James R Roark
b. 19 October 1834, Patrick County, Virginia
d. 14 December 1900, Valley Junction, Iowa
m. 1859, Logansport, Cass County, Indiana
S. A. Nevitt
Children with S. A. Nevitt:
James emigrated from Indiana to Madison County, Iowa, where he lived until moving his family to Valley Junction, Iowa, in 1895.
Submitted by:
Dawne Slater-Putt, from Hawkeye Heritage, published by Iowa Genealogical Society, winter 1993.
Arthur Dean Ritchie
b. 24 September 1883, Smyrna Township, Jefferson County, Indiana, to Walter and Soral (Amsden) Ritchie
d. 23 July 1972, Lake Worth, Paul Beach County, Florida
m. 11 October 1905, Smyrna Township, Jefferson County, Indiana
Hallye Smith
b. 19 November 1879, Gratz, Owen County, Kentucky
d. 15 June 1944, Miami, Dade County, Florida
Children with Hallye Smith:
The family lived in Indianapolis before moving to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1908. Arthur managed the Baltimore Dairy lunchrooms in both cities. He moved to Florida in 1939 where he worked as a truck farmer.
Submitted by:
Wendy Bole Hankins
Geneva FL
Abraham C Nice
b. 16 May 1817, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, to Joseph and Mary “Polly” (Clemmer) Nice
d. 22 October 1898, Neutral, Cherokee County, Kansas
m. about 1841, Bucks or Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
Mary Smith
b. 20 September 1821, Pennsylvania
d. 6 August 1880, El Paso Township, Woodford County, Illinois
Children with Mary Smith:
Abe Nice returned to Wadsworth, Medina County, Ohio, about 1870 to care for his aged parents. After his father’s death, he took his family and his mother to Woodford County, Illinois, in 1877 and then moved on to Cherokee County, Kansas, in 1880.
Submitted by:
Hazel Nice Hassan
Glendale AZ
Andrew J Murphy
b. 8 May 1841, Aurora, Dearborn County, Indiana, to Samuel and Matilda (Smith) Murphy
d. 3 February 1825, Manhattan, Riley County, Kansas
m. 24 September 1866, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio
Lydia Ann Pleakenstrauffer
b. 16 April 1846, Shilo, Decatur County, Indiana, to H. and Mary (Smith) Pleakenstrauffer
Children with Lydia Ann Pleakenstrauffer:
Prior to her marriage, Lydia Ann is said to have lived in an orphanage.
According to his Civil War records, Andrew and Lydia were married by Samuel K. Ross at Cincinnati, but the records were destroyed when a courthouse burned. Andrew was an octoroon whose grandfather, according to census records, was a “free mulatto”.
Andrew J. Murphy enlisted in the Union Army at Indianapolis on 18 August 1864 and served in a colored unit. After discharge he settled in Fairland Township, Shelby County, Indiana. In 1880 he emigrated with his family from Hymera, Sullivan County, Indiana, to Manhattan, Riley County, Kansas.
Submitted by:
Rolene Kiesling
Groveland CA
Sofiah More
b. 1 December 1801, Virginia, to John and Sarah (Gandy) More
d. 1879, possibly Grayson County, Texas
m. about 1821, probably Miami County, Ohio
John Beard
b. 21 September 1794, Virginia
d. 23 September 1854, Carroll County, Indiana
Children with John Beard:
Sofiah immigrated to Indiana from Darke County, Ohio, in 1835 and emigrated from Carroll County, Indiana, to Grayson County, Texas, about 1875.
Submitted by:
Judith E. Svoboda
Longmont CO
E-mail: jzsvoboda@earthlink.net
Francis M Wade Lemming
b. 27 March 1861, Medina Township, Warren County, Indiana, to Ephraim and Ann (Henry) Lemmings
d. 26 July 1937, Pasadena, Los Angeles County, California
m/1. 27 June 1894, Warren County, Indiana
Mary Jane Crow
b. 1870, Jordan Township, Warren County, Indiana
m/2. after 1922, Los Angeles, California
Loretta [–?–]
Children with Mary Jane Crow:
Francis Lemming resided in both Medina and Jordan townships of Warren County, and in Shelby Township, Tippecanoe County, Indiana.
Wade Lemming left Indiana for the West in the 1880’s. In 1890 he resided in Newcastle, Wyoming Territory, and later the same year, near Cotopaxi, Colorado. He and his wife settled in Salida, Colorado, where their two children were born.
In the late 1890’s Wade was living in Denver, Colorado, where he was employed as chief lineman for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. But by 1905 he had returned to Indiana and was farming in Jordan Township, Warren County, where he remained until June 1918.
He left Indiana for the last time in 1918 and spent the last nineteen years of his life employed by the Christian Science organization in the Los Angeles, California, area. Mary Jane remained in Indiana and filed for divorce in 1922 on grounds of desertion. He died in Pasadena, California, and is buried in San Gabriel.
Submitted by:
Donald H. Ebbler
Glendora CA
Nathan Frank Knipe
b. 15 September 1804, Wythe County, Virginia, to Lanselot and Elizabeth (Jackson) Knipe
d. 14 May 1848, Carroll, Vermilion County, Illinois
m. 20 November 1825, Wythe County, Virginia
Mary Jane Rodgers
b. 18 October 1806, Wythe County, Virginia
d. 1851, Carroll, Vermilion County, Illinois
Children with Mary Jane Rodgers:
Nathan emigrated from Palmyra, Knox County, Indiana, to Carroll, Vermilion County, Illinois,
about 1835.
Submitted by:
Johanna Nigra
Georgetown IL
John Frank Knipe
b. 15 October 1826, Wythe County, Virginia, to Nathan and Mary Jane (Rodgers) Knipe
d. 20 April 1909, Carroll, Vermilion County, Illinois
m. 9 December 1853, Vincennes, Knox County, Indiana
Mary Ann Smith
b. 14 February 1836, Knox County, Indiana, to Charles and Susanna (Mize) Smith
Children with Mary Ann Smith:
John immigrated to Indiana in 1828 from Wythe County, Virginia. He resided in Knox County, Indiana. He emigrated between 1829 and 1835 to Vermilion County, Illinois.
Submitted by:
Johanna Nigra
Georgetown IL
Lemuel Shortridge Jones
b. 13 March 1859, Porter County, Indiana, to David and Eliza (Olinger) Jones
d. 16 July 1927, Twin Falls, Twin Falls County, Idaho
m. 29 August 1883, Crown Point, Lake County, Indiana
Carrie Arnet Smith
b. 10 November 1864, Sturgis, St. Joseph County, Michigan
d. 29 June 1953, Nampa, Canyon County, Idaho
Children with Carrie Arnet Smith:
Lemuel Shortridge Jones emigrated from Crown Point, Lake County, Indiana, to Giltner,
Hamilton County, Nebraska, in 1886.
Submitted by:
Carolyn Houser
Bow WA
William Hayes Hedden
b. 21 May 1877, Taylor Township, Harrison County, Indiana, to Benjamin Franklin and Anna Mae (Fertig) Hedden
d. 9 August 1964, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky
m. 9 June 1909, Ellensburg, Kittatas County, Washington
Myrtle Alice Pittock
b. 26 March 1882, Falls City, Richardson County, Nebraska, to Henry and Alice Cary (Elwell) Pittock
d. 13 January 1980, Sunland, California
William emigrated from Taylor, Harrison County, Indiana, to Red River, Kittson County, Minnesota, about 1900.
Children with Myrtle Alice Pittock:
William H. Hedden’s grandparents, George Washington and Elizabeth Malone Hedden of Kentucky, were the first inhabitants of their Harrison County, Indiana, wilderness farm after the Potawatomi Indians left. Their son Benjamin Franklin, who was born in Kentucky, was the first of their twelve children. Their second son, George Washington Heddon, Jr., born on Heddon Hill in southern Indiana, was fatally wounded on the first day of the Battle of Nashville during the Civil War.
William Hayes Heddon, sixth child of Benjamin Franklin Heddon and the first of his second wife Anna Mae Fertig, told of how his family raised fruit, pork, and other farm produce. They would have relatives and neighbors come to stay during harvest and butchering times to help. Then the family produce would be taken by team and wagon to Rosewood, a shipping point on the Ohio River. William would go on the steam paddle wheeler with the produce, which was packed in locally manufactured wooden barrels, to the market nineteen miles up river at Louisville.
During one of these harvest seasons, the Heddon home, a large timber building, caught fire in the middle of the night. The family threw everything out of windows on the second story and dragged as much out of the first floor as they could. The disaster nearly ruined Benjamin Franklin Heddon, who built a much smaller house on the spot.
Submitted by:
William Harold Hedden
Arvada CO
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