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1882 History of Whitley County page 318 (1865); The names of those who were the leading
citizens of the county at this time can be seen better perhaps by giving the program for
the Fourth of Tulv celebration in Columbia City. The celebration was held in
Shinneman's grove. The program shows the following: President of the day, John S.
Cotton: vice presidents, A. M. Trumbull and B. A. Cleveland; chaplains, Revs. Hutchison
and Wells;
Pag3 258: Grace Lutheran organized April 19, 1847, by Rev. J. B. Oliver with six members.
Rev. Franklin Templin served four and H. Wells sixteen years.
1882 History of Whitley County page 318:
"Rev. Wells, an educated and accomplished gentleman and an orator of no mean ability,
organized a Lutheran church in 1857."
1882 History of Whitley County page 318:
"In early times, the strife between the different religious denominations was almost
equal to their combined efforts against the bulwarks of sin. This opposition finally
culminated in an oral debate on the subject of water baptism, between Rev. Hugh Wells,, of
the English Lutheran church, and Rev. Aaron Walker, of the Disciple church, which was held
in Edward Beckley's barn. The exact date of the debate could not bfe learned but it
was sometime in the 1850's."
1907 History of Whitley County"
Pages 333-334:
LEMUEL DEVAULT was born in Ross County, Ohio, April 15, 1828, and is one of eleven
children born to Nicholas and Frances (Brown) Devault, the former a native of
Pennsylvania, but of French descent, and the latter of
Ohio and of English extraction. Nicholas Devault emigrated to Ross County, Ohio, when a
young man, and when that
country was an unbroken wilderness. Here he married and bought a farm, resided on it till
1858, sold out, bought
another farm, near Whitehall, III., moved upon it, and there passed his remaining days.
Mr. Devault served as soldier in the war of 1812, and died a member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. Lemuel Devault, our subject, received a very fair common-school
education in his youth, and worked on his father's farm till about twenty years of
age; then worked by the job two years; then farmed for his father and others on shares. In
the fall of 1851, he came to this township, bought forty acres wild land, and was obliged
to borrow money to make the first payment thereon, but by industry, economy and integrity
has acquired 634 acres of well-improved land, beside valuable property in Columbia City
and Churubusco. He was married in Columbia City, in November, 1851, to Frances Tulley, of
Ross County, Ohio, daughter of Francis and Elizabeth (Wayland) Tulley. Mrs. Devault died
September 28, 1855, a member of the United Brethren Church, and Mr. Devault, November 30,
1856, married Nancy Wel!
ls, daughter of Rev. Hugh Wells; but there have no children been born to him. For fifteen
years, Mr. Devault has filled the office of Justice of the Peace, and has just been
re-elected, which will make his term twenty years, and he has also served as Trustee of
the township. He is a member of Columbia City Lodge, No. 189, A., F. & A. M., is a
Democrat, and he and wife are members of the Lutheran Church, and rank among the leading
citizens of the township.
Mrs. Jessie Frame - Transcribed and contributed by Beverly Henley - The Commercial Mail -
Columbia City, Indiana - January 8, 1945 Page 6:
Funeral services were conducted January 2 in the Memorial chapel at North Manchester
for Mrs. Jessie Frame born in Columbia City 81 years ago. Her death occurred at the home
December 31. Mrs. Frame was a daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Hugh Wells, the former at one time
minister of Grace Lutheran church in this city. Before her marriage Mrs. Frame was a
teacher in the N. Manchester schools and she served for a number of years as organist at
the Peabody Home, where she had resided for the past 13 years. Her husband was the late
Charles B. Frame, a hardware merchant at North Manchester at one time.
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