Pictorial and biographical memoirs of Elkhart and St Joseph counties, Indiana, together with biographies of many prominent men of northern Indiana and of the whole state, both living and dead . stockraising purposes. He was quite an extensivetraveler in his earlv days, and spent considerable time with the Indians, but throughit all his record as an honorable man was clean and untarnished, and he bore him-self with that uprightness which has ever been one of his leading wife is an earnest member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and has bornehim three children: Carrie D., Z
Pictorial and biographical memoirs of Elkhart and St Joseph counties, Indiana, together with biographies of many prominent men of northern Indiana and of the whole state, both living and dead . stockraising purposes. He was quite an extensivetraveler in his earlv days, and spent considerable time with the Indians, but throughit all his record as an honorable man was clean and untarnished, and he bore him-self with that uprightness which has ever been one of his leading wife is an earnest member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and has bornehim three children: Carrie D., Zack and Jesse. Mr. Weddels mother lived to beover ninety-two years of age, for she was born in Westmoreland county, Penn.,January 28, 1800, and died in De Kalb county, HI., M:irch 9, 1892, at which timeshe was the oldest pioneer living who came to Elkhart Prairie with her was a member of the Old Settlers Society of Goshen, and for many years ofher life had been connected with the Baptist Church. She was a very bright,capable and energetic woman, and after the death of her husband she succeeded inkeeping the family together, reared them in comfort and taught them to be honor-. MEMOIRS OF INDIANA. 149 able men and women. She took for her second husband Hiram Morehouse, by?whom she became the mother of three children: Jesse, Emeline and George. Jesseand George were soldiers in an Indiana regiment during the Civil war, and Jessedied in Nebraska of wounds received while in the service, and George was killedwhile marching with his company. Politically, Mr. VVeddel has always been astanch Republican, supports the men and measures of his party on all occasions,but is not an aspirant for office. His daughter Carrie graduated from the gradedschool of Goshen, and has successfully taught two terms of school in Benton, andis a young lady of much natural ability. The sons are also well educated. Thomas D. Calvert (deceased). The sketch here given is that of a former citi-zen and r
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