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THE SHOWALTERS OF WABASH COUNTY INDIANA
J.T. Showalter hails from Tuscarawas County Ohio where he had a son Henry Showalter in 1827[1]. J.T. helped settled the Sugar Creek Township around 1825 with other Showalters. He ran a business part woolen mill, part foundry and part machine shop.
Henry Showalter grew up to be a Harness maker. Henry left Ohio and settled in Wabash County Indiana[1] where he met and married Rebecca Craft of Wabash in 1851[2]. Henry and Rebecca had 2 children. Lovena born 1852, Mary born 1854[1]. Henry re-married in to Anna Genther also of Tuscarawas County Ohio in 1855[2]. Henry and Anna had 3 more children, Benjamin born August 17th 1857, Laura born 1865 and William born in 1869[1]. Henry and Anna are buried in Friend’s cemetery in Wabash, IN.
Benjamin Showalter grew up and left Wabash County before his twenty second birthday and moved over to Logansport in Cass County Indiana[1] around 1879. Benjamin had learned the trade of plating metal, probably from his grand father J.T. Logansport has had a long-standing tradition as a transportation center so there was a need for foundry support.
THE PRICES OF CASS COUNTY INDIANA
John R Price hails from Virginia and immigrated to Cass County Indiana in 1840[1] while indentured to John Murphy. John was a saddler. In 1845 John bought two forty acre parcels of land in Cass County. Around 1845 John met Susana Jane of Logansport and they married around 1848. John & Susana had 4 children. Thomas born 1848 (dying before the age of two), Malissa born June 31, 1860, John born 1868 and Alice born 1872[1]. On August 15th 1861, John joined the 22nd Indiana Infantry Regiment under Colonel Jefferson C Davis. He fought through out the Civil War until he mustered out on July 24th, 1865[3]. John died prior to the 1880 census.
Susana Jane then relocated to Chicago around 1910 to live with her daughter Alice. She died in Chicago from pneumonia on April 7th 1916 at the age of 83. Susana is buried in the Chippiannock cemetery in Rock Island Illinois[4].
Melissa Price (sometimes called Minnie) grew up in Logansport and was a seamstress[1]. Melissa and Benjamin met in Logansport where they lived just a few blocks from one another. They married on April 28th, 1881 in Logansport[2].
ROCK ISLAND ILLINOIS CONNECTION
Benjamin and Melissa Showalter, along with Malissa’s brother John moved to Rock Island Illinois in 1883[1]. Rock Island was the home of the Rock Island Stove Company which in 1891 was the largest producer of wood stoves in the United States[5]. John, Malissa’s brother died of typhoid fever in 1887 at the age of 18 and is buried in the Chippiannock cemetery in Rock Island Illinois[4]. Benjamin and Mallissa had one child Elmer.
Elmer was born around 1888 in Rock Island. Mallissa died of myocarditis on April 5th 1930[2] at the age of 70 and is buried in the Chippiannock cemetery in Rock Island Illinois[4]. Benjamin died of coronary thrombosis on November 11th 1936 at the age of 79 and is buried in the Chippiannock cemetery in Rock Island Illinois[4]. Benjamin had spent 45 years as a plater and taught his profession to his son Elmer. He left a house that they had lived in since 1886. Allvin A. Showalter came out from Wabash to settle his affairs. (Elmer may have be the illegitimate son of Benjamin and Nellie Mahoney of Peoria, IL.
Elmer Showalter grew up in Rock Island where he met and lived with Julie May Mullin[1]. Elmer and May had 2 children. Emerald May born 1910, and LeRoy born 1912. Speculation is that May died in 1914. Emerald married Orion Perterson and had a son John Fredic.
SETTLING IN CHICAGO
In 1918 Elmer arranged a marriage with a Welsh native, Annie Cadvies of Newport Wales. In December 1918 Annie boarded a boat in Liverpool and came to Rock Island under the name Annie Showalter. In 1920, Elmer and Annie Showalter stayed in Peoria Illinois with John and Nettie Cavanaugh[1].
In 1921 the family relocated to 2048 W. Lincoln Park Avenue in Chicago. Elmer and Annie had one child, Lillian Mafawny born March 12th 1921. Annie died of Chronic Peritonitis on January 23rd 1926 at the age of 31 [2] in Chicago and is buried in the Wunders cemetery in Chicago Illinois[4]. Elmer died in 1968 at the age of 80 in St Augustine Florida.
1. census record
2. BMD record
3. US military record
4. Cemetery record
5. Local history record
6. Parish records
7. Maritime records
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