reunion in memory of them. Written by their great-granddaughter
Viola Best.
I don't know who Viola Best or her descendants are. Marianne Arick Senecal
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Date: 1/30/2007 2:03:08 PM
Subject: [INHUNT] John Settlemyer
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>From Biographical Memoirs of Huntington County, 1901, pages 688-689
The well-known gentleman whose biography is embraced within these lines
belongs to
the large and eminently substantial class of citizens which the
state of Ohio has contributed to Huntington county.
He was born April 3, 1840, in Warren county, Ohio, near the town of
Lebanon, and is
one of five children constituting the family of William and
Annie (Wilkinson) Settlemyer, being the second in order of birth. The
names of the others are: Charles, a private in Company E, Seventy-fifth
Indiana Infantry, in the late Civil war, wounded at the battle of
Chickamauga, from the effects of which he died in 1874; Baylis lives on the
homestead in Ohio; James is a farmer living in Wells county, Indiana; while
the youngest died in infancy.
John M. Settlemyer remained in his native county until 1860, and in
company with
his brother Charles came by wagon to Huntington county,
Indiana, and settled on a four-hundred-acre tract in the township of
Jackson, where the two built a small log cabin of one room and began
clearing their land and otherwise preparing a part of it for tillage. The
land being heavily timbered, necessitated long and arduous toil to bring it
to a condition for the plow, but in time the task was assomplished,
principally through the efforts of the subject, his brother being absent in
the army a goodly portion of the time, and but little fitted for active
work upon his return by reason of his grievous injury.
In 1874 Mr. Settlemyer replaced his primitive log dwelling with a
building of
greatly enlarged dimensions, and one year later erected the
large and commodious barn which still answers the purpose for which it was
erected. On the 12th day of June, 1872, his marriage with Miss Margaret
Arick was duly solemnized, and two children have resulted from the union:
James W., a farmer and stock raiser of Jackson township; and John E., his
father's able and faithful assistant on the home farm.
Mr. Settlemyer has been unusually fortunate in the accumulation of this
world's
goods, being at this time the possessor of five hundred and sixty
acres of fertile land in Jackson township, the greater part of which is in
a successful state of tillage. He cleared a large portion of his land
himself, but for some years kept from four to six men almost constantly
employed in removing the timber, ditching the wet places and blasting out
stumps, and now his area of tillable land is larger than that belonging to
any other farmer in the township.
Mr. Settlemyer is a progressive farmer, and as a business man is
charaterized (sic)
by excellent judgment and clear foresight. He has a
comprehensive knowledge of all matters relating to agriculture and live
stock, and seldom if ever fails to make good bargains in all dealings with
his fellow men. While fortune has usually come his way, he is nevertheless
a man of strict integrity, and in his many business transactions no one has
ever coupled his name with any disreputable act or charged him with
anything tinged in the slightest degree with dishonor. He bears the
reputation of an honest, straightforward gentleman, whose word is never
questioned and whose life will bear the closest and strictest scrutiny. In
his political belief he is a Republican, and has decided opinions relative
to all the great questions of the day, upon which he expresses himself
intelligently when it becomes necessary so to do. While his early
educational training was limited to a few months' atten!
dance each year in the common schools, he has always been a close
observer, and by coming in contact with the world he is now the possessor
of a fund of practical knowledge which has aided him materially in building
up his fortune. He occupies a commendable place in the commmunity, and
Jackson township is proud to acknowledge him one of her most prosperous men.
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