My Ripley County ancestors also spilled over into Decatur and Franklin
Counties on occasion but all of them are brick walls at certain point.
I cannot get past these brick walls and I also need more information on
the descendants:
* = my lines
Brickwall #1 (both sides)
Clemens Heinrich Bosse b. ca. 1840 d. ca. 1874, bur. Huntersville
m. 26 Mar 1868 in Indiana
Mavie Louisa "Louise" Schwegmann b. 21 Jul 1847 in Franklin Co., IN
Children:
1. Frederick Herman Bosse b. 21 Mar 1869, Huntersville, d. 1 Jan 1927 in
Batesville, bur. St. John's Cemetery, Huntersville
m. 3 Oct 1894, Indiana to Lillian "Lilly" Amelia Elzina Belter b. 29 May
1873, Indiana, d. 23 Nov 1948 in Indiana, bur. St. John's
Cemetery, Huntersville
2. Mary Katherine Bosse b. abt 1870 d. unk
m. 6 Sep 1897 to Frank Belter b. unk, d. unk
3. John Herman Bosse b. 18 Nov 1871, Franklin Co., d. 12 Jul 1957 in
Batesville, bur. St. John's Cemetery, Huntersville
m. 14 Oct 1903 in Decatur Co. to Lulu J. Borg b. 1884, Decatur Co., d.
unk, bur. St. John's Cemetery
*4. William Henry Bosse aka Wilhelm Heinrich Bosse (my line) b. 4 Mar
1873, Franklin Co., d. 16 Jan 1951 in Franklin Co., bur. St. John's
Cemetery, Huntersville
m. 17 May 1899 in Ripley Co. to Anna Maria Dorothea "Dottie" Kops b. 7
Jun 1878, Ripley Co., d. 4 Mar 1953, Ripley Co., bur. St. John's
Cemetery, Huntersville
Brickwall #2 (both sides)
John W. Kops b. Aug 1838, Germany, d. 4 Aug 1909 in Crossroads, Indiana
m. ca. 1870 prob. Indiana, maybe Ripley
Anna Katherine "Kate" Huffmeier b. Feb 1849, Germany, d. 1937, prob.
Ripley Co., bur. St. Paul's Cemetery, Crossroads
Children:
1. Unknown Kops b. abt 1872 in Indiana, maybe Ripley Co., d. unk
2. Rosina Louise Kops b. abt 1874 in Indiana, maybe Ripley Co., d. aft
1910
m. bet 1892-1902 to Unknown Wessel b. unk, d. bef 1910
*3. Anna Maria Dorothea "Dottie" Kops b. 7 Jun 1878, Ripley Co., d. 4 Mar
1953, Ripley Co., bur. St. John's Cemetery, Huntersville
m. 17 May 1899 in Ripley Co. to William Henry Bosse aka Wilhelm
Heinrich Bosse (my line) b. 4 Mar 1873, Franklin Co., d. 16 Jan 1951 in
Franklin Co., bur. St. John's Cemetery, Huntersville
4. Henry J. Kops b. 31 Jan 1881 in Ray Twp., Franklin Co., d. 11 Dec 1930
in Indianapolis, Indiana, bur. unk
5. Herman John Kops b. 6 Jul 1883 in Ripley Co., d. unknown
m. 11 Jun 1913, Franklin Co. to Louise Mary Beinke b 13 Mar 1886, d.
unk (They had no children)
6. Emma Kops b. abt 1885 d. unk
7. Frederick J. Kops b. 20 Jun 1888 in Batesville, Laughery Twp, Ripley
Co., d. unk
8. William H. Kops b. 7 Nov 1891 in Batesville, Laughery Twp. Ripley Co.,
d. 28 Apr 1912 in Batesville, Laughery Twp, Ripley Co.
9. Hilda A. Kops b. 12 Mar 1894 in Batesville, Laughery Twp., Ripley Co.,
d. 13 Nov 1894 in Batesville, Laughery Twp, Ripley Co.
m. 30 Jun 1924 in Indianapolis, Marion Co. to Robert A Schulze b. abt
1892, d. 4 Feb 1943
Brickwall #3 (both sides)
Edward August Foerster (Förster) b. 18 Dec 1853, Prob. Quirl, Friestaat,
Saschen, Germany (Now Kostrzyca, Gmina Myslakowice, Jelenia Góra County,
Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland.) but Possibly Seitendorf, Schlesien,
Poland Was Seitendorf, Silesia, Germany, d. 12 Jul 1917 in Batesville,
Laughery Twp., Ripley Co., bur. St. John's Cemetery, Huntersville
m. abt 1874, Possibly in Seitendorf, Schlesien, Poland Was Seitendorf,
Silesia, Germany to Beatrice Joanna Friese b. 2 Aug 1856 Possibly in
Seitendorf, Schlesien, Poland Was Seitendorf, Silesia, Germany, d. 5 Sep
1929 in Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio, bur. St. John's Cemetery,
Huntersville
Children:
1. Bertha Ida Foerster b. 6 May 1875 in Seitendorf, Schlesien, Poland Was
Seitendorf, Silesia, Germany, d. 22 May 1921 in Cincinnati, Hamilton Co.,
Ohio, bur. St. Johns Cemetery, Huntersville (Never married)
2. Adolph August Foerster b. 21 Sep 1876 in Seitendorf, Schlesien, Poland
Was Seitendorf, Silesia, Germany, d. 25 Jul 1938 in Cincinnati, Hamilton
Co., Ohio
m. 27 Dec 1899 in Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio to Mina Louisa Feth b.
28 Jul 1876 in Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio, d. 5 May 1941 in
Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio
3. William Charles Karl Foerster b. 15 Jun 1878 in Seitendorf, Schlesien,
Poland Was Seitendorf, Silesia, Germany, d. 8 Nov 1954 in Batesville,
Laughery Twp., Ripley Co., bur. St. John's Cemetery, Huntersville
m. 19 Jun 1901 in Huntersville, Franklin Co., to Sophia Anna Krieger b.
1 Jun 1878 in Huntersville, Franklin Co., d. 26 Dec 1973 in
Batesville, Laughery Twp, Ripley Co., bur. St. John's Cemetery,
Huntersville
*4. Paul Herman Foerster b. 13 Feb 1881 in Prob. Quirl, Friestaat,
Saschen, Germany (Now Kostrzyca, Gmina Myslakowice, Jelenia Góra County,
Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland.) but Possibly Seitendorf,
Schlesien, Poland Was Seitendorf, Silesia, Germany, d. 5 Mar 1962 in
Indianapolis, Marion Co. Indiana, bur. Washington Park East Cemetery
Main Mausoleum, Indianapolis, Marion Co., Indiana
m. 6 Jun 1906 in Batesville, Laughery Twp, Ripley Co. to Charlotte
"Lottie" Elizabeth Bohner b. 10 Jun 1887 in Batesville, Laughery Twp.,
Ripley Co., d. 4 Jun 1964 in Indianapolis, Marion Co., Indiana, bur.
Washington Park East Cemetery Main Mausoleum, Indianapolis, Marion
Co., Indiana
5. Alfred Charles Foerster b. 13 Sep 1883 in Seitendorf, Schlesien,
Poland Was Seitendorf, Silesia, Germany, d. 5 Jan 1947 in Youngstown,
Mahoning Co., Ohio
m. 3 May 1905 in Franklin Co. to Rosa Margarett Kreiger b. 14 Jan 1886
in Franklin Co. near Batesville, d. 24 Aug 1910 in Batesville, Ripley
Co.
6. Emma Ida Foerster b. 17 May 1885 in Seitendorf, Schlesien, Poland Was
Seitendorf, Silesia, Germany, d. 4 Nov 1963 in Cincinnati, Hamilton Co.,
Ohio
m. 9 Jan 1908 in Cincinnati, Hamilton Co. Ohio to Christian Edward
Kessel b. 16 Dec 1886 in Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio, d. 30 Apr 1965
in Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio
7. Freida Mina Foerster b. 17 Jun 1889 in Seitendorf, Schlesien, Poland
Was Seitendorf, Silesia, Germany, d. 22 Feb 1981 in Fairfield, Butler Co.,
Ohio
m. 25 Nov 1915 in Batesville, Laughery Twp., Ripley Co. to Edward John
Kruezman b. 19 Apr 1893 in Georgetown, Kentucky, d. 14 Aug 1945 in
Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio
8. Frank Edward Foerster b. 24 Oct 1894 in Batesville, Laughery Twp.,
Ripley Co., d. 18 May 1972 in Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio
m. 30 Dec 1919 in Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio to Alma Mary Lux b. 5
Apr 1898 in Oldenburgh, Franklin Co., d. 7 Feb 1977 in Cincinatti,
Hamilton Co., Ohio
Brickwall #4 (both sides)
Johann Wilhelm "William" Bohner b. 17 Dec 1813 in Burgholzen, Westfalen,
Prußen (Germany), d. 14 Dec 1875 in Ripley Co.
m. 26 Oct 1843 in Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio to Marie "Mary" Engel
Thunhorst b. 23 Feb 1824 in Essenerberg, Hannover, Germany, d. 16 Feb 1915
in Ripley County
Children: (one of the unknown children is possibly named Camiel)
1. Henry Johann Bohner b. 10 Sep 1844 in Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio,
d. 23 Jun 1926 in Ripley Co.
m. 11 Jun 1874 in Ripley Co., to Katherine Matilda Hinners b. 28 Feb
1855 in Ripley Co., d. 28 May 1931 in Milan, Franklin Twp., Ripley Co.
2. Sophia Bohner b. abt 1846, d. unk
m. 13 Dec 1866 in Stumpke's Corner, Ripley Co. to Lewis W. Albershardt
b. unk, d. unk
*3. Johannes Gerhardt Heinrich Bohner b. 8 Mar 1849 in Prattsburg, Ripley
Co., d. 8 Apr 1913 in Batesville, Laughery Twp., Ripley Co.,
m. 19 Nov 1874 to Magdalena "Laney" Price b. 8 Mar 1849 in Prattsburg,
Ripley Co., d. 8 Apr 1913 in Batesville, Laughery Twp., Ripley Co.
4. William Bohner b. abt 1851
5. Unknown b. abt 1853
6. Frederick J. Bohner b. 21 Jan 1855 in Ripley Co., d. 31 Jul 1932 in
Indianapolis, Marion Co., Indiana, bur. Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis,
Marion Co., Indiana
m1. Unknown to Mary A. b. Nov 1870 in Indiana, d. unk
m2. 25 Mar 1880 in Versailles, Ripley Co., Anna Mary Shazer b. 1860, d.
1894.
7. Charles Frederick Bohner b. 17 Aug 1857 in Indiana, d. unk
m. 12 Mar 1885 in Ripley Co. to Emma M. (B.) Kammeir b. 2 Jul 1857 in
Indiana, d. 3 Oct 1908
8. Herman Frederick Bohner b. 10 Aug 1859 in Milan, Franklin Twp., Ripley
Co, d. Unk
m. bef 1911 to Jennie Mary Brandt b. Oct 1859 in Ripley Co., d. 8 Nov
1936 in Ripley Co
9. Mary Magdalena Katherine Bohner b. 7 Dec 1861 in Milan, Franklin Twp.,
Ripley Co., d. 16 Mar 1926 in Seymour, Jackson Co.
m. 23 Mar 1880 in Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio to Friedrich Wilhelm
Ahlert b. Oct 1842 in Hanover, Germany, d. 3 Sep 1915 in Seymour,
Jackson Co., Indiana
10. Unknown b. abt 1863
11. Anna K. Bohner b. 3 Jul 1865 in Indiana, d. 10 Dec 1939
m. 10 May 1898 in Stumpke's Corner, Ripley Co. to Charles F. Butt b.
Unk, d. Abt 5 Nov 1910
12. Elizabeth Clara Bohner b. 18 Apr 1869 in Indiana, d. Unk
m. Unk to Henry Harbrecht b. unk d. unk
Brickwall #5 (both sides)
Phillip Henry Price b. 26 Jan 1823 in France, d. 19 May 1870, bur. Old
State Road Cemetery, Hwy 101, Milan, Ripley Co.
m. bef 1853 to Magdalena Schmid b. 18 Sep 1831 in Unterschotten, Germany,
d. 2 Jan 1927 in Batesville, Laughery Twp., Ripley Co.
Children:
1. Magdalena "Laney" Price b. 8 Mar 1849 in Prattsburg, Ripley Co., d. 8
Apr 1913 in Batesville, Laughery Twp., Ripley Co.
m. 19 Nov 1874 to Johannes Gerhardt Heinrich Bohner b. 8 Mar 1849 in
Prattsburg, Ripley Co., d. 8 Apr 1913 in Batesville, Laughery Twp.,
Ripley Co.
2. Phillip Price b. 9 Sep 1854, d. 2 Dec 1856, bur. Old State Road
Cemetery, Hwy 101, Milan, Ripley Co.