Category Archives: Jasper County

Orval Hamilton Crisler

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Orval Hamilton Crisler
b. 10 October 1893, Mount Ayr, Newton County, Indiana, to William Addison and Clara Delilah (Hopkins) Crisler
d. 17 January 1986, West Chicago, DuPage County, Illinois

m. 1 October 1920, Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana
Jennie Mae Comer
b. 1 December 1891, Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, to William Cyrus and Sarah Jane (Gleason) Comer
d. 2 June 1986, West Chicago, DuPage County, Illinois

Children with Jennie Mae Comer:

  • William Orval (1922-2005) married Dorothy Helen Olson
  • Virginian Mae (b. 1923) married Leslie Alexander Simpson
  • John Edward (1924-1994) married June Freida Wilson
  • George Hamilton (1925-2000) married (1) Gloria Grover Murray, (2) Barbara Dee Bell
  • Emily Jeannette (b. 1927) married Lyle William Seefeldt

The Crisler family, headed by Orval’s grandfather, Hamilton Crisler, came to Indiana in 1846 and settled in the Haw Creek Township of Bartholomew County. They moved to Newton County, Indiana in 1861 when Hamilton purchased 240 acres of land in Jackson Township near the later town of Mount Ayr.

Orval moved with his parents to a farm northeast of the town of Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, in 1910. Following his marriage in 1920, he and his wife and their five children, moved to Waukegan, Illinois, in 1927. Orval enrolled in the LaSalle Extension School in Chicago and completed his education, becoming an accountant. The latter part of his working career was as an accountant, comptroller, and secretary/treasurer for the Chicago-based Gulbransen Piano Company.

His wife Jennie was a registered nurse who worked at the Jasper County Hospital in Rensselaer as a surgical nurse and radiology technician prior to her marriage. Orval was a farmer, having taken over the family farm after the death of his father in 1911

After his retirement, Orval and Jennie moved to Dunedin, Florida. They returned to the Chicago area in the mid 1980’s and both died there in 1986. They were sent home to Indiana for burial in Weston Cemetery in Rensselaer, Indiana

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Leslie S. Hall
Waynesboro, VA
E-mail: geniehall75@gmail.com

Amsie Clark

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AMSIE CLARK
b. 20 May 1843, Columbiana County, Ohio, to Joseph and Elizabeth (McDonald) Clark
d. 26 January 1913, Watseka, Iroquois County, Illinois

m. 5 May 1866, Jasper County, Indiana
Joseph Pillars
b. 1839, Carroll County, Ohio
d. 11 April 1878, Jasper County, Indiana

Children with Joseph Pillars:

  • Anna Elizabeth (b. 1867)
  • Mary (b. 1870)
  • Lola (b. 1873)
  • Mamie (b. 1875)

Amsie arrived in Indiana sometime between 1854 and 1860 from Elk Run Township, Columbiana County, Ohio. She lived in Marion Township, Jasper County while in Indiana and left there about 1885 for Iroquois County, Illinois.

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Elaine V. McLauchlau
Boynton Beach FL

Sarah Ann Saylor/Sayler

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Sarah Ann Saylor/Sayler
b. 21 September 1827, Marion County, Ohio, to Harry and Mary Elizabeth (Kepner) Sayler
d. 18 February 1906, Johnson County, Iowa

m/1. 22 August 1850, Ohio
Jeremiah Crabb Monnett
b. 23 May 1823, to Reverend Jeremiah and Alis “Aley” (Slagle) Monnett
d. 3 June 1852, Crawford County, Ohio

m/2. 11 August 1859, Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana
Fordyce “Fordus” Harrington
b. 21 December 1817, Madison County, New York
d. 10 February 1885, Vinton, Benton County, Iowa

Children with Jeremiah Crabb Monnett:

  • Jasper Jeremiah (1851-1946) married Mary Ann Brown
  • Mary “Elsie” (1852-1904) married Bernard Brocksus

Children with Fordyce Harrington:

  • Fordus (1860-1871)
  • John Charles Fremont (1861-1938) married Maud Rhodarmer/Rhodymer
  • Laura C. (1862-1895) married William Ringler
  • Francis Marion (1864-1908) married Mary Rhoda Shinn
  • Clara Caroline (1866-1958) married William Weber
  • Florence V. (1869-1871)

Sarah immigrated to York Township, Iowa County, Iowa, in 1860.

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Clarence Smith
Prior Lake MN

Sarah Elizabeth Statton

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SARAH ELIZABETH STATTON
b. 15 July 1846, Virginia, to James and Catherine (Bobo) Statton
d. 9 November 1927, Shelton Township, Iroquois County, Illinois

m. 8 September 1867, White County, Indiana
George Washington Kersey
b. 20 December 1830, Marion County, Ohio
d. 12 November 1904, Union Township, Jasper County, Indiana

Children with George Washington Kersey:

  • Effie Alice (b. 1869) married [—?—] Stanley
  • James (b. 1871)
  • Isaac (b. 1871)
  • Earl (b. 1873)
  • Kathryn Statton (b. 1875)
  • George Orval (b. 1877)
  • Curtis Roy (b. 1880)

While in Indiana, Sarah lived in Chalmers, White County; Remington, Jasper County; and Fowler, Benton County.

Submitted by:
Orville Kersey
Crown Point IN

Horace Russell Henkle

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Horace Russell Henkle
b. 1 November 1870, Jasper County, Indiana, to Lemual Wesley and Lucinda (Russell) Henkle
d. 11 October 1949, Paonia, Delta County, Colorado

m. 5 September 1895, Noblesville, Hamilton County, Indiana
Effa Hope Phelps
b. 20 October 1875, Westfield, Hamilton County, Indiana
d. 15 March 1952, Paonia, Delta County, Colorado

Children with Effa Hope Phelps:

  • Herman Henry (1900–1987)
  • Lydia (1902–1982)
  • Margaret (1904–1983)
  • Esther (1911–1987)
  • Charles Van (b. 1914)

Horace Henkle taught school in Jasper County, Indiana, for a time but chose to escape the fate of most tuberculosis sufferers by “going west” to work and live in the sunny, dry climate of Colorado. He emigrated from Indiana in 1895 to Colorado Springs, Colorado. After teaching there for a few years, he became a life-long farmer and fruit grower, pioneering a new planting of fruit trees in Mesa County, Colorado.

Copies of a pictorial family history, Ancestors and Descendants of Horace Russell and Effa Hope Phelps Henkle, have been donated to the Allen County Public Library, the historical library of Hamilton County, Indiana, and other genealogical libraries by four of their children.

Submitted by:
Charles Van Henkle
Lincoln NE