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Beulah's parents, my maternal grandparents, Mary Elizabeth
Hayden and Walter Henry Crosley, Pendleton, Indiana, about 1910 |

Howard's mother and my paternal grandmother, Ella
Markle, born Markleville, Indiana 1879 - died Ovid, Indiana 1941
Her
father was Samuel Markle, born in New York 1823- died Markleville
Indiana1880 - parents John D. Markle (1793-1865) and Sallie Allen
(1795-1861), founders of Markleville, Indiana
Her mother was Ann Sarah Riggs, born Ohio 1838 - died Markleville,
Indiana 1918 - parents Beniah Riggs (1810-1887) and Olivia Ralston
(1810-1838)
Their sons owned the Markle Bros Saw Mill. |

Howard's father and my paternal grandfather, Theodore "Dory"
Fesler, 1879-1915, photographed at the Markle Bros. Saw Mill in
Markleville, Indiana
His father was James Monroe Fesler, born Ovid, Indiana 1854 -
died Anderson, Indiana1927
His mother was Lydia Cornelia Collis, born 18681 Anderson,
Indiana - died 1881 Ovid, Indiana |

Paternal grandparents of Beulah and my maternal
great-grandparents, Alice Hite (1857-1925) and Samuel Eddie
Crosley 1852-1921, Pendleton, Indiana, about 1910
They had four sons and one daughter.
His father was Andrew Apple Crosley, born Ohio1829, died
Pendleton, Indiana 1900. His mother was Catherine Lewis,
1830-1919
I know nothing about Alice's family at the present time except
that her father came from Tennessee and her mother was born in
Indiana. |
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Maternal grandmother of Beulah
and my
great-grandmother, Alice Prudence Smith, 1869-1926
Married to Joseph
Daniel Hayden, bore eight sons and one daughter, Mary Elizabeth, my
grandmother.
Her mother was Phoeby J. maiden name unknown, 1850-1884, Summitville, Indiana
Her father was George W. Smith, 1850-1872, Summitville, Indiana |

Maternal grandfather of Beulah and my great-grandfather,
Joseph Daniel Hayden, 1863-1940
born on a farm near Muncie, Indiana, farmed all his
life outside Pendleton, Indiana
His father was John C. Hayden, born Ohio 1817- died
Indiana 1889
His mother was Elizabeth E. Dickerson born 1827 Ohio - died
Indiana 1873 |

Probably a doctored photograph of Samuel Eddie Crosley or
his father, Andrew Apple Crosley. The man in the photo is
holding a Civil War rifle inscribed with Andrew's initials.
Andrew fought in the Civil War with the 89th Indiana
Infantry Regiment. |
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