HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY                      349

Elizabeth Ahlemeyer, a widow with three children, and to them two
children were born; namely Henry, the subject of this sketch, and Mena,
w ho di ed in 1907.
    After coming to Indiana Henry Telgemyer continued his studies for
a time, attending a subscription school about six months a year. Leaving
home after the death of his parents, he spent three years in the vicinity
of the Rocky Mountains, prospecting for gold in Colorado, Montana,
Wyoming, Idaho and Utah. Returning then to Washington township.
Mr. Telgemyer bought eighty acres of land in section ten, one half of
which was then cleared and under cultivation. He has since cleared and
improved twenty acres more, and in 1890 erected a frame house, one
and one-half stories in height, and has also put up all other necessary
farm buildings for successfully carrying on his work. That he has wit-
nessed wonderful changes in the landscape since coming here as a boy,
the broad expanse of cultivated fields that occupy the places formerly
covered with dense forests, the commodious and even elegant residences
that have superseded the log cabins, and the long trains of palace cars that
are used for transportation in place of the wagons drawn by horses or
oxen, and the many telegraph and telephone lines now visible everywhere,
are a strong testimony.
    On November 4, 1875, Mr. Telgemyer married Celincla Ahlemeyer,
who was born in Washington township, February 25, 1844, a daughter
of Henry and Lydia (Bauman) Ahlemeyer. Her father was born in
Prussia, Germany, and her mother in Pennsylvania, and after their mar-
riage, in 1838, in Union, Indiana, they settled in Clay county. Mrs.
Telgemyer was a widow when she married Mr. Telgemyer, and had two
children by her first husband, August Haug, namely: Catherine Haug,
who died at the age of nineteen years, and Joseph A. Haug, of Harrison
township, Clay county. To Mr. and Mrs. Telgemyer five children have
been born, namely: Clara E., wife of Robert Kirby, of Louisiana; Ida
Mary, wife of Roscoe Capy, of Terre Haute; Estella M., wife of Oscar
Keiser, of Washington township; Harry F., of the same township; and
Roscoe W., who died in 1891, aged five years. Religiously Mr. Telge-
myer is a member of the German Reformed church. Fraternally he
belongs to Clay Lodge No. 85, A. F. & A. M., of Bowling Green, and
politically he is a sound Democrat.

    JOHN CALHOUN Moss bears an honored record as a business man
and soldier, and Clay county has been his home throughout nearly his
entire life. His boyhood days were spent on the home farm here, assist-
ing to clear and prepare the land for cultivation, and when the outbreak
of the Civil war occurred he enlisted on the 18th of April, 1861, at
Paris, Illinois, in the Twelfth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, for three
months, under Colonel McArthurs and Captain Rigley. On the 20th of
September, 1862, he re-enlisted in Company G, Forty-third Indiana
Volunteers, having assisted in the organization of his company, and he
was made a second sergeant, from which he was promoted to orderly
sergeant and at the close of the war was brevetted as first lieutenant
under George K. Steele and Colonel McLean. The latter was made a
lieutenant colonel and was mustered out of the service as a brigadier
general. The company with which Mr. Moss belonged was placed in
the Trans-Mississippi department and was a part of the land force which
opened up the Mississippi river. He was mustered out of the service