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Subject: [BRE] Henry Eikenberry, Samuel Ritter, Samuel Kingery, John Whitter,Christopher Furnace
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 19:47:34 -0500
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Speaking of Eikenberry's, the Indiana Genealogist current issue Sept 2006 included the name of Henry "Elkenberry" among a list of Union County IN men who were excepted from the Indiana Militia of 1819, that met for at least one day a year. Most of the men from Union County were Quakers, but I suspect that Henry would be Brethren.

The Indiana Constitution Article VII Section 1st required all able bodied caucasian men 18-45 except those with conscientious objections. Several other names suggest Brethren associations. Among these are Samuel Ritter, Samuel Kingery, and perhaps Christopher Furnace and John Whitter.

----- Original Message -----
From: John and Marilyn Murray <>
Date: Friday, November 17, 2006 19:08
Subject: Re: [BRE] John F Eikenberry Greene Co., Iowa 1876
To:

> Hi,
>
> I'd be interested in knowing John F. Eikenberry's
> ancestry. Does he have
> any
> connection to Eikenberry the Preble County, OH?
> There a Peter Eikenberry
> md Susannah Shideler and Isaac Eikenberry md. Sally/Sarah Neff.
>
> Best regards,
>
> John Murray
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Hardman" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 2:38 PM
> Subject: Re: [BRE] John F Eikenberry Greene Co., Iowa 1876
>
>
> >I think Greene is the town's name. Greene is located in Butler
> County and
> > still has a Brethren Church. the town would have been settled
> around 1854.
> >
> > On 11/17/06, <> wrote:
> >>
> >> More for the Pilgrim
> >>
> >> Dennis
> >> Olympia, Wash
> >>
> >>
> >> The Pilgrim Sept. 5, 1876 page 574
> >> Greene, Iowa, August, 30th, 1876
> >> Brother Brumbaugh:
> >> I wish to inform the many readers of the PILGRIM, of a
> serious accident
> >> that
> >> happened me on the evening of the 5th inst., at the
> house of fiend Neri
> >> Ebersole, near Sheffield in Franklin Co., where I
> expected to fill two
> >> appointments for preaching the following day. I met with
> a brother there
> >> that I had not
> >> seen for two years, and he was handing a double
> barreled shotgun, with
> >> loads
> >> in it, but no caps on the tubes, as they had just been
> taken off. The
> >> gun
> >> was cocked and in letting down the cock his thumb
> slipped and the gun
> >> went off,
> >> and the charge of shot entered into me just back of my
> right hip joint,
> >> ranging back, and came out very near the backbone,
> leaving a hole one
> >> inch in
> >> diameter and six or seven inches in length, but
> injuring no bones. The
> >> next
> >> morning I loaded on my spring wagon, and started on a
> trip of about 24
> >> miles for
> >> home, and from the effect of the wound and riding, I
> suffered (as I
> >> thought)
> >> almost everything that humanity could suffer, got home
> that evening at
> >> sunset. I was carried into the bed where I have been
> confined, in the
> >> care of a
> >> doctor, up to this time, but am now able to set up and can
> walk out
> >> some.
> >> The
> >> wound is healing and doing as well as could be expected, and
> I thank the
> >> Lord
> >> for his care over me, that I am yet spared to this time.
> And truly I am
> >> very
> >> thankful that it is no worse. It was a very narrow escape
> of being made
> >> a
> >> cripple for life, it not instant death. Truly this may
> be a warning to
> >> all under
> >> whose notice this may come, as we cannot be too careful how
> we handle a
> >> gun
> >> when loaded. I have had the sad experience of the
> effects of firearms,
> >> and
> >> will soon be able for duty again, and shall try, by the
> help of the Lord
> >> with
> >> the weapons that are not carnal and if possible be more
> zealous in the
> >> cause of
> >> my Master. So may the grace of God be with us all.
> Amen. J. F.
> >> Eikenberry.
> >>
> >>
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