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Hiram Tabor Yount, Sr

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Hiram Tabor Yount, Sr
birth: 19 Jan 1847 in Morgan County, IN to Jacob Yount and Elizabeth Henderson
death: 2 June 1910 in Green Township, Morgan County, II
burial: Centenniel Cemetery Martinsville, Morgan County, IN, USA

marriage: 20 Dec 1869 in Morgan, Indiana, USA
Catherine Isabelle Teeters
birth: 17 Sep 1845 in Morgan County, IN, USA to Henry Teeters and Mary G McIntyre
death: 10 Aug 1932 in Morgan County, Indiana, USA
burial: Centennial Cemetery, Morgan Co., Martinsville, IN USA

Children of Catherine Isabelle Teeters and Hiram Tabor Yount, Sr:

  • Sarah Elizabeth Ennis
  • Ada Emerine Simpson
  • Phoebe Odessa Yount
  • Lenora Clore
  • Nancy Ann Yount
  • Henry Tabor Yount
  • Jacob K Yount
  • Mary Ellen Voorheis
  • Aaron Thomas Yount
  • Nora Yount
  • Aaron T Yount
  • Mary E Yount
  • Ada E Yount
  • Amy Frances Yount

Ancestor here lived in:

  • Martinsville, Morgan Co., Indiana, USA

Other Information:

My second great-grandfather.

Submitted by:
Rae Jean Myers
Email: geniedoll@yahoo.com

John Wesley Davis

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John Wesley Davis
b. 14 October 1838, Wayne County, Indiana, to Moses and Elizabeth (Potter) Davis
d. 11 August 1907, Pardeeville, Columbia County, Wisconsin

m. 16 March 1866, Columbia County, Wisconsin
Zelnora French
b. 4 July 1843, Bloomfield, Vermont
d. 15 February 1931, Pardeeville, Columbia County, Wisconsin

Children with Zelnora French:

  • Myron
  • Ella married [–?–] Albee
  • Alfred
  • Arthur
  • William
  • Minnie married [–?–] Simpson

John lived in Wayne County and Wayne Township in Bartholomew County, Indiana, before emigrating in 1850 to central Wisconsin with his recently widowed mother and two younger siblings. He was a member of the Fifth Wisconsin Regiment in the Civil War.

Submitted by:
Glen Simpson
Trinity NC

Jennie Mae Comer

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Jennie Mae Comer
b. 1 December 1891, Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, to William Cyrus and Sarah Jane
(Gleason) Comer
d. 2 June 1986, West Chicago, DuPage County, Illinois

m. 1 October 1920, Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana
Orval Hamilton Crisler
b. 10 October 1893, Mount Ayr, Newton County, Indiana, to William Addison and Clara Delilah (Hopkins) Crisler
d. 17 January 1986, West Chicago, DuPage County, Illinois

Children with Orval Hamilton Crisler:

  • William Orval (1922-2005) married Dorothy Helen Olson
  • Virginia Mae (b. 1923) married Leslie Alexander Simpson
  • John Edward (1924-1994) married June Freida Wilson
  • George Hamilton (1925-2000) married (1) Gloria Grover Murray, (2) Barbara Dee Bell
  • Emily Jeannette (b. 1927) married Lyle William Seefeldt

Jennie’s father, William Cyrus Comer, was also born in Indiana. Her mother, Sarah Jane “Jennie” Gleason was born in Michigan, but lived in Indiana as a young woman.

Jennie’s mother died following childbirth, and Jennie was sent to her maternal grandparents in Ottawa County, Michigan, to be raised there. She returned to Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, at age nine in 1900 to live with her aunts, Mary and Lizzie Comer, at their boarding house on South Cullen Street. She stayed there until adulthood.

Jennie left Indiana in 1912 to attend nursing school in Chicago but returned again to Rensselaer to work as a registered nurse at Jasper County Hospital following her graduation. There she became re-acquainted with her husband-to-be and former classmate, Orval Hamilton Crisler. They married in 1920 and quickly were parent of five children.

In 1927, the family moved to Waukegan, Illinois. Later they moved to Chicago, then to Glen Ellyn, Illinois. Following her husband’s retirement, they moved to Dunedin, Florida. At her death at age 94, Jennie’s body was returned to Rensselaer, and she is buried there next to her husband of 65 years in Weston Cemetery.

Submitted by:
Leslie S. Hall
Waynesboro, VA
E-mail: geniehall75@gmail.com

Orval Hamilton Crisler

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Orval Hamilton Crisler
b. 10 October 1893, Mount Ayr, Newton County, Indiana, to William Addison and Clara Delilah (Hopkins) Crisler
d. 17 January 1986, West Chicago, DuPage County, Illinois

m. 1 October 1920, Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana
Jennie Mae Comer
b. 1 December 1891, Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, to William Cyrus and Sarah Jane (Gleason) Comer
d. 2 June 1986, West Chicago, DuPage County, Illinois

Children with Jennie Mae Comer:

  • William Orval (1922-2005) married Dorothy Helen Olson
  • Virginian Mae (b. 1923) married Leslie Alexander Simpson
  • John Edward (1924-1994) married June Freida Wilson
  • George Hamilton (1925-2000) married (1) Gloria Grover Murray, (2) Barbara Dee Bell
  • Emily Jeannette (b. 1927) married Lyle William Seefeldt

The Crisler family, headed by Orval’s grandfather, Hamilton Crisler, came to Indiana in 1846 and settled in the Haw Creek Township of Bartholomew County. They moved to Newton County, Indiana in 1861 when Hamilton purchased 240 acres of land in Jackson Township near the later town of Mount Ayr.

Orval moved with his parents to a farm northeast of the town of Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, in 1910. Following his marriage in 1920, he and his wife and their five children, moved to Waukegan, Illinois, in 1927. Orval enrolled in the LaSalle Extension School in Chicago and completed his education, becoming an accountant. The latter part of his working career was as an accountant, comptroller, and secretary/treasurer for the Chicago-based Gulbransen Piano Company.

His wife Jennie was a registered nurse who worked at the Jasper County Hospital in Rensselaer as a surgical nurse and radiology technician prior to her marriage. Orval was a farmer, having taken over the family farm after the death of his father in 1911

After his retirement, Orval and Jennie moved to Dunedin, Florida. They returned to the Chicago area in the mid 1980’s and both died there in 1986. They were sent home to Indiana for burial in Weston Cemetery in Rensselaer, Indiana

Submitted by:
Leslie S. Hall
Waynesboro, VA
E-mail: geniehall75@gmail.com

Horatio M Slack

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Horatio M Slack
b. 24 December 1814, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, to James and Sarah (Simpson) Slack
d. 5 February 1847, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois

m. 3 September 1837, Delaware County, Indiana
Susan Saxton
b. about 1818, Indiana
d. 13 October 1867, Buffalo, New York

Children with Susan Saxton:

  • Theodore Simpson
  • Louisa Vance
  • Adnah H.

Horatio immigrated to Delaware County, Indiana, from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in 1837; and then emigrated from Indiana to Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, about 1846. Susan later moved to Buffalo, New York. Children, Theodore and Louisa, lived with paternal relatives in Huntington County, Indiana, following the deaths of their parents.

Submitted by:
Dawne Slater-Putt
Huntertown IN
E-mail: dslaterput@aol.com

Edwin Simpson

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Edwin Simpson
b 11 February 1838, Ohio, to James and Mary Ann (Kephart) Simpson
d. 22 September 1910, Wichita, Kansas

m/1. 17 November 1857, Morgan County, Indiana
Rebecca Albertson
b. 1832, North Carolina, to John and Rebecca (Nugent) Albertson
d. 24 October 1863

m/2. 5 October 1865, Neoga, Illinois
Hannah Maria DeWeese
d. 1901

Children with Rebecca Albertson:

  • Hiram
  • Richard

Children with Hannah Maria DeWeese:

  • Ellsworth
  • Everette
  • Sheridan
  • Lorena
  • Herbert
  • Willis
  • Myrtle
  • Oscar
  • Lewis
  • Ethel

Edwin enlisted on 29 July 1862 and served in Company A, 77th Regiment, 14th Cavalry, Indiana Volunteers. He was wounded on 16 December 1864 at Glasgow, Kentucky, and came home to his two small sons, Hiram and Richard, who were living with their maternal grandparents, the John Albertsons, after the death of their mother in 1863 of tuberculosis.

Shortly after the war, Edwin left Indiana and went to the home of his father, James Simpson, who had moved to Neoga, Illinois. There, he renewed his acquaintance with Hannah Maria DeWeese and married her. Hiram and Richard remained with their maternal grandparents in the old home in Clay Township, Morgan County, Indiana.

Submitted by:
Inez Simpson Sims
Mooresville IN