Wells County Indiana INGenWeb - What's New

2008-08-26T17:41:00.001-04:00

Fun Stuff for Genealogists

May 2007 and July 2007 Wells County Tracer newsletters

2008-08-26T08:56:00.002-04:00

1903 biographies for S. J. Batson , John W. Beavans, and O. R. Williams.

Lewis and Miama "Amy" (Mounsey) Huffman Family Bible

2008-08-25T21:51:00.002-04:00

Updated Miscellaneous Wells County Cemetery Records

Added photos of the Slane family sent in by Sandra Altman

Reformatted the Stahl Cemetery page as html and added many photos taken by John Meredith

2008-04-19T17:30:00.000-04:00

By request, the bio of Sylvester Lounsbury has been posted. Also posted Mrs. Elizabeth Gehrett's biography.

2008-04-18T07:50:00.003-04:00

Updated 1860 & 1910 census transcriptions

Created "Newspapers" section on "The Good Stuff" page and created Early 1900's Wells County News Items from Fort Wayne Newspapers page with links to previous posts on message board.

Added a wonderful photo of Old Red School from 1915. Children in the photo include Moore, Dolby, Outkelt, Burchard, Zehner, Pace, Jamison, Harrold, Malosh, Cozzart, Mason, and Miller. Does anyone know where the school was located?

Also added links to Pennsylvania Dutch Life and The Olden Times.

2008-04-14T10:17:00.002-04:00

Updated oodles of links on "The Good Stuff" page.

Added 4 photos to Sparks Cemetery page.

2008-04-13T23:11:00.002-04:00

Finished with the requests now and will probably take a break from this project for now to concentrate on other things.

Latest bios:

Biography of John F. Roe
Biography of Arthur F. Roe
Biography of Jeremiah Roe
Biography of Ezekiel Roe
Biography of Charles E. Roe
Biography of C. L. Blue, M. D.
Biography of Samuel Campbell
Biography of William Ehret
Biography of Hercules H. Neff
Biography of William G. Archbold

2008-04-11T09:39:00.002-04:00

Posted this morning are these 1903 bios:

Biography of B. F. Hower
Biography of A. S. Abbott
Biography of Joel Fry
Biography of Josiah Slusher
Biography of Philemon A. Allen
Biography of Mrs. Sarah E. Brown
Biography of Hamon Allen
Biography of S. E. Shepherd
Biography of Benjamin P. Smith
Biography of John W. Sprowl
Biography of Jacob J. Smith
Biography of Jesse Crites

Just the bios of the ROEs remain to be posted in response to requests. After that, I'll begin posting the remaining bios in the order they appear in the book.

2008-04-10T10:13:00.002-04:00

I'm almost caught up. Here are the bios posted this morning:

Biography of Jacob Fatscher
Biography of Dr. A. H. Metts
Biography of John Rex
Biography of Wilson A. Woodward
Biography of William H. Rupright
Biography of Samuel M. Kreigh
Biography of Capt. E. E. Derr
Biography of John E. Sturgis
Biography of John Henry Durr

Coming up next:

Jessie Crites, John Crites, Josiah Slusher, Arthur Roe, Charles Roe, Ezekiel Roe, Jeremiah Roe, John Roe, Joel Fry, and Harrison Shepherd.

2008-04-09T23:39:00.001-04:00

More 1903 bios posted today:

Biography of John R. Ditzler
Biography of William Haiflich
Biography of Eli Haflich
Biography of Samuel A. Haflich
Biography of Jacob McAfee
Biography of John McAfee

We're getting there!

2008-04-08T23:32:00.001-04:00

I'm catching up with requests but am far from finished with the 1903 biography book.

Biography of John S. Krewson
Biography of Frederick Rapp
Biography of Alfred T. Merriman
Biography of Martin Heckley
Biography of George R. Nevius
Biography of Thomas B. Morris, M. D.
Biography of Joseph B. Moore

2008-04-07T08:49:00.001-04:00

1903 bios posted this morning:

Biography of Hon. George E. Fulton
Biography of Charles C. Sixbey
Biography of Hon. Levi Mock
Biography of Philo Rogers
Biography of John Studabaker
Biography of Hon. Joseph S. Dailey
Biography of Hon. Hugh Dougherty
If there is a particular biography you are looking for, please let me know. The index is here.

2008-04-06T00:31:00.002-04:00

1903 bios posted today:

Biography of P. S. Green
Biography of Sanford H. Templin
Biography of Eli C. Bierie
Biography of Joseph Rose
Biography of Henry Schaffter

2008-04-04T14:51:00.001-04:00

More bios:

Biography of Perry Kilander
Biography of R. A. Kilander
Biography of Jonas Meyer
Biography of John M. Buck (duplicate)
Biography of Peter Brickley
Biography of George Turner
Biography of Thomas C. Cloud (duplicate)

2008-04-04T11:41:00.001-04:00

More bios from the 1903 "Biographical Memoirs" book:

Biography of Amos Gehrett
Biography of Mrs. Frances Clark
Biography of Solomon B. Nelson
Biography of David Eichhorn
Biography of Hon. M. W. Walbert

2008-04-02T11:10:00.000-04:00

Biography of Bunyon J. Wells
Biography of C. B. Funk

More to come!

2008-04-01T21:41:00.001-04:00

No joke, I just posted some bios requested back in 2002-2003.

Biography of Thomas W. Wheeler
Biography of G. B. Schott
Biography of Peter Schott
Biography of W. A. Donaldson
Biography of Philip B. Alberson

2008-03-31T17:26:00.001-04:00

New biographies from the 1903 book posted today:

Biography of J. W. Goodyear
Biography of William D. Markley
Biography of J. B. Gavin
Biography of Joel Kemp
Biography of Jacob Jefferson Todd
Biography of George L. Saunders
Biography of Charles M. Miller

2008-03-24T13:54:00.001-04:00

Latest posted 1903 biographies:

Biography of Adam Arnold (another duplicate)
Biography of Daniel Sills (yet another duplicate)
Biography of Joseph Stahl
Biography of John Lobsiger
Biography of John B. Funk
Biography of William Lipkey
Biography of Prof. Arthur R. Huyette
Biography of Gottlieb Rolli
Biography of Nathan Roberts (hopefully the final duplicate)

2008-03-18T12:48:00.003-04:00

Our website host, Rootsweb, the free part of ancestry.com, was moved to a new server so you may notice that our website address has changed slightly. You should still be able to use old bookmarks, though. I had to fuss around a bit with the links on the main and "Good Stuff" pages because some images were not appearing. If you happen to notice any links or images NOT working properly on the site, please let me know.

In other news, I had a brainstorm the other day to research using my digital camera instead of a flatbed scanner for OCR (optical character recognition) -- thought it would be a LOT more difficult than it was. Voilà! I will now attempt to send biographies from the 1903 book to my long backlog of requesters. The book is close to 600 pages, however; as usual, it will take some time to complete this project.

Today I posted the following bios from the 1903 bio book:

Biography of John W. Rinear
Biography of William Dunwiddie
Biography of William E. Bowman
Biography of Joseph Awkerman
Biography of James H. Keefer
Biography of George W. G. Miller (duplicate - whoops)
Biography of John G. Dettinger
Biography of William McDowell

2008-03-08T22:40:00.002-05:00

Sue Allen's Photo Collection has been updated.

Four issues of the Wells County Tracer from 2002 were added, as well as the March 2007 issue.

Oak Lawn Cemetery list of burial permits - contributed by the late Norman Bushee. Thank you, sir.

2008-03-04T15:23:00.004-05:00

Added links to 3 bios from the Historical Hand Atlas of Wells County, Indiana that were posted on the Rootsweb Message Board:

DUNWIDDIE, Peter
KOON, Andrew
WALSER, Reynolds

Updated nearly all of the census transcription files and the miscellaneous records file with contributions from several folks.

Added a photo of the 7th and 8th grades at Uniondale School taken in 1924. Thanks to Sue Allen for the great contribution! Can we add some more names to the list?

Military service of Joseph Awkerman, a member of the 102nd Ohio Infantry during the Civil War, who died in Wells County

Information on WWII soldiers who are honored at the Manila American Cemetery, Philippines: Gerald E. Lesh, William E. Van Camp, William Boltin

2008-03-04T14:15:00.001-05:00

Bible of Josiah Weist, Bible of Sam Opliger, Bible of Perry Rose, all contributed by Margaret (Rose) Bond

2008-02-28T23:20:00.001-05:00

Bible of Josiah "Jesse" Weist, Jr., contributed by Margaret (Rose) Bond

2008-02-12T22:10:00.001-05:00

Mossburg Cemetery - selected headstone images and photo of road to old part of cemetery - from Kathy Davis