Landon Peter Batchelor was born in a covered wagon on the Illinois prairie (reportedly in what is now part of Missouri) on 25 November 1866, along with his twin brother, George.  He was an inventor and held several patents.  He lived most of his adult life in Lawrenceburg, IN & died there on 8 June 1948.  He's buried in the Greendale Cemetery.

Submitted By: Martha Watson

(Katherine) Barbara Disque Knipper Bauer Bender was born in Germany on 7 July 1841.  She came to the U.S. with her parents in 1851.  Family lore has it that she almost fell overboard during the passage when her foot got caught in a rope on deck.  She was saved by one of the sailors.  Her family ended up settling in Boone County.  She first married (John) Adam Knipper who also came to this country from Germany and settled in Boone County.  She had 6-7 kids before Adam died before 1883.  She remarried Adam Bauer and later Anthony Bender.  After Bender died, she tended house for her son-in-law, George Batchelor, after the death of her daughter, Lizzie.  Her grandkids called her, "Grandma Bender."   She died in Lawrenceburg, IN on 7 Feb 1925 and is reportedly buried in an unmarked grave near Lot 106 with her daughter & son-in-law, Lizzie & George Batchelor.

Submitted By: Martha Watson

George Batchelor, was born with his twin brother, Landon, in a covered wagon on the Illinois prairie (reportedly in what is now part of Missouri) on 25 November 1866.  [Their parents were John & Rebecca Metcalf Bachelor who married in Boone County on 28 September 1848.  The lived mostly in/near Belleview and are reportedly buried in Belleview.]  George settled his family on the Split Rock farm outside Petersburg and that's where he lived most of his adult life until he sold the farm & moved in with a daughter in North Bend, OH.  He was also fairly well known for raising black and tan hound dogs and for hunting racoons.  That's where he died on 28 March 1938.  He's buried with his first wife, Lizzie, in Lot 106 of the Petersburg Cemetery 1 row east, and in the same section as, the utility building.

Submitted By: Martha Watson