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Born on July 15, 1850, Eber J. Oldham was too young at the breaking out of the Civil War to enlist for service, but as an honorable and successful farmer, one who has performed his duty as a citizen of his county and state and country, he deserves to rank as a hero of peace. A native of Jackson township. Ripley county, Indiana, he is the son of Matthew and Salina (Hull) Oldham, the former of whom was a native of Pennsylvania, the son of Absalom Oldham, a native of Maryland, who came to Indiana from Pennsylvania. Of English parentage, Absalom Oldham was a resident of Pennsylvania during the War of 1812 and enlisted from that state. Many years afterwards, in 1835, he brought his family to Jennings county, Indiana, and there died. Matthew Oldham, who was born on December 8, 1823, was married April 2, 1846, to Salina Hull, a native of Pennsylvania, born on August 2, 1824, the daughter of Charles and Prue (Judd) Hull, natives of Connecticut and Pennsylvania, and died on March 21, 1901. Charles Hull was also a soldier in the War of 1812, who settled in Ripley county, Indiana, after immigrating from Pennsylvania in 1836. His wife, who, before her marriage, was Prue Judd, had several relatives who served in the Revolu- tionary War. The late Matthew Oldham and wife, who came to Decatur county in 1865 and settled in Marion township, occupied a farm one and one-
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half miles east and two miles south of the farm their son, Eber J., now owns. Eleven years after coming to Decatur county, they moved to the farin which Eber J. now owns and died on this farm. Mrs. Salina Oldham had six brothers who served in the Union army, William, Sylvester, Lemuel, Lorenzo, Daniel and Franklin. Daniel died in the service of his country at Georgeton, Missouri, and Franklin met death in the famous catastrophe of the "Sultana," a transport ship used during the Civil War, which was blown up in the Mississippi river.
Of the six children born to Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Oldham, two, Mrs. Eliza Sweazy and Mrs. Jane Adams, are deceased, the latter dying in Ripley county. Charles A., of Marion township: Archibald, of Jennings county ; Mrs. Sarah Wheeldon, of Marion township, and Eber J., the subject of this sketch. are still living.
Eber J. Oldham has enjoyed a most interesting career, having sought his fortune in many states. At the age of twenty-five, he took Horace Greeley's advice to the young men of this country and went west to Nebraska, where he homesteaded a quarter of a section of land and where he lived for four years. Subsequently, however, he abandoned the farm and in 1879 went to Colorado, where he was the manager of a lumber yard for four years. From Colorado he journeyed on to the state of Washington, where he lived for nine and one-half years and where he became a lumber inspector, connected with the largest lumber concern on the Pacific coast. Returning home in 1892, at the age of forty-two, he applied his savings to the mort- gage on his father's and mother's farm and his father subsequently gave him a deed and bill-of-sale for the land. Four years later his father died, November 21. 1896, and nine years later his mother passed away, her death occurring on March 21, 1901. In the meantime, he had cared tenderly for his parents, living with them and doing his duty as becomes a son who is grateful for the affectionate and parental love and care during his childhood.
On November 16. 1892. Eber J. Oldham was married to Florence I. Love, who was born in Marion county, Indiana, on December 13. 1871, the daughter of Randall and Nancy ( Gillibrand) Love, natives of Dearborn county and Marion township, Decatur county, respectively. To this union have been born four children, all of whom are living: Nellie, born on October 7. 1893: Francis Eber. November 23. 1897, who is a student in the Westport high school: Daniel Howard, October 11, 1902, who is a student in the eighth grade of the local public schools, and Herl, August 12, 1910.
All of the members of the Oldham family are identified with the Meth- odist Eliscopal church at Zion, although they were originally Free Baptists
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in religious faith. Mr. Oldham is a member of Westport Lodge No. 681, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and has been an Odd Fellow for thirty- five years, or since 1880.
Eber J. Oldham enjoys the confidence and esteem of his neighbors and has made a host of friends in the neighborhood where he lives, because of his honorable and upright character, which his neighbors and friends admire : his clean and decent point of view in the human relations of life and his fair and square dealings with the public at large.
BERNARD ANTHONY HOEING.
No more thrifty and enterprising emigrants have ever come to America than the thousands of German citizens, who have become citizens of this comparatively new land, but who have established homes in all sections of the country, and who have especially prospered in agriculture. Although comparatively few of the pioneer settlers of Decatur county were German citizens, yet the German families, who have come to this county from time to time, have succeeded here in a large measure, and today the second and third generations are equally prosperous. Bernard Anthony Hoeing, of Marion township, who represents the second generation of the Hoeing family in America, upon reaching maturity took up his father's occupation and has made of farming an even more conspicuous success than did his father before him. He owns a farm of a hundred and twenty acres in Marion township, which his father owned at the time of his death, and to this tract has added forty acres more-a well improved, fertile and highly productive farm, practically all of which is level land, and which yields abundantly every year.
Bernard Anthony Hoeing, who was born on December 12, 1870, in the log house built by his father, Bernard Joseph Hoeing, has spent his entire life upon this farm. His parents, Bernard Joseph and Christine (Schroer) Hoeing, the former of whom was born in 1824, and who died in June, 1902, and the latter of whom was born in 1834, and who died in December, 1890. were born, reared and married in Germany, and after coming to America, in 1868. settled in Marion township on forty acres which was partly cleared. The elder Mr. Hoeing finished clearing the land, and eventually owned alto- gether a hundred and twenty acres. He was a Democrat in politics and a devout member of St. Mary's church. The late Bernard Joseph and Chris-
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tine (Schroer) Hoeing, had five children, one of whom, Mrs. Louise Funke, is deceased. The living children are Mrs. Mary Harpring, of near Mill- housen : Mrs. Anna Dickhoff, of Jennings county; Mrs. Christine Harpring, of Marion township, and Bernard Anthony, the subject of this sketch.
After caring for his father, who survived his mother for twelve years, Bernard Anthony Hoeing purchased the home farm from his father just before the latter's death, and about 1896 added forty acres to this tract. The farm is completely fenced with woven wire fence and comprises a splen- did country home with buildings erected by the senior Hoeing, remodeled by the son, painted a beautiful pale green, and located in the center of the tract. The present owner of this farm raises on an average thirty-five acres of wheat and from thirty to forty acres of corn. His land produces seventy- five bushels of corn to the acre by the use of fertilizer. The land is immune from hog cholera, and Mr. Hoeing has never lost any hogs as a consequence of this dreaded plague. On an average he sells from sixty to seventy-five head of hogs every year. He also raises his own horses, and specializes in the Percheron breed. In this connection it may be said that he is regarded as one of the foremost breeders of Marion township. Judged from many standpoints, from the neatness and attractiveness of the home and building, fences, fertility of soil and drainage and live stock, Bernard Anthony Hoe- ing is entitled to rank as one of the most successful farmers in this section of Decatur county. Much of his knowledge and skill he obtained from his worthy father, who was known as a careful farmer.
On September 5. 1894, Bernard Anthony Hoeing was married to Cath- erine Anna M. Ortman, the daughter of Barney Ortman, deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Hoeing have had seven children. Of these children, Joseph Bernard, born March 17, 1897, is attending St. Mary's school; Leo Bernard, May 4, 1899, is a graduate of St. Mary's school, having finished the course in 1913; Lawrence Bernard, October 28, 1902; Erwin George, January 18, 1905; Clemens John, January 28, 1907; Marie Josephine, April 18, 1909, and Alnia Mary. August 3, 191I.
Among other important conveniences on the Hoeing farm in Marion township is a gas well, drilled in 1914, which shows two hundred and fifty pounds pressure, which supplies his house, grounds and outbuildings with light and fuel.
Bernard Anthony Hoeing, like his father before him, is identified with the Democratic party, but he has never been active in politics, and has never held office. Mr. and Mrs. Hoeing and family are all members of St. Mary's
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Catholic church, and he is a member of the Knights of St. John, of Mill- housen.
Too much emphasis cannot be placed upon the ease with which Bernard Hoeing has mastered the intricacies of modern agriculture, and the skill with which he has followed scientific principles, which not only has placed him in the foremost ranks of Decatur county's farmers, but has won for him as a citizen the respect and confidence of all people in Marion township, where he resides and where he is well known.
VALENTINE HAHN.
Among the successful farmers of Marion township, who are comfort- ably situated on productive farms, is Valentine Hahn, who has a beautiful farm on a graveled thoroughfare, excellent farm buildings, including a beautiful white house surrounded by trees and a good barn. With twenty acres of timber on the land, the farm is well fenced and now has a gas well, drilled in January, 1915, with a three-hundred-pound pressure. Mr. Hahn is one of the frugal farmers of German descent who have done so much for the stability of our institutions and the improvement of agricultural life in this country.
Born on February 27, 1847, in Dearborn county, Indiana, Valentine Hahn is the son of Anthony and Mary Ann ( Huff) Hahn, both natives of Germany, the former of whom was born in 1818 and died in 1903, and the latter born in 1819 and died in 1898. Anthony Hahn came to America when sixteen years of age and his wife came at the age of ten. His parents settled first in Pennsylvania, subsequently moving to Ohio and then to Dearborn county, Indiana. Finally, in 1861, they came to Decatur county. They owned a farm near Millhousen, where they were highly respected citizens and where they died. Of their nine children, three are now deceased: Mrs. Christina Huegal, Joseph and John. The living children are: Mrs. Mary Huegal, of Muncie: Valentine, the subject of this sketch; Anthony, who lives with Valentine: Mrs. Frances Eahardt, of Kokomo; Louis, who lives in Morris. Franklin county ; and Mrs. Magdalena Hageman, of Muncie.
Valentine Hahn has been compelled for the most part to make his own way in the world. In April, 1865, he enlisted in Company H, Thirteenth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and was in the service of his country for six months, serving in North Carolina and adjoining states. He per-
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formed guard duty at Raleigh and Goldsboro and returned to Decatur county by the way of Baltimore, Maryland. On entering the service he had passed through New York city.
On September 20, 1870, Valentine Hahn was married to Susanna Her- man, who died on June 27, 1887, seventeen years after their marriage, leaving nine children, one of whom is deceased, namely: Caroline, born on July 20, 1871, the wife of Herman Rolfes, of Fugit township, has four children, Raymond, Ruth, Thelma and Mildred; Ida, March 8, 1873, married Frank Notter. of Indianapolis, and has one child, Henrietta: Charles, November 20, 1875, of Marion township, married Josephine Ortman and has two children, Edna and Catherine ; Henry, April 11, 1877, also of Mar- ion township, married Minnie Langs and has two children, Marie and Frank; Dora, August 17, 1879, wife of William Link, of Millhousen, has four children, Walter, Ethel, Martha and Howard; Sarah, September, 1881, deceased : Mary, March 26, 1883, married William Bruns, of Ripley county, and has three children, Esther, Elma and Bernetta ; Andrew, March 21, 1885, of Marion township, married Rose Hardeback and has four children, Hil- bert, Maurice, Naomi and Susanna, and Albert, June 5, 1887. of Washing- ton township, married Eva Tucker and has three children, Leon, David and Valentine.
Two years after the death of Mrs. Susanna Hahn, Mr. Hahn married, secondly, August 7, 1889, Elizabeth Herman, who was born on September 25, 1860, in Cincinnati, Ohio, the daughter of Joseph and Susanna (Young) Herman, natives of Germany, the former having been born in 1809 and died in 1884, and the latter born in 1823 and died in 1898, at the age of seventy-five years. Joseph Herman came to America with his parents when ten years old. He became a gardener and in 1861 settled in Sand Creek township. Decatur county, where he owned a farm. Finally, he moved to Marion township, where he died To this second union five children have been born. all of whom are living: Wilfred, born on October 12, 1890, married Anna Gates and has one child, Wilfred, Jr. ; Lawrence, January 16, 1894: Leonard, January 16, 1896; Carlotta, November 6, 1898, and Ernest, January 3, 1902.
Following Valentine Hahn's first marriage, he moved to a small farm in Jennings county, which he had purchased. Two years after his second marriage. he sold this farm and purchased another in Marion township. Mr. Hahn has prospered through life and is now in comfortable circum- stances, being recognized as one of the well-to-do citizens of this commun- ity. He has educated all of his children and in every way possible helped
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them to get a start in the world. All of them are enterprising citizens in the respective communities where they live and are doing exceedingly well as a consequence, not only of the material assistance given them by their father, but by the splendid example which he has set for them.
A Democrat in politics, Mr. Hahn has never been especially active in politics. but has devoted his time, energy and talents to his own personal business. The Hahn family are members of the St. Denis Catholic church.
ELMER E. WALKER.
No more highly improved farm can be found in Marion township, this county, than the eighty-acre farm of the late Elmer E. Walker, one of the most beautiful tracts in that part of the county, on account of the splendid trees growing near the home. There are two tracts of timber, comprising twelve acres in all, which protect the house and yard, the former being a white frame structure reached from the east and west road by a driveway. With these magnificent trees, fronting the modern farm building, and the beautiful, well-trimmed hedge along the road, the farm presents an espe- cially pleasing appearance to the passerby. A gas well, which has a pressure of three hundred and twelve pounds, furnishes gas for lighting the buildings and grounds and heating. The farm is well drained and well fenced, a very tangible evidence of the thrift and enterprise of its late owner, providing a very comfortable home for his widow and her children.
Elmer E. Walker, the late owner of this magnificent farm, was born on February 12, 1866, in Salt Creek township, near New Point, in Decatur county, Indiana, the son of Milton B. and Martha J. (Colson) Walker, the former of whom was born in 1829 and died on November 30, 1913, and the latter of whom was born in 1843, and died on February 12, 1912. The late Milton B. Walker, a native of Carlisle county, Pennsylvania, having been born near Pittsburgh, came to Decatur county about 1850, and after his marriage settled on a farm in Salt Creek township. working for neighboring farmers until he earned enough money to send to Pennsylvania for his mother, Mary ( Hall) Walker. who then came with two other children, Beth and Angeline. Her husband having died. she married, secondly, Benja- min Robertson, and lived in Salt Creek township until her death. Mrs. Martha J. (Colson) Walker, who was the daughter of Squire Colson, a native of England, and an old settler in this community, who kept a hotel
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when the Big Four railroad was built and who owned part of the town site of New Point, was herself born near New Point.
Of the twelve children born to the late Milton B. and Martha J. (Col- son) Walker, five died in childhood, seven were reared to maturity and five are still living. Of these children, the Rev. Joel Walker, a Methodist Epis- copal minister, died in Montana in February, 1913. Elmer E., the subject of this sketch, died on May 21, 1915; Mrs. Ollie Tucker lives near New Point on the old home farm: Curtis is a section foreman for the Big Four railroad and lives at New Point: Elza, a farmer, lives one mile south of New Point; Roy lives one and one-half miles south of New Point, and Frank lives on the old home farm, three miles out of New Point.
Elmer E. Walker was not always engaged in farming. Upon leaving home, at the age of twenty-three years, he farmed for two years, and then was engaged in railroading for fourteen years, serving during that time as track foreman for the Big Four railroad. On April 17, 1903, he purchased the old home farm of his father-in-law, the Rev. David A. Tucker, in Marion township, and moved to that farm. During the twelve years he was there engaged in farming. Mr. Walker prospered with exceptionally satisfactory progress and deserved great credit for the care with which he developed his farm to its present high state of productivity.
On April 21, 1893, Elmer E. Walker was married to Fannie Tucker, who was born on December 12, 1868, in Ripley county, Indiana, the daugh- ter of the Rev. David A. and Susan Tucker, the former of whom was for many years a Baptist minister, but who is now residing at Linnhaven, Florida. Mrs. Walker was brought by her parents to the old Tucker farm, where she now lives, when only an infant. Her mother died in 1888.
To Elmer E. and Fannie ( Tucker) Walker were born seven children, three of whom are living: William Mckinley, the eldest; Gladys M., the second born; Olive Opal, the fourthi born, and Forrest Adrian, are deceased. The living children are Freda M., who was born on February 25, 1901 ; Frances Naomi, June 7. 1909, and Benton Bailey, April 16, 1913.
A stanch Republican in national politics, Mr. Walker was more or less independent in local matters, and did not hesitate to cross party lines to vote for some worthy man on the ticket of another party. Fraternally, he was a member of the Carthage, Indiana, lodge of Odd Fellows, having been the first member initiated into that lodge after its organization. For a time he was a member of the Knights of Pythias. Mrs. Walker is a member of the Methodist church, as was her husband, and the' children are being reared in that faith.
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As one who had worked hard for material success as a farmer, and one who was rearing a family of children to be useful citizens in the community where they will live, Mr. Walker deserved credit as a valuable citizen of this great county and township. He was popular in the community where he lived and where he had done so well his part in all the relations of life, and his death was widely mourned throughout that section of the county. Mrs. Walker is held in the warmest esteem in the community in which practically her whole life has been spent and the heartfelt sympathy of the entire neighborhood went out to her upon her bereavement.
JOHN G. GUTHRIE.
The venerable John G. Guthrie, a retired farmer of Greensburg, Indiana, is the oldest living citizen of Adams township and to him the publishers of this volume are indebted for much of the history of Adams township, herein contained. Hale, hearty and vigorous for his age. he has been an upright citizen and is a genuine patriarch of pioneer days, well-informed and intelli- gent. He owns a splendid farm of one hundred and ninety aeres in Adams township and, during his declining years, is able to enjoy all of the comforts which this life may afford.
John G. Guthrie, former county treasurer of Decatur county, was born on September 8, 1835, on a farm near Adams, in Clay township, the son of Moses and Mahala (Stark) Guthrie, the former of whom was born on November 8, 1808. in Gallatin county, Kentucky, and the latter of whom was born in 1815 in Kentucky and died in 1906. Moses Guthrie was the son of Richard and Nancy (Keys) Guthrie, natives of Ireland, who immigrated to this country about 18co. With Richard Guthrie came his wife and three children, the other members of the family being born in this country. Alto- gether he had seven sons and three daughters: John. Moses, Thomas, George, James, William. Erwin, Mary, Margaret and Esther. Mary, John and Margaret were born in Ireland. Moses Guthrie brought his family to Deca- tur county in 1822 and settled in Adams township. where he preempted government land, west of Adams. After clearing the land of the timber. he grew a crop of corn. Before coming to Decatur county, he had lived for a few years in Jefferson county, Indiana. He became a naturalized citizen of this country and died on his farm in 1837.
After his marriage, Moses Guthrie settled in Clay township and lived
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there all of his life. His wife, who, before her marriage, was Mahala Stark, was the daughter of Philip and Elizabeth ( Robbins) Stark, natives of Kentucky and members of an old colonial family, who moved from Shelby county, Kentucky, to Decatur county about 1822. Elizabeth Robbins was the daughter of William Robbins, a Revolutionary soldier, who served for several years in the Revolutionary army. He enlisted as a private in Octo- ber, 1777, under Capt. James Clark and and re-enlisted on September 22, 1778. . He enlisted once more in 1781, being at that time a resident of North Carolina. The venerable John G. Guthrie remembers well his grandparents. His grandfather, Philip Stark, died in January, 1837, and his grandmother, Elizabeth Robbins, died about 1885.
To Moses and Mahala Guthrie were born ten children, all but two of whom are deceased. The two living children are John G., the subject of this sketch; and Mrs. Naney Hamilton, the wife of John W. Hamilton, who resided in Pottawattamie county, Iowa. The names of the children, in the order of their birth, are as follow: John G., Philip S., who died while serving the cause of his country in the Civil War, a member of the Thirty- seventhi Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry; James E., who died in 1911 at his home near Adams, in Decatur county; Elizabeth, who was the wife of Sanford Cline; Mary, who married Samuel Coleman; Epsie, who mar- ried Henry Kirbey, both now deceased ; Nancy, who married John W. Ham- ilton: Esther, who was the wife of Sydney Sidener; Martha A., who was the wife of Ananias Pavey, and Alice, who is also deceased.
John G. Guthrie was educated in the country schools of Decatur county and took up farming at an early age. When thirty years of age he moved to Greensburg, having been appointed deputy county treasurer, in which capacity he served for three years. Since that time has has followed various lines of business, now owning a splendid farm of one hundred and ninety acres in Adams township.
On May 6, 1887, John G. Guthrie was married to Amanda Hazelrigg, who was born in 1845 and who died in May, 1912. She was a native of Marion township, Decatur county, Indiana, the daughter of John and Eliza- beth Hazelrigg, early settlers of the county, who came from Kentucky. To John G. and Amanda (Hazelrigg) Guthrie were born two children: Guy H., born in 1879, who is in the drug business in Greensburg, married Cath- erine Eich and has one child, Catherine, and Irwin Stanton, born in 1882, was a merchant of Greensburg, married Marie Russell.
Politically, Mr. Guthrie is a Republican. He has been a lifelong member of the Baptist church, his wife also having been a member of that church.
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Fraternally, he is a member of the Masonic lodge. There is no citizen in all of the length and breadth of Decatur county who occupies in the hearts of his fellowmen a warmer place than John G. Guthrie. He has lived a long and useful life and has behind him a career of which he may be justly proud.
FRANK M. WEADON.
No history of Decatur county would be complete without fitting refer- ence to the life and the labors of the late Frank M. Weadon, who for many years was one of the best-known and most popular residents of this county. From 1854, in which year Mr. Weadon came to this county from Virginia to serve as deputy postmaster in the postoffice at Greensburg, until the year 1882, in which year he moved to Indianapolis, where for many years he occupied a position of high trust and responsibility in the division head- quarters of the Big Four Railroad Company, there was no man in Decatur county who had a wider following of friends, or who more highly esteemed. These friendships were retained after he left this county and there always was awaiting him here a warm welcome upon the occasion of his visits back to the old home; while in the considerable Decatur county colony at Indian- apolis no others'were more popular or more highly regarded than Mr. and Mrs. Weadon, who always took a prominent part in the annual reunions at the capital city of the Decatur county association of former residents of this county now living in Indianapolis. Mr. Weadon died on December 21, 1914, and his death was sincerely mourned, not only among his associates and friends of many years at Indianapolis, but quite as sincerely among his earlier friends in this county. His widow, Mrs. Mary Jane Weadon, who was born at Greensburg, this county, in the year 1838, still is living at Indi- anapolis, her pleasant home at 906 Woodlawn avenue often being the scene of quiet gatherings on the part of her friends, who delight to do honor to her dignified old age.
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