Entries from January 2008 ↓
January 21st, 2008 — Genealogy
My great-aunts and uncles:
Aunt Hoppe - Carrie Ruby Hales
Hugh - born 12 Aug 1898 (my grandfather)
Evelyn - born 7 Jan 1901
Lida - born 19 July 1904
James - born 24 Mar 1907
Bessie D - born 7 Apr 1910
Helen - born 19 Nov 1916
Rexall - born 3 Jan 1913
My grandmother and great grandfather
Margaret Blessing and Jacob Greathouse
Margaret Josepha Blessing
Born: 24 Mar 1900 - Chicago, IL
Married: 26 Oct 1924 - Franklin, Ky
Parents: George Blessing and Eva Bechtel
Eva’s parents were Martin Bechtel and Margaret Heck
George was born in Duesseldorf, Germany 5 Feb 1859
Married Eva in 1887 while living in Chicago
Miss Katie Bechtel of Chicago attended George Blessing’s funeral.
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=phschue&id=I4087
Margaret Blessing moved to Rockport Indiana during the 1920’s to teach school. There she met Hugh Greathouse and they were married. They would later move to Port Washington, WI during the great depression, hearing there was work. In Port Washington Margaret taught school for many years and Hugh was a welder.
Hugh graduated from Rockport High School in 1916. He was the artist for the first yearbook ‘Beech Leeves’. Below is his high school picture and a few examples of his art work.
George Blessing’s House
in Port Washington, WI
Margaret, George, Ethel and Eva Blessing
Placeholder for Port Premo Beer
January 17th, 2008 — Genealogy
Jacob S. Greathouse
Born: 7-13-1879 - Rockport, Indiana
Died: 6-11-1962 - Columbus, Indiana
Maried: Bessie Lee Hales - April 1st 1898
Bessie Lee Hales
Born: 4-4-1877 - Rockport, Indiana
Died: 11-19-1933
Parents: Hugh and Delia Hales
January 15th, 2008 — Genealogy
James and Catherine Scammahorn Greathouse are buired in Shiloh cemetery near Rockport, Indiana. Shiloh can be found at the following location on Goggle maps.
James Smithers Greathouse
Born: 13 May 1833 - Rockport, Indiana
Parents: John and Elizabeth Grass Greathouse
Catherine Wiles Scammahorn
Born: 23 Feb 1836 - Hamilton County, OH
Parents: Rev Jacob and Jane Scammahorn
Married: 6 Apr 1862 - Rockport, Indiana
From the Rockport / Spencer County Sesquicentennial - Page 57
Three Methodist classes, Oak Springs, Barnett and Forest Grove, joined to build a church in 1872. At first they called in “Kingsley” but, even before the structure was completed, the name was changed to Shiloh.
During the Civil War, a yound soldier, Henry Wright, had requested that, in the event he did not return from the fighting, he would be buried on the beautiful wooded knoll that later became Shiloh cemetery. He was killed at the battle of Shiloh and the church was renamed.
The Barnett class consisted of: Jeffrey Wright, John B. Wright, Abel Wright, Elizabeth Greathouse, Issac Wright and their families.
January 13th, 2008 — Genealogy
The Reverend Jacob Scammahorn came to Rockport / Spencer County Indiana in 1850 and founded the Mt Zion United Brethern Church. The church and grave stones pictured below can be found at this location on Google maps
Reverend Jacob Scammahorn
Birth: 1806-10-19 in Hamilton,Ohio
Death: 1878-06-21 in Spencer County Indiana
Wife: Jane - Father: Luther
Jane Gilliland Scammahorn
Birth: 1811-09-11 in Ohio
Death: 1879-04-26 in Spencer County Indiana
Mother’s name: Patience Gilliland
Luther (Luke) Scammahorn
Death: 1860-04-02 in Spencer County Indiana
Birth: 1770-03-15
Married: 1794-01-19 in Ohio County Virginia
Wife: Charissa Terrell
Father: Lucas Schermerhorn
Patience Gilliland
Born: 11 Dec 1777
Died: 20 Jan 1856
Married: James Gilliland
Charissa Terrell - daughter of Jared and Sarah Terrell
Death: 1830 in Hamilton Ohio
Birth: 1770
Lucus Schermerhorn
Birth: 1750-05-01 in Reformed Dutch Church,Machackemeck,NY
Death: 1792 in Somerset,New Jersey
Married: 1769 Sarah Jones b: 1750 d: in Wellsburg,WV
The information about Lucus Schermerhorn and Charissa Terrell was obtained from
http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=chapeau&id=P2372967314 and has not been verified, but believed to be true.
IN MEMORY OF
Rev. Jacob Scammahorn, who died at his home in Spencer county, Indiana, June 21, 1878 aged seventy years, eight months and two days. Father Scammahorn was born in Hamilton county, Ohio Oct. 19, 1807. He embraced the religion of Jesus Christ in the year 1830, when at the age of twenty-three. In the year 1837 he was licensed by the United Brethren church to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and during a period of forty years he devoted all his time to build up the Master’s kingdom.
He moved from the state of Ohio to this State and settled in Spencer county in the year 1850. Shortly after selecting his new home he continued his labors as an itinerant minister and was the pioneer of the church of the United Brethren in Christ in Southern Indiana. He was four times elected delegate and represented his conference in the General Conference. He was many times elected and traveled as the Presiding Elder of the district of the Indiana Annual Conference. The burial services were conducted by the writer at Mt. Zion Chapel and the mortal remains were interned in the church cemetery, on the Sabbath, June 23rd 1878. There was in attendance a large concourse of neighbors, friends and relatives. He leaves an aged companion, two sons, one daughter all settled in life and heads of families, a number of grandchildren, and a host of warm friends. It is natural for us to lament the death of a friend, but while we grieve over the departure of this beloved friend, pastor and father, we have all assurances to believe that his spirit is in the realms of eternal bliss, that he has entered in to that rest that has been prepared for all those that love our blessed Saviour, and that he has received the happy welcome, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant”. Although brother Scammahorn is gone, yet his works remain. He has built a monument in the hearts of the people that can not efface. He faithfully did with his might that which his hands found to do. It is impossible in this brief article to enumerate and extol the many virtues of this pious and exemplary minister. His mission in this world was to lift up fallen and deprived humanity, and to point them to the “Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world.” To this he devoted forty long years of his life. Not withstanding the bodily afflictions he had to pass through during the last years of his life, he has spiritually been at peace, and has bowed with humble submission to the will of God. In this dispensation of Providence the church is bereft of one of her most zealous and ardent workers, and the community one of its noble and worthy citizens. But these losses are his eternal gain. Peace be to his ashes until the resurrection morn, when Christ shall come in the glory of the Father to make up His Jewels. S.S. Riley
January 12th, 2008 — Genealogy
Hugh Jewell Hales
Born: June 8th 1842 - Rockport Indiana
Died: April 8th 1913 - Rockport Indiana
Married: 15th Jan 1876 - Delia Martha Ruby
Delia Martha Ruby
Born: 15th Jan 1856 - Calhoun, Ky
Died: 20th Jan 1910 - Rockport, In
She had twins on April 4th, 1877 - Bessie Lee and Jessie Dee.
Jessie Dee died the next year.
Hugh was the son of George Jewell Hales and Caroline Thompson.
George and Caroline married 28th Jan 1838 in Rockport,Indiana.
George is buried in Sunset Hill Cemetery in Rockport, Indiana.
His tombstone reads 5 Mar 1811 - 12 Nov 1896
WAR DEPARTMENT
The Adjutant General’s Office
Washington
May 20, 1912
Hon. John W. Boehne
House of Representatives
Dear Sir:
Referring to your letter of the 17th instant, in which you
request to be furnished with the military and hospital record,
including age at enlistment, of Hugh J. Hales, formerly a member
of Company F, 12th Kentucky Cavalry, I have the honor to inform
you as follows:
The records show that Hugh J. Hales was enrolled August 12, 1862, and was mustered into service November 17, 1862, at Owensboro, Kentucky, as a corporal, Company F, 12th Kentucky Cavalry Volunteers, to service three years; that he was appointed sergeant May 20, 1863, and that he was mustered out of service with the company, as of that rank, June 13, 1865.
The medical records show that he was under treatment at intervals between April 27, 1863, and September 7, 1864, for inflammation of the cellular tissue of leg, for diarrhoea, and for abscess.
It is stated on the records that this soldier’s age at.
enlistment was 18 years.
Very respectfully,
(W. P. Hall)
The Adjutant General
About September, 1862 our regimment was stationed on the
Ohio River at Owensboro, Kentucky. The rebels made a raid on the
command and would have captured it but for an act of Hugh J. Hales
at the risk of his life by swimming the river and carrying a dispatch
to Rockport, Indiana, for help. A call was made for a volunteer to
swim the river but none responded, the risk was considered to great.
One of the officers knowing that Hales was a good swimmer interviewed him presenting the facts that the command could not hold out but a few hours longer when they would have to surrender and turn over everything in their possession to the rebels and possibly be taken to a southern prison. Although. the river is about a mile vide at that point Hugh hesitated no longer, and in reply said “I will try”. So carrying a dispatch asking help he swam the river and went to Rockport, Indiana, a distance of ten miles, and reported. The Indiana troops responded and came to the aid of the command and saved it from capture. It was not the fear alone of being drowned that prevented the men from volunteering but the fear also of being shot while in the river. Hugh J. Hales of Rockport, Indiana, should be substancially remembered by the government for risking his life to save his regiment from capture, which he did.
S. B. Littlepage, M. D.
Late Asst. Surg. 12th Ky. Cal.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this December 6th, 1909.
John P. Cook
County Clerk and clerk of this
Superior Court of Almeda County
State of California,
Oakland, Almeda CO., Cal.
By: H. B. Zambresky
Deputy, Clerk.
From: http://kentucky.gov/kyhs/hmdb/MarkerSearch.aspx?mode=County&county=30
Panther Creek Battle
(Marker Number: 745)
County: Daviess
Location: 7.5 mi. S. of Owensboro, US 431
Description: Sept. 19, 1862, Confederate force occupied Owensboro. USA troops at old Fairground refused demand for surrender. Skirmish followed. Union soldier swam Ohio River to summon help from Indiana Legion. CSA retired to here. Home Guards from Indiana crossed river and attacked next day. CSA retreated with 36 killed, 70 wounded. USA loss, 3 killed and 35 wounded.
Additional information about Hugh Hale’s parents has been found
here but has not been verfiied.
The information below about his children has not been verified but is believed to be true and was found
here, among other places.
Besides Bessie Lee, Hugh & Delia Hales had other children:
Mabel Clair (1881-Nov 1958 - married Beeler 7 chilren)
Hugh J Hales Jr - (June 13th 1883 - Jan 26th 1887)
Edna V Hales (Dec 24th 1885 - married in 1905 Ludwick - 8 children)
Carrie Ruby Hales (1888 - married Conen and Hoppe - 4 children)
Susan Hales (1890-1929 - married 1909 Phillips - 6 children)
Hazel Hales (26 Mar 1893- 23 Jan 1946 - married Lewis)
Place holder for Battle of Panther Creek - 19 Sept 1862
Rockport Journal April 21, 1961
