OHIO STATEWIDE FILES OH-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List *********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. *********************************************************************** OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 276 Today's Topics: #1 JAMES WALKER LINTON - DARKE COUNTY [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #2 JOHN FRANK - DARKE COUNTY [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #3 ISAAC N. RARICK M.D. - DARKE COUNT [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #4 DAVID WHITMER FLOWERS - DARKE COUN [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #5 Obituary-Fulton Co.-Dinius, Marion [Corpmiz@aol.com] #6 Obituary-Fulton Co.-Carter, Effie [Corpmiz@aol.com] #7 Obituary-Fulton Co.-Carter, George [Corpmiz@aol.com] ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 09:13:38, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: JAMES WALKER LINTON - DARKE COUNTY BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL RECORD OF ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA The Lewis Publishing Company, 1887 - Page 309 JAMES WALKER LINTON, general farmer, residing on section 18, Jefferson Township, is a native of Darke County, Ohio, born September 17, 1836, a son of Samuel and Margaret (Walker) Linton, old settlers of Adams County. He was brought by his parents to Adams County in 1838, and here he grew to manhood, receiving his education in the common schools of his neighborhood. He remained on the home farm with his parents until his marriage December 26, 1858, to Miss Mary Ann Wheeler. She was born in Pickaway County, Ohio, September 21, 1836, a daughter of Amos and Rebecca (Hedge) Wheeler. Her father was a native of Pennsylvania. He came to Indiana when a young man, and helped clear the land where Indianapolis now stands. He subsequently went to Ohio, where he was married. He came to Adams County, Indiana, with his family and settled in Wabash Township in 1839, entering land on section 30, on which he lived till his death. He died in the spring of 1877, aged about eighty-five years. His wife died in the fall of 1876, aged seventy-five years. They were the parents of nine children, five sons and four daughters. Eight children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Linton -Rebecca J., born February 3, 1861, died October 3, 1867; Charles Sylvester, born February 24, 1863; Samuel R., born March 18, 1866; Mary E., born January 18, 1868; John W., born April 2, 1870; James E., born March 24, 1872; Amos W., born December 13, 1873, and Joseph M., born June 29, 1878. Mr. Linton enlisted in the late war February 11, 1865, and was assigned to Company E, One Hundred and Fifty-third Indiana Infantry. He was taken sick with measles at Camp Carrington, at Indianapolis, and was discharged there May 23, 1865. After his marriage Mr. Linton engaged in farming on section 33, Wabash Township. Since that time he has owned and lived on several different farms, and in 1881 purchased the farm in Jefferson where he now resides, where he has seventy-two acres of choice land. Mr. Linton is a member of the German Baptist church. In politics he was formerly a Republican, but is now a Prohibitionist, and has held several local offices with credit to himself and satisfaction to this constituents. ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 09:13:36, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: JOHN FRANK - DARKE COUNTY BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL RECORD OF ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA The Lewis Publishing Company, 1887 - Page 380 JOHN FRANK, engaged in farming and stock-raising on section 33, Blue Creek Township, was born in Darke County, Ohio, February 11, 1840, a son of Joseph and Nancy Frank, who were natives of Pennsylvania, and of German descent. They were the parents of five children, four of whom grew to maturity, and at the present writing only two are living. John Frank grew to manhood in Adams County, Indiana, his youth being spent in assisting his father with the work of the farm and in attending the district schools, where he obtained but a limited education. He was married in Van Wert County, Ohio, November 3, 1867, to Mrs. Sarah Robison, who was born in Licking County, Ohio, January 2, 1837, a daughter of Samuel and Charlotta Chilcoate. Four of the five children born to this union are living -Samuel L., James C., Laura C. and David M. Jesse W. is deceased. By her marriage with Robert Robison Mrs. Frank had two children, named Charlotta and Millard, both of whom are deceased. Mr. Frank has lived in Adams County since two years of age. He began life for himself in limited circumstances, but through a persevering energy combined with good management he has met with success in his agricultural pursuits, and is now the owner of eighty-four acres of choice land on section 33, Blue Creek Township, under a high state of cultivation. In politics Mr. Frank is a Democrat. Mrs. Frank is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Both are respected citizens of the community in which they reside. Their postoffice is Berne, Indiana. ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 09:13:34, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: ISAAC N. RARICK M.D. - DARKE COUNTY BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL RECORD OF JAY AND BLACKFORD COUNTIES, INDIANA The Lewis Publishing Company, 1887 - Page 687-688 ISAAC N. RARICK, M.D., has lived at Bluff Point, in Pike Township, since the spring of 1874. He was born in Darke County, Ohio, April 19, 1835, a son of Philip and Sarah (Chenowith) Rarick, his father a native of Pennsylvania, of Dutch descent, and his mother of Darke county, Ohio, of Scotch extraction. The parents moved to Jay County, Indiana, in 1851, and settled on section 33, Pike Township, where they passed the remainder of their days. The mother died in March, 1862, and the father September 27, 1886. They had a family of ten children -Abraham C., is a resident of Clarke County, Iowa; Isaac N., our subject; Jacob J.; David died in infancy; Adam C., of Clarke County, Iowa; Charles W., a physician, of Greenville, Darke County, Ohio; Ira D., of Missouri; Mrs. Susan B. Morehouse, of Noble Township; Mrs. Caroline Roberts, of Nuckolls County, Nebraska, and Catherine, died aged sixteen years. After the death of the mother the father married Mrs. Isabelle (Kenneer) Watson, widow of Dr. Watson, and to them were born five children -Mrs. Elsie Green, of Pike Township; Mrs. Rosa Thorp, of Nebraska; Clara, Cora M., and John A. The wife died in March, 1876, and he afterward married Mrs. Mary (Short) Hiatt, who is also now deceased. Isaac N. Rarick was reared and educated in Jay County. In 1858 he went West and spent three years in Clarke County, Iowa, and Nodaway and Gentry counties, Missouri, returning to Indiana in 1861. He was married December 31, 1863, to Adeline Wood, who was born in Darke County, Ohio, October 10, 1843, a daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Thompson) Wood, the father born in Botetourt County, Virginia, in 1795, and the mother in Essex County, New Jersey, in 1801. They were married in 1819 and moved to Randolph County, Indiana, in 1836, where the father died May 29, 1847. The mother now makes her home with Mrs. Rarick and is in the eighty-seventh year of her age. Of fifteen children, ten were living at the time of the father's death, but four have since died. Of those living, Absalom now is living in Alabama; Mary lives with Mrs. Rarick; Alexander and Andrew live in Ridgeville, and Elisha lives in Todd County, Minnesota. George M., William, Charles and Elijah are deceased; the two latter giving their lives for their country during the war of the Rebellion, and the two former, enterprising young men, went West and engaged in trading with the Indians, near the present town of Jackson, Minnesota, and during what is known as the Spirit Lake massacre, both were killed March 27, 1857. Mrs. Rarick, then a young lady, had spent two or three years in Blue Earth County, returning to Indiana in the fall of 1856. Dr. and Mrs. Rarick have had two children -Ara, born October 2, 1864, and Carey, born January 16, 1866, died March 14, 1866. Dr. Rarick commenced the study of medicine in 1870, and graduated from he Physio-Medical Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1875. In politics he is allied to the Democratic party. He is a member of Deerfield Lodge, No. 117, A.F.& A.M. ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 09:13:30, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: DAVID WHITMER FLOWERS - DARKE COUNTY A PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF DELAWARE AND RANDOLPH COUNTIES, IND. A.W. Bowen & Co., 1894 DAVID WHITMER FLOWERS, late a prominent merchant of Mount Pleasant township, was born in Darke county, Ohio, June 9, 1846, son of Amos and Phebe (Longstreet) Flowers. Mr. Flowers' paternal ancestors were of English descent, and in early day settled in eastern Pennsylvania, in Bucks county, of which part of the state his grandparents, William and Mary Flowers, were pioneers, locating there before the dawn of the present century. Amos Flowers was born in Bucks county, December 5, 1811, and there married his wife, who was born in the same county and state in the year in 1821. She was the daughter of Miller Longstreet, who was also one of the early settlers of eastern Pennsylvania, where he located in the time of the colonies. Amos and Phebe Flowers had a family of eleven children, of whom the following grew to maturity: Virena, wife of L.W. Colvin; Ella, wife of L.S. Allen; David W., the subject of this sketch and George M., a resident of Delaware county, Ind. The parents moved to Darke county, Ohio, in 1840, where they resided on a farm until 1852. Amos Flowers died in 1861. He was for many years a local minister of the Methodist church, in which he was highly esteemed; belonged to the Masonic fraternity, and was a firm supporter of the principles of the republican party. He passed away in the hope of a life beyond, and left as a legacy to his children an unblemished reputation and a record of a life well spent in the service of his Master and in behalf of his fellow men. His wife, a woman of most excellent character, and a consistent member of the Methodist church, in the communion of which the greater part of her life was passed, was summoned to her final rest in 1874. David Whitmer Flowers enjoyed the advantages of a liberal education, attending, first, the common schools and later the National normal at Lebanon, Ohio, where he pursued his studies for a period of one year. In 1866 he went to Mason county, Ill., where he was engaged in teaching for some time, and afterwards accepted a clerkship in a general store, in which capacity he continued two years. In 1869, April 25, he was united in marriage to Miss Cassie Kelley, of Miami county, Ohio, who bore him two children: Harry W. and Ellis C. Mrs. Flowers died July 3, 1873, in Mason county, Ill., and in September, 1875. Mr. Flowers married Mattie Curtis, in Butler county, Ohio, where she was born in 1853. To this marriage four children were born, namely: Edna M., Laura B., Charles and Oscar. While in Illinois Mr. Flowers, for some time, held the office of town clerk. He removed to Vermillion county, that state, in 1882, and engaged in farming for two years, and, later, began merchandising, which he carried on for one year, removing at the end of that time to Yorktown, Delaware county, Ind., where, after 1885, he successfully conducted a general goods establishment. Mr. Flowers, by diligently pursuing a straightforward and honorable course, succeeded in building up a very profitable business, and at the same time was an honor to the occupation in which he was engaged. He carried a large stock of miscellaneous merchandise, and by consulting the wishes of his many customers, kept fully abreast of the times, and occupied a front rank among the successful commercial men of Delaware county. He was a member of the Odd Fellows fraternity, and prominently identified with the order of Red Men. August 25, 1893, David Whitmer Flowers passed from earth, a sincere member of the Methodist Episcopal church at Yorktown. ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 13:24:39 EDT From: Corpmiz@aol.com Subject: Obituary-Fulton Co.-Dinius, Marion 1912 OBITUARY Marion E. Dinius, infant son of R. S. and Elsie M. Dinius, born May 17, 1912 and died July 5th. He leaves a father and many relatives to mourn their loss. Heaven now retains our treasure, Earth his lonely casket keeps, And the sunbeams love to linger Where our dearest baby sleeps. ____________ We wish to thank the neighbors, Rev. Metzler, the choir and all for kindnesses and beautiful flowers. R. S. Dinius and the Grandparents. ------------------- (His mother, Elsie (Mizer) died May 18, 1912. Elsie was born in 1887. She was a daughter of Jacob & Delilah (Shrock)Mizer. Newspaper clipping, No date, Delta Atlas? From Ethlyn Mizer Finley) ------------------------- Submitted by: Charles Paul Keller, Corpmiz@aol.com Researching Surnames: BREITER, BITTIKOFER, BOEHM, ELLIS, FINLEY, GARDINIER, HARRINGTON, HOCHSTETLER, KELLER, KLINK, LEININGER, MCCONNELL, MIZER, ODEN, SCHROCK, SHIBLER, SNYDER, TITLOW, WIGGINS ------------------------------ X-Message: #6 Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 13:31:49 EDT From: Corpmiz@aol.com Subject: Obituary-Fulton Co.-Carter, Effie 1960 Effie M. Carter From the Blade Correspondent Delta, O., Aug. 13, (1960)--Mrs. Effie M. Carter, 79, of Delta, died today in the Frey Rest Home here. She was a lifelong Fulton County resident and was a member of Mt. Pleasant EUB Church. Mrs. Carter is survived by a son, Wade, Omaha, Neb., sisters, Mrs. Alice (Gardinier) Guthrie, Swanton, and Mrs. Cora (Gardinier) Mizer, Delta, and two grandchildren. Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Penrod Mortuary, conducted by the Rev. Paul Duff. Burial will be in Greenlawn Cemetery. (This was a newspaper clipping. She was born June 3, 1881.) ====================== MT. PLEASANT EVANGELICAL UNITED BRETHREN CHURCH R.F.D. 3 DELTA, OHIO PAUL DUFF, PASTOR Effie M. Carter was born to Alice and Watson Gardiner, June 3, 1881, and departed this life on August 13, 1960. She had reached the age of 79 years, 2 Mo. and 10 days. She was born the first of five children. Preceding her in death was her only brother Harel, killed in World War I and a sister Caddy, Mrs. Albert Currier. March 4, 1904 wedding vows were solemnized, when she became the bride of LNear Carter, who preceded her in death, passing from this life less than one year ago, October 1959. To this union was born one son, Wade. She leaves to morn her son Wade, his wife Jean, and her two granddaughters Dawn and Lynn all of Omaha, Nebraska. Two sisters, Mrs. Cora Mizer of Delta and Mrs. Alice Guthrie of Swanton. Mrs. Carter was a member of the Mt. Pleasant Evangelical United Brethren Church, where she was a faithful servant of her Lord until failing health of Mr. Carter and of herself made it necessary for her to give up her church activity. Her health failed very soon after the death of Mr. Carter and she became a patient in the Frey Convalescent Home at Delta. Those who cared for her learned to love her deeply. Her patient suffering ended Sunday morning August 13, as she quietly slipped away to be with her Lord. A LITTLE WHILE "A little while" for patient vigil keeping, To face the storm, to wrestle with the strong! "A little while" to sow the seed with weeping, Then bind the sheaves and sing the harvest song! -J. V. Credon (This was a Church funeral program) Submitted by: Charles Paul Keller, Corpmiz@aol.com Researching Surnames: BREITER, BITTIKOFER, BOEHM, ELLIS, FINLEY, GARDINIER, HARRINGTON, HOCHSTETLER, KELLER, KLINK, LEININGER, MCCONNELL, MIZER, ODEN, SCHROCK, SHIBLER, SNYDER, TITLOW, WIGGINS ------------------------------ X-Message: #7 Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 13:30:40 EDT From: Corpmiz@aol.com Subject: Obituary-Fulton Co.-Carter, George 1914 OBITUARY George N. B. Carter was born in Royalton township, Fulton county, Ohio, November 20, 1856 and died at his home in Fulton township July 2nd, 1914. He was the oldest son of Norval B and Mary L. Carter. His father died when he was eight years old. As soon as he was old enough he assumed the responsibility of helping his widowed mother keep up the home and provide for the family. He was married to Ruth L. Sprague June 30, 1880. To this union was born one son Lnear Eugene Carter. The young couple took up the securing for themselves a home and in 1892 they bought the farm where they have since resided. Having been a resident of this county for so long, Mr. Carter had formed a wide circle of friends. Those that have known him longest can testify that he was a good, loyal citizen, a kind and friendly neighbor and a man who in his business transactions endeavored to be correct and honest. Mr. Carter had been in usually good health until last Monday, June 29, when he was suddenly stricken down and he never regained consciousness. He leaves to mourn their loss, his wife, one son, daughter-in-law, two brothers and other relatives. _________ Card of Thanks The family wish to thank the friends and neighbors who offered so much sympathy and aided in any way during the sickness of their loved husband and father. Mrs. Ruth Carter (b.1855-d. 1917) Lnear E. Carter (b.1881-d. 1959) Effie M. Carter (Gardinier) (b. 1881-d. 1960) ********************** Submitted by: Charles Paul Keller, Corpmiz@aol.com Researching Surnames: BREITER, BITTIKOFER, BOEHM, ELLIS, FINLEY, GARDINIER, HARRINGTON, HOCHSTETLER, KELLER, KLINK, LEININGER, MCCONNELL, MIZER, ODEN, SCHROCK, SHIBLER, SNYDER, TITLOW, WIGGINS -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #276 *******************************************