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Contributed by Judy Matlock
The Warren Republican, Thursday, February 12, 1891
W.A. Luce, Superintendent of Schools of Wells County, died in Cincinnati last week. He had been afflicted with hip disease a long time and went to the city to have an operation performed. His remains were brought home and interred by the Odd Fellows in the Mossburg cemetery on Sunday, services being held at the Baptist church at Liberty Centre.
The Warren Republican, Thursday, February 12, 1891
Died--Mary J., daughter of Lewis and Anna Mills, was born in Rock Creek township, Wells county, July 11, 1873, and died Feb. 8, 1891, aged 17 years, 6 months and 27 days. Removed in youth and beauty "to dwell in the House of the Lord forever." Religious services at Buckeye church. Interment at the Thompson cemetery in Huntington county. S.H. Swaim.
Contributed by Judy Matlock
The Warren Republican, Thursday, September 6, 1894
Jones Redding, an old resident of Rock Creek twp., Wells co., died last Thursday, aged 60 years. Funeral took place at Rockford Church on Friday.
Warren newspapers, date unknown
Bluffton news
Elizabeth, widow of Wm. Nutter, died Saturday at her home in Nottingham township, at the age of 80 years.
Contributed by Judy Matlock
The Warren News, May 10, 1889
Sarah Stanton, who lived alone on a small farm of her own, near Liberty Centre, was found dead in bed last Friday morning. Her nephew, John Stanton, was farming the place, and the evening before, when he quit work and went home, left her at the house as well as usual, and on returning the next morning found the doors still locked and nobody astir. He called the neighbors and on entering the house found the lady dead in bed. She was lying naturally, with one hand under her face and the other by her side, as if she had died while asleep. None of the bedclothes were distrubed, and she had evidently passed away without a struggle. The Coroner's decision was that death was caused by heart disease. Her age was 69 years, 3 months and 4 days. She was never married. Funeral services were held at the M.E. Church near Rockford, conducted by Rev. George Hubbartt.
The Warren News, December 13, 1889
Blufton
Mrs. Joseph C. Silver died suddenly, Saturday morning, while sitting in her arm chair, at her home in this city. She was nearly 80 yrs old.
The Wrren Republican, Thursday, November 27, 1890
The wife of William Heckman, of Liberty Centre, died last Tuesday morning, after lying ill a long time. Interment took place at the Mossburg cemetery, Wednesday.
The Warren News, December 13, 1889
Mrs. Peter Carrier, an aged lady of Markle, died suddenly last Friday morning. She complained of feeling bad while getting breakfast. Her husband suggested that she lie down and he would finish preparing the meal. She did so and in a few minutes afterwards when he went to call her she was dead.
Please direct replies to Carolyn Hunnicutt, carolyn(a)parlorcity.com
The Evening News (Bluffton, Indiana), Saturday, January 9, 1909
After a life of patient devotion to her family, following a lingering
illness of two years from the effects of consumption, Mrs. Allen Flowers
was called to lay aside the cares of this world, and at 7:15 o'clock
this morning, death claimed her at her home on East Ohio street. She was
conscious to the very last, and realizing that the end was come, she
called each member of her family to her bedside and after gentle
admonitions, bid them farewell. For tow years she had been gradually
failing, and for the past two months her condition had been very
serious. Mrs. Flowers was a member of the Pentecost church, and always
endeavored to follow its teachings. She was born in Preble county, Ohio,
March 14, 1877. She was the daughter of Martin and Minnie Shaw and moved
to this city from Muncie in 1887.
December 5, 1892, she was married to Allen Flowers, and had since
resided here. She was the mother of eight children, six of whom are
living, John, age 18, Gerald, 7, Russell, 4, and Gertrude Irene, 5
months. She is survived by her mother, Mrs. Minnie Reasler, three
sisters, Mrs. Sarah Hewitt, of Kokomo; Miss Maggie Shaw, Mrs. Belle
Fletcher, of San Francisco, and two brothers, Lewis and Loren.
The funeral services will be held from the Wesleyan church Sunday
afternoon at 2 o'clock. Interment will be made in the Six Mile cemetery.
Biographical Memoirs of Wells County, Indiana, 1903, p. 312-314.
Louis G. Lancaster
Weak and futile is the effort of parents of foreign birth to keep their children as zealously German, Scandinavian, Bohemian, Italian or other nationality as they themselves are. The first generation that comes across the water herd to themselves and may influence to some extent the first generation born in America, but even the first generation is as intensely American as the Daughters of the Revolution. The average citizen of the United States, tracing back his family history, is surprised to discover how much German, Irish, Scotch, English and other blood it takes to make one good American. Louis G. Lancaster, the subject of this sketch, is just such an American. He is a resident of Keystone, Chester township, Wells county, Indiana, and in that township he was born on October 28, 1863, the son of Nathan and Mary (Starr) Lancaster.
The paternal grandparents of Louis G. Lancaster were John and Ruth (Shields) Lancaster. She was of Irish parentage and was born in Virginia. He was born near Lebanon, Warren county, Ohio, and was of English-Scotch ancestry, being, it is said, a descendant of the house of Lancaster which figured so prominently in English history, particularly during the wars of the Roses. In 1833 John and Ruth Lancaster settled in Grant county, Indiana, about where the soldiers' home is now located, the following year went to housekeeping, and in 1836 moved to a point near where Van Buren now stands. In the fall of 1837 they settled in Wells county, purchasing the land which is now owned and occupied by Nathan Lancaster, father of the subject. In 1890 John and Ruth Lancaster moved to Hartford City, and there resided until his death, June 29, 1900. His widow still lives, at the age of eighty-seven years, making her home with her daughter, Mrs. Miranda Cox. The subject had, a few years a!
go, his four grandparents all living, the youngest of them being eighty-four years of age.
Benjamin and Matilda (Popejoy) Starr, the maternal grandparents of Louis G. Lancaster, were Virginians by birth, but were among the earliest settlers of Wells county. He was born December 27, 1814, and died January 20, 1899; his wife was born December 6, 1814, and died July 29, 1898. From a very small beginning they were quite prosperous and successful. The best years of their lives were spent in Wells county and there they remained until their deaths.
Nathan Lancaster, father of Louis G., was born in Van Buren township, Grant county, Indiana, October 25, 1836, and grew to manhood in Wells county. December 18, 1862, he was united in marriage to Miss Mary Starr, a native of Wells county, born February 5, 1837. Their home was on a tract of land, eighty acres, which he purchased of his father, and they cleared it, improved it and made a farm of it, and this has been the home place ever since. They are now owners of five hundred and ninety acres of land, all in Chester township, of which two hundred and forty acres constitute the home place. To Nathan and Mary (Starr) Lancaster seven children were born, viz: Louis G., the subject of this sketch; Harvey B. received a liberal education and followed teaching for two years; Jennie L., wife of George A. Mason, a lawyer of Montpelier, Indiana, taught school a number of terms early in life; John E., died at the age of twenty-six years; Matilda E. died at the age of seven years; a!
n infant died unnamed soon after birth; Orley L., who still makes his home with his parents, is a teacher of much success and considerable prominence.
Louis G. Lancaster grew to manhood in Chester township, Wells county, attended the public schools until he was eighteen years of age and profited well by his opportunities. He attended the normal four terms and studied under the instruction of Professors P. A. Allen, W. H. Ernst and Samuel McCrea. He began teaching at the age of eighteen and continued as an educator for eight years. All those years he was devoting what time he could spare from his duties in the school room to the assistance of his father on the farm. On July 3, 1887, he was united in marriage to Miss Sarah S. Williams, who was born March 4, 1864. She was a daughter of Andrew B. and Mary (Bugh) Williams, both natives of Ohio, and early settlers of Blackford county, Indiana. The mother, who was born September 24, 1834, died November 29, 1874, when Mary, the daughter and wife of the subject, was only ten years of age, the father, who was born October 6, 1822, dying on the 8th of October, 1881. They were !
the parents of ten children, viz: Henry, deceased; Joseph resides in Blackford county; Oliver is a resident of Blackford county; Jennie, wife of Scott Swartz, of Newton, Kansas; Sarah, wife of the subject; Andrew B., a resident of Chester township; Mary, the wife of Charles McGeath; Emma, deceased; James, deceased.
After marriage the young couple went to housekeeping on his father's home place, but remained there only one year. They then took up their abode at Montpelier, where he engaged in teaching, but subsequently they moved to their present home. When this land was purchased by them it was wild, heavily timbered and wholly unimproved, but it is all cleared now, excepting ten acres which is reserved for timber. On it Mr. Lancaster has dug all necessary ditches, built fences and the place is splendidly cultivated. There are four producing oil wells on the place, yielding about a tank a month.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis G. Lancaster are the parents of four children, viz; Mary Pearl, born April 6, 1880; Grace, born November 15, 1892; and (sic) infant daughter who died unnamed; an infant son, born May 20, 1902. The parents are members of the Friends church of Keystone, Indiana, and are active in church as well as in all other works. He is a member of and has filled all the chairs in Lodge NO. 410, I. O. O. F., at Montpelier, having joined the order in 1883. In politics he is a Republican and is always sufficiently interested in the success of his party to take part in the campaigns as they come around. He has served as delegate in many conventions, county, district and state, and has seldom failed to make his influence felt upon the proceedings. In 1900 he was commissioned a census taker and discharged the duties of the office with promptness and efficiency.
General farming and stock raising is the business which Mr. Lancaster follows. He always aims to keep sufficient stock on his premises to consume the crops, Poland China hogs, Shropshire sheep and shorthorn cattle being the breeds he prefers on his place. His personal property, at a fair valuation, amounts to not less than twelve hundred dollars. He is a man of bright intellect, acknowledged ability and, being still young in years, gives promise of a future of which his relatives and friends will be proud.
Biographical Memoirs of Wells County, Indiana, 1903.
HARVEY B. LANCASTER (p. 456-457)
Harvey B. Lancaster, born February 17, 1864, one-half mile south of Keystone, Wells county, Indiana, is a son of Nathan Lancaster, a native of Indiana, born in November, 1836, and Mary Starr, born on the old Starr farm in Chester township, Wells county, Indiana, both of whom are yet living in Chester township. Nathan is a son of John and Ruth Lancaster, both natives of Ohio who settled in Grant county, Indiana, in an early day and later came to Wells county, Indiana, where John died in June, 1899. Ruth is yet living with a daughter, Mrs. Mollie Cox, in Hartford City, Indiana. Nathan Lancaster is the father of seven children, four of whom are still living: L. G.; H. B., the subject of this sketch; Jennie, who is now the wife of G. A. Mason; J. E. Lancaster, deceased; M. E., deceased; and O. L. Lancaster, now at home with his father. The subject of this sketch attended the schools of Keystone in Chester township until he was sixteen years of age, when he entered the norma!
l school of Bluffton, Indiana, in which he remained for three years. He then taught two terms of school in Chester township, at schools Nos. 3 and 4.
The subject remained with his father, working for his board, clothes, etc., until he was twenty-one years of age, when he began farming for himself. He spent one season on his grandfather Lancaster's farm and the next year, March 13, 1886, he married Miss Sarah Jarrett, born in November, 1866, a daughter of John and Mary (Sells) Jarrett. The parents of Sarah were both old settlers of Chester township, Wells county, and are now deceased. After his marriage the subject settled on the farm where he now lives, which was then all in the woods. At the time of his purchase there were no improvements whatever on his land, but he now has seventy acres of it cleared, in a high state of cultivation, and improved with good buildings. Mr. Lancaster has been a breeder of common-grade stock and, being located in the oil fields, has devoted some time to his interests in that line. There are two wells on his farm which are producing five inches (tank measure) per day.
Mrs. Lancaster is a member of the Friends' church in Keystone, and an amiable, intelligent Christian lady, devoted to her husband, home and children. The subject is a Republican in politics and an active worker in the ranks of his party and especially interested in all matters politically pertaining to his own county and township. The foregoing record of the subject establishes the fact that the old pioneers and first settlers cannot appropriate all the credit for subduing the wilderness and clearing up the country, and proves that a worthy descendant of that class to whom the present population owes so much even of the third generation, after availing himself of the opportunities by obtaining an education, had the ambition, energy and force of character to carve out for himself a farm and home from the virgin forest. His achievement and success in that line, as well as his efforts to improve the live stock interests of his locality, with his intelligent interest in publi!
c affairs, should prove an inspiration to the young men of his vicinage to emulate his example in his aspiration to a higher citizenship. Such men as Harvey B. Lancaster are an honor to the state and wield an untold influence in moulding that higher commonwealth toward which we are tending.
Hi Mel,
Those messages that you read were posted to the new query board at Ancestry
and were automatically "gatewayed" to the mailing list. It's what used to
be the GenConnect query board. I am the admin contact for the board, and
have removed most of those messages (at least one of them was actually a
legitimate Wells County post).
As soon as they re-enable the tool to un-gateway the board, I will be doing
so. It will cut down on the number of unrelated messages to the list.
Hang in there.
Cathy Burnsed
Thanks for your message at 06:00 AM 6/29/01 -0600,
INWELLS-D-request(a)rootsweb.com. Your message was:
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>Today's Topics:
> #1 MARY ANN FONCANNON [ritaaddison(a)bright.net]
> #2 William Henry Taylor [sbbf99(a)aol.com]
> #3 William Henry Taylor [sbbf99(a)aol.com]
> #4 Jeremiah Wills [sbbf99(a)aol.com]
> #5 Re: Connett Family [mommato6(a)aol.com]
> #6 Winkler/Smith/Rawson/Lehr/ in De P [sanddollar500(a)aol.com]
> #7 Spam [Mel Schwartz <schwartz(a)jps.net>]
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>I just read six messages on this list that had nothing to do with Wells
>Co., Indiana.
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>Is this acceptable practice? If so, I will be unsubscribing from this
>list. I have a number of
>ancestors that lived and died in Wells Co., IN and I could be helpful to
>some that are
>researching their family in this said county, but I'm not wading through
>the spam.
>
>Regards,
>Mel Schwartz <schwartz(a)jps.net>
>Orangevale, CA
I just read six messages on this list that had nothing to do with Wells Co., Indiana.
Is this acceptable practice? If so, I will be unsubscribing from this list. I have a number of
ancestors that lived and died in Wells Co., IN and I could be helpful to some that are
researching their family in this said county, but I'm not wading through the spam.
Regards,
Mel Schwartz <schwartz(a)jps.net>
Orangevale, CA
I too am looking for my family roots. My great grandmother's name was Lavina Ellen Connett. She married James Edward Rawson in 1869. Her father's name was John B. Connett but I know nothing more about the Connett family. I do not know her mother's name or whether or not she had siblings. Any information on the Connett family would be greatly appreciated.
Irene Rawson Klinzman - mommato6(a)aol.com
Need parents for William Henry Taylor, born Sep 11, 1816 in Harlem, NY. Died Nov 11, 1852 in Jersey City, NJ. Married Mary Shriver on July 23, 1844 in Albany, NY
Need parents for William Henry Taylor, born Sep 11, 1816 in Harlem, NY. Died Nov 11, 1852 in Jersey City, NJ. Married Mary Shriver on July 23, 1844 in Albany, NY
Did your Winkler (wife) marry a Lehr and have a son Frank Edwin Lehr bor 5/4/1860 in De Pue, IL? Frank later married Laura Rawson who was born in smae year and lived in De Pue, Il. I beleive they had a sister or cousin named Adda M Lehr that married DM Smith and they later moved to Schaller, Iowa in the 1880 census. Frank and Laura later went to San Francisco, CA and died there in 1940's. The Smiths may have gone to Omaha, NE and then to Ft Lauderdale, FLordia. There are either 2 Smiths in this family or 1, I can't tell at this point as I have bits and pieces.
I am searching for information on Mary Ann Foncannon; maiden name Mary Ann Counterman.
Married O.P. Foncannon in Crawford Co. Oh. late 1800s. I believe Mr. Foncannon was originally from Wells Co.
Any information on either of these individuals would be appreciated.
Thank you.
Hi All
Sorry to say I have forgotten if info came from Wells or Adams county. I
was after a paper that said when my gggg grandfather arrived and whatt
ship. At the time all the info was being moved and was at the jail. The
ladyhelping me had seen it, knew it ws there but did not have time to
look for it. She referred me to a couple who she said would look for it
and I wrote them a letter. Don't remember their reply any more. What I
need: Declaration of intent paper or info on Johann Michael Blocher
arr. US from Germany 1832. Willing to pay for look up if need be. I
know thanks to Nora that its there, where ever there is now. Michael's
family was all born and raized around Bluffton the name was changed late
1800's to Blocker. Great Aunt Alva just passed on last sat. the last of
the elders, wife of Sterling Blocker, youngest brother of my grandfather
Belvin Any help greatly appreciated rather hard to do from here. Thanks
Shelley (in Juneau Alaska)
Hi listers,
I've had a request for some information that I know nothing about. Does
anyone on the list have any knowledge of a good RV park (as in a campground
with facilities for recreational vehicles) in the Wells County area? I
have checked the Yahoo yellow pages and found a bunch of campgrounds in
neighboring counties and OH, but would like input as to which of these can
be recommended to our researchers.
You can reply to me or to the list.
Thanks in advance!
Cathy Burnsed
Wells Co INGenWeb - http://www.rootsweb.com/~inwells
Posted on: Wells County, Indiana Query Forum
Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/In/Wells/10571
Surname: Hollowell, Height
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Looking for information on Algie E. Hollowell married Nora Alice Height.
Children born in Wells County,Gaynell Baines Hollowell, Russel Hollowell,Merl
Hollowell,Ermal Hollowell,Crystal Hollowell.