ABBETT, CAPT. W. A.  was born Dec. 6, 1840 in Lafayette, Indiana; about the year 1850 removed with his parents to Indianapolis where he was raised. In 1867 went to Polk County, Iowa.     Heatherdawn Wadleigh
 

BAER, Susan Elizabeth - Born October 22, 1845 in Lafayette Tippecanoe IN, died Sept 21 1938  Shattuck, Ellis, OK;  father John Baer  b 10/18/1808  d 01/02/1886,  mother Susan Ash  b 03/24/1809 d 04/03/1885.  Ruth O'Hair-King
 

BAKER, GAINES, RANDLE -  In 1817 when my great grandfather, George Elisha BAKER was born, they lived in Pickaway Twp., of Pickaway Co., OH, which is right on the border with Ross Co., OH.  Then to Parke Co., IN (by 1830). In 1842 George Elisha BAKER married Susannah RANDLES in Warren Co., IN.  The RANDLES family also had land in Shelby Twp, Tippecanoe Co. and seemed to ignore the border, farming / living back and forth.  George and Susannah moved on to Cedar Co., IA, in 1849.  They are said to have moved with other families but I have not determined who those families were.  They settled in Cass Twp. just west of the Cedar River.

Several RANDLES descendants left Tippecanoe County for Cedar and Linn (adjoining Counties)
in Iowa.  Among them were some of the children of Madeline RANDLES and John Wesley GAINES:
Emma Jane GAINES left in 1889 to marry Henry Edmond BAKER in Cedar County.  Siblings who followed were John B. GAINES, Silas E. GAINES, Albert GAINES, Alphretta Gaines WATSON, Rachel Gaines DOWNS (who went on to Minnesota), Margaret Gaines WAGNER and perhaps George O. GAINES who went on to the Pacific Northwest.

 I might also add that several young men migrated from Harrison County West Virginia to marry Randles girls.  Elias Edgar DAVISSON, Eli HOOPER, and Ai DAVISSON are known for sure to have hailed from Harrison County, WV.  Three Gaines men were also born in West Virginia and had close ties to the Davisson family there and married RANDLES girls in Tippecanoe County.  It seems likely that their roots were also in Harrison County but is not yet proven - Josiah / Joseph GAINES, Daniel R. GAINES, John Wesley GAINES.    Sheryl Ginn
 

BATES, John Homar, was b in Lafayette, Indiana on October 25, 1874. He was taken by James Guntrip or Deward Smith to Oklahoma and Kansas at a young age, he remembers he had brothers and sisters, but didn't remember their names. We think there must have been some sort of a tragic event, that caused the children to be separated. There is a John Bates that appears on the 1880 Census with father Hiram Bates and mother Julia both born in Vermont. Hiram was born 1844. They had Lucy b 1866, Cornelia b 1868, William b 1870, Katie b 1873, John b 1874-74, Josie b 1877, and Hiram b 1879.  All children were b in Indiana except Cornelia who was b in Iowa. This James Guntrip and Deward Smith knew what happened to the family but wouldn't tell it. Does anyone know anything about this family or if anyone knows of a John Homar Bates that was b in that area at that time would love to hear from you. The family would have had to be separated around 1880, as he thought he was three years old at the time, but that could be off a year or two.   Marjorie Bates Gracy
 

BRUNTON, Maria, daughter of John  and Mary (Cookson) Brunton,  b 3 May 1822 in York Co., PA., d 17 May 1911 in Cedar Co., IA. She married George Washington Park on 6 Apr 1848 in Tippecanoe Co.  They then went to Cedar Co., Iowa where George had purchased land.  They had 8 children: John Brunton; Cyrus; Eliza; Jane; Mary; Enos; George, Jr; and Ann.    Carole Park Wilcox
 

BUTTS, Stephen,Jr. and Hannah Ellen BAKER (b. ca 1823 Ohio) were married in Parke Co., Indiana, in 1838, and established their home in Shelby Township, Tippecanoe Co., where Stephen had bought government land in 1837.  Early in 1853 they sold land in Parke County (which Hannah had probably inherited from Staton BAKER) and set out for OREGON.  Stephen’s parents, Stephen BUTTS, Sr. and wife Adosha (both born in New York, but of Wayne Township in both the 1840 & 1850 censuses), and several of their grown children also left Tippecanoe County, IN, for Oregon, including: Emily Butts, Sarah Butts & Aaron Henderson, Elizabeth Butts Polen & Solomon Ensley (aka Insley), Melissa Butts & Darius Taylor, and William Harrison Butts (who married Artemisa Powers in Oregon).    These families staked Donation Land Claims in both Oregon and Washington Territory.     Sheryl Gaines Baker Ginn
 

CARPENTER, Altha Maude b; 21 Oct 1874, Lafayette, Tippecanoe Co., In. m; 23 Dec 1896 Arthur Lewis Johnson, Peru, Miami Co., In.   daljo5245@tpisp.net
 

CLARK, Amos and Elizabeh Clark (nee SHEETS) were married in Warren County,In 1845 and moved shortly thereafter to Tippecanoe County, In. where the following children were born; John ca. 1845, William ca. 1847, Amos,jr ca 1848, Thomas B ca 1852, Sarah A ca. 1857, Mary J ca. 1859.  The family then moved to Illinois, Nebraska ,Kansas  More info can be shared.   James Clark
 

CLARK, Billings Archibald,  Margaret Ann McCrery Clark and Mortimer Clark  and Jane McCrery Clark. These families resided in Tippecanoe, Carroll & Howard Counties in the mid 1800's.  They came  from Coshocton County, Ohio, and left Indiana to settle Clarksville, Butler County, Iowa.
Barb Westgarth
 

CLOYD, William - Born Dec 13, 1843   IN,  Died 1918 May, Harper, OK, married 1867 Lafayette Tippecanoe IN to Susan E Baer.   Ruth O'Hair-King
 

CONNETT, William -  (b. 1801) and the Richard Morris family. My 2nd great grandparents, William Connett, b.1833, and Ann Morris were married near Lafayette. They lived just to the east of Lafayette. They moved form there with their two young children, Richard and Elizabeth, to Reno Co., KS, in 1878.   Jim Tippie
 

COUCH, Lafayette - Lafayette Couch lived in Battle Ground between 1860-1870.  He and his wife Mary ended up in Jewell County Kansas in 1880.    Darren Couch
 

DeVORSS/DeVORSE/DeVOSS - Brothers Daniel and Joseph DeVorss and their sister Ann Ford were probably born in KY, but went to Tippecanoe Co., IN about 1830 from Ross Co., OH.  Daniel and Joseph moved on to Buchanan Co., MO by about 1840.    Pat Frunzi
 

EGAN, John - The 1880 Federal Census for La Fayette, Tippecanoe Co., IN., shows :
Egan, John  age 52 - born Ireland, tailor
Egan, Mary, age 47, born in Ireland, housekeeping
Egan, James, age 22 born in Indiana, printer
Egan, Thomas, age 17, born in Indiana, apprentice printer
Egan, Robert, age 10 , born in Indiana, in school
Egan, George, age 6, born in Indiana, at home.

George Egan married Mary E. Thompson on 9 Apr. 1902 in Danville, Vermilion Co., IL.  The couple lived in Tipton, IN. where George worked for the Erie Railroad and Mary ran a dress shop.   George died 17 July 1926 in Tipton. 
Mary Rhodes
 

FORD, Thomas  b.1794, in KY, son of Benjamin Ford & Mary, his wife, d. 17 Feb 1877 Ross Twp, Vermillion, IL married Ann DeVoss b. 1798, in KY, son of Daniel DeVoss, d. 31 Jul 1876, Ross Twp, Vermillion, IL.  They has children:  [1] Ruth Ford b. 3 Feb. 1819, in Ross, OH, m as his second wife, Michael Summers, b 11 October 1792 Rockingham, VA, son of Michael Summers and Mary Ann Acker, d. 4 November 1848, Tippecanoe, IN  m. 1^st Mary Shults b.2 Sep 1790, Rockingham, VA, dau of Charles Shults, died 17 Se[ 1834, Tippecanoe, IN .  All 3 buried in Summers Cemetery, Lauramie Twp, Tippecanoe, Co. IN. [2] Susan Ford b 18 Apr 1823, Ross, OH m Andrew Summers; [3] Sarah Ford b. 30 Jul 1825, Ross, OH m. Andrew Crouch [4] Benjamin Jasper Ford, b. abt 1826, m. Sarah Taylor; [5] Eliza Jane Ford, b 12 Jan 1828, Ross, OH, m. George Louck; [6] Leah Ford, b. abt 1833, Ross, OH, m Price Irwin [7] Daniel Ford b 20 Jan 1836, Ross, OH, m. Eliza Jane Shoemaker; [8] Ann Ford b 9 Aug 1838, Tippecanoe, IN [9] Mary Emily Ford b. 1840, Tippecanoe, IN    Mona Shaffer

GATES, James  was born 1820 in Springfield, Clark Co., OH.  He was the son of Henry GATES, Sr. and Eleanor ROCK. He came to Tippecanoe Co. with his parents in 1829.   Shortly after his marriage to Elizabeth LONGNECKER in 1842 in Tippecanoe Co., James and Elizabeth removed to Livingston Co., IL.  He died there February 3, 1900.
 Adina Watkins Dyer
 

JONES, Carmi - born 1806 in Kanawha Co., [W] VA, son of William JONES and Elizabeth JARRETT, came to Tippecanoe Co. 1824 and married - 1) HENRIETTA TRIMMER and 2) MAHALA DOUGHERY.  Carmi left Tippecanoe ca. 1869 with his daughters Virgina and Nancy, and homesteaded near Concordia,  in Cloud Co., KS.  Carmi died in Concordia, KS, December 29, 1893.   Adina Watkins Dyer

JONES, Edmund - born 1804 in Kanawha Co., [W] VA, son of William JONES and Elizabeth JARRETT, came to Tippecanoe Co. in 1824, about a year after his marriage to Frances M. BRANNON in Wayne Co., IN.  Edmund JONES left Tippecanoe Co. shortly after 1840, removing to Clay Co., IL.  He lived there until 1850, when he is found living in Morgan Co., IL.  Between 1850 and 1860, Edmund and his family left Illinois and settled in Knoxville, Marion Co., Iowa.  He died there on February 26, 1864.   Adina Watkins Dyer
 

JONES, Oliver Laban - son of Carmi JONES and Henrietta TRIMMER, Oliver also went to Cloud Co., KS for a time and then settled in Norton Co., KS.  Oliver was married to Sarah Margaret HEFNER on November 4, 1855, in Tippecanoe Co.   Adina Watkins Dyer
 

JONES, William - son of Carmi JONES and Henrietta TRIMMER, lived in Norton Co., KS near his brother Oliver Laban JONES.  William was married to Elizabeth JARVIS.  They left Norton Co., KS, and were said to be living in Portland, Oregon, in 1888.   Adina Watkins Dyer
 

KENNEDY FAMILY -  locating to Kansas in Cherokee County in November of 1866.  William A. Kennedy and Sarah M. (Foster) Kennedy.  A son (James Greer Kennedy) died 4-3-1865 at the battle at Nashville.  James Greer Kennedy gave his address in Galveston on his enlistment form.  Sarah M Foster (daughter of Greer Foster of PA) married William A. Kenady (spelling) on 7-16-1840 in Boone County, IN.  William A. Kennedy was born in Warren County, Ohio 2-7-1817 and located to Indiana shortly thereafter.  Two other children (Melissa E. married Sylvester Altic or Attic), and William Oscar Kennedy born 10-17-1849  - my gggrandfather.  James located in American from England prior to 1812 settling in NY and fought in the war of 1812.   Sue (Kennedy)
 

KENNEDY - James A. Kennedy was born 16 Dec. 1831 in Tippecanoe County, Ind. to John & Marina Wiley Kennedy. He finished most of his schooling in Ind. & attended College in MO. He soon wound up in Highland Ks as Head Postmaster in 1880.   Diana Bolton
 

KISER, L. L.  was born in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, November 2, 1855, a son of Levi and Elizabeth (Chester) Kiser. In 1882 L. L. Kiser married Miss Grace A. Gard.  Levi Kiser was born in Ohio and his wife in New Jersey. When a child Levi went to Indiana with his parents, grew up there and in 1856, after his marriage, he moved out to Iowa, locating near Iowa City in Johnston County and lived there until 1878. From there he removed to Butler County, Kansas.  Levi Kiser died at Leon in 1908, at the age of eighty-four.   His wife died in Iowa in 1872.
 

KLEISER, Jonas,  Mary Katherine, and a son, Joseph Macy Kleiser, went west by wagon train in 1853, accompanying my ggf, James Abram Kleiser, Jonas' nephew. Jonas and family settled in Hoopa Valley, near Arcata, California. Jonas died in 1861.  Maleta, Mary Kate and Joseph Macy Kleiser returned to Kentucky. Joseph became a doctor and settled in Parsons, Kansas in 1871. The census of the period shows his mother, Maleta, as living with him. Apparently, she later moved to Cooke County, Texas to live with and older daughter, Mrs. Abram VanMeter, as she is buried in the Spring Hill Cemetery there with here two daughters.   Harry Kleiser
 

KOONS, J. H.- Was born in Tippecanoe county, Indiana, on the 8th day of February, 1847, and was raised there until 1856, when he went with his parents to Polk County, Iowa. In 1861 he removed to Council Bluffs, and in 1862 returned to Indiana. He returned to Iowa in 1868.    heatherdawn@home.com
 

LAIRD, Samuel and Delila of Battleground, IN in 1853 / 1854 to Milford, Iroquois County, IL. They were followed by their sons Elias and Lucretia Pruitt Laird, Charles and Phoebe Burgett Laird, John Laird, James and Permelia Long Laird, Amanda Laird, Sarah Laura Laird, and Mary Jane Laird.   Paul A. Laird
 

LESLEY,  Daniel -  was born 26 Sep. 1793 in Pennsylvania.  Lived there until 1826, when he went to Ohio, and about 1830 came to Tippecanoe County, Indiana.   In 1867 he moved to Shelby County, Illinois.     Tom Lesley
 

LONG, John -  John Wallace Long, son of William Long (who was born in 1795 in VA) and Phoebe Burgett.  John Wallace Long married  Mary Z. Northcutt, also of Battleground. They went West in covered wagons to Nebraska in 1883.  Any help in locating William, or particularly his predecessors, would be greatly appreciated.    John Long
 

LOWE, John C.F. (Chandler) - I am looking for the parents of my Great Grandfather John C. F.(Chandler) Lowe. The C. might stand for Chandler.  John Chambers F.Lowe was b.15 December 1842 in Dayton, IN.    He married Mary Elizabeth Canfield in Patch Grove, Grant Co, WI in 1864.  He then went in 1875 to Lompoc, Santa Barbara Co., CA.   Was one of the pioneers the that city.   John died 21 February 1915 in Los Olivos, Santa Cruz Co, CA.   John and Mary had three children, William Henry Lowe (my grandfather) B.23 December 1865;  Rosa Bell Lowe B.21 April 1870 and  Agnes Pearl Lowe B.16 February 1877 all in Boscable, Grant Co, WI.   John was married a 2nd time to Martha Elizabeth Madison and had the following children. Minnie Mae, John Chambers, Amer, Ada and Viola Cecelia Lowe.   His siblings are Joseph P. Lowe, David Lowe, and Sarah Lowe.    He shows up in the 1870 Wisconsin Census and the 1880 and the 1900 California Census. The 1870 and the 1900 Census have him from Indiana and his father from Indiana and his mother from NJ. 
Marian Edith Lowe Jordan
 

LUCAS, Joseph - (born Oc.12,1833) Lafayette Ind.  Wife Sarah Wilson.  After serving with Ind. 10th Inf. Regt. from 1861-1863 he and his children (Orlando B., George M., William R. and Almeda Jane) moved to Des Moines Ia. arround 1878.  Died at Marshalltown Soilders Home, Marshalltown ,Ia. 1914 Buried at Woodland Cemetary Des Moines. Ia.  If anyone has information on the parents of Joseph please let me know.    Todd Lucas
 

LUKENS, Florence Mabel  -  born 7/16/1861 in Lafayette, IN, died 7/7/1930 in Missouri.   Heather Wright
 

MARTIN, DR. I.W.- Was born in Tippecanoe county, Indiana, November 11, 1838, and at the age of four years moved to La Porte county, same State, residing there until 1856. He then moved to Dallas county, Iowa until 1860, and then went to Chicago, Illinois. While there he studied medicine with Dr. J. R. Duncan, and graduated from the Bennett Medical College in the spring of 1875. That same year he came to the Four Mile Township, Polk Co., Iowa.     Heatherdawn Wadleigh
 

PORTER, John and Mary DAVISON-PORTER moved to Tippecanoe County Indiana from Jefferson County, Ohio.  There were married October 9th, 1835 in Tippecanoe County and had three children in the Jackson Township: Samuel J Porter (1837), William Clayborn Porter (1838) and Josephine A Porter (1840).  They then moved to Pleasant Valley Township, Johnson County, Iowa sometime before the birth of their next child in 1842.  They had at least 6 more children in Iowa.  Sean Hall
 

ROBERTS, Emily Jane - mother of the names below (all born in Battle Ground), was born 9/12/1831 in Tippecanoe.  She married James J. Clark.   John William Clark-2/1/1852; George Cooper Clark-6/19/1856; Frank Clark-1861;   Satta Jane Clark-1/6/1863; James W. Clark-8/27/1865; Alex Clark-1868.

They left Indiana by 1871 to settle in Kansas.  Most of them wound up in California and are buried there.  Emily Jane's mother was Eleanor (I do not know her maiden name or father's first name).  They are all listed on in the 1850 census as being in Tippecanoe.     Judy Kay Erickson
 

SCHNIEDER, Louisa - Born in Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, IN on 25 August 1855; died in Melrose, Stearns County, Minnesota. She was born to Joseph and Anna Margarethe (Seidenworth) Schneider and the family moved to Pearl Lake in Stearns county Minnesota when she was a child. She married Jacob Pallansch in Stearns County Minnesota.
Laura Schroeder
 

SHAFER, Jacob Sr. - was born in Pennsylvania about the close of the Revolutionary war.  In 1866 he moved out to Mahaska County, Iowa, where he spent the rest of his years and where he died in 1908. He married Elizabeth Stettler of Tippecanoe County, Indiana.  Their children were: Susan, Sarah, Laura and Jacob Jr.  Source: Kansas and Kansans, Volume 3
 

SHAFER, Jacob, Jr. - was born in 1844 in Tippecanoe County, son of Jacob Shafer Sr. In 1862 at the age of eighteen enlisted in Company D of the 70th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and later transferred as a veteran to the 135th Illinois Regiment.  After being mustered out at Mattoon, Illinois, he returned to Vermilion County in IL.  In 1866 he went to Mahaska County, Iowa.  He went to Barton Co., KS in 1879 and from this state he went on to New Mexico, where he followed mining for two years, and then returned to Mahaska County, Iowa. Not long afterward he returned to Barton County until 1906 when he moved to Shawnee Co., KS.  He married for his first wife Laura Bryan and he married second to Elizabeth Boyle of Mahaska County, Iowa. He had six children: Lizzie, Lewis, Fred, Emmett, Stella and Ralph.    Source: Kansas and Kansans, Volume 3
 

SHAW, Margaret Elizabeth - Daughter of James Shaw, born 16 November 1782 in Iredell County, NC; died 20 May 1853 at Battle Ground, IN; and Mary "Polly" Cowan, born 20 April 1783 in Berkeley County, VA, died 5 December 1841 at Battle Ground, IN.  Margaret was born 16 January 1821 in Wayne County, IN, and died 7 January 1899 in Old Spanish Fort, Montague County, TX.  She was married 24 June 1852 at Battle Ground to Robert McFarland Barkley of Jasper County, IN.  The Barkley family lived in several years in Ogle County, IL before moving to Montague County, TX by way of Pierce City, MO.   Frances Willess
 

SNYDER, Martin Luther  - born near Tippecanoe, Battle Ground Indiana Jan. 24, 1849 and Hester Ann (Davis) Snyder and daughter Lucy Snyder, moved to Torrington, Wyoming in 1903. Their son Fred Davis Snyder moved to Cincinnati, Ohio.  Martin was the son of James and Eleanor (Blaine) Snyder.   James was the son of William and Sarah (Backus) who moved to Ross Co. Ohio from Loudoun, Virginia.   Martin L. Snyder  was Trustee of Tippecanoe township  1884-87 and was educated at Battle Ground Collegiate Institute and taught there for six years.  In Wyoming he was President and Organized the Torrington, Lumber Company, was Goshen Counties First County Treasure, chairman of the building committee for the new court house, built the first school house, president of the Lateral Company and many other accomplishments until his retirement.  Hester Ann was the daughter of Isaac M. Davis of White Co. Ind.  Lucy graduated from Purdue University in 1905 and moved to Wyoming, she was a school teacher.  Fred D. married Jessie (Bates) he was a Postal Clerk.     Anna L.McGill   Great Granddaughter of Martin and Hester.
 

SOVERN, William John - (photo) b. 3 Sep 1861, Tippecanoe Co., IN, the son of William P. and Martha Dye Sovern of Tippecanoe County, the fourth of eleven children.  Will left the family home shortly after 1880 and traveled west to Oregon where he took a job as a stage driver between The Dalles and Prineville.  In Prineville in 1888 he married a young widow with two children, Addie Smyth Raine, and thereafter took up ranching in the Grants Pass area, interspersed with trips to Alaska looking for gold.  He moved to northern Oregon to continue ranching in the Clackamas County area and eventually settled in Portland, employed as a streetcar conductor, having added four more children to Addie's two.  He died in Portland 11 Mar 1949.  Apparently Will's youngest sister, Ella, also moved to Oregon at some point and his brother, Richard moved to San Francisco, California.  Will's brother Charles moved to Kansas City (MO?) and his brother Joseph lived in Danville, Illinois in 1926.  The rest of the family stayed in Indiana, the parents--William P. and Martha, and children, Howard, Edward, Harry, and Ida, dying in Tippecanoe County.    Patsy Skeels
 

STANFORD,  Bathsheba - a widow with 11 children moved to Tippecanoe County in 1830.  The kids were 4 to 26 years old.  They came from Pike County, Ohio. After 8 years Bathsheba and most of the family moved on to Clay County, Illinois and settled in what became Stanford Precinct. Bill Nelson
 

SUMMERS, James - 1839 in Lauramie Twp., son of Michael Summers and Ruth Ford.  He married Corena Ann Jones, daughter of Nimrod Jones and Sarah Jane Campbell.  They migrated to Washington Twp, Greene Co. IA around 1863-63.    Mona Shaffer

TRENARY, William -  married Rebecca Franklin  in Tippacanoe Co. in 1826. They both were born in Ross Co., Ohio. They had six children one of which was my great  grandfather was Randolph Briley Trenary. He married Mary Ann Nordurft of Warren Co.  I can find no information on the  siblings of Randolph.  His wife, Mary Ann, died in 1873 leaving 3boys and my grandmother Elizabeth. One of Randolph's brothers died and he married the widow who had 3 boys and they were raised as one family.  I would like to know which  brother died and who the wife was. The family moved to Urbana, IL, and were there in 1882 and later were in Springfield, MO.,  where Elizabeth graduated High school in 1890. Randolph died in Stone Bluff, IN, Fountain Co., in 1904.  Louise Merz
 

VANHORN, Riley - Was born in Tippecanoe county, Indiana, May 22, 1850, and came with his parents to Iowa in 1854, settling in Douglas Township, Polk County, Iowa.    Heatherdawn Wadleigh
 

WIGGINS, Charles Wesley - was born July 9, 1823 in Hocking County, OH.  He moved to Tippecanoe County, IN with his family bet. 1837-1839.  He left Tippecanoe County, IN bet. 1856-1857 probably right after his marriage to Jerena Schoonover and settled in Delta, Keokuk County, IA until his death in February 1888.  All seven children of Charles and Jerena (Schoonover) Wiggins were born in Keokuk County, IA.   Ginette VandenOever