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 If so please send as attachment to C. Labath and I will be glad to add to these pages.

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Thomas Henry Barton & Elizabeth Harshbarger Barton
50th Wedding Anniversary - 1908

L. to R. sitting: W.H. "Bud" Barton, Thomas Henry Barton, Elizabeth Harshbarger Barton, David Samuel Barton.
Standing, L to R.: Rebecca Jane Barton Elliott, Mary S. Barton Jay, Amy A. Barton McElwee, Anna Barton Cooper, Sarah Barton Stewart.

Submitted by Cathy Joynt Labath
Great Grand-aunt was married to Bud Barton.

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Crane Sisters c. 1915
Daughters of Charles Crane & Susan Catcott

L. to R.: Nellie Crane Smith, Orpha Crane Kiger, Cora Crane Cooper, Elsie Crane Jackson, Carrie Crane Barton

Submitted by Cathy Joynt Labath gg granddaughter of Nellie Crane Smith.

 

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Charles Crane Family c. 1890

L. to R:  Charles Benjamin Crane, Carrie Crane Barton, Elsie Crane Jackson, Cora Crane Cooper, Irvin Crane, Nellie Crane Smith, Alva Crane, Ralph Crane, William Crane, Susan Catcott Crane, Walter Crane.

Submitted by Cathy Joynt Labath ggg granddaughter of Charles Benjamin and Susan Catcott Crane.

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Charlie Clark Smith Family c. 1915

L. to R.: Orril Smith, Nellie Crane Smith, Charlie Clark Smith, Retha Smith Kessel Nelson.

Submitted by Cathy Joynt Labath gg granddaughter of Nellie Crane and Charlie Smith.

 

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William Henry "Bud" Barton
Wedding Picture 6 Mar 1884

First marriage (1884) was to Minnie Rogers
Second marriage (1904) was to Carrie Crane

Submitted by Cathy Joynt Labath, great grand niece of Carrie Crane

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Carrie Crane and daughter, Ruth Genevieve Barton.

Submitted by Cathy Joynt Labath, great grand niece of Carrie Crane

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Margaret Lyon Roach

 Born in/near Trenton in 1914. Picture taken circa 1931, graduation.  She did not graduate in Henry County, but lived there as a child and I'm not certain of from where she graduated.

Submitted by Ann Miller White

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William H. Lyon

Born July 6, 1885 in Henry County, Iowa. Died April 20, 1945 in Forest Park, Illinois. Husband of Laura Ellen Bates. Father of Margaret Roach Lyon and Max Lyon.

Submitted by Ann Miller White

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Brothers Isaac and James Bates

Isaac on left. Born and lived in Henry County throughout their lives. From in and near Trenton

Submitted by Ann Miller White

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Children of Isaac Christian Bates and Anna Miller Bates c. 1898

The two girls in back are (l-r) Etta and Elsie.

The boys are Dillon (top) and Max (Bernard Max ... EVERYONE knew him as Max) and the two girls in the front are (l-r) Laura and Edith.

Edith became Edith Bates Carper Etta became Etta Bates Carper Laura became Laura Bates Lyon Elsie became Elsie Bates Sater

Submitted by Ann Miller White

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John and Katie Miller Schlatter c. 1910

 She was the daughter of John and Anna Raber Miller. They raised their family in Wayland, Iowa.

Submitted by Ann Miller White

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Four oldest children of John and Katie Miller Schlatter from Wayland, Iowa.

 Back row, left to right, David and William; seated, front row, left to right, Anna and Magdalena.

Submitted by Ann Miller White

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Chris R. Miller

Son of John and Anna Raber Miller. Born 10/14/1855. Lived in Wayland and Olds Iowa.

Submitted by Ann Miller White

 

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Elizabeth Reed Miller

Wife of Chris R. Miller.
 Born 3/11/1866 in Olds, Iowa.

Submitted by Ann Miller White

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Izyel Miller Wenger.

 Daughter of Chris and Elizabeth Reed Miller.
Born 6/5/1887 in Henry County, Iowa.

Submitted by Ann Miller White

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Benjamin Miller, son of John and Anna Raber Miller and his wife, Mary Eicher, daughter of Christian and Anna Wenger Eicher.

 Raised a family of 12 children in Henry County.

Submitted by Ann Miller White

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Bessie Miller, daughter of Joseph and Anna Miller c. 1920.

She was born and raised in Henry County, Iowa, in and near Olds, Iowa.

Submitted by Ann Miller White

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Wedding photo of Daniel Miller (son of Benjamin and Mary Eicher Miller) and Wilhemine (Minnie) Sandburg. Taken December, 1915.

 Minnie was born in Swedesburg, Henry County, Iowa. Dan was raised in Washington and Henry Counties.

Submitted by Ann Miller White

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Roth Children 1888

Left - Right: Anna, Alice, and Chris Roth, children of Joseph and Barbara Eicher Roth.

Grandchildren of Christian and Anna Wenger Eicher and of Christian and Catharine Wittmer Roth.

Submitted by Ann Miller White

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First graduating class of Wayland High School.
Back row, left to right: Leroy Schantz and Edward Martin.
 Front row, left to right: Frank Boller, J. W. Purcy, Superintendent, and Walle IWallie??) Boller.

Submitted by Ann Miller White

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Left, Arlan Graber,  and right, Henry Graber

Submitted by Ann Miller White

Maria Louisa McKenzie

Submitted by Valerie Ward

Emma McKenzie

Submitted by Valerie Ward

 

Silas McKenzie

Submitted by Valerie Ward

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Left - Right:  Frank Thompson, Jim Troutman, David Goldsmith, and Charles Farmer

Submitted by Ann Miller White

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Joe Roth, Left and Dave Miller, Right

Submitted by Ann Miller White

 

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Back, left - right: Pete and CK Wyse
Front, left - right: Clyde Trotman, Homer Davis, and C. W. Schlatter

Submitted by Ann Miller White

 

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Elmer Wayne Rich

Submitted by Ann Miller White

 

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Narcissa LaRue Grantham

Taken before 1872 at LEISINGRING BROS.,
Photographers, Opposite the Brazelton House, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa.

Submitted by James Bishop

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Narcissa LaRue Grantham
Abt. 24 Years of Age

Taken 1872 at LEISINGRING BROS.,
Photographers, Opposite the Brazelton House, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa.

Submitted by James Bishop

 

 

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Carolyn Fannie Grantham
abt. 15 Years of Age

Taken 1872 at LEISINGRING BROS.,
Photographers, Opposite the Brazelton House, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa.

Submitted by James Bishop

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John Posey Grantham
1812-1877

Submitted by James Bishop

See also Grantham Family Notes

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Narcissa Jenkins Grantham

Submitted by James Bishop

See also Grantham Family Notes

 

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Double Cousins. Left is Addie Miller, daughter of Jacob and Margaret Eicher Miller. Right is Bertha Miller, daughter of Peter and Anna Eicher Miller. Both girls' fathers were brothers and mothers were sisters.

Submitted by Ann Miller White

 

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Verna (Vernie) Miller was the daughter of Benjamin and Mary Eicher Miller. She married Carl Johnson.

Submitted by Ann Miller White

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Mattie Kauffman was the daughter of Chris and Elizabeth Miller Kauffman. Her husband, James William Bates, was the son of Bernard and Beulah Jay Bates. They lived their lives in Henry County, Iowa.

Submitted by Ann Miller White

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Maggie Eicher was born in Henry County, the daughter of Martin and Barbara Roth Eicher. She married Joseph R. Miller, the son of John and Anna Raber Miller. She is my great-great-grandmother.

Submitted by Ann Miller White

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Katie Miller & Charles Gray

Katie was the daughter of Benjamin and Mary Eicher Miller and was born and died in Henry County, Iowa. Charles Walter Gray was the son of John and Mary Embree Gray.

Submitted by Ann Miller White

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Jacob Miller was the son of Benjamin and Mary Eicher Miller.

Submitted by Ann Miller White

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Jacob & Bertha Sandburg Miller

Jacob was the son of Benjamin and Mary Eicher Miller and Bertha, the daughter of John and Ida Anderson Sandburg. Bertha was born in Trenton, Iowa and Jacob, north of Wayland Iowa.

Submitted by Ann Miller White

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Jacob Miller, son of John and Anna Raber Miller, born in Trenton, Iowa. He married twice, and was the father of four children. He is buried near Wayland, Iowa.

Submitted by Ann Miller White

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Lavina Blanche Miller was the daughter of Benjamin and Mary Eicher Miller. She married Asa Albert Payne, who was born in Wayland, Iowa. The couple was married and lived their married life in Wayland. They were the parents of one son, Donald Clarence Payne.

Submitted by Ann Miller White

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Jacob Miller, son of John and Anna Raber Miller, born and raised in Henry County Iowa, shown here with his first wife, Maggie Eicher, daughter of Christian and Anna Wenger Eicher.

Submitted by Ann Miller White

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Jacob Miller, the son of John and Anna Raber Miller, lived his entire life in Henry County. He is pictured with his second wife, Lydia Garick, who was born in Wayland, Iowa. She was the daughter of Christian Garick and Barbara Wery.

Submitted by Ann Miller White

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Chris Kauffman came to America from France. He passed through Gettysburg, on a train, during the battle, during his immigration to Henry County, Iowa. There he met and married Elizabeth "Lizzie" Miller, daughter of John and Anna Raber Miller.

Submitted by Ann Miller White

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Edna Marie Miller was the daughter of Joe and Annie Miller of Olds, Iowa. She married George Tippett.

Submitted by Ann Miller White

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Ed Miller was the son of Benjamin Miller, and the grandson of John and Anna Raber Miller. He married Hulda Anderson.

Submitted by Ann Miller White

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Homer Kauffman was the son of Chris and Elizabeth Miller Kauffman. He was born, raised, and died in Henry County, Wayland, Iowa.

Submitted by Ann Miller White

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Samuel Olinger
Son of George and Martha and brother to my gr-gr-grandfather George Ireson Olinger

Submitted by Debbie Waack

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George Olinger
My gr-gr-gr-grandfather. Buried in Nebraska.

Submitted by Debbie Waack

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Martha Taylor Olinger
My gr-gr-gr-grandmother. Buried in Nebraska.

Submitted by Debbie Waack

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George Ireson Olinger Family

George Ireson Olinger is my great-great grandfather. He married Anna Belle Marshall, daughter of George and Sarah (Eveland) Marshall. They are identified in the picture as follows: Back row- George, Otis, Don. Middle row- George Ireson, Anna Belle, James William ( my great grandfather). Front row- Ellis, Ted.

Submitted by Debbie Waack

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"Children of George  and Martha Olinger" was taken in Hastings, NE. They were from Henry Co., Iowa and by the time this picture was taken they had moved to Hastings, NE. I know the children who moved with them are George Ireson, Mary Ann Olinger Ritcheson, Sarah Olinger Palmer, David Lincoln and James Lee Olinger (twin brothers) but don't know who is who as I have no other identification on who is in the picture. Can someone please help?

Submitted by Debbie Waack

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George Ireson and Anna Belle Olinger and sons and their wives.

Front row- George and Lela.
Back two rows- Clara and JW, Elsie and Otis, May and Don.
They were from Henry County, and by the time this photo was taken had moved to Adams County, Nebraska.

Submitted by Debbie Waack

 

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I found this photo at the flea market today (in Tulsa, OK)
 
On back it says:
 
Dave Osborn
Jasper's brother  then next to that it says Santa Ana
 
I found an Osborne family in the 1870 census with brothers Dave and Jasper
Father is Benjamin b. Ohio
mother- Sophia b. Ohio
son Jasper N. b.Ohio (age 16)
dau. Mary E. b. Ohio
dau. Sarah M. b. Ohio
son David A. b. Ohio (age 11)
dau. Ammarantha bo Ohio.
 
this was with another picture from Bucyrus Ohio, Crawford Co. of the E. Anderson family
and another photo of James Ulysses Foster, Wheeling W. VA, brother of Maggie Foster Martin.
 
Hope this is helpful to someone!

Submitted by Mary Neff

 

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The reverse reads:
One handwriting:
Wm Woodroffe Family
Back Row - L. to R.
Jessie, Charles, Minnie
Front 4 L. to R.
Blanche, Hugh, Arthur, Clara

2nd handwriting
Picture taken in about 1905

There are nine people and only 7 named. Obviously
William himself is the older man, and I think Alma
(born in 1898) is the little girl in front.

Submitted by: Tracy St. Claire,
 not related
Bible Records Online
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My cousin, Leah Kinkead, who was born, raised and married (to Jasper Becker) in Henry County.

Submitted by: Dick Kinkead

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Runser (Runcer) Family

Great-grandparents, Louis and Marie Runser. Louis and Marie came over from Alsace,now part of France,in 1892.Louis
worked for the railroad,but don't know which one.They moved to Missouri @
1910.I've attached a photo that includes Louis on the far right and Marie in
the middle holding their youngest,Gene,my grandfather.The other two children are Joseph and Mary, also Louis and Marie's. I'm looking for someone to identify the other three adults in the hope that they will somehow lead me to Louis and Marie's family in Europe.

Submitted by: Chris Marshall

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Donald Ernest Chrissinger,
 the only child of Ernest G. and Erma Jane Anderson Chrissinger was born in Henry County, Iowa, March 18, 1920.
Donald was 1st Lt., 8th  Air Force Fighter Squadron, and was killed in
action, WWII, over England, on November 18 1944.

Submitted by Debbie Koch

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Earl Asa and June Geneva Mathews Anderson

Married November 1 1919, in New
London, Henry County, Iowa.  Earl Asa was the son of Asa and Mary Elizabeth
Willey Anderson.  June Geneva was the daughter of Perlee Lester and Anna
Belle Ramsey Mathews. 

Submitted in loving memory by their granddaughter,
Debbie Koch

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Isaac Clark and Harriet Elizabeth Allsup Raines.

  Clark Raines was the son of Zebedee and Phoebe Hamil Raines.  Elizabeth Allsup was the daughter of Ralph and Lucy Ann Andrews Allsup.

Submitted by Debbie Koch

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Thomas Allen and Elizabeth Billingsly Prier and their children.

 Thomas (Allen) Prier is the son of George Washington and Mary
Polly Brooks Burge Prier.

Submitted by Debbie Koch

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Rhoda B. Morley Linn

born February 7, 1829 in Washington County, Pennsylvania. She came to the New London area with her parents, John P. and Mary Grace Smith Morley around 1839.  Rhoda married John E. Linn, September 17, 1849 in Henry County, Iowa.  Before the death of John in 1879, they became the parents of five daughters; Catherine, Irene, Alma, Jennie and Mary(Molly).  Rhoda died May 23, 1909 in New London.

Submitted by Debbie Koch

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Flossie and Will Hudson's 50th Anniversary.

Flossie was the daughter of Elwood Holaday.
They were my best friends.

Submitted by Margaret Parsons

 

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Raymond D Garmoe
1918

Submitted by Margaret Parsons