FAHL – DUMBAULD HISTORY
This was re-typed by
Wayne Brown to add clarity to some entries. Although I did not make
great changes, I did make additions or changes here and there – trying
to keep the original text as much as possible. Information in [blue]
was added or edited by me. Often, 2 or more obituaries are included in
the text, and just as often, they differ somewhat in content/context
(from “Roger’s” entries). Where possible and/or necessary, I have added
information that was not included in the original text of the genealogy,
again in [blue]. I have typed in the precise context of what was
written, including punctuation, spelling, and grammar, although I did
make a very few changes for purposes of clarity. Also, I omitted a few
textual inclusions from the original due to their unnecessarily
repetitive nature. It is also said in these texts, as well as many of
my own records, that three of the Fahl children, including William Fahl,
were born in Schuylkill County, PA, and the family moved to Indiana in
1841. However, several of the notations herein state that several
children born in Schuylkill County were born there after 1841 – after
the family had moved to Indiana. Still a puzzle to be worked out…
possibly some typographical errors, but I/we don’t yet know.
George Fahl
was born in Schuylkill County, PA. Mary Ann (Wintermood) Fahl was also
born in Schuylkill County. They were married in that county and moved
to Union Township [in 1841], Huntington
County, IN. Three of their children were born in PA
[including William]. There were a total
of 9 children from this marriage.
William Fahl (Elizabeth Dumbauld) – 6-29-1831
Daniel Fahl (Lynda Lantis, Sarah Elizabeth Lantis) –
4-30-1838
Susan Fahl (Anthony Johnson) – 4-11-1844
Mary Ann Fahl (Warren Dumbauld) – 12-8-1847
Henry Fahl – 7-23-1849
Edward Fahl
John Fahl
Esther Fahl
George W. Fahl
Elizabeth
Dumbauld [wife of William Fahl] was the
daughter of Samuel F. and Saloma (Weimer) Dumbauld. She was born on
7-11-1841 in Perry County, OH. Elizabeth married William Fahl on
4-23-1858. She was only 17 at the time of her marriage. He [William
Fahl] was born in Schuylkill County, PA, an area of the Blue
Mountains, 6-29-1831. William was the son of George and Mary (Wintermood)
Fahl. Mary’s parents’ names were Adam and Eve Wintermood. Elizabeth
died in Huntington County, IN, on 3-23-1926. William died on
11-24-1914. Both are interred in Mount Hope Cemetery, Huntington
County, IN. After the death of Samuel F. Dumbauld, William bought his
farm. They were the parents of six children.
(NOTE - obituary from the Herald Press, Huntington,
IN):
“MRS. ELIZABETH FAHL, AGE 84, PASSES AWAY
Mrs. Elizabeth [Dumbauld]
Fahl died at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 24, 1926, at her home, 538 west
State Street, after a serious illness since last Sunday.
Mrs. Fahl was born in Perry County, OH, July 11-1841, to
Samuel F. and Saloma Dumbauld. She married William Fahl April 18,
1858. Six children were born to this union. Mr. Fahl died November 24,
1914.
One daughter, Mrs. Sarah Renabarger of Huntington,
survives. The other five children, George S. Fahl, Mrs. Savilla Frech,
Mrs. Mary Simons, Mrs. Susan Kesler, and Jacob Fahl are deceased. There
are nineteen grandchildren, forty-one great-grandchildren, one brother,
Henry Dumbauld, and one sister, Mrs. B.F. Weisman, living.
The deceased was a member of the Trinity Lutheran
Church.
Funeral service will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at the
St. Peter’s Reformed Church with the Rev. R.B. Meckstroth in charge.
Burial will be at Mount Hope.”
Funeral services for Mrs. Elizabeth Fahl were held on
Saturday afternoon at two o’clock at the St. Peter’s Reformed Church.
The Rev. R.B.Mechstroth officiated.
Music was furnished by Mrs. Robert Stevens and Mrs.
Charles Pipenbrink, with Miss Grace Smetzer at the organ.
Flowers were in charge of the grandchildren, Mrs. Helen
Williams, Mrs. Ilo Plasterer, James Wilson, Paul Arnold, Fred Allman,
and Kenneth Fahl.
Pallbearers were Burl, Albert, Otis, and Herbert Fahl,
Carl Frech, Fred Banks, John Allman, and Herman Arnold, all grandsons.
Burial was at Mt. Hope.”
George Samuel Fahl (Louisiana Virginia Frech) – 6-29-1860
Sarah Ann (John Renabarger) – 11-5-1861
Mary Eva (William Simons) – 6-3-1863
Leah Savilla (Albert French) = 12-26-1864
Susan Samaytha (George Kessler) – 3-23-1867
Jacob Manuel – 3-7-1870 (died 8-6-1888 at age 18)
(NOTES:
by Roger ??????: Elizabeth applied for
the license. It is in a book in the Allen County Library, Ft. Wayne,
IN. The book is Marriages of Huntington County. The following
paragraphs are the history of William Fahl. It is from a book entitled
The History of Huntington County, and was found in the Huntington
County Library; Bibliographical Memoirs.)
-----WILLIAM FAHL-----
“The gentleman for whom this biography is prepared is one of the oldest
residents of Huntington County and one of the most prosperous and highly
respected citizens. For a period of sixty years he has been an eye
witness to the remarkable transformations which have changed the country
from a sparsely populated and poorly developed sections to the present
proud position it enjoys as one of the most progressive and highly
cultured counties in the great commonwealth of Indiana.
William Fahl is a native of Schuylkill County, PA, and
the son of George and Mary Ann (Wintermood) Fahl. Both parents were
born in the Keystone State but of German ancestry. George and
Elizabeth
[sic. Should read Mary Ann? But if it is George and Mary Ann, and
their first born was William, and William is still living, then the next
statement about… ”all living except the first born” is false also. Must
be better researched… also, who was the third child born in PA? From
the dates above, there are only two born before 1841 – when the trip to
IN took place, but of the ones without birth dates, one may certainly
have been born before 1841 and, therefore, in PA. ] Fahl reared a family
of six sons and three daughters, all living at the present time with the
exception of the first born.
William’s birth occurred on 6-29-1831, and at the age of
10 he was brought by his parents to Huntington County, IN, the family
making the long journey, requiring five weeks, to the new home in a
two-horse wagon, encountering many hardships on the way. On reaching
his destination, the father purchased a quarter section of land in what
is now Union Township, paying for the same four-hundred and fifty
dollars.
The money brought with them, six-hundred dollars, was in
silver, tied up in little bags and locked in a chest in the bottom of
the wagon. The land cost them three dollars per acre, and as it
required about all the money they had to pay for same, they were
compelled to sell one horse to obtain enough to live on until a crop
could be raised.
The elder Mr. Fahl was taken sick about this time, and
the work and management rested on the wife and the children in order to
make a living. The mother helped the boys cut down trees, roll logs,
and clear the ground. There was a cabin but with one room, a puncheon
floor, and a clap-board roof weighted down with poles. The floor had a
large crack in it, and it was no uncommon sight to see snakes crawling
through the crevices and over the floor. The family lived in this
one-room log cabin for ten years, when a new house was built. They had
no land cleared to begin on, and as one of the remaining horses died,
two of the boys, William and a younger brother, had to plow with one
horse; one boy would ride the horse while the other held the plow,
changing the work when becoming tired. The plow was one of single
shovel style, nothing like what we have now, and they had to plow the
field both ways to obtain loose dirt enough to cover the seed.
They had great trouble with crops on account of wild
animals. The deer would pasture on the wheat all winter and in the
summer, before the harvest, would run into the wheat fields and lie down
to keep off the flies. The wild turkeys would eat the buckwheat, and
raccoons and squirrels would go after the corn.
The first winter, 1842, was an unusually cold and severe
one; deep snow lay on the ground until the first week in April. Wild
animals in large number froze or starved to death. The deer would cut
through the crust of snow and stick fast with bleeding legs, and were
easy prey to the wolves, who were much lighter of weight and could run
on top of the crust. The wolves were plentiful and troublesome, and it
and it was no uncommon sight to see them around the house or hear their
dismal howling at night in the woods. Here amid the stirring scenes of
pioneer live, the youthful years of William were passed, and his early
experience consisted of vigorous toil varied by frequent hunts in the
surrounding forests which were then infected with wild animals of
various kinds. Deer were so numerous as to be of no rarity as an
article of diet, while wild turkeys, partridges, squirrels, and raccoons
were hardly deemed worth the time to shoot them.
Later young Fahl added considerably to his earnings by
selling certain furs from animals for which there was quite a demand;
that of a mink bringing five dollars, while coonskins sold for a dollar
each. He states that he killed, all told, over forty deer in the
vicinity of his father’s place, and frequently, for the mere sport,
spent days in the chase and seldom if ever returned empty handed.
Mr. Fahl’s earliest recollection of the present thriving
county seat is that of a scattering village in the woods, consisting
principally of log cabin and board houses, while four stores supplied
the spare settlers with such accommodations as they needed. The elder
Fahl was a success[ful] man, and by judicious investments became the
owner of a large amount of real estate, as the country became settled
and developed, increased greatly in value. Before his death, which
occurred at the age of seventy-two, he was able to provide each of his
children with an eighty-acre farm and otherwise assist them in getting a
good start in life.
William remained with his father on the farm until 1858,
assisting with the work and attending school in the proverbial log
cabin. In that year he set up a domestic establishment of his own,
choosing for his partner Miss Elizabeth Dumbauld, who for a period of
over forty years has proved a noble, self-denying wife, and in every
respect a help-mate, to whom is due much of the success which has since
come to their home.
Immediately after his marriage Mr. Fahl moved to an
eighty-acre farm near the Little River, upon which a small but
comfortable log house had been previously erected for the reception of
his bride. He lived and labored five years, clearing and fitting for
cultivation during that time thirty-three acres. He then moved to
another place in Union Township, which he still owns, and after adding a
number of valuable improvements and making it his home until 1887,
changed his residence to where he is now living.
Mr. Fahl is now one of the leading farmers of this
township and county, and also ranks with the first as a breeder and
raiser of fine livestock. His beautiful place, only two and one-half
miles from the city of Huntington, contains all of the valuable
improvements to be found on first-class farms, and everything betokens
the presence of a proprietor fully in keeping with the times in all
matters relating to the ancient and honorable calling of agriculture.
As a man and citizen, none occupy a more enviable standing in the
community. Every movement of public enterprise or private benevolence
finds him a ready, willing assistant, and his irreproachable life has
long been a stimulus to young men with destinies yet to be achieved.
His personal habits are certainly worthy of mention, never having used
tobacco in any form nor polluted his body with intoxicants of any kind
whatsoever.
In politics Mr. Fahl is a Democrat and while using all honorable means
to promote the interest of the party, he has never aspired to public
place nor sought the emoluments of office. His daily life is the
outgrowth of correct principles and strong convictions of right, and his
good name is untinged by the slightest charge of anything savoring of
disrepute.
To Mr. and Mrs. Fahl have been born six children, of who
the following are living: George S.; Sarah, wife of John Renbarger; and
Savilla, now Mrs. Albert Frech.
William Fahl has always be a hard working, active
farmer, and has performed feats in felling timber and cutting wood that
few of our young men of the present day could possibly do. As a young
man, the winters were employed in clearing land and the summers in
tilling the soil. One winter, when he was forty-two years of age, he
cut and put up five cords of wood in one day, the timber being hickory,
oak, and water ash. At the age of twenty-five he cut and put up in a
little over three hours three cords of wood. This was exceptionally
fine, straight ash, and split nicely, and partly accounts for speed with
which the labor was accomplished.
In religion, Mr. Fahl is a Baptist, and believes in
applying the teachings of the Bible in every way possible; and
especially to harmonize our daily life with its precepts and teachings.
It is only by this constant practice and watchfulness over ourselves
that we can enjoy that mansion in the skies prepared by the Master;
where joy reigneth forever, and where real men, not as he is but as God
intended him to be, can only be found.”
George Samuel Fahl, was the son of William and Elizabeth
(Dumbauld) Fahl. He was born in Union Township, Huntington County, IN,
on June 29, 1860. George married Louisiana Virginia Frech of Huntington
County, IN.
George S. and Louisiana married on April 18, 1882 in
Huntington, Huntington County, IN. There were ten
[sic] children from this marriage.
[There were actually 12 children, and why it says 10, I have no idea,
because the list is actually 12 long…] George Samuel died June
12, 1916 in Huntington; his wife Louisiana Virginia died August 21, 1911
in Huntington, Huntington County, IN. They were the parents of twelve
children [this time, the writer had it
correct…].
Elizabeth Virginia (Frederick R. Plasterer) 3-27-1883
(died 7-7-1962)
Maybelle C. (John C. Allman) 12-9-1884 (died 5-24-1955)
Myrtle Bell (William Sears Brown) 3-11-1886 (died
5-30-1972)
Mary Lillie – [Bert Scheiber]
11-27-1887 (died 10-31-1918)
Emma Carrie – [Thomas Miller]
9-2-1889 (died 12-25-1978)
Herbert George – [Edna (Jessie)
Warren] 4-11-1891 (died 3-25-1979)
Albert Theodore – [Oma D.
Smith] 3-4-1893 (died 11-4-1974)
Floyd Charles – 3-11-1895 (died 10-11-1907,
[at age 12, of blood poisoning])
Lloyd W. – 3-11-1895 [Lila_____
and Lena _____](died 12-26-1971)
Fern Ilene – [Lawrence Accola]
9-2-1898 (died 2-25-1958)
Otis S. – 12-9-1899 (died ?)
Burl Burdette – [Lucille Dungan]
12-20-1901 (died 5-22-1971)
Elizabeth
Virginia Fahl, is the daughter of George Samuel and Louisiana Virginia
(Frech) Fahl. She was born in Union Township, Huntington County, IN, on
March 27, 1883. Elizabeth married Frederick R. Plasterer in Huntington,
IN. Frederick died on August 27, 1938. Elizabeth died in Indianapolis,
IN, on Saturday, July 7, 1962. She is interred in Pilgrim’s Rest in
Huntington, Huntington County, IN. They were the parents of two
children.
“THE OBITUARY OF MRS. ELIZABETH V. PLASTERER
Mrs. Elizabeth Virginia [sic,
should be Victoria] Plasterer, 79, died suddenly at 3:05 p.m.
Saturday at the Twin Brook Hospital east of Indianapolis. She had been
visiting relatives in Indianapolis when she was stricken and was removed
to the hospital.
Mrs. Plasterer was born in Union Township to G. Samuel
and Louisiana V. (Frech) Fahl. She was married to Frederick R.
Plasterer in Huntington. He died August 27, 1938. She lived on South
Briant Street for forty years and for the last two years with her son
[Rolland] at Roanoke, Virginia.
She was a member of the First Methodist Church, the GIA
to B of LE and of the Make Merry Club.
Survivors include two children, Mrs. Ilo V. Cahill,
Indianapolis, and Rolland F. Plasterer of Roanoke, Virginia; three
grandchildren, Frederick and William Hammond, Indianapolis, and Ricky
Plasterer of Roanoke, Virginia; a great-granddaughter, Debra Lynn
Hammond, Indianapolis; two sisters, Mrs. Mirtle [sic] Brown, Boulder,
Colorado; and Mrs. E. Kathryn Miller [Emma
Carrie], Pueblo, Colorado; five brothers, Herbert G. Fahl,
Elkhart; Albert T. Fahl, Huntington; Lloyd W. Fahl, Huntington Route
five; Otis S. Fahl, Detroit, MI; Burl B. Fahl, Huntington Route four.
Two children, a grandson, Ormand Hammond, Illinois,
three sisters, Maybelle C. Allman, Fern I. Accola and Mary Scheiber, and
a brother Floyd C. Fahl are deceased.
Friends may call at the Bailey mortuary after 7:00 p.m.
today. Funeral services will be held at 4:00 p.m. Monday in the First
Methodist Church with the Rev. L.G. Sapp officiating. Burial will be
held at Pilgrim’s Rest Cemetery.”
---SERVICES HELD FOR MRS. E.V. PLASTERER---
Services for Mrs. Elizabeth V. Plasterer were conducted
at 4 p.m. Monday in the First Methodist Church with the Rev. L.G. Sapp
officiating. Music was by Cloyd Slater at the organ.
Pallbearers were Herbert G, Fahl, Albert T. Fahl, Lloyd
W. Fahl, Otis S. Fahl, Burl B. Fahl, Frederick Hammond, and William
Hammond. Burial was at Pilgrim’s Rest Cemetery.
Elizabeth Ilo V. Plasterer (Hammond)
(Cahill)
Rolland R. Plasterer
Elizabeth
Ilo V. Plasterer is the daughter of Frederick R. and Elizabeth Virginia
[sic, should read Victoria] (Fahl)
Plasterer. Her first marriage was to Ormand Hammond. Her second
marriage was to Richard Cahill. There were two children from the first
marriage.
Frederick Hammond
William Hammond
Frederick Hammond is the son of Ormand and Elizabeth Ilo
V. (Plasterer) Hammond. Frederick married ______ ______ and they are
the parents of one child.
Debra Lynn Hammond
Rolland Frederick Plasterer was the son of Frederick R.
and Elizabeth Virginia (Fahl) Plasterer. He is the parent of one
child. They live in Roanoke, Virginia.
Ricky Plasterer
Maybelle Claire Fahl was the daughter of George Samuel
and Louisiana Virginia (Frech) Fahl. She was born in Huntington,
Huntington County, IN, on December 9, 1884. Maybelle married John
Christian Allman on October 8, 1913. John died on July 18, 1938.
Maybelle died on Tuesday, May 24, 1955 in Huntington, Huntington
Township, Huntington County, IN. They were the parents of five
children.
Frederick J. Allman
William C. Allman
Robert B. Allman
Eloise L. Allman (James W. Parker)
Virginia L. Allman (Dale W. Smiley) – 6-24-1928
“---THE OBITUARY OF MAYBELLE C. ALLMAN---
Wednesday, May 25, 1955
Herald-Press
Mrs. Maybelle C. Allman, 70, widow of John C. Allman,
and resident of 1325 Gulford Street until a year ago when she went to
live with Mrs. Marie Young at 329 Roche Street, died at 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday in Huntington County Hospital. She had been ill since May 8.
Her condition was serious the last two weeks.
Mrs. Allman was born December 9, 1884, in Huntington to
George S. and Louisiana (Frech) Fahl. She married Mr. Allman October 8,
1913. The husband died July 18, 1939.
Surviving are three sons, Frederick J. Allman, Royal
Oak, Michigan; William C. Allman, Huntington; and Robert B. Allman,
Decatur, Georgia; two daughters, Mrs. Eloise L. Parker, Huntington; and
Mrs. Virginia L. Smiley, Ft. Wayne; thirteen grandchildren, five
brothers (Herbert Fahl, Elkart; Albert and Lloyd Fahl, this city; Otis
Fahl, Detroit, Michigan; and Burl Fahl, Huntington Township) and four
sisters (Mrs. Elizabeth Plasterer, this city; Mrs. Myrtle Brown,
Boulder, Colorado; and Mrs. Emma Miller and Mrs. Fern Accola, Pueblo,
Colorado). A brother, Floyd Fahl, and a sister, Mrs. Mary Scheiber, are
dead.
Mrs. Allman, who lived all her life in this city, was a
member of St. Mary’s Catholic Church, the Rosary Society of the church,
Daughters of Isabelle, St. Jude Study Club, and the Huntington Garden
Club.
Friends may call at the Bailey Mortuary where
recitations of the Rosary will be held at 8:30 p.m. Thursday by members
of the Rosary Society.
Funeral services will be held at 9 a.m. Friday in St.
Mary’s church with the Rev. Edward A. Miller officiating. Burial will
be in Mt Calvary Cemetery.”
Frederick J. Allman is the son of John Christian and
Maybelle Claire (Fahl) Allman. In 1955, he lived in Royal Oaks,
Michigan.
William C. Allman is the son of John Christian and
Maybelle Claire (Fahl) Allman. In 1955 he lived in Huntington, IN.
Robert B. Allman is the son of John Christian and
Maybelle Claire (Fahl) Allman. In 1955 he lived in Decatur, Georgia.
Eloise L. Allman is the daughter of John Christian and
Maybelle Claire (Fahl) Allman. Eloise married James E. Parker. In 1992
she was living in Huntington, IN.
Virginia L. Allman is the daughter of John Christian and
Maybelle Claire (Fahl) Allman. Virginia married Dale W. Smiley. In
1992, she was living in Ft. Wayne, Allen County, IN.
Albert T. Fahl was the son of George Samuel and
Louisiana Virginia (Frech) Fahl. He was born in Huntington County, IN,
on March 4, 1893. He is the grandson of William and Elizabeth
(Dumbauld) Fahl. Albert married Oma D. Smith. She was born February 2,
1894, in Huntington, Huntington County, IN. Oma was the daughter of
Ephraim and Matilda (Freightner) Smith. Albert and Oma were married on
November 26, 1913. Albert died in Huntington, Huntington County, IN on
November 4, 1974. Oma died in Huntington on December 20, 1981. Both
were interred in the Mt. Hope Cemetery, Huntington, IN. There were
three children from this marriage.
Evelyn A. Fahl – 1-15-1920
Kenneth A. Fahl
Eloise Fahl
Evelyn A.
Fahl is the daughter of Albert T. and Oma D. (Smith) Fahl. She was born
on January 5, 1920. Evelyn married Jack Barnhisel.
Kenneth A. Fahl is the son of Albert T. and Oma D.
(Smith) Fahl.
Eloise Fahl is the daughter of Albert T. and Oma D.
(Smith) Fahl. Eloise married Robert A. Schenkel on October 9, 1941. He
was born in Huntington, Huntington County, IN, on April 13, 1917.
Robert was the son of Charles F. and Mary Elizabeth (Landis) Schenkel.
He was politically active throughout his life. He served in the United
States Army Medical Corps during WWII. Robert died in Parkview
Hospital, Fort Wayne, Adams Township, Allen County, IN, on December 26,
1983. They were the parents of two children.
---THE OBITUARY OF ROBERT A. SCHENKEL---
Tuesday, December 27,1983
Herald Press
“Huntington County Plan Commission Director Robert A.
Schenkel, 66, 1803 South Jefferson Street, died at 3:03 p.m. Monday
(December 26, 1983) at Parkview Memorial Hospital, Ft. Wayne. He had
been seriously ill for four weeks.
Mr. Schenkel was appointed director of the Huntington
County Plan Commission on June 14, 1978, and took office July 1, 1978.
He served as plan director until his death. He had formerly been
employed by Wissel’s, and was the former owner of the Family Store. He
served as a Huntington County Commissioner from 1964 – 1972 and served
as a Democrat county chairman for several years.
Mr. Schenkel served in the United States Army Medical
Corps during World War II, achieving the rank of Captain. He was a
member of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2689 and the American Legion.
He was active for many years in the Huntington County
Little League. He was a member of Kiwanis and former Indiana lieutenant
Governor of Kiwanis. He was currently secretary of the board of
trustees of Trinity United Methodist Church.
Mr. Schenkel was born April 13, 1917 in Huntington to
Charles F. and Mary Elizabeth (Lantis) Schenkel. His marriage was on
October 9, 1941 to the former Eloise Fahl, who survives.
Additional survivors include a son, Greg Schenkel,
Indianapolis, Marion County; a daughter, Debra Schenkel, Huntington,
Huntington County; two brothers, Charles D. Schenkel and James Schenkel,
both of Huntington; a sister, M. Jeanette Wilson, Huntington; and two
grandchildren.
Three brothers and three sisters are deceased.
Friends may call from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. today and from 10
a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday at Bailey-Schafer Mortuary. Services will be
held there at 2 p.m. Wednesday, with Rev. Laurence Smith officiating.
Burial will be in the St. Peter’s United Church of Christ Cemetery.
Memorial contributions to the Trinity United Methodist
Church building fund are preferred.”
Robert Schenkel. Services for Robert Schenkel were held at 2 p.m. today
at Bailey-Schafer Mortuary, with Rev. Laurence Smith officiating.
Pallbearers were James Wilson, Ed Hollowell, Larry
Hollowell, Richard Hollowell, Neil Derr, Brent Wolfcale, and Greg
Schenkel. Burial was in St. Peter’s United Church of Christ Cemetery.
Greg Schenkel
Debra Schenkel
Greg Schenkel is the son of Robert A. and Eloise (Fahl) Schenkel. In
1983, he was living in Indianapolis, Marion County, IN.
Debra Schenkel is the daughter of Robert A. and Eloise
(Fahl) Schenkel. In 1983 she was living in Huntington, Huntington
County, IN.
George Herbert [should
be Herbert George] Fahl was the son of George Samuel
and Louisiana Virginia (Frech) Fahl. He was born in Union Township,
Huntington County, IN, on March 11, 1895. George
[sic] married Edna (Jessie) Warren in
1911 [December 5, 1911] in Elkhart,
Elkhart County, IN. There were three children from this union. George
[sic] died March 28, 1979 and his wife
died May 1, 1960.
Mary E. Fahl (Edward N. Robinson)
Rosanna Fahl
Marenis Fahl
Mary E. Fahl is the daughter of George Herbert
[sic] and Edna Jessie (Warren) Fahl.
Mary married Edward N. Robinson.
Rosanna Fahl is the daughter of George Herbert
[sic] and Edna Jessie (Warren) Fahl.
Marenis Fahl is the daughter of George Herbert
[sic] and Edna Jessie (Warren) Fahl.
[He was born Herbert George, but he may have
changed this to George Herbert out of personal preference at some time
in his life. All references herein list him as George Herbert, and I
have maintained that listing for the matter of accuracy from what was
written.]
---THE OBITUARY OF GEORGE HERBERT FAHL---
“Fahl, George (Herbert), Wednesday, March 28, 1979.
Word was received by relatives of the death of George (Herbert) Fahl, a
former resident of Elkhart, who died Sunday evening at his home in Lake
Alford, Jackson County, FL.
He is survived by his wife Edna; two daughters, Mary E.
Robinson and Rosanna Fahl and a brother, Otis Fahl, Detroit, MI.
Deceased are three brothers, Albert T., Lloyd and Burl Fahl, all
formerly of Huntington.
Services will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at White
Funeral Home, Elkhart, Elkhart County, IN.”
---THE OBITUARY OF JESSIE WARREN FAHL---
“Fahl, George H. (Mrs.) Tues. May 3 1960
[I have other references stating that she died
on May 3rd, not May 1st – don’t know which is
correct]. Mrs. George H. Fahl, 75, the former [Edna] Jessie
Warren and a native of Huntington County, died Sunday
[May 1] in her home in Elkhart, Elkhart
County, IN, after an illness of several months. She married Mr. Fahl in
1911 [Dec. 5] in Elkhart where she was a
member of the Central Christian Church.
Surviving are the husband, two daughters, Mrs. Edward N.
Robinson, Elkhart, and Captain Rosanna Fahl, an Air Force nurse at
Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA; a son, Mardenis Fahl of San Diego,
San Diego County, CA; a granddaughter, and three sisters, Mrs. W.D.
Koontz and Miss Mary Warren, both of Elkhart, and Mrs. Ray G. Peck, Rock
Island, Rock Island County, IL. The husband is a brother of Albert,
Lloyd, and Burl Fahl and Mrs. Elizabeth Plasterer, this city; Mrs. Emma
Miller, Pueblo, Pueblo County, CO; and Mrs. Myrtle Brown, Boulder,
Boulder County, CO.
Friends may call until 11 a.m. Wednesday in White
Funeral Home at Elkhart. Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the
Central Christian Church, Elkhart, with the Rev. Ernest E. Thompson
officiating. Burial will be in the Rice Cemetery.”
Lloyd W. Fahl, was the son of George Samuel and
Louisiana Virginia (Frech) Fahl. He was born in Union Township,
Huntington County, IN on March 11, 1895. Lloyd was the twin brother of
Floyd Charles [it is written as George Fahl,
but George was NOT the twin, Floyd was].
Lloyd married Lila ____, in Indianapolis, Marion County, IN on January
22, 1941. [Lloyd first was married to Lena
____ on December 13, 1919. Lena died 10-3-1940, and he subsequently
married Lila on 1-22-41, a short courtship…]. Lloyd was interred
in Mt. Hope Cemetery. They had one child that I have been able to
find.” [I have two listed in my records, as
below…]
Roger W. Fahl
[Richard M. Fahl]
---THE OBITUARY OF LENA FAHL---
[First wife of Lloyd]
“Fahl, Mrs. Lloyd Thursday, October 3, 1940. Mrs. Lloyd Fahl dies at
Millington, Michigan.
Mrs. Lloyd Fahl, sister-in-law of Burl and Albert T.
Fahl of this city, died at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Millington, Lapeer or
Tuscola County, MI, 40 miles north of Flint.
Funeral services will be held Saturday, 2 p.m. (EST) at
Kalamazoo, Michigan and burial will be at that city.
She leaves the husband. No children were born to the
couple. They were married at Indianapolis where Mr. Fahl had lived and
moved from there to Michigan.”
---THE OBITUARY OF LLOYD W.FAHL---
“Fahl, Lloyd W. Monday, December 27, 1971. --- Lloyd W.
Fahl, 76, a resident of Salamonie Avenue Extended, Huntington, until
last summer, and since then at Woodburn, died unexpectedly at 1:04 p.m.
Sunday, at the home of his brother, Herbert Fahl, Alford, Florida, where
Mr. And Mrs. Fahl were visiting. He was a former employee of the
Millington Truck Body Co., Inc.
Mr. Fahl was born March 11, 1895, in Union Township, to
George Samuel and Louisiana Virginia (Frech) Fahl.
He was a member of the Trinity United Methodist Church,
a veteran of World War I, a member of the American Legion, the Chief
LaFontaine Lodge, Scottish Rite, and Shrine.
Surviving besides his widow, Lila, whom he married
January 22, 1941, are a son Roger, of Chicago, Illinois; two sisters,
Mrs. Myrtle Brown, Boulder, Boulder County, CO, and Mrs. Emma Miller,
Pueblo, Pueblo County, CO, and three brothers, Herbert, Lake Alford, FL,
Albert T., Huntington, Huntington County, IN, and Otis, Detroit, MI.
Deceased are two brothers, Burl, and a [his] twin Floyd, and four
sisters, Mrs. Fern Accola, Mrs. Elizabeth Plasterer, Mrs. Maybelle
Allman, and Mrs. Mary Scheiber.
Friends may call at the Bailey Mortuary after 5 p.m.
Tuesday.
Masonic memorial services will be held at 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday with
Rev. W.W. Kennell officiating. Burial will be in Mt. Hope Cemetery,
with military honors by the American Legion.”
Furn [sic, actual spelling was,
according to my references, Fern] Fahl was the daughter of George
Samuel and Louisiana Virginia (Frech) Fahl. She was born in Union
Township, Huntington County, IN, on September 2, 1898
[I have several references that the date was
September 1]. Furn [sic] married
Lawrence Accola. Furn died in Pueblo, CO on Tuesday, February 25,
1958. Lawrence died in Pueblo, CO, some time in 1954. There were no
children from this marriage.
---THE OBITUARY OF FURN [sic] (FAHL)
ACCOLA---
Wednesday, February 26, 1958
Herald-Press
“Mrs. Furn Accola, 59, Pueblo, CO, the former Furn Fahl,
of Huntington, died unexpectedly at 7 a.m. Tuesday at the home of her
sister, Mrs. Emma Miller, Pueblo, where she had been taken after an
operation. She was recovering nicely when she became suddenly ill and
died.
Mrs. Accola was born September 2, 1898, in Union
Township to Sam and Louisiana (Frech) Fahl and lived in the community
until a young woman when she went to Pueblo, Colorado, where she married
Lawrence Accola, who died about four years ago.
Following her husband’s death, Mrs. Accola returned to
Huntington and resided here about two years before returning to the west
about two years ago.
Mrs. Accola was one of a family of twelve children. She
was a member of the Presbyterian Church of Pueblo.
Surviving are three sisters, Mrs. Miller, 321 East Evan
Street, Pueblo, CO, in whose home Mrs. Accola died; Mrs. Myrtle Brown,
Boulder, CO, and Mrs. Elizabeth Plasterer, this city, and five brothers,
Herbert Fahl, Elkhart, Otis Fahl, Detroit, MI, and Lloyd Fahl, Burl
Fahl, and Albert Fahl, all of Huntington. Two sisters, Mrs. Mary
Scheiber and Mrs. Mabel [sic – the actual
spelling has been checked and confirmed as Maybelle] Allman, are
dead.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Fahl went by plane to Pueblo Tuesday
after receiving word of her death.
Funeral services and burial will be held at Pueblo,
Colorado.”
Otis Fahl was the son of George Samuel and Louisiana
Virginia (Frech) Fahl. He was born in Union Township, Huntington
County, IN on December 9, 1899. He was living in Detroit, MI, in 1971.
Burl B. Fahl was the son of George Samuel and Louisiana
Virginia (Frech) Fahl. He was born in Union Township, Huntington
County, IN, on December 20, 1901. Burl married Lucille Dungan on April
26, 1921. She was born April 29, 1900, in Huntington County. Lucille
was the daughter of Isaac and Mary Ann (McClurg) Dungan. Burl died on
May 22, 1971. Lucille died on December 13, 1982. Both are interred in
Mt. Hope Cemetery, Huntington County, IN. There is no mention of
children.
---THE OBITUARY OF BURL B. FAHL---
Burl B. Fahl died Sunday, May 23, 1971 at the age of 69
at home.
He was born on December 20, 1901, in Union Township to
George S, and Louisiana V. (Frech) Fahl. And his marriage was to
Lucille Dungan on April 26, 1921.
He was a member of the Trinity United Methodist Church,
the Huntington Masonic Lodge, and had worked with the Huntington YMCA.
Survivors include his widow, four brothers, Herbert,
Lake Alford, FL, Albert, Huntington, Lloyd, Route 5, Otis of Detroit,
two sisters, Mrs. Myrtle Brown of Boulder, Colorado, Mrs. Emma Miller,
Pueblo, Colorado. Four sisters and one brother are deceased.
Services are at Bailey Mortuary by Rev. W.W. Kennell.
Burial is at Mt. Hope Cemetery.
---THE OBITUARY OF LUCILLE DUNGAN FAHL---
“Fahl, Lucille Dungan. Monday, December 13, 1982.
Lucille Fahl, 82, a resident of the United Methodist Memorial Home,
Warren, since last May, died at the home at 4:15 p.m. Sunday, December
12, 1982.
Mrs. Fahl formerly resided at 1636 Guilford Street, and
was a member of the Trinity United Methodist Church and the Huntington
Memorial Hospital Guild.
She was born on April 29, 1900, in Huntington County to
Isaac and Mary Ann (McClurg) Dungan and her marriage was on April 26,
1921, to Burl B. Fahl, who died May 22, 1971.
Survivors include nieces and nephews. Three brothers,
Eldon, Clyde, and Dallas Dungan are deceased.
Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. Monday and from 2 to 4
and 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at the Bailey-Schafer Mortuary, where services
will be conducted at 10 a.m. Wednesday, with Rev. Laurence I. Smith
officiating. The Order of the Eastern Star will conduct twilight
services at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home, and burial will be in
Mt. Hope Cemetery, Huntington, IN. Preferred memorials are to the
Trinity United Methodist Church Building Fund.”
LUCILLE FAHL. The name of a deceased brother, Really
Dungan, was omitted from the obituary of Lucille Fahl that appeared in
Monday’s paper. Mrs. Fahl was also a 50-year member of the Order of the
Eastern Star.
LUCILLE FAHL. Services for Lucille Fahl were conducted at 10 a.m.
Wednesday at the Bailey-Schafer Mortuary, with Rev. Laurence I. Smith
officiating.
Pallbearers were Robert A. Schenkel, Frederick Allman,
Dale W. Smiley, James E. Parker, Harold Dungan, and Charles Dungan.
Burial was at Mt. Hope.
Sarah Ann Fahl was the daughter of William and Elizabeth
(Dumbauld) Fahl. She was born in Union Township, Huntington County, IN,
on November 5, 1861. Sarah married John Renbarger on November 27, 1883
in Huntington County. They had two children before their divorce.
Pearl Renbarger (Charles Williams) – 1886
Etta Renbarger (Herman Arnold)
Pearl Renbarger was the daughter of John and Sarah Ann
(Fahl) Renbarger. She was born sometime in 1886. Pearl married Charles
Williams. There were three children born to this union.
Helen M. Williams (Clarence Schuler) – 1908
James Williams (Truth Fruit) – 1912
Donald Williams (Betty Grossman) – 1919
Helen Margaret Williams was the daughter of Charles and
Pearl (Renbarger) Williams. She was born sometime in 1908. Helen was
married to Clarence Schuler on August 25, 1935. Clarence died on May
24, 1975. There were four children born to this union.
Carolyn J.
Schuler (Dean Eppley [?]) – 11-1936
Ned A. Schuler (JoAnne Fites) – 1-1940
James R. Schuler (Carol Lauer) – 1-1943
Jack A. Schuler (Nancy Shanahan) – 11-1943
Carolyn Jean Schuler is the daughter of Clarence and
Helen M. (Williams) Schuler. She was born in November of 1936. Carolyn
married Dean Eppley [ ? ] in 1958. They
had three children from their union.
Barry Eppley – 1961
Theresa Eppley – 1963
Linda Eppley – 1965
Ned Arnold Schuler is the son of Clarence and Helen M.
(Williams) Schuler. He was born in January of 1940. Ned married JoAnne
Fites. They had two children from their union.
Troy Ned Schuler – 2-1969
Jennifer Jo Schuler – 11-1972
James Robert Schuler is the son of Clarence and Helen M.
(Williams) Schuler. He was born in January of 1943. James married
Carol Lauer on December 30, 1967. They had three children from their
union.
Stephanie Renee Schuler – 12-31-1969
Kyle Robert Schuler – 2-1971
Amanda Gale Schuler – 8-27-1973
Jack Allen Schuler is the son of Clarence and Helen M.
(Williams) Schuler. He was born in November of 1943. Jack married
Nancy Shanahan in March of 1964. They had two children from their
union.
Eric Schuler – 1966 (died 4-1984)
Nathan Lewis Schuler – 1971
James Williams is the son of Charles and Pearl
(Renbarger) Williams. He was born sometime in 1912. James married
Truth Fruit. They had two children from this union.
Tom Wlliams
David Williams (Linizy ____) – 8-11-__
David and Linizy ___ had one child.
Peggy Williams
Donald Robert Williams is the son of Charles and Pearl
(Renbarger) Williams. He was born in 1919. Donald married Betty
Grossman. They had two children.
Trudy J. Williams (Jeff Bowditch) – 1958
Ruth E. Williams – 12-31-1962
Etta Renbarger was the daughter of John and Sarah Ann
(Fahl) Renbarger. Etta married Herman Arnold. They were the parents of
seven children.
Mary Eva Fahl was the daughter of William Henry and
Elizabeth (Dumbauld) Fahl. She was born in Union Township, Huntington
County, IN, July 3, 1863 [I have also seen a
listing of June 3, 1863]. Mary married William Simons. Mary
died in childbirth. They were the parents of one child.
Grace Simons (Bert Shock)
Leah Savilla Fahl was the daughter of William Henry and
Elizabeth (Dumbauld) Fahl. She was born in Union Township, Huntington,
IN, December 26, 1864. Leah married Albert Frech on September 2, 1883.
Susan Samantha Fahl was the daughter of William Henry
and Elizabeth (Dumbauld) Fahl. She was born in Union Township,
Huntington County, IN, on March 23, 1867. Susan married George Kessler
on October 14, 1888. They were the parents of one child.
Viola Kessler (________ Jergens)
Jacob Manuel Fahl was the son of William Henry and
Elizabeth (Dumbauld) Fahl. He was born in Union Township, Huntington
County, IN, on March 7, 1870. Jacob died August 6, 1886
[I have also see the date of 1888].
Daniel Fahl was the son of George and Mary Ann
(Wintermood) Fahl. He was born in Blue Mountain Region, Schuylkill
County, PA on April 30, 1838. Daniel’s first marriage was to Lydia Ann
Lantis on December 27, 1863. She was born in Huntington County, IN.
Later, Daniel married Sarah Elizabeth Lantis on May 21, 1872. She was
also born in Huntington County. Daniel died March 12, 1921
[I have also seen the year of 1931
listed, which is the most common one used.] in Markle,
IN. Daniel and Lydia had two children. Daniel and Sarah had four
children.
By Daniel and Lydia:
Charles E. Fahl (Ada Longshire) - ___-
27-1886
Mary E. Fahl (George Brown) – 4-2-1869
By Daniel and Sarah:
Leah Fahl (_____ Hardin)
Harmon Fahl - 3-27-1883
Franklin S. Fahl (Ida Mae Patten)
Cora Fahl (____ Ewart)
The
following obituary is from the Huntington Herald-Press:
“Fahl, Daniel, Thursday, March 12, 1931. Markle, March
11 (Special). Daniel Fahl, ninety-three years old, died at the home of a
daughter in Markle this morning at 11:00 o’clock after suffering a
stroke of paralysis.
Mr. Fahl was born April 30, 1838 in Pennsylvania to
George and Mary Fahl. His marriage was to Sarah Elizabeth Lantis, March
23, 1871.
Four children survive: Mrs. Mary Brown of Warren,
Charles of north of Markle, Harmon Fahl and Mrs. Ewart of Markle.
Henry Fahl of Union Township is a brother and Mrs. Susan
Johnson of Union Township is a sister. Nineteen grandchildren and seven
great-grandchildren survive.”
The
following is an obituary from the Huntington News:
“Huntington, Indiana, Friday, March 13, 1931…News… He
[Daniel Fahl] was born in April 1839, in
Schuylkill County, PA, the son of George and Mary Fahl. He was one of
nine children. He is survived by a brother and a sister, Henry Fahl and
Mrs. Susan Johnson, both of Union Township.
His first marriage was to Lydia Landis
[sic]. Three children
[sic] were born to them. Two surviving
children of that marriage are Charles Fahl, Wells County, and Mrs. Mary
Brown of Salamonie Road.
The second marriage was to Elizabeth Landis
[sic]. Surviving children of that
marriage are Harmon Fahl and Mrs. Elizabeth Ewart, both of Markle.”
Fahl, Sarah
Elizabeth, Friday April 21, 1939 Herald-Press.
Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Fahl, 85, died at the home of a
daughter, Mrs. David J. Ewart, in Markle at 11:30 a.m. Thursday
[I also have references that she died on the 18th,
not the 20th]. She had been ailing since the holidays
and was seriously ill the last four weeks.
Mrs. Fahl was born February 28, 1854 to Gideon and Leah
(Shively) Lantis near Barnes Chapel Church in Rock Creek Township and
was married to Daniel Fahl March 21, 1872. He died March 11, 1931.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Ewart, at whose home she
died; a son, Harmon Fahl, also of Markle; a step-son, Charles, north of
Markle; and a step-daughter, Mrs. Mary Brown, Jefferson Township. Eight
grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren, and 13 step-grandchildren also
survive. Two children, Franklin S. and Mrs. Leah Hardin are dead.
She was the last of a family of twelve children and was
a member of the Church of the Brethren. Funeral services will be held
at the home at 1:30 p.m. Sunday. The Revs. Russell Weller and Roger
Shively will officiate and burial will be at Barnes Chapel Cemetery,
Rock Creek Township, Huntington County, IN.”
LAST RITES HELD FOR MRS. ELIZABETH FAHL
Markle, April 25, --- Funeral services for Mrs. Elizabeth Fahl were
held Sunday afternoon at the home of a daughter, Mrs. D. J. Ewart. The
Rev. Russell Weller officiated, assisted by the Rev. Roger Shively.
Burial was at White Church Cemetery.
Music was by the Church of the Brethren quartet, Charles Paul, Paul
Brumbaugh, Mrs. Etta Heaston, and Mrs. Roger Shively, accompanied on the
piano by Miss Ruth Brumbaugh.
Flower bearers were grandchildren and
great-grandchildren: Lucile, Genevieve, Helen Marie, and Mary Alice
Fahl, Kathrine Morrison, Maggie Brown, Patricia Kriegbaum, Mildred
Sparks, Edna Wells, Billie Kriegbaum, Jimmie Ewart, Sarah Ewart, Suzanne
Ewart, and Ruth Ann Fahl. Pallbearers were grandsons: Ralph and Lewis
Fahl, Guy Wills, Ross Ewart, William Crouse, Gerald Sparks, Charles
Brown, and Curtis Fahl.
Charles Elmer Fahl was the son on Daniel and Lydia Ann
(Lantis) Fahl. He was born in Wells County, IN, on ___ 27, 1866. His
first marriage was to Ada [I have references to
Ann] Longshore. Ada died in November 1916. Charles married May
Jane Osborne on March 15, 1918. Mary was the daughter of William and
Ida (Sherer) Osborne. Charles died on October 19, 1942. There was one
child born to the first marriage and two to the second marriage.
A son
____ Fahl (Wendell Diehl)
Lucille Fahl
---THE OBITUARY OF CHARLES ELMER FAHL---
“Charles Elmer Fahl died at 76 on Tuesday, October 19,
1943. He was a farmer living five miles northwest of Markle.
Mr. Fahl was born ____ 27, 1866 to Daniel and Lydia Ann
(Lantis) Fahl and first marriage to Ada Longshore who died in November
1916. A son born to them died.
Second marriage was to Mary Jane Osborne March 15,
1918. Two daughters, Mrs. Lucille Fahl at home, Mrs. Wendell Diehl,
Markle. Other relatives, a sister Mrs. George Brown near Warren, a
half-brother, Harmon Fahl, Markle, and a half-sister Mrs. Cora Ewart,
Markle. A brother and a sister preceded him in death.
Mr. Fahl was a member of the Prospect Methodist Church,
services by Rev. J.E. Jensen, Miami, officiating. Interment will be in
prospect Cemetery.”
Mary Elizabeth Fahl was the daughter of Daniel and Lydia
Ann (Lantis) Fahl. She was born in Wells County, IN, on April 2, 1869.
Mary married George Brown in Markle, Huntington County, IN, on December
17, 1892. George died on January 15, 1925. Mary died at home in
Jefferson Township, Huntington County, IN, on September 2, 1952
[I have references as to the date of September
7]. They were the parents of twelve children, order of birth not
certain.
---THE OBITUARY OF MRS. ELIZABETH BROWN---
Monday, September 8, 1952
Herald-Press
“Mrs. Elizabeth Brown Rites At Lancaster Church
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Brown, 83, died at 6:10 p.m. Sunday at her home in
Jefferson Township after an illness of some time of complications.
Mrs. Brown was born April 2, 1869, in Wells County to Daniel and Lidia
[sic] Lantis Fahl, and was married
December 17, 1892, to George Brown, at Markle. Mr. Brown died January
15, 1925.
Surviving are four daughters and five sons, a sister, and eight
grandchildren.
The
daughters are the Misses 0elise and Jessie Brown, at home, Miss Maggie
Brown, this city, and Mrs. Hazel Bittinger, Akron, OH.
Sons are Craston Brown, at home, Oscar A. Brown, Gransville, OH; Elmer
K. Brown, Phoenix, AZ; Dr. Everett D. Brown, Collins, MO; and Dr.
Charles E. Brown, Seligman, MO.
The
sister is Mrs. Cora Ewart, Markle, IN.
Triplet sons, two brothers and a sister are dead.
The
body has been returned to the family residence, Warren, route one, with
the Rev. Donald Holsopple, pastor of the Lancaster Church of the
Brethren, of which she was a member, officiating.
Rites are at 3 p.m. Wednesday. Internment will be in the Lancaster
Cemetery.”
Hazel Brown
Cranston Brown
Everett D. Brown
Elmer K. Brown
Oscar A. Brown
Charles R. Brown
Jessie Brown
Maggie Brown
Elsie Brown
Son
triplet
Son
triplet
Son
triplet
Harmon O. Fahl was the son of Daniel and Sarah Elizabeth (Lantis) Fahl.
He was born at Brown’s Corner, Union Township, Huntington County, IN, in
March 27, 1883. Harmon married Bertha Ann McBride October 1, 1905 at
Mt. Zion Church. She was born June 20, 1886 in Wells County, IN.
Bertha was the daughter of Robert and Mary Ann (Wilcoxsin) McBride.
Bertha died in Bluffton Community Hospital, Harrison Township, Wells
County, IN. They had seven children from their union.
Louis Fahl – 10-9-1907
Ross Fahl – 7-22-1909
Mildred M. Fahl – 10-23-1911
Hazel Fahl –
Edna L. Fahl – 9-21-1913
Mark J. Fahl – 8-1-1919 (died 2-20-1920)
Max
E. Fahl – 8-1-1919 (died 2-20-1920)
The
following obituary is from the Huntington Herald-Press:
“Fahl, Harmon O. Tuesday, September 2, 1947. – Harmon O. Fahl, 64,
Markle blacksmith since 1905, and President of the Markle Fire
Department, died unexpectedly at 3:20 p.m. at the home of his sister,
Mrs. David Ewart, where he had been moved after getting better from an
attack suffered last Thursday afternoon. As a member of the fire
department, Mr. Markle went with other members Thursday morning to
answer an alarm.
Mr.
Fahl had been remodeling a residence and was taken to his sister’s home
to recover while the home was to be completed. The second attack came
swiftly and proved fatal.
Mr.
Fahl was born March 27, 1883, at Brown’s Corners to Daniel and Sarah
Elizabeth Lantis Fahl and was married October 1, 1905 to Bertha McBride
at Mount Zion Church four miles north of Markle, IN.
Surviving are two sons, Louis Fahl, Dearborn, Wayne County, Michigan,
and Ross Fahl of Markle, Wells County, IN; three daughters, Mrs. Hazel
Crouse, Ft. Wayne, Allen County; Mrs. Mildred Sparks and Mrs. Edna Will,
route four Huntington; a sister, Mrs. Ewart, whose home he died in; a
half-sister, Mrs. Mary Brown, near Warren, and twenty grandchildren.
Mr.
Fahl was a member of the Markle Church of the Brethren, the Markle
Conservation Club, the Businessmen’s Association, and the oldest member
and President of the volunteer fire department.”
---H.O. FAHL FUNERAL IS HELD AT MARKLE---
Funeral services for Harmon O. Fahl were held at 10 a.m. Wednesday at
the McGuffey funeral home in Markle with the Rev. O.C. Rife
officiating. Internment was at Markle Cemetery (on 224 west of
Markle). Vocal music was by Miss Phyllis Moore and Mrs. Etta Heaston
with James Brumbaugh at the piano.
Flowerbearers were Max Fahl, Philip Fahl, Diana Fahl, Joann Fahl, Dixie
Fahl, Billie Sparks, Dick Sparks, Philip Sparks, Coleen Sparks, Terry
Will, John Will, Carolyn Will, Marilyn Crouse, James Crouse, and Ida
McKinney, all grandchildren, and Norma Jean Rodisch, Helen Fox, and
Doris Fox.
Pallbearers, active and honorary, were all Members of
the Markle fire department. The active pallbearers were Henry Yoos,
John Woodard, Ervin Wolfcale, Howard Anderson, Albert Luther, George
Paul, Wilbert Paul, and Henry Hite. The honorary pallbearers were
Donald Underwood, Merrill Sutton, Dale Hoover, and Russell West.
Ross E. Fahl was the son of Harmon O. and Bertha Ann
(McBride) Fahl. He was born in Markle, Huntington County, IN, on July
22, 1909. Ross married Dale N. Michael on December 8, 1934 in La Porte,
IN. She was born on September 24, 1916, in Blackford County, IN, to
Jerald and Francis (Jones) Michael. Dale died in Bluffton, Wells
Community Hospital, Harrison Township, Wells County, IN, on May 29,
1980. Ross died March 26, 1990. Both are interred in Markle Cemetery,
Huntington County (west side of Markle on 224). Their union brought
about six children.
Max R. Fahl
Philip Fahl
Dixie Fahl
Joann Fahl
Diana Fahl
Sherrill Fahl
From the Herald-Press, Huntington, Indiana:
“Fahl, Ross E., Tuesday, March 27, 1990. Ross E. Fahl, 80, 235 East
Sparks Street, Markle, Huntington County, IN, died at 1:15 p.m. Monday
(March 26, 1990) at Wells Community Hospital, Bluffton, Wells County,
IN.
Mr. Fahl was a millwright, and worked at the Dana
Corporation in Ft. Wayne for twenty-two years before retiring in 1971.
He was a member of the Markle Church of the Brethren.
He was born July 22, 1909 in Markle, Wells County, a son
of Harmon and Bertha McBride Fahl. He married Dale N. Michael December
8, 1934, in La Porte, IN. She died May 29, 1980.
Survivors include two sons; Max R. Fahl, Ossian, Allen
County; and Philip M. Fahl, Bluffton, Wells County; four daughters, Mrs.
Anthony (Dixie) Jiosa, Joann Minniear, and Mrs. Holman (Diana) Hunt, all
of Huntington, Huntington County, IN; and Mrs. Mark (Sherrill) Sprunger,
Bluffton, Wells County; a brother; Lewis Fahl, Sterling Heights, MI; and
two sisters; Mrs. Garl (Mildred) Sparks, Warren; and Mrs. William
(Hazel) Crouse, Ft. Wayne, Allen County. He was proceeded in death by a
sister, Edna Will, and a grandson.
Calling hours are from 7 to 9 p.m. today and 2 to 4 p.m.
and 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at Myers Funeral Home, Markle. Services will
be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Markle Church of the Brethren, with
Rev. Philip C. Dell officiating. Burial will be in the Markle Cemetery
(west of Markle on 224).
Preferred memorials are contributions to the Huntington
County Cancer Society or Wells County Home Health Care.
Service for Ross E. Fahl were held at 11 a.m. Thursday
at the Church of the Brethren, with Rev. Philip C. Dell officiating.
Pallbearers were Adam Fahl, Dan Fahl, Chris Hunt, Gary Hunt, Scott Hunt,
Bruce Jiosa, Terry Jiosa, Fred Minniear, Jeff Minniear, Todd Sprunger.
Myers Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.”
“Dale N. Fahl died Thursday May 29,1980, in Wells
County Community Hospital, Bluffton.
She was born September 24, 1916 in Blackford County, IN,
to Gerald and Francis (Jones) Michael. Her marriage was on December 8,
1934, in La Porte, IN, to Ross Fahl.
Survivors are: Mrs. Anthony (Dixie) Joisa, Mrs. Joanna Minniear, Mrs.
Holman (Diana) Hunt, all of Huntington; Mrs. Mark (Sherrill) Sprunger of
Bluffton; two sons, Max Fahl of Ossian, and Philip Fahl of Bluffton; a
step-son, Kenneth Fahl of LeBanon; two sisters, Mrs. Kenneth (Laverne)
Sparks, La Porte, La Porte County; Mrs. Levi Jus Reaser; 21
grandchildren, 3 great-grandchildren; a brother and her step-father,
Philip Stan, are deceased.
Services at Markle Church of the Brethren, Rev. Carl
Binkley officiating. Burial at Markle Cemetery, Markle, Huntington
County, IN.”
Children of Ross E. and Dale N. (Michael) Fahl:
Max R. Fahl
Philip Fahl
Dixie Fahl (Anthony Joisa)
Diana Fahl (Holman Hunt)
Sherrill Fahl (Mark Sprunger)
Mildred M. Fahl was the daughter of Harmon O. and Bertha
M. (McBride) Fahl. She was born in Huntington County, IN, on October
23, 1911. Mildred married ____ Sparks. They are the parents of four
children.
Billy Sparks
Dick Sparks
Philip Sparks
Coleen Sparks
Hazel Fahl was the daughter of Harmon O. and Bertha Ann
(McBride) Fahl. Hazel married ____ Crouse.
James Crouse
Marilyn Crouse
Edna Fahl is the daughter of Harmon O. and Bertha Ann (McBride) Fahl.
Edna married ____ Will. They are the parents of four children.
Hilda Will
Carolyn Will
John Will
Terry Will
Franklin S. Fahl was the son of Daniel and Sarah Elizabeth (Lantis)
Fahl. He was born at Brown’s Corner, Union Township, Huntington County,
IN. Franklin married Ida Mae Patten and February 9, 1895. They are the
parents of one child.
Frank E. Fahl (May Carroll) – 5-11-1896
Marie Fahl (____ Zimmerlee)
Frank E. Curt Fahl was the son of Franklin S. and Ida
Mae (Patten) Fahl. He was born in Roanoke, Jackson Township, Huntington
County, IN, on May 11, 1896. Frank married May Carroll on April 22,
1918. Frank died in Huntington, Huntington County, IN, on Sunday,
October 2, 1977. Internment was in Lancaster Cemetery, Huntington
County. They were the parents of four children.
June M. Fahl (____ Wells) – lived in Van Nuys, CA
Georgianna Fahl (Henry Jackson) – lived in Northridge,
CA
Mary Alice Fahl (Rex Goodrich) – lived in Huntington, IN
Helen Marie Fahl (Richard Bussard) – lived in Fort
Wayne, IN
---THE OBITUARY OF FRANK E. (CURT) FAHL---
Monday, October 3, 1977
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Herald-Press –
“Frank E. (Curt) Fahl, 81, 621 Webster Street, died at 6 a.m. Sunday at
his residence.
A
cabinetmaker by occupation, Mr. Fahl was employed for thirty-five years
at the Caswell-Runyan Company and for eight years by Liberty Coach,
Syracuse, IN, prior to retiring in 1964. He was a member of Bethel
United Methodist Church.
Mr. Fahl was born May 11, 1896, at Roanoke, IN, to
Franklin S. and Ida Mae Patten, and his marriage was on April 22, 1918
to the former May Carroll, who still survives.
Also surviving are four daughters, Mrs. June M. Wells, Van Nuys, CA;
Mrs. Henry (Georgianna) Jackson, Northridge, CA; Mrs. Rex (Mary Alice)
Goodrich, Huntington; and Mrs. Richard (Helen Marie) Bussard, Fort
Wayne; sixteen grandchildren; and 22 great-grandchildren; a half-sister,
Mrs. Marie Zimmerlee, Markle; and a step-sister, Mrs. Leto Fisher,
Berne, IN.
Friends may cal from 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Monday and Tuesday at the
Bailey Mortuary, where services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday,
with Rev. Don Covey officiating. Burial will be in Lancaster Cemetery,
and preferred memorials are to the Bethel United Methodist Church.
Services for Frank C. Fahl were conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday, in the
Bailey Mortuary, with the Rev. Covey officiating.
Pallbearers were Gary Bussard, Greg Bussard, Neil
Bussard, Ted Goodrich, Mike Smith, Steve Byall, Barry Knuckles, and Bill
Carmen. Burial was at Lancaster Cemetery.”
Helen Marie (Fahl) and Gary Bussard were the parents of at least three
children:
Gary Bussard
Greg Bussard
Neil Bussard
Cora Fahl was the daughter of Daniel and Sarah Elizabeth (Lantis) Fahl.
Susan Fahl was the daughter of George and Mary Ann (Wintermood) Fahl.
She was born in Union Township, Huntington County, IN, on April 11,
1844. Susan married Anthony Johnson on July 3, 1870 [26 years old].
Susan died in Union Township, Huntington County, IN, on Sunday, March
19, 1933. Internment was in the Union Cemetery. They were the parents
of one child.
(Daughter) _____ Johnson (John Berkfield)
---THE OBITUARY OF SUSAN FAHL JOHNSON---
Monday, March 20, 1933
Herald-Press
“Mrs. Susan Johnson, eighty-eight, a pioneer resident of
Huntington County died at 9 o’clock Sunday morning at the home of her
son-in-law and daughter, Mr. And Mrs. John Berkfield in Union Township,
seven miles east of Huntington. She had been bedfast for four years.
Mrs. Johnson was born April 11, 1844, in Huntington
County to George and Mary Fahl. Her marriage was to Anthony Johnson
July 3, 1970. The daughter, Mrs. John Berkfield of Union Township, a
grandchild, two great-grandchildren, and a brother, Henry Fahl of Union
Township, survive. Eight brothers and sisters are dead.
She was a member of the St. Peter’s Reformed Church of
this city.
Services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock at
the Union church with the Rev. R.B. Meckstroth in charge. Burial will
be at the Union Cemetery. Relatives said floral offerings are not
desired.”
“Henry Fahl. A career of exceptional enterprise and
public spirited relationship with the community has been that of Henry
Fahl, who is a native son of Huntington County, belongs to a family
which was established here in pioneer times, and is the owner and
proprietor of the old Fahl homestead, which under his management has
been increased to two-hundred acres, situated three miles east of
Huntington on the Union Center Gravel Road. Mr. Fahl’s prosperity is
almost entirely due to his individual efforts, and what he has made for
himself.
Henry Fahl was born on the old farm in Union Township,
July 23, 1949 [sic, read 1849], a son of
George and Mary Fahl. The Fahl family came originally from Germany, and
George Fahl was born in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, of which his
wife was likewise a native. They were married in that county, and
settled in Huntington County, Indiana, in 1841. Their location in Union
Township entitled the to distinction as pioneers, and they bore their
full share of the hardships and responsibilities connected with living
in that vicinity at that time. George Fahl died on the old farm in
1873, and his widow survived until July, 1893. They were the parents of
nine children, and seven living at the present writing are: Edward, of
Cass County; William of Huntington City; Dan of Markle; John of Miami
County; Susan and Mary, both residents in the city of Huntington.
Henry Fahl was reared on the old farm, was educated in
the district schools, and from his boyhood experience as a farmer, was
naturally introduced to the career in which he has made a substantial
success. Mr. Fahl has never taken upon himself the responsibility of
family life, and has done much for other members of the family. He has
long been an active worker in the Reformed Church, having served as an
elder for fifteen years. His politics is democratic, but he has never
aspired to public honors, and has never held any office of importance.”
Warren Dumbauld, was the son of Samuel F. and Salome
(Sarah) (Weimer) Dumbauld. He was born in Perry County, Ohio on July
18, 1845. Warren Married Mary Ann Fahl on December 29, 1872. She was
born in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania on December 8, 1847. Mary was
the daughter of George and Mary Ann (Wintermood) Fahl. Warren was a
farmer in Huntington County, Indiana. He died on June 25, 1899. Mary
Ann died on June 22, 1930, with both being interred at Reformed Church
Cemetery in Huntington, Indiana. They were the parents of two children.
THE OBITUARY OF MARY ANN (FAHL) DUMBAULD
“Died June 23, 1930, at the age of 83. Mary was born in
Union Township, Huntington County, Huntington, Indiana, on December 8,
1846. Her parents were George and Mary (Wintermood) Fahl, she was the
youngest of nine children. She married Warren Dumbauld on December 28,
1872, he died 31 years ago. They had two children, Mrs. Ida E.
[Dumbauld] Bechstein and John H.
Dumbauld. One grandchild Miriam Dumbauld. Daniel Fahl of Markle and
Henry Fahl of Union Township are brothers. Mrs. Susan Johnson of Union
Township is a sister. Warren died June 25, 1899.”
Ida E. Dumbauld (A.C. Bechstein) – 11-7-1873
John H. Dumbauld (Lillian M. Weber) – 8-6-1876
Ida Emma Dumbauld was the daughter of Warren and Mary
Ann (Fahl) Dumbauld. She was born on November 7, 1873 in Huntington
County, Indiana. Ida married Adolph Charles Bechstine
[sic] on December 6, 1906
[age 33]. He was born in Burttenberg,
Germany on January 3, 1872. Charles immigrated to America with his
parents and arrived in Huntington, Indiana, November 3, 1883. Adolph
was the son of John Jacob and Johannah Rosina (Schmidt) Bechstine
[sic]. At one time they lived at 426
East Washington Street, Huntington, Indiana. A. C. is a retired
druggist. Ida died Wednesday April12,1944. There is a write-up in the
Herald-Press Page 1, Col. 1. They had no children.
John Henry Dumbauld was the son of Warren and Mary Ann (Fahl) Dumbauld.
He was born in Union Township, Huntington County, Indiana on August 6,
1876. John married Lillian May (Lilly) Weber on June16, 1910. She was
born on April 23, 1880 in Union Township, Huntington County, Indiana.
Lilly was the daughter of Anthony Albert and Mary Catherine (Bucher)
Weber. At one time they lived at 409 East Franklin Street, Huntington,
Indiana. He was a druggist. John died on September 14, 1962. Lillian
died on March 13, 1958. They were the parents of one child.
---THE OBITUARY OF JOHN H. DUMBAULD---
“John H. Dumbauld died Friday, September 14, 1962 at the
age of eighty-six. He was a retired druggist. He had one daughter a
Mrs. Charles Erdmann of Greencastle, Indiana. John worked at the
Dumbauld and Burns Drug Firm which operated in the Erie Drug Store for
fifty years. He was born August 6, 1876 in Union Township. His parents
were Warren and Mary Ann Fahl Dumbauld. He married Lilly Weber June 16,
1910 in Huntington, Indiana. She died March 13, 1958. He had four
grandchildren, Charlotte, Victoria, John and Deborah Erdmann all of
Greencastle, one sister, Mrs. Adolph Bechstein whom is dead.”
---THE OBITUARY OF LILLIAN WEBER DUNBAULD---
“Lillian Weber Dumbauld died Thursday, March 13, 1858
[sic, should read 1958] at the age of seventy-seven. She was born April
23, 1880 in Union Township, Huntington County, Indiana. Her parents
were Anthony Albert and Mary Catherine Butcher Weber. She had a
daughter, Mrs. Charles (Miriam) Erdman of Greencastle, Indiana. She had
three sisters: Mrs. Ruth Mann, Mrs. Myrtle Vader of Huntington; Mrs.
Modjeska Bercaw of Columbia, North Carolina, two brothers William W.
Weber of Jackson Township, Paul Weber of Huntington and one sister,
Grace Weber who preceded Mrs. Dumbauld in death.”
Miriam J. Dumbauld (Charles P. Erdman
[sic]) 10-12-1913
“Miriam Jeanette Dumbauld was the daughter of John Henry
and Lillian May (Weber) Dumbauld. She was born in Huntington,
Huntington County, Indiana on October 12, 1913. Miriam married Charles
Pendery Erdmann in Huntington, Huntington County, Indiana on September
11, 1938. He was born in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio on April 1,
1908. He is owner and director of Camp Voyager, a boy’s camp, in Ely,
Minnesota. They were the parents of three children.
Charles Erdmann, owner and director of VOYAGER, comes to
the camp with thirty-five years camping experience in all parts of the
world. He has grown up in the ranks as assistant counselor, counselor,
water front director, and director.
In his junior year in college Mr. Erdmann received a scholarship which
sent him to Europe where he attended the University of Geneva and Jean
Jacques Rousseau Institute. During his summer he traveled in the East
and camped in Bulgaria.
Upon graduation from Springfield College (a school which
specializes in physical education and athletics) he went to the Orient
and Philippines as Athletic Director and boys secretary. He ran the
first camp for white boys in the islands for the Y.M.C.A. He has been
connected with:
Camp Boothbay, Bath, Maine;
Camp Pemigewasset, New Hampshire
Camp Highlands, Sayner, Wisconsin.
In
1949 he directed Camp Douglas Smith for the Winnetka Community house in
Ludington, Michigan.
He has been the coordinator of the Physical Education
Department and coached swimming, soccer, and tennis at DePaw University,
Greencastle, Indiana. He owner and directed VOYAGER since 1951.
Charlotte Erdmann (Lawrence Giddings) – 2-25-1943
Victoria P. Erdmann (William Burgman) – 2-12-1947
John C. Erdmann (Abigal [sic] Picardo) –
6-7-1948
Deborah Mae Erdmann – 3-6-1956
Charlotte Jean Erdmann is the daughter of Charles
Pendery and Miriam Jeanette (Dumbauld) Erdmann. She was born on
February 25, 1943. Charlotte married Lawrence Douglas Giddings on June
19, 1966. At the time of this compiling, (1984), they were living at
2215 Travis Road, Lebannon, Indiana 46052. They are the parents of two
children.
Christopher D. Giddings – 11-7-1969
Gretchen E. Giddings – 10-8-1974
Victoria Pendery Erdmann is the daughter of Charles
Pendery and Miriam Jeanette (Dumbauld) Erdmann. She was born o February
12, 1947. Victoria married William Burgman on October 4, 1975. At the
time of this compiling (1984), they were living at 320 South 9th,
Zionville, Indiana 46077. They are the parents of two children.
John Andrew Burgman – 10-23-1981
William Pendery Burgman – 7-15-1985
John Charles Erdmann is the son of Charles Pendery and
Miriam Jeanette (Dumbauld) Erdmann. John married Abigal
[sic] Picardo in June of 1974. At the
time of this compiling (1984), they were living at 354 Lakeshore Drive
Old Hickory, Tennessee. They are the parents of three children.
Charles Anthony Erdmann – 7-15-1977
Michele Victoria Erdmann – 5-29-1981
Suzanne Marie Erdmann – 6-29-1984
