LaPorte County Indiana Histories and Biographies

Family Biographies
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LaPorte County
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As of Oct 3, 2009, all biographies should be submitted to be put on site and not link to other sites. This is due to folks shutting down their sites for biographies that they had stored. And when sites are closed out by owner, the links become broken.
There are several names listed below that were previously hot linked, but now they no long work.

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A to B Surnames Andrus (Andrews) Hiram H. Andrews, James M Barnes, Phineas Barnes & Terry Families Bauch, Charles Edward Bauch, Henry Adolph Bauch, Lizzie Barbara Marks Beal, John Franklin Beal, Mariah Birchim, David & Lem Brayton family Brewer, Benjamin and Henry Families Burkhart, Cecelia Crescenta Seimetz Busa, Michael & Thomas Bush, Michael & Thomas Bussa, Michael & Thomas	C to D Surnames Carlson, Anton - added 1/6/2009 Catterlin, James Closser, Nicholas Closser Daniel Conboy, John Craft, Seth Cumiskey, James H. Crowe, William posted Czechowiak,Frances Dean or Deane, Charles Werden DeMeyer, Nicholaes D- Dowd, Charles Dysard, John and associated families
E to H Surnames Evans, Edward - 1875 -Indiana State Legislators Bios Fisher, John and Associated Families Fisher, Peter and other Fisher generations Francis, Mr. & Mrs. C. W. - 50th Anniversary Fravel, Jacob Freese, Lawrence Garoutte, Thomas Jefferson Gillham, Robert Griffin, Samuel Griswold, Elizabeth Gross, David John Hanyzewski families, Joseph & John Hanyzewski, Lottie Hatfield family Heckman, Jacob Hileman, Levi Hock, George - Link broken Houston, Guy Chester - Link broken last known email address is akenyon1@elp.rr.com Hungershewer, Catherina Hunt, George Washington - Hunt, John Mason**	I to O Surnames Janicki, Valentine Janicki Family History Jessup, Simeon Kaczmarek, Valentin Keith, Peter Phelps Kellogg, Harvey & John R Kenyon, Keith Cyrus- Link broken last known email address is akenyon1@elp.rr.com Kroening, Helen M. Wiedenman Lamphier or Lanphier, Daniel (Search Jasper Co, IA website) Lancaster with Associated families Langeman (Langman) family history Leaming, Daniel M & Charles families Lewis, Joseph Stewart St. Liedtke, Otto Lindblad, Anders Lovell, James (Jimmy) family notes Lynch, Owen Marx Wagner Michaely, Margareta Marx, Nicolaus McGarity, William McVay, Wilbert - - Link broken last known email address is akenyon1@elp.rr.com O'hara Samuel Oglesbee, R. B. - link broken- site deserted Osborn, Andrew Lawrence
P ro R Surnames Pahrman, Charles F Parker, Branson Davis Parker, John Christy & Caroline Shaw Parker, Lewis Parker, William D. Parker, William I Partridge, Sarah Jane - posted 5/16/12 from John McCartney at johnmcx@yahoo.com Patton, Thomas Jefferson Pierce, Rowland Person - Erickson and affiliated families from John W. Erickson - jwerick@gmail.com Pinney, Horace and associated families Puffpaff, Family in LaPorte County Reynolds, Anthony James Reynolds, George R. Rickmeyer, Emma Bauch Riechel, Joseph aka Reichel or Richel	S Surnames Schaefer, Frederick Schumm, Louis Sr. posted on July 6, 2004 Seimetz, (Katherina & John) Seimetz, Margaretta Wiedenman Seimetz, Henry Michaelis Sharp, Dayton Shippee, Silas B. Shippee, Decendents of David Shurte, Samuel Snavely, William Solloway, Major Jr., Spooner, Wilbur D. Starr family ancestry, see Wellwood below Swift, Theodore
T to V Surnames Talmadge, Oromel Tanger, Heinrich Johann Friedrich Ferdinand Teeter, E. J. Autobiography Teeter, Philip Fail - letter home added Terry - Barnes Families Teeter, Zachariah(s) Thomas, Anna Freeman story Thomas, Anna Freeman story Tilden, Walter S. Titus, Nelson J Titus, family Van Tassel, (Van Taxel)Cornelius VanDusen, Eli - also spelled Van Dusen Voltz, Frederic Wilhelm Voss, Ludwig	W to Z Surnames Warkentin (Warkentine), August- Wagner, David Wagner, H. Clay Walker, Obediah Wanatah Families on Sol Gorrell's site - link removed as it was proven to be inactive on 10/3/09. Wandell, William & Family Weda, Joseph Cornelius Wellwood, Royal and associated families - West, John D. Weston, Isaac and associated families - Wheatbrook, John Whitehead, George (G. H.) Wickersham, James Wickersham, Jonathan Wiedenman, Joseph Otto Wile, Jacob Wiltfong, Barbara Hostetler Wiltfong Samuel Winterbotham, John H. - 1875 -Indiana State Legislators Bios Worden, Herman Brooks Young, Russell G. Yarger/Yerger,Benneville Zach , John Carl Frederick Zeigler, John II Zinn, George W**

Terry or Terrey family - I am looking for a photo of my great grandfather, John Thomas Terrey, who was a county commissioner in LaPorte County, IN in the early part of the 20th century. He was also a secretary in the Masonic organization either during the last part of the 19th century or the first part of the 20th century. His father, Thomas Terrey, an English immigrant, may also have been a Mason in LaPorte County. They lived in Union Mills and are buried at Union Mills Cemetary. - Pat Terrey Rinderle at - rinderle@att.net

** Martha A Crosly Graham - research and files for all counties - "1875 -Indiana State Legislators Biographies" May be viewed at the following links.
http://www.ingenweb.org/invigo/1875-bios/IN-St-Bios.pdf & http://www.ingenweb.org/invigo/1875-bios/

La Porte County History Articles

Ref:
www.indyspotlight.com/hoosierhighways.htm
"Under the wide and starry sky
Dig the grave and let me lie:
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.
This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he long'd to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill."

Those lines are borrowed from Robert Louis Stevenson's poem, Requiem. The poem speaks to the honor we give to those sacred places where those we love come to final rest: the cemetery, memorial park, or graveyard. As the only animal on earth that takes such great pains to memorialize the passing of our species, we do it with tenderness and reverence.