..............found this and thought it might be of interest:
WARSAW TIMES UNION Sat. Oct. 29, 1955 page 2
In a column titled: Around Our Town And Country
PIONEER ANCESTOR
I read the letter from Ethel G. Baker inquiring about Kosciusko county
pioneer residents, and stating that her grandfather Peter L. Runyan arrived
in the county before 1840. According to our family records my grandfather,
John Ross came to Indiana from West Virginia about 1832. He came in a
prairie schooner with his wife Phebe, a few small children and two colored
servants, who were free but had been former slaves of his wife. He
(according to the record) built the first house in Warsaw. It was built of
tamarack poles. Not long after he took a homestead of 40 acres about nine
miles northwest of Warsaw near Clunette and later added another 80 acres.
This homestead was thickly settled timberland. The first task was to clear
a spot for the house and garden. John was a farmer and mechanic and also a
Methodist minister, circuit rider and school teacher both in West Virginia
and Indiana. Miss Baker's mention of Peter L. Runyan reminds me that I have
two complimentary tickets to "The Old Settler's Fair" issued in 1882 to
John
and Phebe Ross, who lived in Kosciusko county for more than 30 years. These
tickets are signed by H. P. Comstock, president, and John N. Runyan,
secretary. --Mrs. Cretia (Ross) Yeiter.
respectfully submitted...
Marge Priser
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