Floyd E. Walter, one of Greene
township's well known and progressive farmers and the proprietor of a well
kept farm on rural mail route No. 7 out of Portland, where he makes his
home, has been a resident of Jay county since the days of his childhood. Mr.
Walter was born on a farm in Hancock county, Ohio, December 18, 1879, and is
a son of Noah and Nancy (Fellers) Walter, both of whom also were born in
Ohio and who are now living in this county, where they have resided for
nearly thirty-five years. Noah Walter was born in Hancock county, Ohio, and
there grew to manhood and was married. For ten years he followed farming
there and then in 1888 disposed of his interests in that county and with his
family moved over into Indiana and settled on a farm of eighty acres which
he bought in Greene township, this county, where he since has made his home
and where he has a very well established farm plant. Mr. and Mrs. Walter
have four children, the subject of this sketch having three sisters, Elma,
Eva and Clara. Floyd E. Walter was nine years of age when he came: with his
parents to Jay county in 1888 and he completed his schooling in the schools
in the neighborhood of the home farm in Greene township. From the days of
his boyhood until his marriage he was an aid to his father in the labors of
developing the home and farm and remained at home until his marriage at the
age of twenty years, after which he became engaged in farming on his own
account, renting lands in the neighborhood of his old home. For six years he
continued as a renter, generally handling about 100 acres, and then in 1906
bought a tract of forty acres in Greene township, to which he presently
added an adjoining tract of twenty-four acres, and since 1907 has been
making his home on that place. Since taking possession of this place Mr.
Walter has made numerous improvements of a substantial and modern character
and has an excellent farm plant.
It was on February 13, 1900, that Floyd
E. WalterS was united in marriage to Anna Dennis, who also was born in
Hancock county, Ohio, daughter of George and Rachel Dennis, and to this
union six children have been born, two of whom Wesley and Opal, are
deceased, the others being Arlet, Inez, Emmet and Imo. Mr. and Mrs. Walter
are members of the Center United Brethren church and are Democrats. They
have a pleasant home and have ever taken an interested part in the general
social activities of the community in which they live.
Biographical & Historical Record of Jay County, Indiana, Lewis Publishing
Company, 1887