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 on it and when sites are closed out by owner, the links become broken.

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LaPorte Family Biographies

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

F to H Surnames
Fisher, John and Associated Families
Fisher, Peter and other Fisher generations
Francis, Mr. & Mrs. C. W. - 50th Anniversary 
Garoutte, Thomas Jefferson
Gillham, Robert
Griffin, Samuel
Griswold, Elizabeth
Gross, David John
Hanyzewski families, Joseph & John
Hanyzewski, Lottie
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
Kenyon, Keith Cyrus- Link broken
last known email address is akenyon1@elp.rr.com
Kroening, Helen M. Wiedenman
Lamphier or Lanphier, Daniel
 (as viewed at 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
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
Parker, Branson Davis
Parker, Lewis
Parker, William D.
Parker, William I
Pierce, Rowland
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
- new email address for Ginny Del Marto is   ralphsgirl@cox.net
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.
Weda, Joseph Cornelius
Wellwood, Royal and associated families -
Weston, Isaac and associated families - new gif
Whitehead, George (G. H.)
Wickersham, James
Wickersham, Jonathan
Wiedenman, Joseph Otto
Wile, Jacob
West, John D.
Wheatbrook, John
Worden, Herman Brooks
Young, Russell G.
Yarger/Yerger,Benneville
Zach , John Carl Frederick

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

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.