Karen Zach

By: Karen Zach Recently, I was honored to write one of my Around The County articles about James Cameron Fullenwider who died from wounds received in the Battle of Thompson…

By: Karen Zach Not particularly a one-person article today, but more an overview of an interesting early Darlington area family. This family’s story begins with Johanna Adam Saidle who was…

By: Karen Zach Samuel Smiley and Sarah Jane Martin were married October 8, 1857 and had three sons and three daughters, their son Bertram who was an excellent local photographer…

By: Karen Zach James Cameron was the eighth child of Eleazer and Lavina (Allen) Fullenwider’s eleven children. He was a graduate of the Waveland Academy and was attending Wabash with…

By: Karen Zach This week, I found a wow photo of an outstanding-looking young Montgomery County woman named Clara Florence Brockman, so decided I’d research her to discover her happenings.…

By: Karen Zach Twenty – get that? Now, I’ve written about the Fruits and Vancleaves with many children each, the Deeres doing the same and other families with a dozen…

By: Karen Zach The Deere family of the Shades area of Montgomery County was one of the largest and biggest business oriented groups in our early days. I want to…

By: Karen Zach Last week, I introduced you to Charles Monroe Travis, Michael Daugherty White, Samuel Campbell Willson and Thomas Fleming Davidson who were partners or trained-up with Lew Wallace.…

By: Karen Zach My idea for a column this week could actually probably be quite the interesting book, but I’ll give ya’ the condensed version of some (most) of the…

By: Karen Zach Have any common names in your family tree? Barker? Coleman? Helms? Morgan? Myers? Smith? Those are some of my own more common names but when I told…