Jefferson County, IN Genealogy
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Name: Mary Kenworthy
E-mail address: niddy_noddy@embarqmail.com
Comments:Members of the Kenworthy, Wallace, Ogle and others were residents in Deputy Indiana for many years.
Lorraine Kenworthy Wallace was teacher since 1923 at Paris Crossing, Possum Trot, Deputy, and Hanover elementary schools. She retired in 1965.
Thursday, January 8th 2009 - 11:41:03 AM
Name: bonnie barker
E-mail address: bon jgm21@aol.com
Comments: My grandmother was a Walls and my grandfather was a Bussabarger great grandmother was a Rowzee .
i am working on Rowzee Geneology at this time . I am looking for imformation on Amandas father James T Rowzee and her mother Rebecca Shearman.They are all very old families
Wednesday, December 10th 2008 - 06:27:43 PM
Name: jim german
E-mail address: germjeep01@sbcglobal.net
Comments:I am researching my Pingrey family. Sarah Pingrey and her son Joseph Sanders Pingrey
Saturday, November 29th 2008 - 01:56:50 PM
Name: Don Bedwell
E-mail address: donbedwell@hotmail.com
Comments:great site, I'm looking for a local who might be able to help on my research on my Brooks and Humphreys lines from Jefferson County in the area around the Hebron Cemetery. I'm tring to locate the grave of Elizabeth Brooks who married Cornelius Humphreys. She died between 1825 and 1830, I believe that she may be buried at the Hebron Cemetery between the graves of Samual C. Humphreys and Harvey C. Humphreys, the stone is broken and buried. Elizabeths motherinlaw was Sarah (Sally) Humphreys nee Statham, wife of William Humphreys died 1816 and is buried at the Hebron Cemetery.
Sunday, November 23rd 2008 - 09:36:26 AM
Name: skdean
E-mail address: skdenning@hotmail.com
Comments:Hi Brad & Ruth, I was wondering how to access the Jefferson County Cemetery list that was on here before. I take ALOT of photos for folks, and that was very helpful as to where ancestors were interred. Sharon Thank you so much for the site.
Friday, November 7th 2008 - 05:12:17 PM
Name: Jean Wilson Perney
E-mail address: jwperney@earthlink.net
Comments:Keep up the good work.
Sunday, November 2nd 2008 - 01:48:38 PM
Name: Beverly Harker
E-mail address: harkersmith@aol.com
Comments:I have visited your web-site several times and find it very helpful. I was delighted to find information about the Rodgers/Rogers Graveyard where my Gr Gr grandfather is buried. His name is Henry B. Lonis. The information said that his stone is difficult to read but wonder if someone could send me a photo of it anyway. His family must have lived in the area a long time since the Lonnis Hill Road is named after him. Can anyone give me further informaion about the Lonis/Lonnis and Stoval Wilkins family? Thanks. Beverly Harker
Tuesday, September 30th 2008 - 08:57:52 AM
Name: kimberly schwab
E-mail address: kimberlyschwab@att.net
Comments:You have done a great job, thank you for all the hard work and the countless hours you put in.

Kimberly
Columbus, IN
Tuesday, June 17th 2008 - 04:37:30 AM
Name: Patricia Smith
E-mail address: fjpvsmith@aol.com
Comments:I would like to hear from anyone from the Green (Greene) family that are connected to the Greens in Carroll or Trimble County Ky. Names are Otis and Inez(Stewart) Green, Talton and Leah(Brunton) Green and John and Sarah(Burns) Green. These are my fathers kin.
Monday, June 16th 2008 - 04:42:49 PM
Name: Judith Cox
E-mail address: ladydamie@aol.com
Comments:I am researching my fathers side of the family. Looking for information on William Ross Mathews and Bertha Molder.Would love to find marriage information. Found great grandfather in the Buchanan cemetery, Levi Mathews and Edith Mathews(Buchanan). Love the site. Keep up the good work you do.
Thank You
Friday, June 6th 2008 - 07:50:05 PM
Name: Ron Ryker
E-mail address: hilariter@sbcglobal.net
Comments:Thank You
Wednesday, May 28th 2008 - 08:44:38 AM
Name: Barbara(Heacock)Rowell
E-mail address: barbie@allegiance.tv
Comments:Well!!

I was born in SouthBend, never thought I would be researching in the state!! If any one in Jefferson Co. research knows of Heaths and Halls contact me....love the page it is GREAT!! Lots of hard work you guys.
Barb
Monday, February 25th 2008 - 06:11:10 PM
Name: Julia A. Wehner Wallace
E-mail address: res0f0la@verizon.net
Comments:I was born and raised in Jefferson Co.. graduated MCHS. Visit family there every few weeks. I am researching and confirming family records. Family has landgrant for farm in the Kent area dated 1814 signed by James Madison. Would share information with anyone researching the same families.

(Holsclaw (Germanna connection... for other Jefferson Co. families check Germanna.org), Chitwood, Cavett, Lattimore, Bland, Foster, Martin, Wehner, Kessler, Weber,and Thurnall)
Tuesday, November 27th 2007 - 05:13:01 PM
Name: Louise Ralston Brown
E-mail address: Louann739@insightbb.com
Comments:I am putting my new e-mail address here to help anyone searching my families. Warfield/ Jackson/ Brawner/ Babbitt/ Parker/ Vest/ Derringer/ Richardson/ Matherly/ Spencer/ Fess/ Kunzie/ Broker/ Broecker/ Rolston/ Ralston/ Condra/ Evans/ Wilson/ Dillard/ and many more. Anyone having connections to this name in Maryland/ Virginia/ Kentucky/ North Carolina and Indiana, I may be able to connect somewhere. Thanks for your time.

Louise Ralston Brown
Friday, October 12th 2007 - 09:11:49 AM
Name: Mary Kenworthy
E-mail address: niddy_noddy@netzero.net
Comments:I sent a question regarding Possum Trot Elementary School and it's location in the early 1920's. Noone was able to locate it - until my husband and I asked Ron Grimes at JCHS Researh Library and he sent us an email showing the Possum Trot School in on Henry Road and 1350 W Road in Graham Township. The plat was 1900. We visited the JCHS Research Library this past week. Ron and the staff were very professional and we were able to contribute some Deputy School Pictures from the 1920's thru the 1960's. We spent about 4 hours at the center- it was well worth our time. Now I have 1 question of you - when was Deputy High School closed and the elementary school built in it's place? We have what seems to be classes (2) at the high school - witting out on the front steps and we are trying to date this picture. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Wednesday, August 8th 2007 - 04:33:49 PM
Name: Barbara Whiteside
E-mail address: bobbeo60@yahoo.com
Homepage URL: http://bar-b-k.tripod.com
Comments:Looking for a marriage of Robert H. Montfort/Monfort that may have taken place in Madison, IN about 1865-1868 to a girl named Maria, born in England. They had one daughter, Lilly born about 1868 and moved to Washington, D.C. by the 1880 census. Lilly was born in INDIANA and presumably in Madison where her father was a blacksmith. Robert is the son of Henry and Susannah Lewis Samples Monfort of Madison. Any help would be appreciated.
Wednesday, July 4th 2007 - 06:31:06 PM
Name: Shirley Teal
E-mail address: shirl44@gmail.com
Comments:Really enjoyed your site. I am trying to track down the family of my ggg-grandfather, James Hamilton who was married to Sarah McFatridge April 30, 1860 at the home of John McFatridge in Manville. James and Sarah were living in Howard Co., IN in the July 1960 census. My gg-grandmother Mary Elizabeth Hamilton was born in 1861 (Howard Co.) and James went off to war in 1862 never to return. I would like to find out who his parents were and something about his family. Thanks for a great site! Shirley Teal
Tuesday, July 3rd 2007 - 04:09:33 PM
Name: Mary and Larry Kenworthy
E-mail address: niddy_noddy@netzero.net
Comments:Larry Kenworthy was nephew of Lorraine Kenworthy Wallace who was a teacher since 1923 in the Jefferson County Indiana area. We are hunting for Possum Trot School where she had a picture taken about 1925 or so. John and Lorraine Wallace were very wonderful, helpful and active people in the Deputy, Indiana area.

We enjoy this website.
Monday, May 28th 2007 - 06:20:31 AM
Name: Penny Weideman
E-mail address: kbabybommer@aol.com
Comments:Love your site Been looking for info on Elliott's, Eastabrooks, Patton. Found Elliott's And Patton right off. Still searching but looks like I have something now. Penny Weideman.
Thursday, May 17th 2007 - 02:17:34 PM
Name: Gregory A. Land
E-mail address: grubby01@aol.com
Comments:This web site is awesome. Lots of info. Wish all counties had a wb site this good?
Tuesday, March 6th 2007 - 11:41:43 AM
Name: Yolanda Lewis
E-mail address: acepub@aol.com
Comments:Enjoyed the site. I am researching the Barton family from Madison; two brothers, James who married Lidia B Henry and William A who married Matilda Laird in mid 1860's. I've posted their details to a public tree on ancestry.com. They had large families and I'd like to connect with anyone who may be researching them or be descended from them. Thanks.
Saturday, November 18th 2006 - 10:00:04 AM
Name: Don Conard
E-mail address: Dono839golf@yahoo.com
Comments:Mordecai Brooks was my grandfather. I thought his name was Meyer until I found a copy of his obituary. He had sons, "Rusty and Vernon. Daughters were Lula, Opal (my mother), Aliene and Olive. I grew up in Brooksburg around 1946 to 1960. Your site brings back many memories and is very informative. Thanks e-mail me any time
Thursday, October 26th 2006 - 08:22:52 PM
Name: W.P.McDANIELS
E-mail address: K5PUD@TICON.NET
Comments:Hi i AM FROM MADISON,iN. WENT to THE u>s>NAVY From their and got out Navy in 1948 living in Orange,Texas had a wife of 50 Years lost to cancer in 1998. Three Children all around Orange. John Bott and i grew up together he is still in Madison. My sisiter Nancy Edrington works at Kings Daughter in Madison ,Jack McDaniels my Brother is their also Delbert loos my cousin lives thei .I working on some Family Tree,Father and Mother in Springdale cem.
Thank you William Paul McDaniels 1608 Texas St Orange,Tx 77630
Tuesday, October 17th 2006 - 07:39:50 PM
Name: Pauline J Clarke
E-mail address: pjclarke@bham.rr.com
Comments:I am researching the family of my step-daughter. Her mother was a Vanosdol whose family migrated to the US from Holland and the Banta Family from Germany whose descendents were in Jefferson and Switzerland counties in the 1820`s before their move to Kansas and then on to Mississippi.
Thank you for all the work you have done to help so many.
Pauline (Polly) Clarke
Monday, October 2nd 2006 - 01:41:14 PM
Name: Darel Jackman
E-mail address: djackman@telus.net
Comments:I have traced my family back to John H Jackman. John was the son of Joseph A Jackman and Nancy a Jackman born in 1852, Madison Jefferson Indiana. I have many wonderful people helping me. I have had recent success with help from the Genealogists in the local Counties, where I have found parts of my family in. I would like to thank the local genealogists and also the many wonderful people that are employed or volunteer at the local libraries.

Darel Jackman
Kamloops, B.C.
Sunday, October 1st 2006 - 11:11:09 AM
Name: Darlene Battcher
E-mail address: d.battcher@insightbb.com
Comments:Your web site was a huge help in finding and verifying one of my ancestors "Albert Newbold" who is buried in "Valley Cemetery" in Jefferson County. Very nice web site. Keep up the great work.
Thursday, September 21st 2006 - 06:05:55 PM
Name: Gary Laswell
E-mail address: lasweg@yahoo.com
Comments:I am looking for infomation about the manslaughter of Everett Devault, 47 years old. Circa 1937-1941. Four attendents were arrested: Byron Craig 23 of near Madison; Oscar Hook 49 of near Vernon; Elzia Demaree 46 of Madison, and Everett Zehr, 31 of Marengo. Were these attendents convicted...sentenced, etc.
Saturday, September 16th 2006 - 09:35:33 PM
Name: Rebecca Bandy
E-mail address: 2rbandy@knology
Comments:I am looking for information concerning a town called Smockville in Jefferson Co. It's first postmaster was Samuel Smock...about the time the county was formed. Any information about the town or Samuel would be apprecited!

Thank you very much....Rebecca
Tuesday, September 12th 2006 - 11:52:10 AM
Name: Jean Wilson Perney
E-mail address: jwperney@earthlink.net
Comments:I am a Jeffersn Co. native, and my roots there go back to the early 1800s. Among the names in my lines are: Wilson, Phillips, Bear, Hall, Imel, Porter, Morgan. This site is a great resource. Keep up the good work!
Wednesday, August 30th 2006 - 06:03:16 AM
Name: Fred Westcott
E-mail address: fredwes1@mindspring.com
Comments:What a terrific site! I was able to find the Crawfords' burials at Hebron Baptist Church Cemetery, and even found them on the 1927 plat. These were my grandmother's aunt and uncle and cousins: CRAWFORD, Otto, Leonard O., Minnie, Thomas Elmer, Lula, Minnie and Dora. Her Furnish siblings, Amanual Furnish and Rosie Sherlock (and daughter Virginia Clegg)lived in Madison.
Sunday, July 9th 2006 - 06:29:53 PM
Name: Bettye Wingate
E-mail address: Ohibette@sbcglobal.net
Comments:Researching WILLIAM THICKSTEN and wife ELIZABETH ( BETSY ) CARROL/CARROL/CARROLL. Her mother was Mary Carrol/Carroll/Carrel
Friday, July 7th 2006 - 11:26:03 PM
Name: Bettye Wingate
E-mail address: Ohibette@sbcglobal.net
Comments:I am researching John and Mary ( Polly) Carrol James married in Jefferson Co 1820 by Amos Chitwood. Anyone out there with this line?
Wednesday, July 5th 2006 - 09:53:31 PM
Name: kerry Haskin
E-mail address: carlosreyes@sbcglobal.net
Comments:Hello,
This is a great site. If anyone has any information about the Reuel Custer/Martha Allen decendents I would really love to hear from you. Reuel was my great,great,great grandfather. His daughter Permelia married Zephaniah Freeman and there is very little information on these two. Just wondering if anyone knows anything.
Thanks just the same.
Kerry
Saturday, March 25th 2006 - 08:49:48 AM
Name: Penny (Sharp) Stanley
E-mail address: hoosierlady26@comcast.net
Comments:I have been to this site so very many times, and it is truly one of the best! I've had occasion to correspond with you, Ruth, and you are always most helpful, so wanted to thank you! It is because of this site I've been able to get over several blocks in my Brumbarger line, as well as a few others with Jefferson County ties (Lattimore, Sharp, McKay, Carson)
Saturday, March 18th 2006 - 03:12:48 PM
Name: Nancy Marshall Russell
E-mail address: g.russell@insightbb.com
Comments:Dear Ruth, Thank you for all your work on this site. It is excellent. I am researching the Daniel Marshall family who were early settlers in Jefferson County. I have found information I had not seen before and it has been very helpful. I'd love to hear from anyone researching this family. Connected families -Chambers, Blue, and Williams - and the came out of Hampshire County, Va and Nelson County, Ky.
Monday, January 9th 2006 - 11:00:26 AM
Name: Deborah Hunt
E-mail address: deblhunt2000@yahoo.com
Comments:What I have found so far is very promising. I have been looking for a Sarah Wilson who married a Jacob Bodem. I found them on your site. I am also looking for Sarah's family and I think I found them. William and Sarah Hamilton Wilson. I found them on the 1870 Census. With 4 children including Sarah who was 10 at the time. Also Edwin, William, And Steele N. Wilson. I sure hope this is my family.
Wednesday, November 9th 2005 - 12:15:17 PM
Name: Deanda Lyne
E-mail address: dllyne@bellsouth.net
Comments:Fantastic site - keep up the great work - I have spent four hourse on your site today working on one family name. Will be back as there are other families in the same are.
Tuesday, October 11th 2005 - 12:14:51 PM
Name: Darel Jackman
E-mail address: djackman@telus.net
Comments:I find this site very helpful. It contains a lot of real good information. My great-great grandfather was botn in Indiana and I am still looking for lots of Information.
Tuesday, September 27th 2005 - 07:20:48 PM
Name: Louise Ralston Brown
E-mail address: Lbrown39@sbcglobal.net
Comments:Thank you so much for this site. I have found more inf., here then any other site. I descend from the Warfield/ Penn/ Vawter/ and Watt's families. Warfield are my direct descendants and Penn married a Warfield. Vawter and Watts are my sons descends from their great-grandmother Naomi Barbara [Vawter] Hess. Some of this info., I have never seen before now. I have lots of info., on these families and if you ever inclued family trees, will be happy to put mine here.
Louise Ralston Brown, New Albany, IN.
Sunday, August 28th 2005 - 07:46:21 AM
Name: Kathy
E-mail address: kmclaughlin31@comcast.net
Comments:Have been finding this site very useful..especially lately as I've been focusing again on my husband's maternal grandpa's family (Swans & Taylors & Barnes, etc.) You really do GREAT work! Thank you! - Kathy
Saturday, August 27th 2005 - 07:18:31 AM
Name: Emma ( Coker ) Huguenard
E-mail address: steve-emma@mchsi.com
Comments:WOW !
I love your site ! I have been able to search record's that I have never seen befor . I will be letting other's know about your site !

God Bless -
Emma Huguenard ( Coker )
Tuesday, August 2nd 2005 - 08:15:58 PM
Name: Jeff Golladay
E-mail address: jeff_goll@frontiernet.net
Thursday, July 28th 2005 - 07:41:03 PM
Name: Noah H. Mason
E-mail address: @wmconnect.com
Comments: very nice site
Thursday, July 28th 2005 - 05:32:08 PM
Name: Lee Ann Bright Yingling Evanoff
E-mail address: NewCheese13@earthlink.net
Comments: I was born in King's Daughters Hospital June 24,1957. My sister Donna Bright married Ron Gassert born in the same hospital on the very same day.
I went to E.O. Muncie, then moved to Southwestern, graduating in 1975. I moved to Muncie, Indiana and married Michael Yinging (who also graduated Southwestern 1975). Then we moved to Florida in 1978. We had a son,John (1979) and later divorced. I remarried in 1990 and have a daughter, Stephanie (born in 1993)
Wednesday, July 20th 2005 - 08:33:28 PM
Name: Patricia Selm
E-mail address: selmforever@hotmail.com
Comments:Hello - we have just purchased property in Jefferson County and are so excited about moving to your beautiful community. Visiting sites like yours gives us insight to the history of this southern county. Thank you for all the interesting information you have provided.
Sincerely,
Patricia Selm & Dave Watson
Friday, July 15th 2005 - 12:36:23 PM
Name: Mary Kenworthy
E-mail address: niddy_noddy@netzero.net
Comments:I am looking for information regarding the Kenworthy family that lived in Deputy Indiana. Lorraine Kenworthy married John Wallace. She taught school in Deputy and Johnny was a mail carrier. Lorraine's father and mother were Frank and Minnie Kenworthy. Frank's father and mother and brother (Marion, Laura B. and Ashton) are buried in Pisqua(sp?) Cementery near Deptuy. My husband Larry is a nephew to Lorraine. I have become a search for family nut and I got stopped on Laura B. Grady Kenworthy. Any information would be greatly appreciated. And I am quite impressed by your web site. Lots of work - worth the effort for others like me. Thanks Mary
Tuesday, July 12th 2005 - 01:33:40 PM
Name: Bev Petersen
E-mail address: bev@funstuffforgenealogists.com
Homepage URL: http://www.FunStuffForGenealogists.com
Comments:Great web site!

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Tuesday, July 12th 2005 - 10:19:43 AM
Name: Druscilla Hill
E-mail address: locustcreeknky@yahoo.com
Comments:Posted inquiry about BACKUS in January 2003. The purpose of this posting is to update e-mail address.

Thank you.
Sunday, June 5th 2005 - 01:55:53 PM
Name: Mary C. Wydock
E-mail address: MaeRabbit@sbcglobal.net
Comments:I have done an immense amount of genealogy seaching, and I have to say this site, BY FAR, out weighs all the others sites I have seen. There is so much information here and it is very user friendly.

Thank you so very much for making my advocation much easier.

~Mary C Wydock
Saturday, June 4th 2005 - 09:21:51 AM
Name: George Hoggatt
E-mail address: ghoggatt@cinci.rr.com
Comments:Our research book states the following:
Anthony & Susannah had a son Nathan Hoggatt Sr born 1796. He married Polly or Mary Babb in 1820. They had 12 children. One was James born in 1826 and died in 1895. His brother Anthony is my line.
In our book it states: In the ear 1800's Anthony Hoggatt came from Holland first to N.C.?Penn?, then moved to Tenn. Some of his children, at least Nathan Sr was born before coming to America, as we have Nathan Sr. birth date as 1796.
Nathan Sr. married Polly Babb in N.C. or Penn and moved to Tenn. Then moved to Ohio about 1830 in a covered wagon. It was stated that Polly "could pick up a barrel of molasses and put it in the smokehouse."
Nathan Hoggatt Sr., Marion Township, Clinton County, Ohio served as Justice of Peace of Township April 16, 1826, 1839 and 1842.
Hope some of the info is helpful.

George Hoggatt
Saturday, May 21st 2005 - 07:27:38 PM
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