WELLS COUNTY, INDIANA
OBITS
Date: 1918-08-08; Paper: Fort Wayne News Sentinel
Pioneer Resident of Wells County is Dead Ossian Ind Aug 8
Ezekiel Roe, 95 years old, said to have been the oldest resident of Wells County died last evening at 6 o'clock at his home north of here. Death was due to senility.
The deceased had been a resident of this county since 1859 when he purchased the farm on which he died near Ossian. He was born in Marion County near Indianapolis May 3, 1823 and was the son of Ezeckiel and Elizabeth Funk Roe. On July 8, 1823 he was united in marriage to Catherine Putterbaugh. eight children were born to this union and seven of them are living as follows; Andrew, Mary, the wife of John Krewson, Margaret, the wife of G.A. Bowman, Anna wife of H.J. Hunter, and E.H. Roe all of Ossian and vicinity, Arthur, of Columbia City, Arthur, of Columbia City. Amy, wife of Dr. D.G. Gerrell, of Payne, O. One brother Jeremiah Roe of Markle also survives. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock from the residence the Rev. W.E. Hamilton officiating.
Date: 1918-11-13; Paper: Fort Wayne News Sentinel
OSSIAN HIGH SCHOOL BOY IS VICTIM OF INFLUENZA
Ossain Ind. Nov 13 - Hume Mahnensmith 18 years old son of Mr. and Mrs. Warren Mohnensmith died Tuesday evening at 5:30 o'clock following a two weeks illness due to influenza and pneumonia. the young man was a popular member of the junior class of the Ossian High School and of the High School Basketball team. He is survived by the parents and one brother and four sisters. In account of the illness of the mother, who is in a serious condition with influenza the boys body has been taken to the home of Mr. and Mrs, Frank Poughty. Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon in the open air is the weather permits.
Pioneer Resident of Wells County is Dead Ossian Ind Aug 8
Ezekiel Roe, 95 years old, said to have been the oldest resident of Wells County died last evening at 6 o'clock at his home north of here. Death was due to senility.
The deceased had been a resident of this county since 1859 when he purchased the farm on which he died near Ossian. He was born in Marion County near Indianapolis May 3, 1823 and was the son of Ezeckiel and Elizabeth Funk Roe. On July 8, 1823 he was united in marriage to Catherine Putterbaugh. eight children were born to this union and seven of them are living as follows; Andrew, Mary, the wife of John Krewson, Margaret, the wife of G.A. Bowman, Anna wife of H.J. Hunter, and E.H. Roe all of Ossian and vicinity, Arthur, of Columbia City, Arthur, of Columbia City. Amy, wife of Dr. D.G. Gerrell, of Payne, O. One brother Jeremiah Roe of Markle also survives. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock from the residence the Rev. W.E. Hamilton officiating.
Date: 1918-11-13; Paper: Fort Wayne News Sentinel
OSSIAN HIGH SCHOOL BOY IS VICTIM OF INFLUENZA
Ossain Ind. Nov 13 - Hume Mahnensmith 18 years old son of Mr. and Mrs. Warren Mohnensmith died Tuesday evening at 5:30 o'clock following a two weeks illness due to influenza and pneumonia. the young man was a popular member of the junior class of the Ossian High School and of the High School Basketball team. He is survived by the parents and one brother and four sisters. In account of the illness of the mother, who is in a serious condition with influenza the boys body has been taken to the home of Mr. and Mrs, Frank Poughty. Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon in the open air is the weather permits.
Obituary for Rev. Dewey Jefferson Zent
Bluffton News Banner (Indiana) April 28, 1975, page 3
Rev. Dewey Zent Dies at Age of 77
Retired pastor of the Chester Center Christian Church, Rev. Dewey J. Zent, 77, died at 1:30 a.m. Sunday at Clinic Hospital, where he had been a patient only a few days due to a heart condition. A son of Mr. and Mrs. James D. Zent, he was born Feb. 21, 1898 in Liberty Twp. His marriage to Lulu Mendenhall, who died March 14 of this year, took place Aug. 19, 1916 in Mt. Zion. Survivors include four sons, Max L. and Hugh O., both of Warren, Edgar M. of Fort Wayne and Billy J. of Hartford City Route 1; a daughter, Mrs. Clinton (Katherine) Hartzell of Anderson; a brother, Oscar Zent of Clovis, N.M., 10 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren. Friends may call at the Walker Funeral Home in Montpelier where Rev. Heskie Thompson of Upland will officiate at services at 2 p.m. Wednesday. Burial will be in Jones Cemetery. (submitted by Ida Maack Recu)
Obituary of Hugh Oscar Zent
Bluffton News Banner (Indiana) August 8, 1977, page 3
Hugh Zent, 58, Has Fatal Heart Attack
An apparent heart attack has been attributed as the cause of death ofHugh O. Zent, 58, of Jackson Twp., Warren Route 2, who died suddenly at 5:30 p.m. Sunday while attending a family reunion at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Herschel Phillips in Montpelier. The Montpelier EMS unit was summoned to the scene, but Mr. Zent died before aid could be administered. An employe of Essex Corp. in Van Buren, he was a veteran of World War II. Born Sept. 12, 1918 in Wells County, he was a son of the late Rev. Dewey J. and Lulu Mendenhall Zent. His marriage to Helen Sutton, who survives, took place Feb. 10, 1941 in Jay County. Other survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Ray (Jackie) Taylor of Syracuse; a son, Dewey of Warren; three brothers, Max L. and Billy J., both of Warren, and Edgar M, of Fort Wayne; a sister, Mrs. Clinton (Katherine) Hartzell of Anderson, and eight grandchildren. Calling will be after 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Walker Funeral Home in Montpelier, where services at 2 p.m. Wednesday will be in charge of Rev. Marion Williams. Burial will be in the Jones Cemetery in Wells County. (submitted by Ida Maack Recu)
Bluffton News Banner (Indiana) April 28, 1975, page 3
Rev. Dewey Zent Dies at Age of 77
Retired pastor of the Chester Center Christian Church, Rev. Dewey J. Zent, 77, died at 1:30 a.m. Sunday at Clinic Hospital, where he had been a patient only a few days due to a heart condition. A son of Mr. and Mrs. James D. Zent, he was born Feb. 21, 1898 in Liberty Twp. His marriage to Lulu Mendenhall, who died March 14 of this year, took place Aug. 19, 1916 in Mt. Zion. Survivors include four sons, Max L. and Hugh O., both of Warren, Edgar M. of Fort Wayne and Billy J. of Hartford City Route 1; a daughter, Mrs. Clinton (Katherine) Hartzell of Anderson; a brother, Oscar Zent of Clovis, N.M., 10 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren. Friends may call at the Walker Funeral Home in Montpelier where Rev. Heskie Thompson of Upland will officiate at services at 2 p.m. Wednesday. Burial will be in Jones Cemetery. (submitted by Ida Maack Recu)
Bluffton News Banner (Indiana) August 8, 1977, page 3
Hugh Zent, 58, Has Fatal Heart Attack
An apparent heart attack has been attributed as the cause of death ofHugh O. Zent, 58, of Jackson Twp., Warren Route 2, who died suddenly at 5:30 p.m. Sunday while attending a family reunion at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Herschel Phillips in Montpelier. The Montpelier EMS unit was summoned to the scene, but Mr. Zent died before aid could be administered. An employe of Essex Corp. in Van Buren, he was a veteran of World War II. Born Sept. 12, 1918 in Wells County, he was a son of the late Rev. Dewey J. and Lulu Mendenhall Zent. His marriage to Helen Sutton, who survives, took place Feb. 10, 1941 in Jay County. Other survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Ray (Jackie) Taylor of Syracuse; a son, Dewey of Warren; three brothers, Max L. and Billy J., both of Warren, and Edgar M, of Fort Wayne; a sister, Mrs. Clinton (Katherine) Hartzell of Anderson, and eight grandchildren. Calling will be after 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Walker Funeral Home in Montpelier, where services at 2 p.m. Wednesday will be in charge of Rev. Marion Williams. Burial will be in the Jones Cemetery in Wells County. (submitted by Ida Maack Recu)
Bluffton, Ind.. Jan. 20.—Nathaniel Greenfield, aged seventy-one, died of pleuro-pneumonia this mornings He was a prominent citizen and soldier. He enlisted as a recuit in Company G. Twelfth Infantry in1861. and in 1885 re-enlisted in the One hunrdred and fifty-third Indiana, rank quarter-master.
Indiana Journal January 22, 1896
Indiana Journal January 22, 1896
BLUFFTON, Ind., Jan. 31- Nathaniel Webber of Logansport, formerly a leading merchant of Greenville, died this afternoon at the residence of John Studabaker, aged seventy-six.
Indiana Journal February 3, 1897
Bertha Edith (Dolby) Cullar
Daughter of David H Dolby
Wife of Erie V Cullar
28 October 1898 - 14 October 1975
Uniondale - Mrs. Bertha E Cullar, 76, Rt. 1 Uniondale, died at 12:05 a.m. yesterday at the Clinic Hospital, Bluffton.
A resident of Huntington and Wabash Counties most of her life, Mrs. Cullar, had lived at Rt. 4, Wabash for several years. She was a member of the Church of Our Savior United Methodist Church, Wabash, the Manchester Alumni Association, and the National and Indiana Retired Teacher's Association.
Surviving is a son, Fred V., Rt. 1, Uniondale; a sister, Mrs. Rosa Jones, Huntington; and two grandsons. Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday at the Bailey Mortuary, Huntington, with the Rev. Douglas Knight and the Rev. Arthur Nicholson officiating. Burial will be in the Gardens of Memory Cemetery. Friends may call from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. today and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. tomorrow at the mortuary Chronicle Tribune Wed. Oct 15 1975
Contributed By Christine Walters & Paul Haley - Chronicle Tribune
Erle V Cullar
12 January 1893 - 12 January 1970
Husband of Bertha Dolby
Gardens of Memory Cemetery Wells Co IN
Funeral services for Erle V. Culler, 77, Rt. 4 Wabash, will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the United Methodist Church of Our Savior in Wabash, with the Rev. Earl Guingrich officiating. Burial will be in the Garden of Memory Cemetery.
Friends may call at the Hunter Funeral Home, LaFontaine after 2 p.m. Thursday and until one hour prior to services.
Mr. Culler died at 5:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Fort Wayne VA Hospital.
Born in South Bend, Mr. Culler was a member of the United Methodist Church of Our Savior in Wabash. He was a World War 1 Veteran.
Survivors include his wife, Bertha; one son, Fred, Uniondale (Wells Co IN); two grandchildren and two brothers, Lee, Cleveland, Ohio (Cuhoyga Co) and Myron, Denver Colo.
Contributed By Christine Walters & Paul Haley - Chronicle Tribune
Daughter of David H Dolby
Wife of Erie V Cullar
28 October 1898 - 14 October 1975
Uniondale - Mrs. Bertha E Cullar, 76, Rt. 1 Uniondale, died at 12:05 a.m. yesterday at the Clinic Hospital, Bluffton.
A resident of Huntington and Wabash Counties most of her life, Mrs. Cullar, had lived at Rt. 4, Wabash for several years. She was a member of the Church of Our Savior United Methodist Church, Wabash, the Manchester Alumni Association, and the National and Indiana Retired Teacher's Association.
Surviving is a son, Fred V., Rt. 1, Uniondale; a sister, Mrs. Rosa Jones, Huntington; and two grandsons. Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday at the Bailey Mortuary, Huntington, with the Rev. Douglas Knight and the Rev. Arthur Nicholson officiating. Burial will be in the Gardens of Memory Cemetery. Friends may call from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. today and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. tomorrow at the mortuary Chronicle Tribune Wed. Oct 15 1975
Contributed By Christine Walters & Paul Haley - Chronicle Tribune
Erle V Cullar
12 January 1893 - 12 January 1970
Husband of Bertha Dolby
Gardens of Memory Cemetery Wells Co IN
Funeral services for Erle V. Culler, 77, Rt. 4 Wabash, will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the United Methodist Church of Our Savior in Wabash, with the Rev. Earl Guingrich officiating. Burial will be in the Garden of Memory Cemetery.
Friends may call at the Hunter Funeral Home, LaFontaine after 2 p.m. Thursday and until one hour prior to services.
Mr. Culler died at 5:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Fort Wayne VA Hospital.
Born in South Bend, Mr. Culler was a member of the United Methodist Church of Our Savior in Wabash. He was a World War 1 Veteran.
Survivors include his wife, Bertha; one son, Fred, Uniondale (Wells Co IN); two grandchildren and two brothers, Lee, Cleveland, Ohio (Cuhoyga Co) and Myron, Denver Colo.
Contributed By Christine Walters & Paul Haley - Chronicle Tribune
Leroy "Roy" Otto Dolby, 78, a native of Wells County, died at Ball Memorial Hospital, Muncie, at 6:30 pm Sunday. He had been ill three years.
Mr. Dolby resided in the Warren area until 1942, when he moved to Muncie. He was a clerk in a supermarket there. Mr. Dolby was a member of the Church of the Brethren.
The body was taken to the Meeks Mortuary in Muncie, where friends may call tonight. It will be removed to the H. Brown and Son Funeral Home here, where friends may call after 2 pm Tuesday. Funeral services will be held at the Brown Funeral Home at 1:30 pm Wednesday. Burial will be in Jones Cemetery, Wells County. Survivors include the widow, Rebecca; a son, Claude Dolby, Bluffton; six daughtes, Mrs. Orval Holdren, South Bend; Mrs. Roy McIntire, Muncie; Mrs. Marple Cohee, Marion; Mrs. Jane Netrefa, Willow Springs, Ill; Mrs. Howard Winn, Huntsville Ala., and 10 grandchildren, 40 great grandchildren, a brother, Elmer Dolby, Chicago and a half brother, Ves Landis, Warren.
Jones Cemetery - Wells Co IN Contributed by Christine Walters
Funeral services for Mrs. Nora P. (Kingen) Dolby, 73, 514 Rex St., Muncie, were conducted today at the H. Brown and Son Funeral Home in Warren. Burial was in Jones Cemetery in Wells County.
Mrs. Dolby died at 10 am Saturday at Ball Memorial Hospital, Muncie.
She was a native of Jay County. She was a former resident of six miles east of Warren. She was a member of the Church of the Brethren, Muncie.
Survivors include a son, Claude, Bluffton; five daughters, Mrs. Orville Holdren South Bend; Mrs. Roy McIntire, Muncie; Mrs. Marphle Cohee, Marion; Mrs. James Netrefa, Willow Springs ILL., and Mrs. Howard Winn, Huntsville, Ala; a foster daughter, Mrs. Patricia Bennett Conwell, Muncie; 18 grandchildren and several great grandchildren.
Jones Cemetery - Wells Co IN Contributed by Christine Walters
Hold Hearing on Death
Bluffton, Ind. Aug 13 A member of the industrial board will be here Thursday to conduct a hearing in the case of the John Thomas death, Thomas was employed by the Indiana Lighting company in making a tap on East Ohio street, and was overcome and killed by gas fumes The contention of the gas company is that Thomas disobeyed instructions in making the tap
8-18-1920 Fort Wayne News Sentinel Submitted by Erica Beatty
Obit for W F Wibel
by Dale Donlon
Donald Crandall
Bluffton-Donald W. Crandall, 59, was found dead in bed at 8:45 a.m. Sunday at his home in Greensburg. He had been manager of the Farm Bureau hatchery at New Point. Surviving are the wife, Eva, two daughters, a sister, two brothers, two grandchildren and his mother, Mrs. Caroline Crandall, Bluffton. Services at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday from the Thoma Funeral Home.
Newspaper: Fort Wayne News-Sentinel Obit: Monday, November 25, 1963
Charles Harris
Bluffton - Funeral services for Charles Harris, 74, and Mrs. Constance Harris, 72, will be held at 1:30 p.m. Monday from the Thoma Funeral Home. Burial will be in Elm Grove Cemetery. He died at 4 p.m. Friday and she died at 10 a.m. Friday.
Newspaper: Fort Wayne News-Sentinel Obit: Monday, November 25, 1963
Bluffton-Donald W. Crandall, 59, was found dead in bed at 8:45 a.m. Sunday at his home in Greensburg. He had been manager of the Farm Bureau hatchery at New Point. Surviving are the wife, Eva, two daughters, a sister, two brothers, two grandchildren and his mother, Mrs. Caroline Crandall, Bluffton. Services at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday from the Thoma Funeral Home.
Newspaper: Fort Wayne News-Sentinel Obit: Monday, November 25, 1963
Bluffton - Funeral services for Charles Harris, 74, and Mrs. Constance Harris, 72, will be held at 1:30 p.m. Monday from the Thoma Funeral Home. Burial will be in Elm Grove Cemetery. He died at 4 p.m. Friday and she died at 10 a.m. Friday.
Newspaper: Fort Wayne News-Sentinel Obit: Monday, November 25, 1963
BLUFFTON—Word has been received from Fowlerton, Ind., telling of the death of Mrs. Stanton, wife of the Rev. S. S. Stanton, former pastor of the Liberty Center church.
The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette 1909-03-11 Page 9
The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette 1909-03-11 Page 9
Obit: Walter Grosh died at the poor farm at half-past nine o'clock Friday, of lung trouble, and will be buried at that place Saturday morning. He was seventy-six years of age, and had been at the farm since 1892, prior to which time he made his home with his son, Mike Grosh, the barber, who resided here at that time but now lives at Junction, Ohio.
Newspaper: Bluffton Chronicle Date: 18 Feb 1903
Submitters Name: Brenda Grosh
Obit: Thursday afternoon occurred the death at Marion, Ohio, of Mrs. Mary Grosh, an aged resident of Wells county who had been there on a visit with her son, John Grosh. Mrs. Grosh has been for over half a century a resident of Adams and Wells counties moving to the former in 1848 with her first husband, George Heckathorn. Her husband died in 1857, and in 1860 she was united in marriage to Walter Grosh. There are four children surviving her. By her first marriage two children are living, Frank Heckathorn and Mrs. Peter Beeler, both of this city, and her other children are John Grosh, of Marion, Ohio and M.J. Grosh, of Mingo Junction, Ohio. Mrs. Grosh had for the past few years been living at Buena Vista, but since last fall had made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Beeler, north of town. She had been on a visit in Marion where she took sick with a complication of diseases which, on account of her old age she was unable to survive. She was in her seventy-sixth year. Mrs. Beeler and son, Adam, who went to Marion Friday, returned here Saturday accompanied by M.J. Grosh, with the remains. Funeral services were held at ten o'clock Sunday at Salem church with interment in the cemetery at that place.
Newspaper: Bluffton Chronicle
Date: 5 Sept 1900
Submitters Name: Brenda Grosh
LIVED AND DIED AS A BACHELOR
Bluffton, Ind., Jan. 12. — Word has been received of the death of W. T. Jeffroy in the Confederate Soldiers' Home followed by burial in the Fewee valley cemetery. Professor Jeffrey, after the close of the war of the rebellion, came north and lived nearly all of the time In this county, and for several years he taught a school.
Three years ago his health failed, and claiming that having fought for the Confederate cause, the Confederate home ought to shelter him, he went there, remaining until his death.
Tho girl of his boyhood choice never married. Her father and brothers fought on the Union side and could never reconcile themselves to the thought of the daughter and sister marrying a Confederate soldier, and so she remained single. Jeffrey a bachelor.
Date: 1907-01-12; Paper: Evening News
Dr.Elizabeth Dalby-Norred
MINNEAPOLIS, March 21—Dr. Elizabeth S. Dalbey-Norred is dead. She was born in Wells county, Indiana, Oct. 14, 1843. Nov. 16, 1865, she was married to Dr. Charles Norred, a surgeon In the Seventieth Illinois Cavalry. In 1881 she was graduated from the Women's Medical College of Chicago. Her standing in the profession was represented by membership tn the-Illinois State Medical Society. Illinois. Indiana and Kentucky Tristate Medical Societies, the American Medical Society, the Society of Physicians and Surgeons. Minneapolis, Hennepin County Medical Society and the Minnesota Medical Society. She was also connected with various hospitals and church work. The remains will be taken to Elkhart, Ill. for burial
Date: 1898-03-23; Paper: Indiana State Journal
MINNEAPOLIS, March 21—Dr. Elizabeth S. Dalbey-Norred is dead. She was born in Wells county, Indiana, Oct. 14, 1843. Nov. 16, 1865, she was married to Dr. Charles Norred, a surgeon In the Seventieth Illinois Cavalry. In 1881 she was graduated from the Women's Medical College of Chicago. Her standing in the profession was represented by membership tn the-Illinois State Medical Society. Illinois. Indiana and Kentucky Tristate Medical Societies, the American Medical Society, the Society of Physicians and Surgeons. Minneapolis, Hennepin County Medical Society and the Minnesota Medical Society. She was also connected with various hospitals and church work. The remains will be taken to Elkhart, Ill. for burial
Date: 1898-03-23; Paper: Indiana State Journal
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