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Do you have any more information on the John and Rachel (Jeames) Holliday family? I am
descended from a Mary (James) Fleming who lived in the same general area. She was born
about 1800 (can't remember exact dates) and died in the 1850's. I'm curious if
Mary and Rachel might somehow be related?
JOSEPH FIDLER is one of the intelligent and enterprising farmers of Wea Township, who has
been identified with the growth of the county ever since the year 1829. His father, JACOB
FIDLER, was born in Rockingham County, Virginia, and married in Ross County, Ohio,
ELIZABETH STORMS, a native of Ohio and of German ancestry. In October, 1829, he came with
his family, consisting of wife and four children, to Tippecanoe County, in a wagon drawn
by three horses, and located in Perry Township three miles northeast of Dayton, where he
entered eighty acres of land. Here he resided some four or five years, and then removed to
Sheffield Township, and after a residence of three or four years there he finally settled
in Wea Township, where he died in 1851. His wife died in 1871, and they were both buried
in Wildcat cemetery. Seven of their children are living. JOSEPH, whose name heads this
sketch, was born October 1, 1825, in Ross County, Ohio, and was four years old when his
parents came !
with him to the wilds of Indiana, and here, in the primitive log cabin school-house, did
he receive his education, and on the pioneer farm, his agricultural training. He located
upon his present farm in the spring of 1851, a portion of which is the old homestead of
his father. Here he has ever since resided; and the story-and-a-half residence,
substantial farm buildings, and other improvements, show how skillfully and industriously
he has enhanced the value of the place. The farm comprises 500 acres. In his political
sympathies he is a Democrat, as was his father--has served on executive committees of his
party a number of times. In April, 1886, he was elected township trustee. February 13,
1846, he married MISS HANNAH HOLLIDAY, a daughter of JOHN and RACHEL (JEAMES) HOLLIDAY,
who were early settlers of this county.
Biographical Record and Portrait Album of Tippecanoe County, Indiana, pp. 536-537
The Lewis Publishing Company, 113 Adams Street, Chicago, 1888