Posted on: Tipton County In. Query Forum
Reply Here:
http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/In/Tipton/604
Surname: Vanarsdall, Wolverton, Banta, Stewart, Ruddick, Hergerson
-------------------------
In searching for an obituary for John C. Vanarsdall I found the following:
from: "Cicero Cemetery Record" compiled by James K. Correll and Velma B.
Correll, 1984.
"Located in Jackson Township, Hamilton County, Indiana on 236th Street
at the west edge of Cicero on the south side of the highway."
"Section 3, Lot 159, Row 3, G[rave]s[ite]. 27
Vanarsdall, John C. born Feb 29, 1828 died Aug. 28, 1907"
from: "Index to Death Record, Hamilton County, Indiana 1882-1920, Inclusive"
Volume I, Letters A to Z, Works Progress Administration, 1942.
"Vanassdell, John C. M[ale] W[hite] 79 [age at death] Aug. 28, 1907, Cicero,
[Book] H-19, [Page] 17"
from: "Tipton Co., IN Leatherman-Morris-Boyer Funeral Homes Records 1895-1973"
compiled and typed by Marietta F. Henry, Selby Publishing and Printing,
Kokomo, IN, 1991, page 383.
"WOLVERTON, Mrs. Emma E.; b. 1863; d. 15 Oct. 1941; age 78; nee VANNARSDALL;
2nd wife of Abraham BANTA (1849-1912); she 2nd m. Joseph W. WOLVERTON,
3 Sept. 1919 Tipton Co.,IN; Joseph (1856-1924) had 1st m. Mary J. STEWART,
9 Jan. 1878 T.[ipton]Co.[unty]; Mary J. (1857-1917); Emma's birth name
was "Emily Arabella" according to g.dau.; bu. Fairview Cem., City of Tipton,
IN p.178 (note:cem. book incorrectly listed her b.[irth]y.[ear] as 1883);"
page 13:
"BANTA, Abraham G.; b. 18 July 1849; d. 22 April 1912; age 62; name of
1st wife not in his obit.; 2nd m. Emma E. VANARSDALL; . . .; bu. Fairview
Cem., City of Tipton, . . ."
from: "Tipton County, Indiana Cemetery Inscriptions and Histories, City
of Tipton Cemeteries" compiled and indexed by Indian Reserve Chapter, Daughters
of the American Revolution and Tipton County Extension Homemakers Association,
1980, page 290:
"6. Joseph W. WOLVERTON, 1856-1924
Mary J. WOLVERTON, 1857-1917
(Joseph W. Wolverton m. Mary J. STEWART, Jan. 9, 1878)
from: "Tipton Co.,IN Area Deaths 1916-1917" compiled by Marietta F. Henry,
published by Selby Publishing and Printing, Kokomo, IN, 1990, page 102.
"MARY J. WOLVERTON, b. 15 Nov. 1857 IN; d. 26 May 1917; m. Joseph WOLVERTON
(1856-1924) 9 January 1878 in T.[ipton]Co.; dau. of Stephen STEWART, b.
KY (1822-1888) and Amy M. (RUDDICK) STEWART (1821-1897); Amy was also called
Emma; the STEWARTs were m. 11 April 1848 in Bartholomew Co.,IN according
to article in 1883 Blanchard History [of Tipton County] Book; STEWARTs
buried Stewart Cem., Rural Cicero Twp., . . .; buried Fairview Cemetery,
City of Tipton"
The Twelfth Census of the United States, Cicero Township, Tipton county,
Indiana, page 81A, household number 101:
WOLVERTON, Joseph, head of household, born July 1856; wife Mary J., born
Nov. 1857; child Ara A., born Apr. 1878; child Stella W., born Nov. 1884;
child Alonzo F., born Feb. 1886; child Catherine, born Nov. 1888, child
Jane P., born Sep. 1890; child Lula , born June 1893; child Mabel, born
July 1887; boarder HERGERSON, John W. born Feb. 1869.
All comments, notes, in square brackets, [ ], by JAK.