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NOEL DESCENDENTS HOLD BIG REUNION
FAMILY REUNION 1921
Posted by Kathryn Martin
The descendents of Henry and Mary (Kays) Nole held their first annual reunion
at Spencer on Sunday, October 9. Only one child of this large family of boys
and girls is living, Isaac Noel of Spencer. There were five sons in this family
who answered to the call of their country, in 1860 during the Civil War. Two
lost their lives during this conflict. One was buried in the southern clime;
the others came home and most of them spent their remaining years in Owen
county. At Spencer Sunday about 200 descendents of the family met together for
the first time in the history of the family at the Cooper park where they became
acquainted, and at the noon hour they repaired to the basement of the Christian
church, where all of the large tables were spread with one of the largest feasts
ever spread, to which all did justice, but not half of the good things were
eaten.
Among those from a distance were: J.M. Noel; Mr and Mrs Mood Arthur, Miss Grace
Arthur, Miss Grace Arthur, Lucian Barton, Mrs. Lucinda Barton, Amon Fulk,
Florence and Zelma Fulk, Mrs and Mrs James Stuart, Ella, Robert and Donald
Mc-ema, Elizabeth Stuart, Mr and Mrs Guy Hamilton and daughters, Mary E. and
Margaret of Worthington; Mr and Mrs Henry Wesinagef and sons, Charles and
Lowell, Mrs and Mrs Ira Bare, Bertha Willard and Miriam Bare, Thomas Raper and
son, Paul and Clyde Southard of Jasonville; Mr and Mrs F Cline and daughter,
Louise, of Dugger, Rev and Mrs. R.F. Watkins and daughter, Mary of Linton; Mrs
and Mrs Aaron Sims of Borton, Illinois; Mr and Mrs R.L. Burks and daughter,
Maxine, Mr and Mrs Coy Noel and daughter Francis, of Ellettsville; Mr and Mrs
F.O. Livingston, Mr and Mrs L.W. Noel, Mrs and Mrs Chalmer Roudebush, Mr and Mrs
O.C. Byers and daughter, Martha Jean of Bloominton; Mrs and Mrs J.C.Noel, Mabel,
Thelma, Wayne and Doris Noel, Jas Cravens, Mrs and Mrs George Roudebush, Ralph,
Raymond, Renos, and Ica Roudebush,, Oscar, Bryan, Floyd, Samuel, Marion and
Lucile Noel and Nan Sims of Bloomfield. There were others present also from
Freeman, Adel, and other parts of Owen county. The time was not set for the
1922 reunion but it will be held eary in the fall.
BIGGER FAMILY REUNION
Posted by Pamela Meyer
The following was published in the Spencer weekly paper,
Leader, on august 8, 1917. Anne Arthur is also known
as Sarah Anne Bigger Ritter Arthur."Nelson Bigger and
wife attended the Bigger family reunion at the home of
Mrs. Anne Arthur at Freedom Friday. Several descendants
of Leonard (Dad) Bigger live in and near Freedom.Leonard
Bigger was grandson of James Bigger who came to Owen County
with the first settler Phillip Hart in 1816."
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