Peterson - Mary Armentrout
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal Friday, 16 June 1899
Mary Jane, daughter of Daniel and Purdence Armentrout, pioneers, was born in Ross County, Ohio, April 26, 1832 and emigrated with her parents to Perryville, Clinton County, Indiana, in the fall of 1838 and to Montgomery County in 1839 and was the owners of the once noted James W. Wilson farm and a welcome for pioneer Presbyterian ministers and other distinguished men, such as Rev. Taylor, Wilson Eastman, Martin Furguson, Eavens Thompson and M. D. White in his college course found a welcome home.
She was married to David Peterson, a son of James and Susan Peterson, of Ross County, Ohio, uncle to Hon. John and Solomon Peterson, April 11, 1849, and to them was born nine children, five boys and four girls, seven of whom survive: Mrs. Malissa Stookey, Mrs. Elmer Arahood, Will, Allen, Franklin, Paris and Daniel, all prosperous farmers. Susan died in early womanhood and Hulda in infancy. Her husband died in 1877. She has two brothers, William and Allen and two sisters living. They are Mrs. James W. Wilson and Mrs. Davis, all whom were present except William, who is now in Kansas.
In early life she was a member of the Presbyterian Church, later for convenience she joined the M. E. Church and later joined the German Baptist or Dunkard Church, known as White Church, where her funeral was preached by Revs. Charles Campbell, Bowers and Dunbar to one of the largest congregations ever assembled at that place at 2:30 p.m., June 14th. Interment was at Bowers Cemetery. -s