Isaac I Homan
b. 1838, Putnam County, Indiana, to Mark and Virginia (Stout) Homam
m. 1858
Nancy B. Wilson
Isaac moved to Carl Township, Adams County, Iowa, about 1864.
Submitted by:
Dawne Slater-Putt
Huntertown IN
E-mail: dslaterput@aol.com
George Washington Hill
b. 2 July 1816, Orange County, Indiana, to John and Mary Ann (Clark) Hill
d. 9 August 1892, Robinson, Crawford County, Illinois
m/1. 24 August 1852, Knox County, Indiana
Indiana Piety
b. 8 December 1831, Knox County, Indiana, to Samuel Duncan and Eliza Ann (Hodgen) Piety
d. 4 September 1863, Knox County, Indiana
m/2.
Elizabeth (Newlin) McDowell, widow of George McDowell
Children:
George Hill rafted corn grown on his farm in Knox County, Indiana, down the Wabash River to New Orleans and returned by foot and stagecoach. After his first wife died in 1863 and his mother died in 1866, he followed his sister Rebecca and her husband, Ferdinand Hollingsworth, to Carthage, Jasper County, Missouri, in 1872. George served as a justice of the peace and constable in Knox County, Indiana, and Jasper County, Missouri. He moved to Palestine, Crawford County, Illinois, in 1882.
Submitted by:
Christie Hill Russell
Paris IL
Hiram George
b. 27 November 1806, Tazewell, Tazewell County, Virginia, to William and Mary (Bowlin) George
d. 7 July 1886, Adams County, Iowa
m. 5 February 1828, Ray, Franklin County, Indiana
Ann Fitzpatrick
b. 19 April 1809, Tazewell County, Virginia, to Bartholomew and Rachel B. (Wilson) Fitzpatrick
d. 26 September 1893, Adams County, Iowa
Children with Ann Fitzpatrick:
Hiram moved before 1828 from Tazewell County, Virginia, to Ray, Franklin County, Indiana. He emigrated from Bartholomew County, Indiana, to Grant, Adams County, Iowa, after 1849.
Submitted by:
Corinne Allison Winget
Monroe UT
James Albert Drake
b. 27 January 1861, Linden, Montgomery County, Indiana, to William F. and Laura C. (Parker) Drake
d. 15 April 1943, Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas
m. 6 March 1884, Princeton, Gibson County, Indiana
Ora Belle McNeely
b. 6 March 1867, Hosmer, Pike County, Indiana, to David and Nancy Maria (Phillips) McNeely
d. 5 December 1912, Davenport, Scott County, Iowa
Children with Ora Belle McNeely:
James resided in these Indiana counties: Montgomery, Gibson, and Pike. He emigrated from Pike County, Indiana, to Winfield, Cowley County, Kansas, about 1910. Sometime between 1910 and 1913, James studied to be a chiropractor in Davenport, Iowa, and opened a chiropractic office.
Submitted by:
Barbara Drake Ritter
Noisington KS
Benjamin Holmes Devoe
b. 14 November 1826, Redcreek, Wayne County, New York, to Jesse and Rebecca (Van Vleet) Devoe
d. 12 October 1906, Cherokee County, Kansas
m/1. 1847, Wayne County, New York
Ann Eliza Longyear
b. 22 March 1824, Ulster County, New York, to John and Sarah (–?–) Longyear
d. 17 September 1858, Wayne Township, Noble County, Indiana
m/2.
Maria Jane Rosenbury
b. 29 March 1841, Ohio, to Andrew and Justina (Metland) Rosenbury
d. 4 November 1919, Cherokee County, Kansas
Children with Anna Eliza Longyear:
Children with Maria Jane Rosenbury:
Benjamin immigrated to Indiana from Wayne County, New York, in 1857-1858. He migrated to Crawford Township, Cherokee County, Kansas, in 1878.
Submitted by:
Lurah J. Devoe
Kendallville IN
George Washington Culberson/Culbertson
b. 3 August 1816, Indiana
d. 11 October 1887, Clinton County, Ohio
m. 21 December 1837, Clinton County, Ohio
Priscilla Stewart
b. 23 February 1821, Greene County, Ohio
d. 7 April 1879, Jasper, Fayette County, Ohio
Children with Priscilla Stewart:
George emigrated from Indiana before 1837 to Clinton County, Ohio.
Submitted by:
Margaret Van Ness Nelson
Sanibel FL
E-mail: mvnelson@ix.netcom.com
James Vance Bunten
b. 16 December 1816, Mercer County, Kentucky, to William and Leannah (Wilson) Bunten
d. 16 July 1875, Rushville, Buchanan County, Missouri
m. 19 October 1841, Rushville, Buchanan County, Missouri
Ursula Flanary
b. 4 December 1820, Virginia
d. 10 September 1883, Rushville, Buchanan County, Missouri
Children with Ursula Flanary:
James Vance Bunten’s father, William Bunten, left Kentucky, James’s birthplace, due to his antipathy to slavery. James V. Bunten resided at Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, Indiana, and moved in 1841 to Rushville, Buchanan County, Missouri.
Submitted by:
Boris N. Bulatkin
Wichita KS
Eli Barbre
b. 25 July 1798, Kentucky
d. 29 November 1839, Waverly, Morgan County, Illinois
m/1. about 1819, Posey County, Indiana
Nancy Wilkerson
d. 1835, Edgar County, Illinois
m/2. 17 January 1829
Anna Wilson
Children with Nancy Wilkerson:
Children with Anna Wilson:
Eli and Anna Barbre moved to Sangamon County, Illinois, in 1835. Elder Eli Barbre, one of the ministers in the Springfield Association, moved his family often as he worked “as a laborer in the vineyard of his Divine Master.” His first four children were born in Indiana, while the younger ones were born in Illinois.
One of the children returned to Indiana to live. Isaac Barbre moved to Illinois with his parents but returned to Indiana, where he married and served for three years in an Indiana regiment during the Civil War.
Two of these children lived in Illinois at the time of their father’s death in 1839. William
Barbre, Eli’s second son, married in Sangamon County, Illinois, and served in Company B, 10th Illinois Cavalry. Celia D. Barbre resided in Clark County, Illinois. Charlotte Barbre lived in Lynn County, Oregon, in 1839.
From: Waverly Genealogical & Historical Society Newsletter, Waverly, Illinois, #65 (October 1994), p. 5.
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