Ancestors: 8,501 THE SOCIETY Total Members: OF 933 Pioneer This includes: INDIANA Life Members: 124 Junior Members: 21 PIONEERS Associate Members: 26 Times

TO HONOR THE MEMORY Volume 1 Issue 8 Newsletter Date: Summer 2013 AND THE WORK OF THE PIONEERS OF INDIANA Brownsburg History Club receives the ORGANIZED 1916 Society’s John H. Holliday Award INCORPORATED 1922 The Society of Indiana Pio- hands-on understanding of Office: 140 North Senate Ave. neers John H. Holliday Award local and Indiana history. Indianapolis, IN 46204-2207 was established in 1970 by the They accomplished this by www.indianapioneers.com Society to honor Mr. Holliday, doing a number of small fund- societyofindianapioneers its founding president. The raisers to provide funds to @yahoo.com cash award of $300 is given allow Club members to attend annually to an Indiana Junior 317-233-6588 the Presidential Inauguration Historical Society club. To be in Washington in January. considered for the Holliday Over 40 students were able to Inside this issue: Award, clubs must participate attend, and local field trips in a project, program or activi- also were held to historic sites. ty related to early Indiana his- The Club also played a key tory in the current school year. Pioneers Board member William role in supporting other history The competition is adminis- Rhodehamel, great-grandson of Marketing & projects for Club members, the Award’s namesake, makes the tered by the Indiana Historical 2 such as a mural painted on the presentation to Benjamin Fouch, Advertising Society. B&O trail and the Wounded President of the winning club. This year’s winner was the Warrior Project. By the end of Speakers Bureau 2 Brownsburg History Club at its first year, the Club had over held on Friday, May 24, at the Brownsburg High School. The 120 members! Indiana Historical Society's head- 2013 Fall Pilgrim- Club, in its first year, created a 2 This year’s ceremony was quarters building ages project to give students a John Hampden 3 President’s Message: Michael Miller Holliday Prize As the State of Indiana clergy, blacksmiths, grain mil- work together that made the Indi- New Members 3 approaches its 200th year of lers, general merchants, bank- ana experience (experiment) a statehood, its people and or- ers, artists, writers, musicians reality. ganizations are beginning the etc. in order to build the com- In the weeks and months Photos from the munities and settle the territo- ahead, please consider reaching 3 motions and formulating plans Spring Pilgrimage to take part in a meaningful ry. While it may be noted out to a small or flourishing his- way. Many organizations there are few if any of those torical society. Ask how you might not clearly be perceived original businesses still in exist- might help them. Remember Pioneer Founders as having had a part in the ence, their trades still endure. your talents and help them be- 4 So, as we begin to formulate come aware of them. Consider development or growth of our th state, but should you reflect on and plan our 200 birthday – giving of your time and talent to The Joseph Frick- remember the importance of their cause. Further, if there are 4 each enterprise and their con- er Story tribution to today’s society, the work done by these people. any younger generations of Hoos- you might be surprised. If nothing else, consider under- iers looking for something new to standing the contribution your immerse themselves into, bring 1816 and 1850 Every Pioneer that made his/her way to Indiana was Indiana pioneer family mem- them along. Convention Dele- 6 blessed with certain skills that bers provided to the communi- The State has already begun gates allowed them to survive and ty as a whole. Sure times were gearing up for our 2016 Bicenten- thrive. By the end of the tough, but imagine not having nial. Every town and city has a “Pioneer Period,” not every- the resource of a skilled crafts- story to tell related to the growth one in Indiana was engaged man, perhaps a neighbor, to and development of our state. solely in agricultural pursuits. assist on a job you were not The time is now to get energized equipped to handle. It was the as the time to tell your communi- The many settlers that made Indiana their home needed people and their willingness to ty’s story as part of the statewide celebration will pass quickly.

Page 2 Marketing and Advertising

The Society has successfully first press release to all news- tion Chapters. completed the newspaper ads for papers in Indiana. If you belong to an organi- 2013 and has sent a second press On June 15, the Board of zation that needs or would release to the newspapers of the Governors voted to allocate like a 13 minute program on 18 counties featured in this year's money for ordering more of DVD, please contact the Soci- Pioneer Founders of Indiana the new Society DVDs for program. The content of the distribution statewide to or- ety office. press release was to remind read- ganizations such as genealogy ers of the opportunity to partici- -historical clubs and perhaps pate in the honoring of their to the Daughters of the Amer- Indiana ancestor. A special ican Revolution and to the thanks to the anonymous donor Sons of the American Revolu- of $125.00 for sponsoring the Speakers Bureau Two presentations were given in Flora Indiana by Carolyn Rose and Stanley Evans. 1. The Flora Rotary Club May 2nd to 10 members 2. The Carroll County/ White County joint meeting May 20th of the DAR with 18 members present. David Cook spoke to a Marion County PEO group on July 17.

Please call the office if you are in need of a speaker for an organization. Flora Rotary Club presentation: Jane and Dick Bishop , Carolyn Rose and Stanley Evans.

2013 Fall Pilgrimage:

Friday, September 6, 2013 way of life. Limberlost, Amish and Berne Also included is the historic Geneva and Berne, Indiana town of Berne, which was Following the popular Spring founded by Mennonites in the Pilgrimage last year to the 1850s & designed to resemble a Rome City/Wildflower Woods Swiss village. The town has a (second) cabin of acclaimed new, 160-foot glockenspiel, the naturalist Gene Stratton- Muensterberg Clock Tower. Porter, this tour will visit her The contractor who built it will cherished home, the original greet and address the tour. Limberlost cabin in Geneva. For additional information During her 25 years and/or reservations, please go to in Geneva, she burst to fame the EVENTS tab on the home and wrote thirteen books about page of the website. the Hoosier region that in- spired her, including the inter- Offered by: Sue Thomson Travel national bestseller “A Girl of Price: $119 per person the Limberlost” (1909). Other highlights of the trip to northeastern Indiana will in- clude visits to an Amish school & home; a local expert will share insights about the faith community & their distinctive John Hampden Holliday Prize Page 3 In anticipated celebration of the Prize will be awarded to up to The prize will be awarded at Society's centennial and the upcom- three individuals who make the a Centennial-Bicentennial Ban- ing bicentennial of the State of Indi- most significant contribution to quet in December of 2016, ana in December of 2016, the Socie- the field of Indiana pioneer his- along with appropriate trophies. ty of Indiana Pioneers has launched tory in works published in the Nominations must be submitted an award for the promotion of the years 2013, 2014, 2015 or 2016. on or before February 1, 2016. John highest quality of scholarship, re- The top prize will be the sum search and writing about Indiana of five thousand dollars ($5,000), For additional information, Hampden Pioneer History from pre-history to with second and third prizes please go to the 2016 and including the year 1851. being awarded in lesser CENTENNIAL tab on the The John Hampden Holliday amounts. home page of the website. Holliday Welcome New Members: Prize Clark, Amanda Kaye Ford Schweitzer, Stephanie Myers The Society of Indiana Pio- neers would like to welcome the New Castle, IN McCordsville, IN following new members who Drexler, Louis Paul Sons, Jeaneen Terry have joined since March 15, Greenwood, IN Bedford, IN $5,000 2012: Haywood, Helen Thom Storm, Arlen Ray Indianapolis, IN Puyallup, WA Regular: Hutchinson, Mary Foster Troyer, David Lloyd

Boyd, Susan Jean Mayer Gay Northglenn, CO Odessa, FL McComb, MS Larsen, Carmen Patricia Troyer, John Jacob II Carpenter, John Christopher Los Angeles, CA Clearwater, FL Wagner, Linda Thatcher Iowa City, IA Maddix, Linda Wagner Carpenter, Rachel Woodrow Sedalia, MO Sun City, AZ Modoc, IN McCammon, Mobie L Carpenter, Sam Clark Bloomington, IN Indianapolis, IN Riddle, Martha Kilgore Carpenter, Wendy Fairborn, OH Modoc, IN

2013 Spring Pilgrimage—Great Fun!

Another successful and fun pil- Church, designed in 1960 by grimage was had this past May. Eero Saarinen; and Zahara- Pictured are: a view of the Irwin kos, an ice cream parlor and House and Gardens from the museum . Tea House; the North Christian

Page 4 Attention All Pioneers!!

The Pioneer Founders of sent via mail or email to the women who built the founda- Indiana program is moving Society's office. tion of this great State of Indi- rapidly along. Remember we If you have any ques- ana. have just one more year and tions, please call Sally on then all 92 counties will have Monday or Wednesday from been covered. So let's get those 9 o'clock until 2 o'clock or leave a message on our phone. nominations written for this year. Don't forget that if the Remember---all nomina- county of your ancestor has tions for this year are due by

been covered in 2010, 2011, or September 15, 2013. Let's all 2012 it is still possible to nomi- make an effort to tell our fam- nate an ancestor for we will ily story and remember the print them in our 2013 book. See sample nomination story be- All nominations should be memory of those men and low. 2010 Counties 2011 Counties 2012 Counties 2013 Counties Allen Benton Bartholomew Blackford Carroll Boone Elkhart Brown “I wou1d 1ike to Cass Clark Hancock Clay nominate this Clinton Crawford Howard Daviess Delaware Dearborn Huntington DeKalb Indiana pioneer Harrison Floyd LaPorte Dubois because, in spite of Jefferson Fulton Lake Fayette Johnson Hamilton Miami Franklin the fact that he did Knox Hendricks Noble Gibson not lead an Marshall Henry Parke Greene Montgomery Lawrence Posey Jackson important life, he Putnam Monroe Rush Kosciusko Scott Morgan Sullivan Madison did lead a very active Shelby Ohio Tipton Newton and somewhat Starke Orange Union Porter Switzerland Perry Warren Randolph interesting life.” Vigo Pike Wells Vanderburgh Wayne St. Joseph Whitley White Tippecanoe Washington Douglas Fraker Sample from this Year’s Pioneer Founders Booklet Below is a sample of a working in Oberalphen as a very near Oberhof) with the in- Pioneer Founders of Indiana "Herrschaftlicher Mayer", a term tention to travel down the Rhine story that will appear in this that I have not been able to trans- to Amsterdam and thence to year’s booklet. The booklet late adequately. I assume that he Philadelphia. The move was will be available on the Socie- held some sort of administrative caused by events half way around ty’s website sometime in No- position. The older Joseph retired the world in the Dutch East In- vember, 2013. some time before 1803 and moved dies. On April 10th and 11th, his family to his traditional home 1815, the volcano Tambora4 in Oberhof. While living there he erupted, killing 88,000 people

Joseph Fricker and his wife had another son. living in the area. The result of Fidel (also known as Felix) was 1 the explosion for the rest of the Joseph Fricker (22 Au- born on the 3th of April, 1803. 2 world was two years of disrupted gust 1795 - 4 July 1874) was Papa Joseph then died on 1 Janu- weather patterns and, in Europe, born at the village of Unteral- ary 1812 leaving his widow and reduced agricultural production phen in the Grand Duchy of children to live off the municipal resulting in famine. The result for Baden in southwest Germany. dole until they left Oberhof for the Fricker family was that, after He was the son of, another America in May of 1817. the 1816 famine in Switzerland, Joseph Fricker (1740-1812) 3 they were on the move to Ameri- and Anna Dellerin (1760- ). The Fricker family joined an emi- ca the next spring. The older Joseph, a native of gration party led by Marx Rey- Upon arriving at Amsterdam the village of Oberhof in the mann of Wӧlfhnswil (a village they boarded the soon to be noto- Aargau of Switzerland, was rious Dutch ship April under This small farm was on Salt the command of Captain Creek just north of Gold Point hood, dying in Trafalgar, Indiana, DeGroot.5 The ship left Am- on what is now called "Green on 25 July 1917. Page 5 sterdam with 233 passengers Road." Apparently Joseph's The second pioneer child was on board, but the owners of second oldest surviving son, Joseph. He was born in Wilming- the April ordered the captain William Carrel (1831-1889), was ton, Delaware, 1 February 1830. He to take on emigrants from living with Joseph's sister Rosa lived in Hamblen Township, Brown three other ships bringing the and her husband in Kentucky at County, and was a blacksmith. He Save the Date total to 1,200. Before the the time. William C. came to married twice. His first wife was ship could leave the Nether- Indiana at a later, unspecified, Mary Anne Gillaspy (1832- 1854), lands, it was placed in quar- date. and they were married on 9 Septem- ber 1852 in Brown County. They antine at Texel because of During his time in Indiana typhus. On leaving port at Joseph supported his family by had one son. Mary Anne and the Texel, the April had 720 pas- farming. Sometime before 1860 child both died within about a week sengers, of which 125 died Joseph married, for the second of the child's birth. The second Next during the passage to Ameri- time, a lady, perhaps a widow, spouse was Minerva Duncan (1836- ca. They arrived in America, named Sara Miller. She was 1926). She married Joseph on 21 Annual Meeting at the port of Newcastle, born in 1795 in the same area of February 1855. They had two sons Delaware,6 on 1 January Switzerland as Joseph. and two daughters. Joseph served 1818, after making a harrow- Our pioneer had two more and died in the Civil War. He start- Saturday, ing seven and half month trip moves left in him. In 1860 he ed his military career in October from Switzerland to Ameri- and Sara were living in Wash- 1862 as a sergeant in Company H of November 2, 2013 ca, surrounded most of the ington Township, Morgan the Eighty-Second Indiana Infantry time by the deaths of their County, in the household of one Regiment. On 1 September 1864, fellow travelers. Peter Miller (perhaps Sara's he was discharged and mustered The Frickers traveled as son?). By the 1870 Federal Cen- into the same company as a First "Redemptioners", that is to sus, they were living back in Lieutenant. He died in camp at say, people who would be Hamblen Township, Brown White Hall, Georgia, on 30 Septem- sold at indenture to recoup County, Indiana. ber 1864. He was later posthu- the cost of their passage for Joseph died on 4 July 1874, mously promoted to the rank of the owners of the ship. Thus probably in Brown or Morgan Captain. they started their lives in County. He is buried in Little The third pioneer child was America in a milder form of Ireland (RC) Cemetery in Mor- Mary Jane. She was born in Wil- slavery. gan County near Martinsville. mington, Delaware, on 4 March In the 1820 Federal Cen- Even though his children 1833. She married Peter H. Dine sus, Joseph appears living in changed the spelling of the fami- (1833-1906) on 9 February 1853. Wilmington, Delaware. By 5 ly name, he continued to use They had one daughter and three May 1822, Joseph's condition "Fricker" throughout his life and sons. She died on 30 October 1902. had improved to the extent that spelling was used on his The last pioneer child was the that he could take a wife. He tombstone. author's ancestor, Ambrose Fraker. and Francina Corso7 were The four children that ac- Ambrose was born in Wilmington, married in the Cathedral of companied Joseph to Brown Delaware, on 23 March 1836, thus St. Peter (RC) at Wilming- County, Indiana, are also quali- he moved to Indiana when he was ton, Delaware, by the Rev. fied to be called Indiana Pio- three years old. Most of his life he Patrick Kenny. Their chil- neers. was a farmer and on 5 February dren were all born in Wil- Joseph's oldest child was 1853, at the relatively young age of mington and baptized in the Anna Marie who was born in 16, he was married to fifteen year same church. Francina died Wilmington, Delaware, on 23 old Margaret Ann Dine (1837- in October of 1837 and Jo- July 1825. She lived her entire 1912). They had nine children. seph was, apparently, pre- life in Hamblen Township, During the Civil War, Ambrose was pared to leave Delaware after Brown County, and Hensley drafted and served as a private from living there for sixteen years. Township, Johnson County. September 1864 until June 1865. It is rumored that the On 28 January 1848, she mar- He was a member of the Grand widower and his children ried, in Brown County, John Army of the Republic for the rest of lived for a short time in or Wilson Paskins (1823-1872), a his life. In 1883 he was appointed near Cincinnati, Ohio, but I Johnson County blacksmith and Superintendent of the Brown Coun- 9 have no documentation to farmer, who had just returned ty Asylum (a.k.a. "The Poor prove or disprove that asser- from the Mexican War. The Farm"). By 1912 Ambrose and his tion. In any event Joseph union was blessed with eight wife were living in Samaria in John- and his children, Anna Ma- children. In late 1871, John son County. That is where Marga- rie, Joseph, Mary Jane, and Paskins went to England to col- ret Ann was struck by a train Ambrose arrived in Ham- lect an inheritance and, while (locally known as "Old Jerk") and blen Township, Brown there, was murdered in early killed. Ambrose then moved to the County, Indiana, by 3 Febru- 1872. But that is a story for home of his son John in Franklin ary 1840 and he had pur- another day. Anna Marie then where he died on 28 January 1915. chased forty acres in Section entered a forty-four year widow- Thus the Fraker family's 2 of Township 10 Range 38 • Pioneer Experience covered nearly one hundred years from 1817 to Indiana p. 31. 1915 and almost seventy-five legitimacy of their children born in Un- 9 Charles Blanchard, Editor, Counties of Morgan, teralphen, Joseph, Rosa, and Anton. years of that century were spent Monroe, & Brown, Indiana: Historical and 3 Sometimes spelled Deller, or Teller or, Biographical, p. 691. Page 6 in Indiana. I guess we'll stay. 9 Tellerin. 4 Dr. Richard B. Simons, "German and Swiss ______Redemptioners, State Laws and the U.S. Passenger Act of 1819." The Palatine Contributor:--Douglas C. Fraker 1 When the family came from Europe the name Immigrant, p. 4, December 1999. was spelled "Fricker." The spelling of the 5 Ibid. p. 20. name was changed to "Fraker" during the 6 The intended destination was Philadelphia decade 1850-1860. Joseph used the but the Delaware River was frozen so "Fricker" spelling all of his life but his solidly that the ship had to stop at New- children, having been born "Frickers", died castle. "Frakers." 7 Francina is recorded on her Marriage 2 Date of Joseph's birth is proven by a Geburts Certificate as "Corso" but her real name Schein consisting of a letter from Franz was "Gass r." She was born in 1797 in Xaver Bornhauser of the Unteralphen, Switzerland and died in October 1837 in Baden, (RC) parish attesting to the marriage Wilmington. of Joseph Fricker to Anna Dellerin and the 8. John w. Hamblen, Ph.D. and Sandy Seitz, Federal Land Entries for Brown County,

1816 and 1850 Convention Delegates - Searching for Descendants The Society of Indiana Pioneers James Dill is looking for today's descend- Solomon Manwaring ants of the delegates of the 1816 From the county of Perry: and 1850 State Constitutional From the county of Franklin: Charles Poke Conventions. It looks to honor Robert Hanna, the delegates through their de- James Noble From the county of Posey: scendants as part of Indiana's James Brownlee Dan Lynn Bicentennial in 2016. If you are William H. Eads or know of any descendants of From the county of Switzerland: the delegates listed below, please Enoch McCartey William Cotton contact our office in Indianapo-

lis. The Society will provide From the county of Gibson: From the county of Warrick: more information about our David Robb Daniel Grass planning process in a forthcom- James Smith

ing issue of the newsletter. In Alexander Devin From the county of Washington: the meantime, spread the word Frederick Rapp John De Pauw to your local genealogy or his- William Lowe torical society. What a great From the county of Harrison Samuel Millroy, way to commemorate Indiana's Dennis Pennington 200th birthday! Davis Floyd Robert McIntire Daniel C. Lane William Graham 1816-2016 Patrick Shields 1816 DELEGATES: From the county of Wayne: From the county of Jefferson: Joseph Holman, From the county of Clark: David H. Maxwell Jeremiah Co Jonathan Jennings Nathaniel Hunt Patrick Baird James Scott Samuel Smock Hugh Cull Thomas Carr John K. Graham From the county of Knox: James Lemon. John Johnson John Badollet From the county of Dearborn: William Polke Ezra Ferris John Bennefield

1850-51 DELEGATES:

ADAMS/WELLS Jonathan Harbolt Robert H. Milroy E.K.Bascom Robert C. Kendall CASS/HOWARD ALLEN BOONE Horace P. Biddle James W. Borden Mark A. Duzan George Gordon Allen Hamilton William McClean CLAY BARTHOLOMEW BLACKFORD Francis B.Yocum Smith Jones Dixon Milligan CLARK Z.Tannehill BROWN Jacob Fisher BARTHOLOMEW Shadrach Chandler Thomas W. Gibson Smith Jones BROWN James G. Read Z. Tannehill Shadrach Chandler CLINTON BENTON/PULASKI/ CARROLL Cornelius J. Miller JASPER/WHITE Hiram Allen Stephen Sims CRAWFORD JENNINGS Samuel Pepper Hiram Prather Alvin P. Hovey DAVIESS John Spann Robert Dale Owen Page 7 Elias.S.Terry DEARBORN JOHNSON John D.Johnson Franklin Hardin PUTNAM Johnson Watts James Ritchey Oliver P. Badger DECATUR KNOX Alexander S. Farrow James B. Foley James Dick Alexander C. Stevenson Joseph Robinson Willis W. Hitt RANDOLPH DEKALB KOSCIUSKO Beattie McClelland Robert Work James Garvin Alexander C. Stevenson DELAWARE LAGRANGE RIPLEY David Kilgore John B.Howe Henry J. Bowers Walter March Joseph H. Mather Thomas Smith DUBOIS Henry T. Snook RUSH Benjamin R. Edmundston LAKE/PORTER William Bracken Smith Miller Samuel P. Anthony Jefferson Helm ELKHART Daniel Crumbacker Jesse Morgan Walter E. Beach LA PORTE SCOTT FAYETTE John B. Niles Hezekiah S. Smith Ross Smiley Edmund D. Taylor SHELBY William W. Thomas LAWRENCE James Elliott FLOYD George W. Carr Thomas A. Hendricks Phineas M. Kent Melchart Helmer J. Van Bethusen Henry P. Thornton MADISON STEUBEN FOUNTAIN John Davis Edward R. May Joseph Coats MARION ST.JOSEPH Joseph Ristine Jacob P. Chapman Schuyler Colfax FRANKLIN Douglas Maguire SULLIVAN George Berry Alexander F. Morrison William R. Haddon George G. Shoup MARTIN Benjamin Wolfe Spencer Wiley Thomas Gootee SWITZERLAND FULTON/MARSHALL MIAMI/WABASH Daniel Kelso Hugh Miller John A. Graham TIPPECANOE Amzi L. Wheeler Harrison Kendall Othniel L. Clark GIBSON William Steele Joel B. McFarland Samuel Hall MONROE John Pettit GRANT William C. Foster UNION Benoni C. Hogin Daniel Read Benjamin F. Brookbank GREENE MONTGOMERY Daniel Trembly Thomas Butler Horace E. Carter VANDERBURGH HAMILTON David A. Shannon James E. Blythe Haymond W. Clark Henry T. Snook James Lockhart Albert B. Cole MORGAN VERMILLION HANCOCK Alexander B. Conduit Thomas Chenowith George Tague James Crawford Oliver P. Davis Thomas Walpole NOBLE VIGO HARRISON Thompson D. Bicknell Cromwell W. Barbourk John Mathes OHIO Thomas J. Bourne John Zenor Abel C. Pepper Grafton F. Cookerly HENDRICKS ORANGE WARRICK Christian C. Nave William Johnson Christopher C. Graham Henry G.Todd William Halliday WARREN HENRY William F. Sherrod James R.M. Bryant George H. Ballingall OWEN WASHINGTON Isaac Kinley David M.Dobson Ezekiel D. Logan Daniel Mowrer George Moore John I. Morrison JACKSON PARKE Rodolphus Schoonover John F. Carr Samuel Davis WAYNE Samuel P. Mooney William F. Nofsinger John Beard JAY PERRY Othniel Beeson Nathan B. Hawkins John P. Dunn John S. Newman JEFFERSON Samuel Frisbie James Rariden Michael. G. Bright PIKE WHITLEY/HUNTINGTON William M. Dunn Charles Alexander Elias Murray Milton Gregg POSEY Jacob Wunderlich Board of Governors THE Society Officers & Staff Hometown and year of term expiration follows President each name. Michael H. Miller, Noblesville SOCIETY Jeffrey K. Baldwin, Danville 2013 Vice President/President-Elect Martha Sue Batt, Indianapolis 2014 James P. Fadely, Indianapolis OF Jinsie Scott Bingham, Greencastle 2015 Secretary Charles F. Bragg, Fishers 2015 Robert H. Everitt, Indianapolis

Treasurer INDIANA Maxine Fosta Brown, Corydon 2014 Bruce W. Oakley, Indianapolis J. David Cook, Indianapolis 2015 Registrar PIONEERS Louise DeMore, Indianapolis, 2013 Marcia A. Krieg , Indianapolis Helen M. Dickinson, Indianapolis 2013 Yearbook Editor

Joan R. Everitt, Indianapolis Jan Aikman Dickson, Indianapolis 2014

Immediate Past Co-Presidents Robert W. Dora, Noblesville 2014 Carolyn Rose, Lafayette Terri L. Gorney, Fort Wayne 2013 Stanley Evans, Lafayette Genealogist Roberta R. Graham, Brownsburg 2014

Michele Kerr, Carmel Marilyn L. Hoffman, Indianapolis 2013

Office Manager Edward L. Hultgren, Jr., Carmel 2013

Sally Fadely, Indianapolis T. Daniel McCain, Delphi 2015

A. Andrew Olson, III, Marco Island, FL 2015

Office: 140 North Senate Ave. J. Nelson Price, Indianapolis 2015 Indianapolis, IN 46204-2207 Robert D. Rati, Carmel 2014 www.indianapioneers.com [email protected] Evaline H. Rhodehamel, Indianapolis 2013 317-233-6588 William A. Rhodehamel, Brownsburg 2015 Newsletter Editor: Sally Fadely Karen S. Ward, Monticello 2014

Recognition of Newsletter Contributors John H. Holliday Award ______William Rhodehamel President’s Message ______Michael Miller 2013 Pilgrimages ______Nelson Price New Members ______Joan Everitt 1816 & 1850 State Convention Delegates ______Andy Olson John Hampden Holliday Prize ______Jeffrey Baldwin Marketing & Advertising ______Carolyn Rose / Stanley Evans Pioneer Founders ______Carolyn Rose Speakers Bureau ______Carolyn Rose / Stanley Evans