Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Tombstone Tuesday: William P. and Olive Jane (Smith) Wehrly


My parternal great-great grandparents, William P. and Olive Jane (Smith) Wehrly, are buried in the Salamonia Cemetery, Madison Township, Jay County, Indiana.

William was born November 2, 1845 in Preble County, Ohio, the son of Johannes ("John S.") and Barbara (Petry) Wehrly.

Olive was born June 23, 1846 in Cass County, Michigan, the daughter of William P. and Prudence (Maxson) Smith.

William and Olive were married August 4, 1866 in Jay County, Indiana. They lived out their lives in the Salamonia area. William was a mortician, a sawmiller and a farmer. During the Civil War, he served in Company I, 130th Indiana Volunteer Infantry.

William died on June 16, 1909 in Salamonia, Jay County, Indiana and Olive followed on January 6, 1913 in Portland, Jay County, Indiana.

William and Olive were the parents of thirteen children, all born in Jay County, Indiana:
  • Minerva Prudence Wehrly (1867-1948) married Lawrence Delbert Jackson, 9 children
  • Barbara Isabel Wehrly (1869-1930) married Luman Cooper LeMasters, 13 children
  • John William Wehrly (1870-1954) married Esther L. White, 2 children
  • Orilla Catherine Andrews (1872-1970) married Arthur B. Andrews
  • Benjamin Franklin Wehrly (1873-1875)
  • Henry Leonard Wehrly (1875-1924) married Mamie M. Salisbury
  • Harvey Allen Wehrly (1876-1968) married Nettie Shreeve
  • Alva Monroe Wehrly (1878-1952) married Emma C. Yaeger, 1 child
  • LeRoy Garfield Wehrly (1880-1883)
  • Ida Laura Wehrly (1883-1963) married Edward Scholer
  • Blaine Pearle Wehrly (1884-) married Ermina Gladys Ashcraft, 1 child
  • Ethel May Wehrly (1886-1951) married William Shreeve
  • Martin Nimrod Wehrly (1888-1954) married Cora Burley

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Obituary: John Peeples (1845-1930)

Source: Logansport Press, Logansport, Indiana, Tuesday, March 25, 1930, page 4.

Former Rochester Resident Succumbs in Laporte Sunday

Rochester, March 24. - John Peeples, 86, a Civil War veteran and a resident of Rochester for many years, died Sunday afternoon at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Harry Hissong, in Laporte. Mr. Peeples had been ill for the past three years with complications of diseases incident to advanced years.

Mr. and Mrs. Peeple's home was in East Rochester but for the past three years had lived with their children.

Surviving Mr. Peeples are his wife, who was formerly Electa McMillen; four daughters, Mrs. James Oler, of Argos, Mrs. Minne Miller, Mrs. Blanche Kepler and Mrs. Harry Hissong, of Laporte, and two sons, Will Peeples of Laporte, and Lloyd of Michigan City.

Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at two o'clock at the Poplar Grove church, near Lake Maxinkuckee. Burial will be made in the adjacent cemetery.

John Peeples was the son of Hugh A.B. Peeples and Patsey Fisher, and the brother of George Peeples. John would be my wife's maternal great-great granduncle.