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Surnames: Heifner, Bright, Zike, Crim, Linville, Gunning, Fair, Phares
Classification: Query
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Elizabeth, daughter of David Zike and Catherine
Smith, married James Heifner 27 Mar 1831 in Shelby County, Indiana. They probably had
twelve children, the first being Margaret Heifner who married George Crim, Sr. 18 Dec
1851. George Crim Sr. is my great great grandfather. He and Margaret apparently divorced
because both remarried and had additional children. George Sr. married Nancy Catherine
Bright 10 July 1859 and had three children, Mary Frances (Golding), John F. and George,
Jr. George Jr. was born 30 May 1865 and his father died about the time George Jr. was
born.
James and Elizabeth's 6th child, Emeline Heifner married Samuel Bright (Nancy
Catherine Bright Crim's brother) 13 Oct 1864 and they had five children - three
survived: Cordelia, Alpharetta, and Stephen. Cordelia Bright married George Crim Jr. 26
Oct 1886 and they had four children: Jessie Pearl (my grandmother), Lettie Catherine,
George Samuel, and Dennis Nay.
So, if I can really sort this out, my great grandfather's mother in law, Emeline
Heifner Bright, was the sister of his father's first wife. I'm not sure if
there's a name for that connection, but looking at marraige records from Shelby and
Rush County, Indiana, the Heifners, Zikes, Linvilles, Fairs (Phares?), Gunnings, and
others married into each other's families for many generations. The acorn did not
fall far from the tree for many of these families.
Are others researching these families and finding similar crossed family lines?
Catherine Heifner must have died between 1857, the birth year of Rosetta, the final child
and 1867, when James Heifner's second wife, Sarah Jane Gunning, gave birth to the
first child from James second marraige. Does anyone have birth/death information for
Catherine or James? In the 1870 census, Rosetta Heifner age 12, is living with William
and Mary (Phares) Zike. Other children in that family are:
William R. age 19
Robert - 15
Roscoe - 11
Hannibal - 9
Judilla -5
Charlie - 3
(Union Township, Shelby County, Post Office: Morristown)