Category Archives: St. Joseph County

Louis David Ludwig, Sr.

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Louis David Ludwig, Sr.
b. 19 November 1922, Mishawaka, St. Joseph County, Indiana to Walter Henry and Lolita Esther Adeline (Koenig) Ludwig
d. 20 January 1984, Arlington, Tarrant County, Texas

m. 12 May 1946, Mishawaka, St. Joseph County, Indiana
Ruth Adah Lanphear
b. 1 October 1924, Lake Worth, Palm Beach County, Florida, to Clyde Lee and Helen Maude (Yerrick) Lanphear

Children with Ruth Adah Lanphear:

  • Linda Louise (b. 1948) married Robert Charles Irish
  • Jacqueline Ann (b. 1949) married Claude Charles Rodgers
  • Louis David, Jr. (b. 1952) married Elizabeth Miles
  • LuAnn (1953-1953)

Louis Ludwig (l833-1904) came from Dachwig, Saxon, Preussen. He met Katarina Elizabetha Dibel (1847-1919) from Hesse-Darmsdt, Germany, in Mishawaka, Indiana. They were married 28 October in South Bend, Indiana. Their farm was on the St. Joseph River in Penn Township, St. Joseph County. They had six children and their youngest son, Walter Henry, raised his son, Louis David, Sr., and two daughters, on the farm as well.

Louis married Ruth Lanphear in 1946 and they raised a family of three children. Louis worked as a Mishawaka Firefighter from 1948 through 1969. His father was a plumber and Louis also worked for him. Louis designed the “House of Hazzards” that was used in Mishawaka classrooms to teach children about fire safety in the home, and during World War II, he served in the U.S. Navy.

After retiring from the Mishawaka Fire Department in 1969, he moved with his wife and youngest child to Everman, Texas. He died in Texas in 1984 but is buried in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens In Osceola, St. Joseph County, Indiana.

Submitted by:
Linda Ludwig Irish
South Bend IN
E-mail: linlirish@sbcglobal.net

Elizabeth Rarrick

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Elizabeth Rarrick
b. 7 December 1784, New Jersey, to Henry and Elizabeth (Roods) Rarrick
d. 12 November 1877, Monticello, Jones County, Iowa

m/1. 26 March 1801, Morris County, New Jersey
John Morss/Mors
b. 25 June 1780, Cayuga County, New York, to Benjamin and Irena (Mead) Morss

m/2. 1819
Benjamin Crouch
b. about 1776, Massachusetts
d. 1856, probably St. Joseph County, Indiana

Children with John Morss:

  • Anna B. (1802-1829)
  • Henry D. (1803-1817)
  • Elizabeth (1806-1896) married Chauncy Mead
  • Benjamin (1808-1892) married Sophronia Mead
  • Simeon (b. 1811) married Jane Manliff
  • John (1813-1814)
  • David A. (1815-1909) married Moriah Carpenter
  • Daniel (1818-1903) married Sarah Nancy Milliken

Children with Benjamin Crouch:

  • Ephraim (1821-1845)
  • Eleazer (1824-1892) married (1) Lucinda Matthews, (2) Ann Maria Wells
  • Nathan (b. 1827) married Susan Tracy

Elizabeth was one of eight children. She moved to Monticello, Jones County, Iowa, where she resided with her daughter Elizabeth (Morss) Mead until her death.

Submitted by:
Barbara Taylor Szabo
Osceola IN

Estella M. Bement

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ESTELLA M. BEMENT
b. 9 January 1858, South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana, to Samuel and Lydia Celesta (Waite) Bement
d. 15 April 1926, Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska

m/1. about 1877
Seymour Charlie Layton
b. 23 February 1851, Pennsylvania, to Hiram and Julia Layton
d. 12 September 1880, Noble Township, LaPorte County, Indiana

m/2. about 1883
Gordon Martin
d. about 1893, Nebraska

m/3. about 1894
John Neu
b. 29 March 1867, Berlin, Otoe County, Nebraska
d. 10 October 1889, Berlin, Otoe County, Nebraska

m/4. about 1910
J. W. Smalley

Children with Seymour Charlie Layton:

  • Evline Lillian (1878-1929) married Jacob Martin Shelter

Children with Gordon Martin:

  • Kathryn “Kitty” (b. 1884) married Charles Kuss
  • Edith (b. ca. 1885)
  • Flossie (b. 1887)

Children with John Neu:

  • Ethel Rae (1895-1937) married Fred G. Powell

Estella lived in South Bend, St. Joseph County, and Union Mills, Noble Township, LaPorte County, before emigrating from Indiana. She then lived in Berlin, Otoe County, Nebraska.

Submitted By:
Hilda Hemmingson Meryhew
Auburn WA

 

Elam S. Preston

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Reverend Elam S. Preston
b. 29 September 1821, Campbell County, Virginia, to Zenas and Elizabeth (Stanton) Preston
d. 27 February 1906, Valley City, Barnes County, North Dakota

m/1. 13 May 1850, St. Joseph County, Indiana
Keziah Brown

m/2.
Maria Shepley

m/3. 21 July 1864
Anna N. (Dodd) Willard
d. 8 March 1905, Tower City, Cass County, North Dakota

Children with Maria Shepley:

  • Elizabeth Preston married [–?–] Anderson

Elam was the fifth of seven children. In 1840, Elam, age 19, was still living at home with his family, but shortly afterward he entered Indiana Asbury College to begin his studies for the ministry. In 1847 he was admitted on a trial basis to the North Indiana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In August 1850 he was appointed to serve at South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana. He joined the Northwest Indiana Conference when it formed in 1852 and was appointed minister to the Mishawaka Methodist Episcopal Church in April 1863. Elam died in 1906 at the home of his daughter, Elizabeth (Preston) Anderson. He and Maria had other children.

Submitted by:
Barbara Taylor Szabo
Osceola IN

William Janes Loan

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William Janes Loan
b. 1795
d. 25 February 1850, German Township, St. Joseph County, Indiana

m. 25 March 1823, Pickaway County, Ohio
Mary S. “Polly” Bashford
b. 21 June 1806, Ohio
d. 29 December 1884, Pleasant Valley, Johnson County, Iowa

Children with Mary S. Bashford:

  • Andrew
  • Mary S.
  • William Henry (1831-1876)
  • George W.
  • Elias
  • Emily Ellen
  • Maude Jane married [–?–] Simon
  • Margaret
  • James W.
  • Martha V.

William James Loan resided in German Township, St. Joseph County, Indiana. After the death of her husband, Mary Bashford Loan emigrated with part of the family in 1852 to Pleasant Valley, Johnson County, Iowa.

Submitted by:
Patrick Loan
Oxford IA

Warren Ferris Lee

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Warren Ferris Lee
b. 19 January 1799, Little Falls, Herkimer County, New York, to Elisha and Sally (Pitcher) Lee
d. 3 April 1859, Fawn River Township, St. Joseph County, Michigan

m. 16 October 1828
Eliza Maynard Nelson
b. 30 September 1809
d. 24 April 1890, Missouri

Children with Eliza Maynard Nelson:

  • Charles N (b. ca. 1831, New York)
  • Eliza Z. (b. ca. 1838, New York)
  • Henry (b. 1841, Indiana)
  • Mary (31 March 1844–9 June 1910) married Alfred Toll
  • Elizabeth (b. ca. 1848, Michigan)

Warren Ferris Lee moved to St. Joseph County, Indiana, by 1840 and after 1840, to Fawn River, St. Joseph County, Michigan, where he purchased a small flour mill and distillery on Fawn River from a Mr. Freeman. In the 1845 census of St. Joseph County, Michigan, the Lees were living in Fawn River Township.

About 1848, Warren F. Lee served as town clerk of Fawn River Township. But by 1850 the Lee family had moved to LaGrange County, Indiana, where Warren was running an inn called the Lima House with the help of his son Charles. Then in 1858, Warren was back across the state line in Fawn River Township, serving as a delegate to the St. Joseph County, Michigan, Democratic County Convention.

Submitted by:
Paul P. Brinkman
Kansas City MO

Napoleon Hessig

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Napoleon Hessig
b. 2 April 1840, Stark County, Ohio, or St. Joseph County, Indiana, to George and Margaret (Keifer) Hessig
d. 1918, Whitewater Township, Winona County, Minnesota

m. 14 June 1863, Indiana
Fiannah Schlott
b. 13 May 1841, Stark County, Ohio
d. 31 May 18??, Whitewater Township, Winona County, Minnesota

Children with Fiannah Schlott:

  • Harvey
  • George Franklin
  • Alice Maudilla
  • Minnie Belle
  • Mary Amanda
  • William Day
  • Lillie May
  • Edna Gertrude
  • Aaron E.
  • Lulu Edna

In 1862 Napoleon Hessig walked to Minnesota on foot from Harris Township, St. Joseph County, Indiana, and claimed 160 acres of wild land lying at the head of the Whitewater Valley in Winona County. The following year he returned to Indiana, where he married. He and his wife then returned to Minnesota.

Submitted by:
Graylen K. Becker
Rochester MN

George Hassig

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George Hassig
b. 17 November 1808, Strasburg, France, to John and Barbara Hassig

m. 1840, Indiana
Margaret Keiffer

Children with Margaret Keiffer:

  • Napoleon (1840–1918) married Fiannah Schlott
  • Franklin (b. ca. 1846–22 July 1912) married Maria (Winters) Butler
  • Louisa (b. ca. 1842-d. young)
  • Eliza Ann (b. ca. 1844–abt. 1872) married John Keller
  • Emanuel (1848–1923)
  • Israel (b. ca. 1845) married Emma C. Miller
  • Margaret (b. ca. 1851 and may have d. in February 1908) married William Null

George came to the United States in 1832, and lived for about five years in Stark County, Ohio, before moving to Harris Township, St. Joseph County, Indiana, about 1837.

Submitted by:
Graylen K. Becker
Rochester MN

Emanuel Hessig

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Emanuel Hessig
b. about 1848, Harris Township, St. Joseph County, Indiana, to George and Margaret (Keifer) Hassig
d. 25 June 1923, Winona, Minnesota

m/1. 6 May 1871, Plainview, Winona County, Minnesota
Arwilda D. Hodgkin
b. 27 June 1850, Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, to Stephen H. and Nancy A. (Hemprell) Hodgkin
d. shortly after the birth of a second daughter on 20 March 1873

m/2. 10 December 1878, Whitewater, Winona County, Minnesota
Nancy Albertine “Tina” Hodgkin
b. 18 March 1858, Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, to Stephen H. and Nancy A. (Hemprell) Hodgkin
d. 1 September 1915, near Garneill, Fergus County, Montana

Children with Arwilda D. Hodgkin:

  • two daughters who died at or shortly after birth

Children with Nancy Albertine Hodgkin:

  • Nellie (b. 12 October 1879, Harris Township, St. Joseph County, Indiana)
  • Victor Emanuel (b. 16 April 1884, Beaver Valley, Minnesota)

Emanuel emigrated from St. Joseph County, Indiana, in 1862 to Winona County, Minnesota. He moved about 1898 to Garneill, Fergus County, Montana, and returned to Beaver, Minnesota, about 1905.

Submitted by:
Graylen K. Becker
Rochester MN

Joshua Emmons

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Joshua Emmons
b. 28 January 1800, Virginia
d. 19 November 1883, Liberty, Johnson County, Iowa

m. 29 July 1823, Ross County, Ohio
Elizabeth Durham
b. 6 March 1805, Ohio
d. 14 April 1880, Liberty, Johnson County, Iowa

Children with Elizabeth Durham:

  • Amos H. (1825–1891) married Nancy J. [–?–]
  • John E. (b. 1831) married (1) Emily E. Love, (2) Hannah Fessler Miller
  • Mary Jane (1835–1899) married William Henry Loan
  • William (1838–1918) married Mary M. Bowden
  • Miranda (1841–-1912) married Cemiah Snair
  • George Wesley (1844–1907) married (1) Ellen Louisa Bowden, (2) Mary Miller
  • Isaac (1847–1917) married Anna Augusta Potter
  • Elizabeth (1827–1874) married John Keppler
  • Joshua (b. 1826) married Louisa Pretziner

Joshua resided in 1850 in German Township, St. Joseph County, Indiana. He moved to Johnson County, Iowa.

Submitted by:
Patrick Loan
Oxford IA