Category Archives: Posey County

George W Highman

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George W Highman
b. February 1847, possibly New Harmony Township, Posey County, Indiana, to Matthew and Mary Ann (Downs) Highman
d. after 1901, Stoddard County, Missouri

m/1. 26 February 1872, Posey County, Indiana
Florence Williams
b. 1853
d. 24 February 1877, Posey County, Indiana

m/2.
Louisa Cartwright
b. July 1845
d. 1901, Stoddard County, Missouri

Children with Florence Williams:

Children with Louisa Cartwright:

  • Neva M.

George and his second wife, Louisa, emigrated from Posey County, Indiana, to Stoddard County, Missouri, between 1882 and 1894.

Submitted by:
Clifton O. Highman
Boulder CO
E-mail: clifhigh@comcast.net

John/Johannes Endress

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John/Johannes Endress
b. 17 October 1802, Rudersburg, Wurtenburg, Germany, to Gottfried and Anna Marie Endress
d. 1859, Freedom, Beaver County, Pennsylvania

m. 1829, Pennsylvania
Rosina Rein
b. 15 July 1805, Butler County, Pennsylvania
d. about 1869, Beaver County, Pennsylvania

Children with Rosina Rein:

  • Louisa married William Schaufelberger
  • Mary married Christian Haller
  • Catharine married Christian Siefried
  • Ludwig
  • John

The Endress and Rein families immigrated to America to join the Harmony Society founded by George Rapp in Germany. A religious Utopian society, holding all property in common, the Society became a busy and successful farming community. The excellent farmland in Indiana drew the Society there for ten years, but in 1825 it returned to Pennsylvania and built a new town at Economy.

John (Johannes) Endress immigrated to Indiana from Harmony, Butler County, Pennsylvania, to New Harmony, Posey County, Indiana, in 1815. In 1825 he moved with members of the society to Economy, Beaver County, Pennsylvania. Very carefully controlled, members of the Economy community had almost no contact with the outside world. As regulations tightened, marriage was banned and celibacy was enforced, causing many young people to withdraw from the society. John (Johannes) Endress, his wife, and his mother-in-law Eva Rosina (Lambert) Rein were among them.

Submitted by:
Nancy B. Fratt
Westfield NJ

Teague Duty

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Teague Duty
d. 15 November 1876, Marion County, Illinois

m/1. before August 1844
Elizabeth Ann Smiley

m/2.
Sarah [–?–]

Children with Elizabeth Ann Smiley:

Children with Sarah [–?–]:

  • William
  • James A.
  • Betsy Ann
  • Houston

Teague resided in Posey County, Indiana before moving to Illinois.

Submitted by:
Kevin L. Stilley
Manhattan KS
E-mail: trlrhouseman@aol.com

Frankie Duty

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Frankie Duty
b. 27 August 1844, Posey County, Indiana, to Teague and Elizabeth (Smiley) Duty
d. 18 August 1918, Beloit, Mitchell County, Kansas

m. 5 September 1867, Illinois
Peter Hezekiah Stilley
b. 22 December 1847, Williamson County, Illinois, to Henry L. and Martha (Farrow) Stilley
d. 26 May 1923, Beloit, Mitchell County, Kansas

Children with Peter Hezekiah Stilley:

  • Elizabeth Ann (1868–1902) married Frank M. Cubbison
  • Martha Jane (1871–1928) married Franz Otto Dietrich
  • Lucinda E. (1872–1953) married Harry LeRoy Huff
  • Sarah Margaret (1874–1962) married Frederick Alsop
  • James Henry (1876–1971) married Lucretia Smith
  • Laura Agnes (b. 1878) married Bruce Elmond Farmer
  • John D. (1880–1884)
  • Albert Marion (1883–1918) married Lillie May Pounds
  • William Clarence (1886–1918) married Florence Cary

Frankie emigrated from Posey County, Indiana, to Illinois by September 1867.

Submitted by:
Kevin L. Stilley
Manhattan KS
E-mail: trlrhouseman@aol.com

Eli Barbre

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Eli Barbre
b. 25 July 1798, Kentucky
d. 29 November 1839, Waverly, Morgan County, Illinois

m/1. about 1819, Posey County, Indiana
Nancy Wilkerson
d. 1835, Edgar County, Illinois

m/2. 17 January 1829
Anna Wilson

Children with Nancy Wilkerson:

  • Isaac (b. 1820) married Nancy Bennett
  • William (b. 1822) married (1) Rebecca Smith, (2) Lucy M. Smith
  • Charlotte (b. 1824) married Wright Miller
  • Celia D. (b. 1826) married (1) Edward Bennett, (2) Charles Wiggins, (3) James Cleveland, (4) Henry Atkinson

Children with Anna Wilson:

  • Sarah E. (b. 1831) married Harvey Withrow

Eli and Anna Barbre moved to Sangamon County, Illinois, in 1835. Elder Eli Barbre, one of the ministers in the Springfield Association, moved his family often as he worked “as a laborer in the vineyard of his Divine Master.” His first four children were born in Indiana, while the younger ones were born in Illinois.

One of the children returned to Indiana to live. Isaac Barbre moved to Illinois with his parents but returned to Indiana, where he married and served for three years in an Indiana regiment during the Civil War.

Two of these children lived in Illinois at the time of their father’s death in 1839. William
Barbre, Eli’s second son, married in Sangamon County, Illinois, and served in Company B, 10th Illinois Cavalry. Celia D. Barbre resided in Clark County, Illinois. Charlotte Barbre lived in Lynn County, Oregon, in 1839.

From: Waverly Genealogical & Historical Society Newsletter, Waverly, Illinois, #65 (October 1994), p. 5.