Andrew Augustus Robe

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Andrew Augustus Robe
b. 20 January 1840, Morgan County, Indiana, to William Henry and Nancy Jane (St. John) Robe
d. 2 August 1892, Waverly, Coffey County, Kansas

m. 21 November 1865, Franklin County, Indiana
Mary Sheldmeyer
b. 7 August 1840, Schaumburg, Germany, to Henry and Christine Luise (Mohlmann) Scheldmeyer
d. 26 July 1909, Coffey County, Kansas

Children with Mary Sheldmeyer:
• William Henry (1866-1952) married Lydia Christine Lankard
• Nancy Jane (1868-1945)
• Charles Wesley (1870-1957) married Jessie Towle Witherspoon
• Myrtie Elizabeth (1872-1950)
• Andrew Edward (1874-1942) married Elizabeth Belinda Brown
• George Oscar (1878-abt. 1951) married Mattie Jane Kurtz

Andrew left Morgan County, Indiana, around 1864.

Submitted by:
Rowena Robe Selby
Derby KS
E-mail: rrselby@prodigy.net

Alonzo Leroy Rinard

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Alonzo Leroy “Lon” Rinard
b. 3 March 1875, Blackford County, Indiana, to Adam and Isabelle Rinard
d. 30 December 1965, Salina, Saline County, Kansas

m. 18 November 1908, Franklin Township, Lincoln County, Kansas
Anna Lebert
b. 9 October 1881, Brookville, Saline County, Kansas
d. 16 March 1966, Salina, Saline County, Kansas

Children with Anna Lebert:
• Clarence Adam
• Jeanette Marie
• Leroy Martin

Lon’s family is said to have come to Indiana and left from Blackford County before 1885.

Submitted by:
Julie Rinard Scott
Casa Grande AZ
E-mail: jkscott59@msn.com

Earl Ferree Richison

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Earl Ferree Richison
b. 31 May 1917, Indiana, to Dr. Earl and Sallie Cathern (Ferree) Richison
d. 22 December 1978, Anaheim, Orange County, California

Earl Ferree’s father had joined the Navy the month before Earl was born. He is listed at the Great Lakes Naval Training Base in the 1920 census but there is nothing to indicate where Earl and his mother were living at that time.

Submitted by:
Shirley Richison Fields
Avon IN
E-mail: richison@indy.rr.com

Elias Rich

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Elias Rich
b. 15 March 1828, Randolph County, North Carolina, to Joseph and Anna (Moore) Rich
d. 10 June 1900, Neosho Township, Kingfisher County, Nebraska

m. 28 March 1849, Randolph County, North Carolina
Anna Winslow
b. 12 May 1823, Randolph County, North Carolina
d. Liberty Township, Grant County, Indiana
divorced.

Children with Anna Winslow:
• Sophia Ann
• Elizabeth
• Ruth Ann
• Nathan
• Mary
• Amanda
• Elias Stanton
• Alson Winslow

The family came to Hamilton County, Indiana, in 1850 and lived there a short time before moving to Liberty Township, Grant County, Indiana, which Elias left in the 1870’s.

Submitted by:
Joan Jane Yale Shields
Marion IN
E-mail: jadnard@bpsinet.com

Lenoir E. Reeves

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Lenoir E. Reeves
b. 8 August 1808, Virginia or Tennessee, to William and Ann (Terrell) Reeves
d. 15 March 1888, Imnaha, Wallowa County, Oregon

m. 1828, Greene County, Indiana
Mourning Walker
b. 14 February 1804, Lexington, Kentucky
d. 14 June, along the Platte River near Chimney Rock, Nebraska

Children with Mourning Walker:
• Anna Walker (1829-1882) married [–?–] Woody
• John R. (b. 1832)
• George H.
• T. T. (1837-1842)
• Sarah Jane (1842-1922)

Lenoir came to Greene County, Indiana, before 1828. They left the state from Terre Haute, Vigo County, in 1837. They were in Benton County, Missouri, in 1842, where a son died and a daughter was born. They then took the Oregon Trail to Oregon, where Mr. Reeves, John, and Sarah lived until their deaths.

Submitted by:
Michelle Findley Yahnian
Visalia CA

Henry Jeanneret Reeve

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Henry Jeanneret Reeve
b. 12 September 1887, Ligonier, Noble County, Indiana, to Edwin and Julia (Jeanneret) Reeve
d. 16 April 1951, Hinsdale, DuPage County, Illinois

m. 20 April 1899, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
Eva Elizabeth Hart
b. 25 September 1874, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, to Edwin Rose Frisbie and Margaret
Elizabeth (Kull) Hart
d. 4 August 1956, Downers Grove, DuPage County, Illinois

Children with Eva Elizabeth Hart:
• Edwin Allworth (b. 1901)
• Norman Hart (b. 1903)
• Kenneth Jeanneret (b. 1910)
• Muriel Evelyn (b. 1915)

Henry lived and was educated in Ligonier, Indiana until his emigration in 1892, taking a position with the Diamond Machinery Co. in 1893-94. He retired in 1947 after having worked with various machinery companies in the area.

Henry served as treasurer of the First Congregational Church in Western Springs for many years. He also served the village of Western Springs as Treasurer and Collector, as a trustee, and as President. He was awarded the Silver Beaver for his work with the West Suburban Council of the Boy Scouts. At the time of his death, he was vice president of the Western Springs Building & Loan Association.

Submitted by:
Kenneth Jeanneret Reeve
Columbus IN

Mary Catharine Milligan

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Mary Catharine Milligan
b. 3 March 1919, Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, to James Stuart and Margaret Shera (Wynn) Milligan
d. 26 February 2005, Evanston, Cook County, Illinois

m. before 9 September 1945
Charles Richard Locke
b. 1918, Taylorville, Illinois, to Arthur and Ellen (Powel) Locke
d. 11 November 1995, Evanston, Cook County, Illinois

Children with Charles Richard Locke:
• John S. (1946-1966)
• Margaret (b. 1948) married Richard Mayer
• Richard M. (b. 1950)

Mary Catharine was a home economics teacher and served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy WAVES during World War II from March 1943 to September 1945.

She was an active member of the Covenant United Methodist Church in Evanston, the Philanthropic and Educational Organization, and the American Association of University Women.

Submitted by:
Richard Locke
Evanston IL

Louis David Ludwing, Sr.

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Louis David “Bud” 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

Children with Ruth Adah Lanphear:
• Linda Louise (d. in infancy)
• Jacqueline Ann
• Louis David, Jr.
• LuAnn

Louis was a fireman for the city of Mishawaka, Indiana, from 1948 until 1969 when he retired as a Battalion Chief and moved to Texas that same year. He grew up on a farm along the St. Joseph River, graduated from Mishawaka High School in 1942, and enlisted in the United States Navy. He served on a Destroyer Escort, DE 203, in the Pacific until the end of World War II.

Louis was working for Associates Investment Co. in Texas when he died. He is buried in Chapel Hill Cemetery in Osceola, Indiana.

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

Mary Rapp

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Mary Rapp
b. 27 November 1859, Mount Vernon, Posey County, Indiana, to Johan Michael and Dorothea Catharine (Sauerwein) Rapp
d. 5 April 1926, White County, Illinois

m. 28 May 1874, Henderson, Henderson County, Kentucky
Friedrich Ludwig Roser
b. 18 November 1839, Obermutschelbach, Karlsruhe, Baden, Germany, to Friedrich Ludwig and Anna Maria (Schmidt) Roser
d. 2 January 1919, White County, Illinois

Children with Friedrich Ludwig Roser:
• Edward (1874-1880)
• Frederick “Fritz” (1879-1955) married Clara Ethyl Clark
• Kathryn Rebecca (1880-1962) married Frederick William Wohlhueter
• Augustus William (1883-1975) married Nola May Eplin
• Lawrence Farrington (1886-1969) married Theresa Henning
• Eunice (1890-1923) married Elvis Huffaker
• Arthur Cecil (1893-1957) married Nellie E. Daily
• Inez Marie (1896-1987) married Harry Horton
• Viola (1889-1978) married Max Cooper

Mary’s parents and older siblings came from Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, to Posey County, Indiana, on 31 May 1853. After her father died in 1862, she and her mother went to live with an older sister and her husband in Henderson, Kentucky. Mary’s sister died in 1872. Two years later, Mary married her sister’s widower. He had a grocery store in Henderson. In 1880, they moved to a farm in White County, Illinois.

Submitted by:
Barbara Wohlhueter
Bradenton FL

Joseph Raney

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Joseph Raney
b. 14 July 1824, Perry Township, Martin County, Indiana, to Joseph and Cecilia (Cissel) Raney
d. 22 February 1889, Sherman Township, Kossuth County, Iowa

m/1. 31 January 1847, Perry Township, Martin County, Indiana
Polly Gootee
b. 19 February 1819, Perry Township, Martin County, Indiana, to Thomas and Nancy Gootee
d. 26 March 1862, Sherman Township, Kossuth County, Iowa

m/2. 22 May 1863, Cresco Township, Kossuth County, Iowa
Mary Fisher
b. 5 March 1845, Medford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, to Addison and Martha Fisher
d. 31 December 1907, Algona, Kossuth County, Iowa

Children with Polly Gootee:
• Virginia (b. 1847) married (1) William Johnson, (2) A. J. Downs
• Walter W. (1849-1920) married Cora Marie Fisher
• Thomas (1850-1851)
• Sheldon (b. 1852) married Isabella Gilmore
• John (b. 1854)
• Nancy (1856-1875)
• Caroline (1858-1918) married John Robert Fraser
• Francis Joseph (1860-1889)
• unknown

Children with Mary Fisher:
• Mary A. (1864-1955) married E. C. Clark
• Henry A. (1865-1871)
• Phoebe O. (1867-1944) married Charles Elmer Clark
• William H. (1868-1926) married Flora B. Stoddard
• Cora Marie (1870-1929) married John Orlando Starks
• Charles A. (1872-1946) married Leila Clark
• David Elmer (1874-1924) married Adda Sample
• Carrie I. (1876-1885)
• James Adolfus (1877-1954) married Lula Mae Fitch
• Martha A. (b. 1879) married Walter R. Davis
• George S. (b. 1881) married Lula [–?–]
• Robert F. (1883-1957) married (1) Josephine Ryan, (2) Caroline M. McLoed
• Lillian Gertrude (b.1885) married Forest Ward Cairy
• Frank (1888-1912)
• Eleanor

Joseph and Polly moved to Muscatine County, Iowa, in 1854, then on to Kossuth County, Iowa, in 1856. Joseph was the third white farmer to settle in what is now Sherman Township but was then Irvington Township. The first white birth in that township was their daughter Caroline. The second white death in the township was Polly.

Submitted by:
Thomas H. Starks
Las Vegas NV
E-mail: tomstat@aol.com