HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY          51

comfortable retirement. William Dinkel emigrated to America when he
was fifteen years of age, coming hither with his parents on a vessel which
made the ocean trip in thirty-one days. From New York city the family
removed to Pennsylvania, where William married Martha Schenberger,
and where four children were horn, of whom those still alive are George,
William, and Albert, of this sketch. In 1865 the parents brought their
family to Indiana, locating in Terre Haute on April 15th of that year.
There the father established himself as a butcher and gardener, purchas-
ing as a homestead and business site a tract. of ten acres on East College
street. At this location he continued to rear his family in ways of honor
and thrift, and engaged in active business until his retirement in 1905.
Both he and his wife were stanch. German Lutherans, and he himself
always cast his vote for the Democracy.
    Albert Dinkel married Miss Emma J. Montgomery, on the 13th of
October, 1880, his wife being a native of Marshall county, Illinois, where
she was born in November, 1859. She is a daughter of Alexander and
Amanda (Summerville) Montgomery, and is the youngest of three chil-
dren. The others of the family are Melissa, who married John Van
Sickle, and S. Frank, who is a school teacher in Brazil. Mr. and Mrs.
Albert Dinkel are the parents of the following: Frances, wife of Fred
Weaver, of Brazil; Ruby, Alberta and Albert Reese.

    ABRAM W. TURNER, who has been closely identified with the interests
of Brazil and surrounding country for many years, was born in Wayne
county, Indiana, December 15, 1835, son of Jeptha and Martha (Gaar)
Turner. Jeptha Turner, the father, was the first white child born in
Wayne county. He was born in the neighborhood in which he died, Octo-
ber 29, 1806, and was at the date of his death aged seventy-eight years,
seven months and fifteen days. He lived in the place of his birth all of
his life, and had much to do with the developing of the county. January
14, 1830, he was married to Martha Gaar, by James P. Burgess, a justice
of the peace. To them were born six sons and three daughters, as follows:
Larkin G.; Levi P.; Abram W.; Sarah Jane, wife of John Endsley;
Eliza Ann; M. V. B.; John Milton; whose sketch follows this; Martha
Ellen, who died aged twenty-eight years; Jesse D. Jeptha Turner’s par-
ents were John and Mary (Holman) Turner. John Turner came from
Kentucky at a very early day and was a pioneer in Wayne county; was
the first sheriff and a progressive farmer all his life. Of Jeptha Turner
it may be added that he was an ideal citizen. He was a man of intelli-
gence and became a leader in the society of his neighborhood. He pos-
sessed a rare and excellent judgment and entered with zeal in whatever
he undertook to accomplish in politics he was of the strict Jeffersonian
Democratic stripe. About ten years prior to his death, he united with the
Baptist church, in which he became an active member. He was cousin
of Hon. William S.. Holman. Martha (Gaar) Turner, the mother, was
a native of Wayne county, Indiana, born September 25, 1810, ‘and died
September 15, 1890.
    Abram W. Turner, of this notice, spent his youthful days on his
father’s farm and attended school winters, until he was twenty-four years
of age. In 1860 he went overland to Denver, Colorado, by means of ox
teams, leaving Nebraska City, Nebraska, April 26, 1860, and arrived at
Denver June of that year. He was a miner and prospector until the
autumn of 1864, in both Colorado and Montana. He made his return trip,