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Ira Stout Compton

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Ira Stout Compton
b. 19 July 1810 Hamilton Co., Ohio
d. 7 May 1884 Montgomery Co, Indiana
bur. Bunker Hill Cemetery (formerly Stonebraker), Montgomery Co., Indiana

Ira Stout Compton

Ira Stout Compton

m/1.
Martha Campbell
d. 1840 Montgomery Co., Indiana

m/2. 8 Feb 1849 Montgomery Co., Indiana
Judith Vaughn
b. 26 July 1821 Alamo, Montgomery Co., Indiana
d. 18 Oct 1893 Montgomery Co., Indiana
bur. Bunker Hill Cemetery (formerly Stonebraker), Montgomery Co., Indiana
*Ira was Judith’s second husband. Her first was William A. Stonebraker

Children with Martha Campbell

  • Hannah (1836-)
  • Jane (1838-)

Children with Judith Vaughn

  • Hampton (1850-)
  • Newton (1852-)
  • Leah (1854-)
  • Martha (1861-1930) m. James Wilson Lee

Ira was born in Ohio to Nathan Compton and Sarah Jane Hawkins. He was settled in Montgomery County, Indiana by the 1840s and married first, Martha Campbell, and then Judith Vaughn. Judith was the daughter of James Vaughn and Nancy Jones. Both Ira and Judith are buried at Bunker Hill Cemetery.

Submitted by:
Sandra Rackard
Mobile, AL
E-mail: SRackard@bellsouth.net

Emma “Grace” McGrew

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Emma “Grace” McGrew
b. 12 Apr 1877 Patricksburg, Owen Co., IN
d. 11 Mar 1963 Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
bur. Roselawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN

Emma Grace McGrew

Emma Grace McGrew

m. 18 June 1902 Lewis, Vigo, IN
Zachariah “Zack” Jones
b. 21 Mar 1874 Huron, Lawrence Co., IN
d. 14 Jan 1968 Terre Haute, Vigo, IN

Children with Zachariah Jones

  • Glenn Winter (1903-1973) m/1.) Lois Edsil Eubank; m/2.) Gladys Marie Bryant
  • Richard Hebb (1904-1995) m. Jenny Mae Wilson
  • Clifford (1906-1976) m. Grace Louivier
  • Victoria Nevada (1908-1908)
  • Harold (1910-1962) m/1.)Dema Eberle; m/2.) Ruth M. Wilson
  • Herbert Raymond (1912-2003) m. Sylvia Dicks
  • Wayne Eugene (1915-1951) m/1.)Lorene David; m/2.) Helen Foltz
  • Kermit (1917-1995) m. Michael Kuckewich
  • Donald (1919-1975) m. Mary Ellingsworth
  • Wallace Z. (1921-1993) m. Alice G. Brown
  • Russell Edward (1923-1999) m. Geraldine Mullins

Grace was born to David Bacon McGrew and Rebecca Ellen Saltsgiver and spent her entire life in Indiana. She married Zachariah Jones, who was the son of Thomas Jones and Sarah Caroline Reed. She died at the age of 85 after a fall.

Submitted by:
Jennifer Cruse
Terre Haute, IN
E-mail: JenniCruse@gmail.com

David Bacon McGrew

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David Bacon McGrew
b. 29 Feb 1832 Ohio
d. 16 Jul 1910 Sullivan, Indiana
bur. Stephens Cemetery, Pierson Twp., Vigo Co., Indiana

David Bacon McGrew

David Bacon McGrew

David Bacon McGrew gravestone

David Bacon McGrew gravestone

m. 5 May 1859 Lewis, Vigo Co., Indiana
Rebecca Ellen Saltsgiver
b. 16 Sept 1837 Ohio
d. 12 Apr 1922
bur. Stephens Cemetery, Pierson Twp., Vigo Co., Indiana

Children with Rebecca Ellen Saltsgiver

  • Mary Florence (1860-1931) m. John Stickels
  • Nathan Alfred (1863-1951) m. Effie Armilda Trimble
  • Nevada Victoria (1865-1924) m. Richard H. Cochran
  • Eliza Jane (1868-1943) m. Winter Lovette Kimbel
  • Cora Anise (1870-1892)
  • Edward Huston (1874-1952) m. Ruth Rozelle Roberts
  • Emma Grace (1877-1963) m. Zachariah Jones

David was born in Ohio to Nathan McGrew and Mary Huston. After spending a time in Iowa, he returned to Indiana by 1870, settling in Patricksburg before finally moving to Vigo and then to Sullivan counties. He married Rebecca Ellen Saltsgiver who was the daughter of Joseph Saltsgiver and Maria Davis Kail. They are both buried at Stephens Cemetery in Vigo County.

Submitted by:
Jennifer Cruse
Terre Haute, IN
E-mail: jencruse@msn.com

Sarah Caroline Reed

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Sarah Caroline Reed
b. aft 27 July 1837, Indiana
d. 27 July 1900, Daviess County, Indiana
bur. Washington, indiana

Sarah Caroline Reed

Sarah Caroline Reed

m/1. 17 June 1858, Tinity, Martin, Indiana
Jeramiah Redyard
b. about 1836
d. 10 July 1866

m/2. 18 December 1868
Thomas Jones
b. 1831, Indiana, to George Willis and Rebecca (Chapman) Jones
d. 1877, Huron, Indiana

m/3. 3 September 1881, Lawrence County, Indiana
William Scaggs

Children with Jeramiah Redyard:

  • Henry Clay (1866-1937) married Mary Francis Devies
  • Mary Elizabeth (b. 1859) married Soloman C. Jones
  • William Harrison (b. 1861) married Emma Chapell

Children with Thomas Jones:

  • Jackson (1869-1964) married Nancy Ella Hammersley
  • Zachariah (1874-1968), married Emma Grace Hammersley
  • Louis (b. 1876) married Teresa E. O’Brien
  • I May (abt 1878)

Sarah Caroline Reed lived her entire life in Indiana. She is buried in Washington, Indiana according to the record of her death in Daviess County, Indiana but there is no stone on her grave.

Submitted by:
Jennifer Cruse
Terre Haute, IN
E-mail: jencruse@msn.com

Lawrence Morton McCammon

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Lawrence Morton McCammon
b. 17 June 1878 Heltonville, Lawrence Co., Indiana to Charles Riley McCammon and Nancy Caroline Vaughn
d. 15 April 1938 Sanders, Monroe Co., Indiana
bur. Lucas Cemetery, Clear Creek Twp., Monroe Co., Indiana

Lawrence Morton McCammon

Lawrence Morton McCammon

m/1. 18 August 1898 Monroe Co., Indiana
Mary Ellen Deckard
b. 20 Jan 1878 Polk Twp., Monroe Co., Indiana to King Anthony “Mon” Deckard and Nancy C. Clendenin
d. 19 July 1962 Sanders, Clear Creek Twp., Monroe Co., Indiana
bur. Lucas Cemetery, Clear Creek Twp., Monroe Co., Indiana

m/2. 1931 Monroe Co., Indiana
Emma Garner
Divorced 27 Dec 1932

Children:

  • Charles Clinton McCammon (1899-1967) m. Hulda Curry
  • Clara Jane McCammon (1901-2001) m. Warren Wisley
  • Maggie Pearl McCammon (1903-1920)
  • Clarence Edward McCammon (1910-1989) m. Lucille Smith
  • Harley Gilbert McCammon (1913-1975) m. Irene Sowders
  • Earl Millard McCammon (1915-1979) m. Lois Jean Jones
  • James Hoyd McCammon (1918-1990) m. Ivonne Hays
  • (also, two stillborn infants; one in 1907, the other in 1921)

Though he was born in Lawrence County, Lawrence spent most of his life in Monroe County, where he was employed in the limestone industry. An injury to his leg caused his retirement and, according to his obituary in the Bloomington Daily Telephone, brought complications leading to his death in 1938.

Submitted by:
Mobie McCammon
Bloomington, IN
E-mail: m.mccammon@comcast.net

Rebecca Ellen Saltsgiver

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Rebecca Ellen Saltsgiver
b. 16 September 1837, Carr, Ohio, to Joseph and Maria Davis (Kail) Saltsgiver
d. 12 April 1922, Lewis, Vigo, Indiana
bur. Stephens Cemetery, Pierson Township, Vigo County, Indiana

Rebecca Ellen Saltsgiver

Rebecca Ellen Saltsgiver

Rebecca Ellen Saltsgiver gravestone

Rebecca Ellen Saltsgiver gravestone

m. 5 May 1859, Lewis, Vigo, Indiana
David Bacon McGrew
b. 29 February 1832, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, to Nathan and Mary (Huston) McGrew
d. 16 July 1910, Sullivan County, Indiana
bur. Stephens Cemetery, Pierson Township, Vigo County, Indiana

Children with David Bacon McGrew:

  • Mary Florence (1860-1931) married John Stickels
  • Nathan Alfred (1863-1951) married Effie Armilda Trimble
  • Nevada Victoria (1865-1924) married Richard H. Cochran
  • Eliza Jane (1868-1943) married Winter Lovette Kimbel
  • Cora Anise (1870-1892)
  • Edward Huston (1874-1952) married Ruth Rozelle Roberts
  • Emma Grace (1877-1963) married Zachariah Jones

Rebecca was born in Ohio and spent a short time in Iowa before moving to Patricksburg, Indiana then to Pierson Township in Vigo County, Indiana. She later move to Sullivan County, Indiana. After her husband’s death in 1910, Rebecca lived with her daughter, Mary Stickels and her family.

Submitted by:
Jennifer Cruse
Terre Haute, IN
E-mail: jencruse@msn.com

Zachariah Jones

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Zachariah “Zach” Jones
b. 21 March 1874 Huron, Lawrence County, Indiana to Thomas Jones and Sarah Caroline Reed
d. 14 Jan 1968 Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana
bur. Roselawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana

Zachariah Jones

Zachariah Jones

m. 18 June 1902 Lewis, Vigo County, Indiana
Emma “Grace” McGrew
b. 12 Apr 1877 Patricksburg, Owen County, Indiana to David Bacon McGrew and Rebecca Ellen Saltsgiver
d. 11 Mar 1963 Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana

Children with Emma McGrew

  • Glenn Winter Jones (1903-1973)
  • Richard Hebb Jones (1904-1995)
  • Clifford Jones (1906-1976)
  • Victoria Nevada Jones (1908-1908)
  • Harold Jones (1910-1962)
  • Herbert Raymond Jones (1912-2003)
  • Wayne Eugene Jones (1915-1951)
  • Kermit Jones (1917-1995)
  • Donald Jones (1919-1975)
  • Wallace Z Jones (1921-1993)
  • Russell Edward Jones (1923-1999)

Zachariah was employed by the railroad for more than 50 years during which he served as a switchman, a brakeman, and a fireman. He was also a member of the brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen for more than 60 years and a member of the Retired Railroadmen’s Association later in life. He enjoyed listening to baseball games on the radio and playing cards.

Submitted by:
Jennifer Cruse
Terre Haute, IN
E-mail: jencruse@msn.com

Richard Norris Van Cleef

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Richard Norris Van Cleef
b. 16 May 1816, Brooke County, Virginia (now West Virginia), to John and Catharine (Norris) Van Cleef
d. 31 January 1893, Guthrie Center, Guthrie County, Iowa

m. 22 October 1837, Boone County, Indiana
Susanna Conley
b. 5 January 1819, Brown County, Ohio, to Rhesa and Mary (Poe) Conley, Sr.
d. 27 March 1883, Guthrie Center, Guthrie County, Iowa

Children with Susanna Conley:

  • John E. (b. 1838)
  • Rhesa Green (1842-1921) married Barbara Emma Jones
  • Mary Catharine (b. 1845) married Samuel C. Martin
  • Joseph W. (1848-1920) married Catherine Barbara Meskimen
  • William Garret (1852-1922) married (1) Florence Ann Metcalf, (2) Ida Pearl Polston Rush
  • Margaret “Jennie” (1854-1947) married James Samuel McLuen
  • Annie E. (1857-1875)
  • Martha Susanna “Suda” (1859-1877)

The John Van Cleef family moved in 1817 or 1818 to Dearborn County, Indiana, from West Virginia where Richard Norris was born, the third child of ten. His parents were both from Monmouth County, New Jersey. His father served in the War of 1812 from Brooke County, Virginia, in 1815, and he died in 1833 in Dearborn County, Indiana, from cholera during an epidemic. The mother, Catherine Norris Van Cleef, and most of her children moved to Boone County, Indiana, about 1834 with her father and mother, Joseph and Elizabeth Wooley Norris.

Richard Norris and his wife moved to Benton County, Iowa, probably in a wagon train of family members. The History of Benton County, Iowa, Vol. 1, 1910, page 92, states that they settled there in 1849. Richard and Susanna purchased some land in Big Grove Township in 1855 and platted a town they named Geneva. Lots were sold to at least seven Van Cleef and Conley family members, as well as other families. Unfortunately, the town did not thrive, probably because the railroad bypassed it, and by 1865, the last of the lots were sold off and the land became farmland again.

According to his obituary, Richard N. and his wife moved to Panora, Guthrie County, Iowa, in 1869 and in 1874 moved to Guthrie Center in the same county where they remained until their deaths.

Submitted by:
Paul L. Van Cleef
Lafayette IN
E-mail: dwvancleef@aol.com

Wilma Linnetta Smith

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Wilma Linnetta Smith
b. 9 April 1907, Lincolnville, Wabash County, Indiana, to John H. and Lillie (Jones) Smith
d. 18 September 1992, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

m. 6 July 1934, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Henry Irving Vanderburgh
b. 11 December 1903, Wardner, Shoshone County, Idaho
d. 7 April 1952, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Children with Henry Irving Vanderburgh:

  • Wilma Ellen (b. 1935) married Mads Sorensen
  • Sheila Mae (b. 1937) married Raymond Nelson

Wilma’s parents left Indiana in 1909 to homestead in Canada. After only two months, mother and child returned to Indiana. Wilma was sent back to Alberta when her mother died in 1915. She grew up on her father’s homestead, riding horses and attending one-room country schools. Later she was sent to Calgary for high school and teacher training.

After teaching for a few years in rural Alberta, she married a Calgary school teacher, Henry Irving Vanderburgh. Unfortunately, Irving died after only 17 years leaving his 45-year-old widow to care for their two daughters and her widowed father.

Wilma spent that summer at Butler University in Indianapolis upgrading her teaching credentials. She taught school in Calgary until she was 67 years old. She then worked in customer relations for ten more years.

She became the matriarch and anchor of her family. At the time of her death from lung and stomach cancer in 1992, she had seven grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Her entire family gathers annually at her favorite resort in the Canadian Rockies to celebrate her birthday.

Submitted by:
Wilma Sorensen
Calgary, Alberta, Canada

John Henry Smith

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John Henry Smith
b. 16 June 1864, Marion, Grant County, Indiana, to Waddy Thompson and Louiza Jane (Marks) Smith
d. 29 November 1955, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

m/1. 3 September 1905, St. Joseph, Berrien County, Michigan
Lillie May Jones
b. September 1873, Bunker Hill, Miami County, Indiana, to William H. “Seneke” and Ella E. (Fike) Jones
d. 1915, Bunker Hill, Miami County, Indiana

m/2.
Lucy Ellen Harrington
b. 6 May 1862, Dorchester, Alamakee County, Iowa, to Philander James & Ellen B. (Payne) Harrington
d. 15 January 1941, Sundre, Alberta, Canada

Children with Lillie May Jones:

  • Wilma Linetta (1907-1992) married Henry Irving Vanderburgh

When John was only nine years old, his father was crushed to death in a grist mill. John ran away to travel with a circus but later returned to the family farm. In 1905, he married Lillie May (Jones) Hurley, the widow of Clarence Hurley.

John, Lillie, and their daughter, Wilma, left Indiana in 1909, farmed in North Dakota for a year, and then continued on to Canada to homestead in the badlands of the Red Deer River. Lillie left, taking with Wilma with her, after only two months. Within five years, John had proved up his quarter-section homestead and bought a second quarter. He raised horses, cattle, and grain and was respected by all.

When Lillie died of cancer in 1915, John got his daughter back. He married another widow, Lucy Ellen (Harrington) Loveland. The Smiths struggled through drought and hardship in Alberta’s “dry belt,” leasing large tracts of land to pasture their cattle. In 1935, they sold the ranch and bought a 320-acre farm in Sundre, Alberta. John moved to Calgary to live with his daughter and her family after Lucy died in 1941.

John was a strong, healthy man who lived to be 91 with very few grey hairs and all his own teeth. He finally died in his sleep in November 1955.

Submitted by:
Wilma Sorensen
Calgary, Alberta, Canada