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Glen and Esther became the first couple in Indiana history to receive the Sagamore of the Wabash Award -- the highest honor bestowed by the state's governor as a personal tribute to those who have rendered a distinguished service to the state or to the governor. Gov. Frank O'Bannon recognized them for their 60-plus years of service, and commitment to the Democratic party, and for their support of his candidacy for state office.
As a footnote, Esther's father, Albert Paul Barlow, had served as a Republican State Representative before he died in a car-train collision in 1928. And, his father, James Milton Barlow, a Civil War veteran, had served as a State Representative and State Senator, also on the Republican side.
Coincidentally, the supper was held only miles from where Germanna descendent Enoch Barler/Barlow (son of Adam) bought land in 1827. (Submitted by Jim Barlow, Champaign, IL)
(Charles' WEAVER ancestry can be traced back only to Rutha T. CLICK's husband, Frederick WEAVER; Frederick's father, John WEAVER, of Sullivan and Cocke Counties, TN; and John's father, Frederick Abraham WEAVER, born about 1750-1760, in VA. Frederick Abraham WEAVER is undoubtedly one of our Germanna WEAVER/WEBER cousins. If anyone has any information on him that can tie him in to the Germanna WEBER/WEAVER family, PLEASE email me at germannaresearch@comcast.net. George W. Durman, Webmaster of this website.)
(Charles' WEAVER ancestry can be traced back only to Rutha T. CLICK's husband, Frederick WEAVER; Frederick's father, John WEAVER, of Sullivan and Cocke Counties, TN; and John's father, Frederick Abraham WEAVER, born about 1750-1760, in VA. Frederick Abraham WEAVER is undoubtedly one of our Germanna WEAVER/WEBER cousins. If anyone has any information on him that can tie him in to the Germanna WEBER/WEAVER family, PLEASE email me at germannaresearch@comcast.net. George W. Durman, Webmaster of this website.)
BROYLES, James Franklin, MD, of Greenville, TN, was one of the doctors attending at the death of president Andrew Johnson.
In "Genealogy of the Fishback Family in America", page 64:
"John Fishback's family ought to be called the Governor's family. As has been told, Jacob Rector's son, John, married his cousin, Anna Catharine Fishback, and to them were born seven sons and two daughters. Two of the descendants of one of these daughters, James S. Conway, and Elias N. Conway, became, respectively, the first and fifth governors of Arkansas; Henry M. Rector, a descendant of one of these sons, was governor of Arkansas in 1860. William M. Fishback, a descendant of John Frederick Fishback, was governor of Arkansas 1893-1895. Besides this, James L. Kemper, a descendant of Elizabeth Fishback, was, from 1874 to 1878, governor of Old Dominion; making five governors of their States descended from this sturdy German emigrant of 1714, John Fishback."
The Fishback books also states that Chief Justice John Marshall was born in Germantown.
(Submitted by Marlene Smith Thiede.)
CLICK-GLUCK-etc.:
WEAVER-WEBER-WEBBER-etc.:
WILHITE-WILLHITE-WILHOIT-WILLHOIT-WILHOITE-etc.:
Farther back in Time:
