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Thomas Pride

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Thomas Pride
birth: 1790 in Tennessee to Woolsey Pride, b 1760 and (possibly) Rachel Gold
death: 08 Jan 1856 in Pike County, Indiana
burial: Iva Cemetery (once known as Pride Graveyard); Iva, Pike County, Indiana

marriage: 12 July 1809 in Knox County, Indiana
Caty Miley
birth: About 1793 in Pennsylvania to Heinrich “Henry” Miley and Mary Polly Herndon
death: About 1846 in Pike County, Indiana
burial: Unknown (Lost to time)

Children of Caty Miley and Thomas Pride:

  • Henry Pride in 1814-Unknown, married Rhoda Fowler on 24 Sep 1837 in Pike County, Indiana
  • Other children, including a Woolsey Pride, dates unknown at this time

Ancestor here lived in:

About 1800 – before 21 Dec 1816, Knox County, Indiana (where his father, Woolsey Pride established White Oak Springs Fort)
From 21 Dec 1816 (when Pike became a county) until his death in 1856, Thomas lived in Pike County, Indiana

Other Information:

Census records indicate that Thomas Pride was born in Tennessee

1812 – Militia, Knox County, Indiana.

Listed in the 1820, 1830.1840, and 1850 census records for Pike County, Indiana.

1820 – appointed as a commissioner to “view, locate, and mark the route chosen for the ‘state road’ from Troy to Washington (part of an article from The Herald; Jasper, Indiana · Friday, October 31, 1975)

Married Martha “Patsy” (Ragsdale) Palmer (widow of Mark Palmer) on 03 Nov 1846.

As reported in the Princeton Clarion-Leader, Princeton, Indiana on 29 Mar 1851, Thomas was appointed as a Jefferson Township, Pike County delegate to the Congressional convention to be held in Perry County, Indiana.

Several mentions in history books of the era, including “Executive journal of Indiana Territory, 1800-1816: Journal of the proceedings of the executive government of the Indiana territory”; “History of Knox and Daviess Counties, Indiana” published by Goodspeed in 1886; “History of Pike and Dubois counties, Indiana” published by Goodspeed Bros in 1885.

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Sonya Grams
Email: sonyric214@hotmail.com

Edward Walker Osburn

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Rev. Edward Walker Osburn
b. 24 June 1854, Rush County, Indiana, to Harmon and Elizabeth (Packard) Osburn
d. 4 November 1931, St. Joseph, Missouri
bur. Crownland Cemetery, Noblesville, Indiana

Edward Osburn

Edward Osburn

m/1. 13 May 1885, Noblesville, Indiana
Florence Hobson
b. 7 October 1866, Columbus, Indiana, to Absolom and Mary Jane (Foster) Hobson
d. 22 March 1899, Greentown, Indiana
bur. Crown Point Cemetery, Kokomo, Howard, Indiana

m/2. 1 January 1901
Elsie Hard
b. 4 August 1876, Wadsworth, Ohio
d. 1955, Jacksonville, Florida

Children with Florence Hobson:

  • Mabel Meredith (1886-1982) married Foss Smith
  • Orah (1888-1890)
  • Paul Taylor (1890-1892)
  • Ita Crystal (1892-1893)
  • Edward Foss (1894-1969) married Vivian Combacker
  • Esther Florence (1896-1983) married (1) Harry Homer Fowler, (2) Frederick Charles Boehm

Children with Elsie Hard:

  • Kenneth Forest (1902-1902)
  • Herbert Corwin (1905-1945) married Katherine Gabriel Brown
  • Ruth Miriam (1908-2000) married Walter George Norris

Edward Walker Osburn was the youngest of nine children born to Harmon and Elizabeth “Eliza” Jane (Packard) Osburn. He was educated at Indiana Asbury (now DePauw) University and Garrett Biblical Institute in Evanston, Illinois. He was admitted to the North Indiana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1881, ordained Deacon in 1883, and Elder 1885. He married Florence “Fannie” Hobson in 1885 and she died of tuberculosis in 1899. Three of their six children lived to adulthood.

Between 1884 and 1896, Edward served as pastor of churches in Noblesville, Greentown, Jolietville, and Bunker Hill, Indiana. From 1896 to 1899 he was pastor of the St. Charles Avenue M. E. Church in New Orleans, Louisiana. Following a period of grieving from the loss of his wife, he served in Wadsworth, Ohio. There he met his second wife, Elsie Hard, with whom he had three children. In the following years, he served congregations in Texas, Alabama, and Missouri.

He retired to Florida in 1913. Edward was taken ill in St. Joseph, Missouri while attending a conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was hospitalized and later died on 4 November 1931. His body was returned to Noblesville, Indiana and he was buried there at Crownland Cemetery.

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Alexander Blair Smith
Simsbury, CT
E-mail: alexsmith17131@gmail.com