Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Kepler, Mary Magdaline (Rader) November 1, 1816 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/in/infiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Glapha Cox rcoxfam@earthlink.net January 16, 2006, 7:21 pm Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884) Jackson Township p. 576 Mary Magdaline (Rader) Kepler, whose portrait and that of her husband appears between pages 574 and 575, and one of the two now living children of George and Elizabeth (Ater) Rader, was born in Rockingham County, Va., Nov. 1, 1816, where she obtained her education in German, and moved by wagons to Wayne County, Ind., in 1830, with her parents, three brothers and four sisters, and in 1831, was married to Peter Kepler, and with him set to work, with a will and a determination to live a good life, help make a living, and lay up, if possible, a competence for old age, all of which and more has fully been accomplished. She assisted at the clearing and home-building, which was common for women in those days, besides spinning, weaving and making the clothing for the family. It was years of toil, but they were years of success, good-health and happiness. In later years she was butted down by a pet ram, breaking her leg in the fall, which causes her some pain to this day, interfering somewhat in her declining years with her quiet enjoyment of life, so well earned and so richly deserved. Ah!-life is not a mockery! How sweet to comprehend, That in existence there is design, That in death all does not end. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/wayne/bios/kepler140gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/infiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb