DALE-Zenos Purnell - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

SOURCE TEXT: Zenos Purnell DALE was born in 1848, probably in Rush County, Indiana, the eleventh child of Purnell and Nancy BAKER DALE. He married (1) Elizabeth FEATHERS on 9 Feb. 1869, in Boone County, Indiana. They were listed on the 1870 Census in Boone County with a two month old baby, Elba. He was then a farmer. In 1872, he moved to Hillsboro Cain Township, Fountain County, IN, to work on the railroad. In the 1880 Census he is listed with three children: a son, Elba (10), a son, Hirley (8), and a daughter, Daisey (6). Zenis was listed in an 1881 History of Fountain County as a miller and a stock and grain merchant. "Z.P. Dale, miller and stock and grain merchant, Hillsboro, was born in Rush County, Indiana, in 1848; his parents, Pernell and Nancy (Baker) Dale, being natives of Kentucky, who came at an early day to Indiana and settled in Rush County. Here the subject of our sketch received his education at the common school of the district and here he was raised upon the parental homestead. In 1872 he removed to Hillsboro, where he was employed as agent and operator on the Indianapolis, Bloomington and Western railroad, in which position he continued until January 1880, when, in partnership with Mr. Hollowell, he entered the grain and milling interest. Their warehouse is 48X50, three stories high, with an addition 50X30; the mill has three run of stones, and they have facilities for handling 2,000 bushels of grain per day in addition to their milling capacity. Their business is steadily increasing, and this year they have shipped 200 cars of grain. Mr. Dale married, in Boone county, Miss Elizabeth Feathers, who father was one of the early settlers in Putnam county. This union resulted in a family of three children: Elba, Hurley, and Daisy. He is a member of the Christian Church, and belongs to the I.O.O.F., and in politics is a member of the republican party." His children with Elizabeth: 1. Elba DALE, b. 1870 2. Hurley (Hirley, Harley?) DALE, b. abt 1872, md. Perle M. 3. Daisy (Daisey) DALE, b. abt 1874 Zenos appears to have been widowed, for on July 19, 1888, he married Mamie A. WEIDMAN.

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