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Morris, Kinzig, Thomas, Kem

Due to privacy considerations, birthdates of living persons are not given.

Links on the names are to the names' corresponding place on a family tree chart.

This list was researched and compiled by Sallie Nelson.

Morris & Kinzig Chart

BAIER, Krezenzia
b. Mar 12, 1854, Hessen Nassau, Germany
d. Apr 17, 1925, Columbus, Franklin, Ohio
CALLOWAY, Dora Elizabeth
b. Aug 2, 1869, White Co., IN
d Apr. 23, 1950, Logansport, IN
GILL, Clarence E
b. Mar 20, 1870, Laura, Miami Co., Ohio
m. Aug 24, 1889, Laura, Miami Co., Ohio
retired Pennsylvania Railroad Conductor
d. Jun 1, 1946, Logansport, Cass, Indiana
GILL, Dulcia Ada
b. Nov 28, 1889, Laura, Miami Co., Ohio
d. Feb 7, 1972, Columbus, Franklin, Ohio
JONES, Gula Elma
b. Nov 11, 1871, Bradford, Ohio
d. Jul 23, 1944, Logansport, Cass, Indiana
KINZIG, Augusta Wagner
b. Aug. 2, 1844 (Baden, HN, Germany)
m. Jan. 26, 1875 (Columbus, Franklin, Ohio) Krezenzia Baier b. Mar. 12, 1854 (Hessen Nassau, Germany) d. April 17, 1925 (Columbus, Ohio)
d. Mar. 19, 1911 (Columbus, Franklin, Ohio)
Three Kinzig brothers came from Germany. Two went to Dayton, OH. Augusta went to Columbus, OH. Augusta was called "the pretzel maker" and Krezenzia was "the noodle maker." They lived at 184 Beck Street, Columbus, Ohio, but the house was torn down.
KINZIG, Dorothy Catherine
b. July 20, 1911 (Columbus, Ohio)
d. Sep. 9, 1992 (Logansport, IN)
KINZIG, Edward Charles
b. March 11, 1917 (Columbus, Ohio)
d. December, 1995 (Florida)
KINZIG, Edward Peter
b. Apr. 5/6, 1883 (Columbus, Franklin, Ohio)
m. Dec. 20, 1910 (Columbus, Ohio) Dulcia Ada Gill b. Nov. 28, 1889 (Ohio) d. Feb. 7, 1972 (Columbus, Ohio)
retired Pennsylvania Railroad Conductor
d. Apr. 5, 1954 (Columbus, Ohio)
They lived at 706 E. Whitter Street, Columbus, Ohio and had four children: Dorothy Catherine Kinzig, Josephine Edwina Kinzig Luzader, Edward Charles Kinzig, Patricia Lou Kinzig Hoofstetter.
KINZIG, Frank Joseph
KINZIG, Josephine Edwina
b. September 14, 1914
m. James Luzader ca 1933 Col. Oh d 24 Feb 1970 Col. Oh
d. January 24, 1970 (Columbus, Ohio)
KUNTZ, Eliza Ann
b. Jul  5, 1848, Will, Illinois
d. Nov 19, 1912, near Burnettesville, Indiana
MORRIS, Bert R ("Riley")
b. Oct 11, 1911, Logansport, Cass Co., Indiana
m. Jul 28, 1931, Logansport, Cass Co., Indiana
d. Nov 11, 1993, Logansport, Cass Co., Indiana
MORRIS, Isaac Leroy (Roy)
b. Feb 9, 1888, White, Indiana
m. Oct 4, 1910, Logansport, Cass, Indiana
d. Oct 24, 1961, Peru, Miami, Indiana
MORRIS, Isaac Thomas
b. Oh/Pa, 1846
m. Eliza Kuntz Dec. 19, 1874, White Co., IN
d. Mar. 26, 1888, near Burnettesville, Indiana His employer sent him home when he was ill, but was worried about him and found him dead in a field. This Morris family lived in a log cabin on the White/Cass Co. line on White Co. side. Son Marion bought a farm. He, sister Grace, and brother Earl lived without electricity and got their water from an outside pump. Marion and Grace remained single. Marion was a carpenter and built an A-frame addition of a "run" (hall), one parlor, and three bedrooms. This is where the Morris family antique organ was. They had a water reservoir on the wood stove and helped raise Roy and Jennie's kids including Bert. Sallie, Ronnie, & Sherry (Bert's children) spent many Sundays here playing in the sand, watching Uncle Marion's big white gline horse run around never running into the fence or gate and playing on antique buggies. In the 1960's they moved to Logansport where they had running water for the first time in their lives. They all died there. Earl was married to Dorothy "Billie" Murray who was an elephant trainer and bare back rider in the Haggenbach/Wallace Circus.

REESER, David
REESER, Amos Melvin
b. Aug. 14, 1862, Pulaski Co.
m. Aug. 18, 1887, Logansport, IN to Dora Elizabeth Calloway
d. Sept. 29, 1931, Clay Township, Cass Co., IN at Aunt Irene Fultz's home

CHILDREN of Amos Melvin Reeser and Dora Elizabeth Calloway (14)

     1. Jennie Edith
     b. May 28, 1888, Jefferson Twp., Cass Co., IN
     m. Oct 4, 1910, Logansport to Isaac Leroy Morris
     d. June 8, 1961, Logansport, Cass, Indiana

    Isaac Leroy Morris
    b. Feb. 9, 1888
    d. Oct. 24, 1961

     2. Nora
     b. 1889, Jeferson Twp., Cass Co.
     d. 1889 (10 months), Jeferson Twp., Cass Co.

     4. Charles W.
     b. July 4, 1892, Logansport, IN
     1st Sgt. Co. F. 31st Mich. Inf. Honorable discharged
     m. Apr 1917, Detroit, Mich. Delia Mary Phaneue b. Nov. 17, 1895, Tilbury, Ont., Can d. Mar, 1972. Cleveland
     d. Sept. 27, 1928, Cleveland, Ohio     

     Harry and Charlie were in the army before WWI fighting battles on Mexican borders (1914-1915). Harry was gassed in WWI which ruined his lungs. Every Monday morning he walked from Bates St. to College St. to his sister, Jennie and helped her wash. They each took a basket handle, carrying it to the clothesline in the backyard. Harry would hand each piece to Jennie who hung them up.

     For lunch Jennie fixed mashed pancakes which he loved. After dinner Harry would walk home. He sat in a big rocking chair on Grandma Reeser's front porch. When the children came around him he put a clean handkerchief over his face saying that he didn't know what was wrong with him--he didn't want the kids to get sick!

     Charles had 4 children--Evelyn, Edna, Harley Raymond and Charles Harley was a parachuter in WWII. When we were living in Columbus, Ohio we got a telegram one night telling us that Harley was missing or shot down. I don't know why we got the telegram but it was scary!

     5. India Irene
     b. Mar. 1, 1895, Cass Co.
     m. Oct. 18, 1912, Walter R. Fultz
     d. Dec. 22, 1980, Logansport, IN

     Walter R. Fultz
     b. 1890, Royal Center
     d. Apr., 1931

         had 3 children
         Charles (married Kate)
         Harley Ray
         b. Dec 23, 1918, WashTwp.Cass Co
         d 1923/4
         Elizabeth Ann
         b. May 23, 1921
         married Kenny Emme
         had one child (Cassandra)
         d. Feb. 15, 1976 IN
         All three children passed before their mother.

     6. Harley Ray ("The Kid")
     b. Feb 29, 1896, Lake Cicott, IN
     Pvt 1st Cl., Co. F. 31st Mich Inf., before WW1 in Mich. Nth Guard
     Single
     d. Oct. 4, 1918 Alsain, France, WWI trenches

     Harley Ray ran away from home as a young boy to join the army. He was stationed in the south where be looked up his older brothers, Charley and Harry. They wrote their mother who wanted to have him sent home as he was underage. They all came home on leave then took the Pennsylvannia Railroad to camp and on to France. Harley Ray was found dead in the trenches after the armistice in Alsain, France. When his body arrived in Logansport his mother had to know it was her son. The funeral director and our grandfather, Roy opened the casket and looked. It was the Kid (that's what they called him!). He was 22.

     7. Olive Marie
     b. Nov. 20, 1897, Cass Co.
     single
     d. Oct. 10, 1985, Logansport

     8. Daisy Emmaline
     b. Aug 14, 1901, Logansport
     m. June 18, 1922 to DeWalt Van Baalen
          b. June 13, 1900, Huntington, IN d. 1966
          divorced after 1935
          had 2 children
               Richard Louis- married Emily (had 4 children)
               Phillip- married Nelda (had 4 children)
     d. Sep. 16, 1987, Peru, IN

     9. Baby-died

     10. Baby-died (9. & 10. twins?)

     11. Hazel Lucille
     b. July 23, 1906, Cass Co.
     m. Feb 18, 1928 in Danville Illinois to Raymond Harris
     d. Aug. 7, 1992
     had 2 children
          Richard Lee (had 4 children)
          Shirley Jean (had 3 children)

     12. Amos Melvin, Jr. "Leroy"
     b. April 29, 1908, Dunkirk, IN
     d. May 3, 1908, Dunkirk, IN-buried in Crooked Creek Cemetery

     13. Willard Merle
     b. July 22, 1909, Cass Co.
     m. Oct 25, 1931 to Mildred Hill b. June 3, 1913, Danville, IL, d. Feb. 26, 1982, Anderson, IN
     d. April 27, 1980, Anderson, IN
          2 children
          Carole Sue
               she had 2 children-Donna and Angel

     14. Stanton Edgar
     b. Aug 9, 1911, Dunkirk, IN
     d. Sept 14, 1911, Dunkirk, IN

WASHBURN, Susanna Mack

This list was researched and compiled by Dave Thomas of Fountain City, Indiana.

Thomas & Kem chart

ARNOLD, Benjamin 1807-1880
buried Arba, IN
ARNOLD, Penninah 1830-1910
buried Arba, IN
BARNES, John C. 1834-1921
b. Guilford Co., NC; Maj., 9th Ind. Vet. Inf.; Postmaster, Station Agent, Rural, IN
buried Fnt Pk Winchester, IN
BARNES, Nancy 1860-1935
buried Fnt Pk Winchester, IN
CLARK (or CLARKE), Milly
CLAYLAND, Judith
b. 1674
COURSEY, Anne
DAVIS, Edna 1876-1922
DAVIS, Hannah 1810-1846
buried Fnt Pk Winchester, IN
DAVIS, Harvey 1806-1893
b. Pasquotank Co., NC; Pioneer coffin/cabinet maker; early Wesleyan Elder
buried Willow Grove Ft. City
DAVIS, Martin 1852-1938
buried Willow Grove Ft. City
EDWARDS, Ethel 1879-1971
buried Willow Grove Ft. City
EDWARDS, George 1858-1946
buried Fnt Pk Winchester, IN
EDWARDS, Henry 1809-1895
buried Fnt Pk Winchester, IN
EDWARDS, Jonathan 1828-1899
b. Randolph Co., IN; 9th Ind. Vol. Inf.
buried Fnt Pk Winchester, IN
EDWARDS, Mary 1837-1900
buried Fnt Pk Winchester, IN
HELMS, Elizabeth
KEM, Albert
b. 1878
m. Ethel Edwards 1879-1971
d. 1941 buried Willow Grove Ft. City
KEM, Esther Gertrude
For more on Esther Kem -> The life and works of Hoosier poet Esther Kem Thomas (1910-1999)
b. 1910
m. Oliver Arnold Thomas 1906-1996
d. 1999
KEM, Samuel
b. 1830 (Routetourt Co., WV)
m. Mary Edwards 1837-1900
d. 1904 buried Fnt Pk Winchester, IN
KEM, Thomas
b. 1787 or 1783? (Virginia/W. Virginia)
m. Elizabeth Helms
d. 1871 buried Olive Hill C'tr. TWP
timber broker, Center Twp. farmer
HELMS, Elizabeth ?-?    ?
LOWDER, Didema 1831-1904
b. Guilford Co., NC
buried Fnt Pk Winchester, IN
PARKER, Celia 1811-1893
buried Arba, IN
PEALE, Ascha 1793-1858
buried Arba, IN
SCARCE, Rebecca 1816-1891
buried Willow Grove Ft. City
STAKEBAKE, Ann 1838-1891
buried Fnt Pk Winchester, IN
THOMAS, Faye Ann
THOMAS, Frederick Arnold
THOMAS, James
b. (Guilford Co., NC)
m. Milly Clark (or Clarke) b. 1765
d. 1787
James Thomas married Milly Clark and they produced 2 sons; Benjamin, born in 1785, and John, born in 1787. James died that year. Milly Thomas later married Thomas Wilcutts and they transferred to the Piney Grove, SC Monthly Meeting. Tom and Milly produced at least 8 children. The 2 Thomas boys retained their surname and were raised along with the Wilcutts family.
THOMAS, Jesse
b. 1836 (Randolph Co., IN)
m. Penninah Arnold b. 1830 d. 1910
d. 1916 buried Willow Grove Ft. City
Jesse Thomas was the youngest child born to John and Ascha. He married Penninah Arnold and they spent a large portion of their lived in the Arba area. Jesse and Penninah left the farm in their latter years and were living in Fountain City at the time of their deaths. Both were buried in the Arba Cemetery. Jesse's remains were later moved to the Willow Grove Cemetery in F. C. Penninah's gravesite is still in the Arba Friend's Cemetery; farmer, teacher, implement dealer
THOMAS, John W.
b. 1787 (Guilford Co., NC)
m. 1810 Ascha Peele (Wayne Co., NC) b. 1793 d. 1858
d. 1859 buried Arba, IN
Benjamin Thomas and wife Ann left Piney Grove M. M. and settled in Randolph Co., IN in 1812. Two years later, John and his wife Ascha along with Clackson Wilcutts removed to the "northwest" by joining the White River M. M. John made the second "land entry" in Greensfork Twp. The Thomas land was located at 1 mile north and 1/2 mile west of the village of Arba. In 1814 this area was part of Wayne County but later incorporated into Randolph County.
THOMAS, Oliver Arnold
b. 1906
m. Nov. 28, 1929 (Fountain City, IN) Esther Kem Thomas b. January 24,1910 (Winchester, IN) d. March 16, 1999 (Lebanon, IN)
d. Nov. 28, 1996 (Lebanon, IN)
THOMAS, Oliver C.
b. 1868 Randolph Co., IN
m. Edna Davis b. 1876 d. 1922 buried Willow Grove Ft. City
d. 1932 buried Willow Grove Ft. City
proprietor "O.C. Thomas' Fancy Groceries"; children: Oliver Arnold Thomas, Robert J. Thomas, Reid Thomas (Reid had one son--Stuart)
THOMAS, Robert J.
b. 1899
m. 1922 Faye Kem b. 1903 d. 1994
d. 1983
Had two sons--Robert and David
THOMAS, Stephen
b. May 28, 1705
m. approx. 1752 Mary
d. 1774
Stephen Thomas was the father of Philemon, James, and Benjamin, minors at the time of Stephen's death. The three boys chose older brother John Thomas as guardian. (County Court Minutes, 1771-1777)
THOMAS, Tristram, Jr.
b. 1666
m. Judith Clayland b. 1674
d. 1746
Tristram Thomas, Jr., born in England; accompanied his parents to Colonial Maryland while a young boy.
THOMAS, Tristram, Sr.
b. 1633 (Kent, England)
m. Anne Coursey
d. 1686
Tristram Thomas, Sr. was born in Kent, England. After a voyage to the colonies, he returned to England, married, and fathered a son (Tristram, Jr.).
WILLIAMS, Cassandra 1852-1927
buried Willow Grove Ft. City
WILLIAMS, Sarah 1813-1906
buried Willow Grove Ft. City
WILLIAMS, William 1806-1891
b. Pasquotank Co., NC
buried Willow Grove Ft. City

References: HINSHAW VOLUMES, Quaker Families from NC, Quaker M. M. Records, Genealogical Ref. sect.-Morrison Reeves Library, Randolph Co. Records, Wilcutts Family research, Research and Records by George Thomas-Guilford Co., NC