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>From: clarklisaren(a)yahoo.com
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>Surnames: Clark, Worthington
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>I'm the great-granddaughter of Thomas and Lillie Clark.
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>Their son Dale Worthington Clark is my grandfather. My cousin Nelson
>Clark has researched their ancestors and knows much more than I do.
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>All I know is Thomas Clark's mother was named Isabella. I have a photo of
>both of them standing with his brother Bill (William Clark) and his son
>Virgil Leon Clark, Nelson Clark's father. Taken in 1917.
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>I also have a photocopy of a letter written to Lillie Clark in September
>of 1906 from her cousin P.A. Worthington of Portland, Oregon. He was
>recording the family geneology and requesting her to list the members of
>her family. The family name of Hendrix is mentioned.
>
>There are numerous photos and letters around the house.
>From: clarklisaren(a)yahoo.com
>From: mitchmar(a)pghfamily.net
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>Surnames: Romine Singer Connett of Indiana Wells Co.
>Classification: Query
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>Dear Kathy and Teresa,
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>Last March 2001 I was in contact with a Kathy (you may be the same one)
>and a Charlotta. They've given me the following information about the
>Romine Singer Connett Families. I've been saving it all up because as of
>yet, I can't figure out how they connect with my line but they must as
>their names were among my grandmother's keepsakes.
>
>The original immigrant Singer was Nicholaus, his son Peter married an
>Elizabeth Hoffman. Their son John married Ann Hines. John and Ann gave
>birth to William Hines Singer.
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>William Hines Singer married Ann Matson. Their son, also William Hines
>Singer married Rhoda Connett. (Her father was John Pickett;her mother
>Jane McCartney) Their daugher Margaret Ann Singer (her brother was Isaac
>Walter Singer) married William Romine on March 31, 1892 in Wells
>County. They had 11 children. One of the 11 is Ethel Irene Romine born
>in Blackford County, Indiana. (I also have geography if wanted of above).
>
>Through the years I've collected the following info on Margaret Singer and
>William Romine's children: Edna "Romaine" is listed in the index to
>supplimentary records of Jay County marriage transcripts 1882-1920
>Marriage apps as marrying Phome Simerman in 1913; Irma Romine married
>Elmer Rynerson in 1913; Hugh D. Romine married Tholma (assuminingly
>Thelma) M. Marker in 1920.
>
>If anyone can help me to figure out if any of their descendents hook into
>my Grow or Courtney lines from the Ohio Indiana area I would be so
>indebted, frankly it's starting to drive me a little nuts!
>
>Marilyn Roberts
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>Surnames: HOUSEL ALLEN
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>Some time ago I was in contact with an Allen/Housel researcher that had
>sent me some family photos.... since then my system crashed and I did not
>have a "recent" backup. I lost all of my e-mails, some genealogy, address
>book and those photos. I'd love to have back those family photos as they
>were priceless. Since I research so many family lines and it's been
>awhile, the only thing I seem to recall is that the lady had an
><alaska.net> address. Does anyone know of an Alaskan researcher working on
>either of these families?
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>From: kbrownst(a)hotmail.com
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>Surnames: Snyder, Allen, Tippett, Chaffee, Carpenter, Eansor, Simpson
>Classification: Query
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>Looking for info on the Charles Snyder family. He married Jan. 21, 1911
>in Wells County a Ms. Myrtle Allen. They were married at least 2 years.
>Seeking names of Charles parents or any other info. Charles is my
>grandfather who left (divorced?) my grandmother when my mom was an infant.
>So she had no other info on him. Any info greatly appreciated.
>From: kbrownst(a)hotmail.com
I just returned from a trip to the Wisconsin State Historical Society
where I found that they have the "Everyname Index to Wells County,
Indiana Cemetery Records" compiled by Ingabee B. Minniear.
Unfortunately, the index is all they have - they don't have the actual
cemetery book(s). I found some of the information at the Wells County
Cemeteries site, but not all of the indexed items are there. I would
appreciate it if someone who has a copy of the book would
let me know what it says for the following names.
p. 55 (Appears to pertain to the Bethel Cemetery in Harrison Twp.)
Crumley, Charles (d. 3-1-1873, 4m, s/o J.S. & M)
Crumley, J.S.
Crumley, Margaret (d. 11-18-1872, 30y, w/o Ira)
p. 343 (Gearnand Cemetery in Nottingham Twp.)
Crumley, Infant
Crumley, Elizabeth (d. 9-18-1868, 60y, w/o Thomas)
Crumley, John (s/o J.E.)
Crumley, Samuel (d. 5-16-1870)
Crumley, Thomas (d. 10-19-1853)
p. 352 (Which cemetery is this?)
Crumley, Thomas
Thank you,
Larry Dickerson
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>Surnames: Price, Johnson, Sparks
>Classification: Query
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>Looking for information re Nicholas Price aged 50/60 in 1840
>census of Wells Co., IN, he lived in Jamestown, had a wife and 12
>children. He also owned property in Rockcreek in 1835/36. Any help
>appreciated, Loanne
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>I am looking for info on Ray Burgan, married to Myrtle Fisher, 3 children
>Bertha, WInifred, Raymond...from Indiana, any info appreciated.
>Cheryl
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>Surnames: Jonston, Price, Johnson
>Classification: Query
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>Looking for information re Taylor Jonston living in Wells Co., Barbers
>Mills in the 1870 census, age 22 b NC. He was married to a Mary J. age
>16. Who was Taylor? Did Mary J. die soon after? Is he the William
>Taylor "Johnson" who married Sarah J. Price, daughter of Isaac Price also
>of Barbers Mills in 1870? Any help appreciated. Loanne
>From: Rebuck(a)Bayarea.net
>From: Rebuck(a)Bayarea.net
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>Surnames: Johnson, Price
>Classification: Query
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>Looking for information re Solomon Johnson living in Wells Co., Rock Creek
>in 1850. Wife Sarah (Sanders?). He was born in 1793 in "Carolina" as was
>Sarah in 1803. Any information appreciated.....Loanne
>From: Rebuck(a)Bayarea.net
>Hi everyone,
>
>If you've been wanting a cemetery lookup - your wait is over. The Wells
>County Public Library's website now has listings for over 50
>cemeteries. Here is the list of cemeteries:
>http://www.wellscolibrary.org/cemeterylist.html and here is a link to the
>abbreviations and disclaimer page:
>http://www.wellscolibrary.org/cemetery.html .
>
>Don't forget to check the Wells County INGenWeb website for surveys done
>by others - there may be additional or differing information
>available: http://www.wellscolibrary.org/cemetery.html .
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>I do not know how long this has been available, but it is new to me!
>
>Cathy Burnsed
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>Cathy (GARDENOUR) Burnsed ~ ~ ~ ~ Librarian ~ ~ ~ cathy(a)gardenour.com
>http://www.afn.org/~afn30091/ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ http://www.gardenour.com
>Wells Co. IN USGenWeb Project ~ ~ ~ http://www.rootsweb.com/~inwells/
>From: ddemrhodes(a)aol.com
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>Hi Loanne. Am not researching this family and have no other info, just
>trying to be helpful. 1860, Indiana, Wells county, Rock Creek township,
>page 797 of the census has a family headed by Isaac Price, 37,
>farmer. Included were Ermina, 23, - Sarah J, 5, - John H, 4, - Rebecca M,
>3, - William O, 2, and Ida Isabel, 9/12. All were born in Ind except
>Isaac born in Pa. Unfortunately that is all the info recorded. Hope this
>helps. Don
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>Surnames: Price, Johnson
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>Looking for info family of Isaac Price, Wells Co., inj 1860/70. Wife
>Ermina (Johnson). Need info specifically about daughter Sarah J. Any help
>appreciated, Loanne
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>Surnames: Engle
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> >From "Biographical Memoirs of Wells County Indiana," Logansport, IN, B.
> F. Bown, 1903, pp. 206-208.
>
>Robert M. Engle.
>
>It is an axiom demonstrated by all human experiences that industry is the
>key to prosperity. Success comes not the man who idly waits for
>fortune's smiles but to the faithful toiler who works with cheerful
>celerity and sleepless vigilance and takes advantage of every circumstance
>calculated to advance his interests. Such a man is Robert M. Engle, a
>well known and highly respected citizen of Nottingham township who within
>a comparatively few years has worked his way from a humble station in life
>to a proud position among the leading farmers of his community, besides
>winning for himself a name which all who know him hold the highest
>esteem. Mr. Engle is a native of Wells county, Indiana and has spent all
>of his life within its borders. He was born September 7, 1864, in the
>township of Nottingham, and is the son of Isaac and Ann (Hopkins) Engle,
>who were among the substantial residents of this part of the
>county. When a mere lad, he was taught the necessity of honest !
>toil as the only legitimate means of obtaining a livelihood, consequently
>he grew up to the full stature of manhood imbued with the idea that
>idleness, if not a crime, is, to say the least, is anything but
>honorable. When old enough to work to advantage he took his place by the
>side of his father in the fields and nobly did his part in running the
>farm and supporting the family. The district school in the neighborhood
>afforded him the means of acquiring a good practical education and he
>attended the same of winter seasons until his twentieth year, making the
>most of every opportunity to add to his intellectual discipline. He
>remained at home as his father's assistant several years after reaching
>manhood's estate and it was not until his twenty-eighth year that he
>severed home ties and set up a domestic establishment of his
>own. Meantime, on the 13th of March, 1886, he was joined in wedlock with
>Miss Rosetta McClain, of Nottingham township, daughter of William and Emm!
>a (Fisher) McClain, and from that time until 1892 continued to work at
>home, getting little more than a living for himself and wife from his
>labor. In return for his filial devotion to his father in the latter
>year assisted Robert to buy a farm of eighty acres, contributing one
>thousand dollars towards the price, a sum of which the son had much more
>than earned while managing the homestead and looking after his parents
>interests. Only a part of the place was in cultivation when the subject
>took possession, but he has since cleared and otherwise improved the land
>until all but ten acres is susceptible to tillage. Mr. Engle is a man of
>industrious habits and the result of his systematic labors is apparent in
>the fine condition to which he has brought his farm in the last ten
>years. He has put in many rods of tiling, to the great improvement of
>the soil, built fine fences, besides erecting a comfortable dwelling to
>replace the house destroyed by fire shortly after he m!
>oved to the farm. By reason of the discovery of oil in this part of the
>community and the subsequent development of the industry, Mr. Engle's
>place has greatly increased in value, there being five wells on his land,
>from which he receives an income of over six hundred dollars per
>year. At the present time he does little on the farm besides
>superintending the work, now devoting the greater part of his attention to
>pumping oil, which business he has followed more or less during six years
>past. He also takes pride in the raising of fine live stock, a
>department of husbandry which he assumed considerable magnitude in Wells
>county and which promises to become more important with each succeeding year.
>
>The family of Mr. and Mrs. Engle originally consisted of four children,
>whose names are Howard, Esther, Edna and Harvey, the first two
>deceased. In his political views, Mr. Engle votes with the Republican
>party and during campaign years take an active interest in working for its
>success. He is identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
>belonging to the lodge meeting at the village of Petroleum. The
>qualities which have made Mr. Engle one of the successful farmers and
>stock-raisers of his township have also brought him the good will and
>esteem of his fellow citizens, for his career from the beginning has been
>one of well directed energy, strong determination and honorable
>dealing. Endowed by nature with good mental powers and possessing the
>energy to direct his facilities into proper channels he has become a man
>of resourceful capacity as the able management of his private affairs and
>rapid advancement in material things abundantly demonstrates. Socially !
>he is a most agreeable gentleman, always genial and pleasant in manner, a
>loyal friend, an excellent neighbor and as a citizen ranking with the best
>of his compeers. He has never been missed by political aspirations to
>the neglect of his business interests and has no ambition to gratify in
>the way of public distinction, wishing only to be known and recognized as
>a common man in the domain of private citizenship.
>
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>Surnames: Engle
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> >From "Biographical Memoirs of Wells County Indiana," Logansport, IN, B.
> F. Bown, 1903, pp. 340-342.
>
>William L. Engle.
>
>A stranger traveling through Wells county, noting how largely the people
>are interested in the oil business and the number of producing wells to be
>encountered in any direction he might turn, would naturally suppose that
>it is through them that it received its name of Wells county. Such,
>however, is not the case. Wells county acquired its title long before
>any of its inhabitants ever thought of becoming oil
>producers. Nevertheless, the industry has added much to the wealth,
>comfort and happiness of the locality. One of the first to engage in the
>production if oil in Wells county was William L. Engle, of Geneva,
>Indiana, the subject of this sketch.
>
>He was born in Nottingham township, Wells county,
>September 19, 1860. His father was Isaac Engle, a native of Warren
>county Ohio. His grandparents were William and Lutitia Engle, natives of
>New Jersey, who, early in the last century moved to Rudolph county,
>Indiana. At this time Isaac Engle, father of William, was a child of some
>eight years. The family resided in Indiana only about six years, when
>they again moved, this time locating in Warren county, Ohio. About this
>time he attained his majority, Isaac Engle was united in marriage to Anna
>Hopkins, a native of Jay county, Indiana, and daughter if Hezekiah
>Hopkins. They went to Randolph county, Indiana, and, after a residence
>there of two years, moved to Wells county, where they purchased one
>hundred and sixty acres of land in the woods. A log cabin was their
>first home and clearing and cultivation of the land was their
>life-work. Here they continued to reside up to the time of their deaths.
>
>Mrs. Engle died March 7, 1891, and her husband survived her some five
>years, dying September 20, 1896. They were the parents of thirteen
>children, seven of whom are living. The dead are Prudence, Emma, Hannah,
>Charles, Amanda, and Richard; the living, William L., R. M., James A.,
>Martha A., Daniel, Joseph C., and Arthur.
>
> William L. Engle attended the public schools of his native township
> until he was twenty years of age. He then took a course at the normal
> school at Bluffton and later attended school at Valparaiso. Having laid
> a good foundation by procuring a good liberal education, he sought and
> readily procured a license to engage in the profession on teaching. The
> next four years, he spent in the schoolrooms of the township of his birth
> engaged as an instructor. In his calling he was eminently successful,
> but soon found that the compensation was by no means commensurate with
> the care, labor, and responsibility required.
>
> On September 28, 1883, William L. Engle was united in marriage to Mary
> A. Hilton, also a native of Nottingham township and daughter of Daniel
> Hilton. Immediately thereafter he purchased one hundred and sixty acres
> of choice land, much of it cleared, and some of it under
> cultivation. Upon this he erected a comfortable home, a commodious barn
> and substantial outbuildings and began to devote himself to the calling
> of a husbandman and breeder of fine stock. Prospecting for oil about
> this time became fashionable, Mr. Engle was not long in catching the
> fever, in which he was abundantly favored by fortune.
>
>Well after well was sunk upon his premises, until at this time he has
>eight splendid producers and is now making arrangements for drilling a
>number of others. His income from this source was as such as to justify
>him in getting out of the stock business, and he now breeds Shropshire
>sheep exclusively, his oil interests not admitting of his doing more. In
>the fall of 1891 he invested in a fine stock of thoroughbred Shropshire
>sheep and it is his purpose to engage quite extensively in the breeding of
>these animals already having met success. Within a short time he hopes
>to be able to supply any reasonable demand which may be made upon him for
>choice specimens of these animals. To this business, as to every other
>in which he engaged, Mr. Engle has given much patient study and there is
>little doubt that he will be successful in this as he has been in each of
>the others.
>
>February 9, 1896, Mr. Engle married his second wife Effie J. Judy, a
>native of Adams county, Indiana. He and his wife are members of The
>Church of Christ, in which Mr. Engle is and has been for four years an
>elder. In politics he has always been a Republican, but is especially
>zealous on behalf of his party during political campaigns. His career is
>ample evidence that, despite all we hear abut trusts, there are still many
>avenues to fame and fortune open to the poor, but ambitious, persevering
>and worthy youths of the land.
>
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>Hello, I am related to some Allens in Jackson Twp, but not sure yet if it
>is Zephaniah. My gg-grandmother was Anna Allen Jones, her brothers Jim and
>Will were Civil War soldiers, have not traced the family farther than that
>yet, am working on it. I do know Zephaniah is buried at the Batson
>Cemetery, and there were 2 Zephaniah's. I have seen the stones, am working
>on restoring the cemetery. If our Allen's are the same family, would like
>to swap info.
>From: rstoffer(a)marion.lib.in.us
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>Surnames: Kunkel
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> >From "Standard History of Adams and Wells Counties Indiana," Chicago,
> Lewis Publishing Co., 1918, pp. 467-469.
>
>WILLIAM A. KUNKEL. A great man has somewhere been described as one who is
>so short-sighted that he cannot see the obstacles which lie between him
>and his goal. Whether this be true of William A. Kunkel or not, certain it
>is that he has conquered all obstacles that impeded his path to success
>and he now ranks as one of the leading business men in Wells County,
>Indiana.. As head of a number of important business concerns Mr. Kunkel
>has met with such marvelous good fortune that it would truly seem that he
>possesses the the "open sesame'' to unlock the doors of success. But
>success in business is not his only distinction. He is, one of those
>broad-minded, patriotic, forward looking men who in every community of the
>nation are the real conservators of those community destinies which in the
>aggregate constitute the national destiny and the policies by which
>America is exercising its influence and power in the world at large. Mr.
>Kunkel at the present time is Federal Food Administ!
>rator for Wells County. He has given up all his business and is devoting
>his entire time to this important position, sacrificing all those things
>of individual interest in order that he might do his whole duty to help
>make the world safe for democracy.
>
>Like many another big American business man William A. Kunkel was born on
>a farm. He first saw the light of day January 31, 1868, in Lancaster
>Township of Wells County. He is a son of Michael and Mary (Kleinknecht)
>Kunkel, both natives of Pennsylvania. Michael Kunkel when a young man
>moved to Ohio, lived on a farm in Crawford County until 1848, and then
>bought a farm of eighty acres in Adams County, Indiana. A few years later
>he sold this and acquired a tract of a hundred and twenty acres in section
>12, Lancaster Township, Wells County. He was busied with its improvements
>and made it his home until 1884, when he moved to the city of Bluffton. He
>died there, an honored and widely esteemed citizen, May 7, 1886. Michael
>Kunkel married for his first wife Julia Mason, a native of Ohio. She was
>the mother of four children, Sophia, who died February 15, 1879; Louisa,
>who died September 20, 1854, and Samuel and Calvin, both living in
>Lancaster Township, Calvin on the old home farm.!
> For his second wife Michael Kunkel married Mary Ann Kleinknecht. She was
> born December 3, 1827, daughter of John M. and Anna (Gerhart)
> Kleinknecht, who located in Lancaster Township of Wells County in 1848.
> Mr. Kleinknecht died at the home of Michael Kunkel in 1867, and his wife
> passed away on the old homestead in Lancaster Township in 1859. Both were
> devout members of the United Brethren Church. The first class of that
> denomination in Lancaster Township was founded by John M. Kleinknecht,
> and this eventually resulted in a church organization at Tocsin. Mrs.
> Mary Ann Kunkel, who was for many years a devout member of the Methodist
> Episcopal Church, died on February 27, 1913. She was the mother of the
> following children: Martha Ann, deceased; John O.; Lydia Matilda, wife of
> T. M. Souder ; Rebecca J., widow of Henry Masterson; Dora and Theodore
> H., deceased, and William A.
>
>William A. Kunkel grew up inured to the sturdy discipline of the homestead
>farm in Lancaster Township, and derived his early educational advantages
>from district school No. 1. That he was a real country boy is evidenced by
>the fact that he was never in town when street lamps were lighted until
>after he was sixteen years of age. He finished his education In the
>Bluffton High School, graduating with the class of 1886. He essayed to
>become a merchant, making a start in Ashbaucher Brothers Clothing Store at
>Bluffton at three dollars a week. He soon saw that he was not in a
>congenial line of employment. Leaving the store he taught a country school
>two terms, and later found employment in the office of the resident
>engineer of the Clover Leaf Railway. Of all his early experiences this was
>the most important. It gave him a considerable practical knowledge of
>engineering, and finally he was appointed assistant to the resident
>engineer. In 1889 he was made deputy surveyor of Wells Co!
>unty and in the following year at the age of twenty-one was elected county
>purveyor on the democratic ticket. He was re-elected in 1892. A special
>feature of his administration of the office of county surveyor was a
>general concerted movement to improve the public highways of Wells County,
>and much of the sucess of this movement was due to Mr. Kunkel's careful
>and technical skill in handling the proposition in its various details.
>
>Mr. Kunkel credits much of his material success to his extensive
>operations in the oil field. He first became interested in this industry
>in 1890, but was unable to give it much attention owing to his duties as
>county surveyor, until 1894. In 1896 he became associated with the Cudahy
>Oil Company, in charge of the right of way and pipe line department. In
>May, 1898, he took full charge of the field production and pipe lanes of
>the company and retained that position for one year after the Cudahy
>interests were purchased be the Standard Oil Company. Since 1900 Mr.
>Kunkel has been an independent producer in various oil fields in Indiana,
>Illinois and Oklahoma.
>
>However, his business interests could not all be described under a single
>head. He is owner of over six hundred acres, constituting several well
>drained and well improved farms in Wells County, all thoroughly drained by
>many miles of ditch, improved with the best of farm facilities, including
>hog pens, silos, electric lights and every other equipment devised by
>modern agricultural science. Mr. Kunkel is on the board of directors of
>the Studebaker Bank, the Marion and Bluffton Traction Company, the Bliss
>Hotel Company, the W. B. Brown Company and other concerns. He is, as these
>connections and achievements indicate, a man of sound judgment, liberal
>ideas and progressive methods. Exactness and thoroughness have
>characterized his life efforts, and what he is and what he has done
>illustrates what may be accomplished by persistent and painstaking effort.
>Politically Mr. Kunkel is a firm believer in the principles of the
>democratic party. He has served as chairman of the Democrati!
>c County Central Committee, is at present chairman of the Eighth
>Congressional District and vice chairman of the State Democratic
>Committee, and in 1916 was a delegate to the Democratic National
>Convention at St. Louis. Fraternally he is a Knight Templar and
>thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, a member of the Mystic Shrine,
>and is affiliated with Bluffton Lodge No. 92, Knights of Pythias, Bluffton
>Lodge No. 796, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
>
>He and his family are earnest and active members of the Methodist
>Episcopal Church and all of them are leaders in the social affairs of
>their home community. June 24, 1891, Mr. Kunkel married Miss Minnie A.
>Morgan of Kelso, Huntington County, Indiana, daughter of John V. and Mary
>A. (Rauch) Morgan. Mrs. Kunkel was educated in the Bluffton schools and
>she and Mr. Kunkel were members of the same graduating class of the high
>school. She was a popular and successful teacher both in the Bluffton and
>the Huntington city schools before her marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Kunkel take
>proper pride in the developing characters and the early achievements of
>their three children. The oldest, William A., Jr., graduated from the
>Bluffton High School with the class of 1911, from the Indiana State
>University with the degree A. B. in 1916, and spent the following year in
>Harvard University. He married Miss Lois Steen Nicholson of Wheatland,
>Knox County, Indiana. Their romance began while they were s!
>tudents at the Indiana State University; they now live at Bluffton.
>Kenneth, the second son, is a graduate of the Bluffton High School with
>the class of 1913 and from the Yale University with the class of 1917, and
>is now at home doing his bit for the country and the world as responsible
>manager of an agricultural enterprise of several hundred acres. Marjorie,
>the only daughter, graduated from the Bluffton High School in 1916 and is
>now a senior in LaSell Seminary at Auburndale, Massachusetts.
>
>[poster is not related to this family - please do not ask for more
>information]
>From: rndlwall(a)aol.com
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>Jean-- Maybe you could help me! My g. grandfather, Hiram Clayton Wall
>married a Mary Blocher (later changed to Blocker) on Apr. 2, 1887 in Wells
>Co. His son Bert E. Wall was my grandfather. His son, Rev. Robert Don
>Wall, was my father. I'm having problems finding info on Clayton Wall.
>know anything? Randal Dwight Wall
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