Branch No. 1 ................................................................................................ When a new person is added, please use the next number not in use, then be sure to change the last number used. LAST NUMBER USED: 413. Please start with 414. ................................................................................................ 1 JAMES M. (1) LATTA, Born: Before 1730.The LaGrange (Ind.) Standard, May 21, 1814, says: "This family is an old one in this country, and in Ireland, where the first James M. Latta was a nobleman, with estates near Donegal." Had at least one son, William. It is thought the other sons came to America, as many of the name lived in Westmoreland Co., Pa. about the time William settled there. Child: 2 WILLIAM (2). _________________________ 2 WILLIAM (2) LATTA, William (1.) Born: Before 1740 in Ireland ?. Died:April 2, 1808. Married: Katharine or Jane Taylor,. With his wife, he came to America. Settled in N.J.in 1740. About 1760, near Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland Co., Pa.. In 1782 he lived in Lancaster Co., Pa. Katherine was said to be a great beauty. She died of apoplexy. His will was executed in Bullship Tr. Fayette Co., Pa. April 21, 1803--John Milton Latta, M.D. Probated April 30, See my loose leaf book of wills.{ Please see the end notes for more detail } 3 JOHN (3) b. 1756. 4 WILLIAM (3). 93 CATHARINE (3) m. Mr. Huey; lived in Wilmington, Pa., l son, Samuel. 94 MARGARET (3) m. Mr. Cibbles. 5 ANDREW (3) b. 1769. 6 JAMES (3) I have no history of him. 7 ROBERT (3) b. 1773. 95 MAYOR COTTER (3) daughter. 8 SAMUEL (3) b. 1775. 9 EPHRAIM (3). 10 MOSES (3) b. 1782. 96 JANE (3) Married 3 times: first to Mr. McConnell, 1 son, Alex. Second, to Michael Crosser. (See note to branch No.13 & 38). Third to Wm. Cochran, had 3 children, Mary, Samuel and ___. Her son, Alexander, wrote to Samuel Latta, Mt. Pleasant, Pa., October 25, 1841 from Eckmansville, Adams Co., Oh. ____________________________ 3 JOHN (3) LATTA, William (2) James M. (1). (Also seen as "John Samuel Latta") Born in Pa. September 15, 1756. died October 4, 1843.He settled in the backwoods of Pa., and lived in Fayette Co. about 1795, and near Greenville, Mercer Co., in 1807. Both he and his wife died on their farm 5 miles north of Greenville. He married Margaret Jane Potter, a member of a noted Revolutionary War family. She was born August 29, 1771, and died January 24, 1852. Two of the Potter family were noted men. They carried dispatches for Washington during the war. { Please see end notes for more detail } Children: 5 girls, 1 boy: 97 JANE MARGARET (4) b. April 10, 1796. Fayette Co., Pa., went to Mercer Co., at the age of 12 years. Died: Sept 13, 1872 Mercer Co., Ill. Buried at Norwood Cem. Married: Henry McLaughlin, Sept. 20, 1881. Mercer Co., Ill. Ten children Name's & birth; John, Nov. 8, 1817. Samuel Potter, June 9, 1819. Levi, Mar. 7, 1821. David H., Apr. 16,1823. James Reid, Apr. 12, 1825. Benjamin W, May 2, 1827. Josiah B, May 2, 1827. Margaret Ann, Feb. 22, 1829. Henry Allen, Dec. 22, 1830. Silas Spear, July 25, 1834. 11 SAMUEL POTTER (4) bca 1803. 98 SUSAN (4) b. Fayette Co., Pa.; m. John Mitchell. 99 ANN (4) b. Fayette Co., Pa.; m. Stephen Howard. 100 MARGARET JANE (4) b. Fayette Co.; Pa., m. John Howard. 101 CATHERINE (4) b. Mercer Co., Pa.; d. of cancer while young. 4 WILLIAM (3) LATTA William (2) James M. (1). Lived at Mt. Pleasant, Pa. May 8, 1844. He may be the head of branch No. 36. 5 ANDREW (3) LATTA William (2) James M. (1). Born April 29, 1769. Married twice, first to Jennette Robertson, October 6, 1795. She was born August 12, 1775. Name of second wife unknown, she died March 22, 1839. Lived in Kentucky, April 27, 1809, and soon after they went to Ohio. Children: 12 WILLIAM ROBERT (4) b. December 27, 1798, Ky. 102 ELENDER (4) b. October 8, 1797. Supposed to have died in infancy. 103 JANE (4) b. December 20, 1801. Single. In April 1839, lived in Adams Co., Ohio. 104 BARBARA (4) b. June 10, 1807. 13 JOHN ROBERTSON (4) b. April 20, 1809, Ky. 14 ROBERT ROBERTSON (4) b. August 13, 1811, Ohio or Ky. 105 MARGARET B. (4) b. September 12, 1813 m. Mr. Harrington. He died September 6, 1837. No children. Lived in Jefferson Co., Ind. 106 ELENORA (4) Died September 7, 1838; m. Mr. Duffy. Left 6 children. 107 HANNAH (4) by second wife; m. Mr. Taylor, February 1839. 6 JAMES (3) LATTA, William (2) James M. (1). He may have been the head of branch No. 20. 7 ROBERT (3) LATTA, William (2) James M. (1). Born September 29, 1773 at Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland Co., Pa. He died at "Haw Patch", LaGrange Co., Ind., April 28, 1851. Married a widow, Isabella Waddell, December 22, 1795, 5 years his senior. Daughter of Wm. Johnston of Washington Co. Pa., and aunt of Wm. F. Johnston, Gov. of Pa. 1848-1853. She was born December 25, 1768; died February 2, 1855. One daughter by first husband called Ann Latta who married Mr. Dye of Eastern, Ohio. { Please see end note for more detail } Children: 108 JANE (4). Robert Samuel Curl. Lived near Ligonier, Ind.; b. September 14, 1799; d. May 6, 1868. Lived near Haw Patch in 1834. Children: Robert L. Johnston, James A.D. Lybrand, Nelson, Milton, Samuel B. John, Joseph, William. 15 JAMES (4). 16 WILLIAM (4). 17 SAMUEL ALEXANDER (4). 109 MARY A. (4) Born:. March 21, 1805; Died: November 29, 1869; Married: William Darnell April 15, 1826. 7 Children. { Please see end notes for more detail on the children of Mary and William} 110 MARGARET (4). b. January 26, 1802; d. February 27, 1850; m. Benj. Chandler January 15, 1818. He was born June 27, 1790. Children all born at LaGrange, Ind. { Please see end notes for more detail on the children of Margaret and Benj.} 414 SARAH (4) Born: June 3, 1809. Married: Benoni Barnes (Also seen as Barns) on April 15, 1824. Lived at Urbana, Ohio. One son, Two Daughters. Levi, Isabelle, (Unknown) 18 JOHNSTON (4). 111 ACHSA (4) b. February 24, 1811; d. October 7, 1864. Went to Haw Patch, with her parents in 1832; m. William Cotter. Lived in Legonier, Ind. 112 ANN WADDELL (4) b. August 2, 1792; d. in childhood. 8 SAMUEL (3) LATTA, William (2) James M. (1). Born in Fayette Co. Pa. June 11, 1775; d. July 24, 1851. Killed by falling from a cherry tree. Married Rachel Newell, who was born May 4, 1785, and died January 1, 1852. Dates of deaths of all the children except William and Thomas, taken from tombstones in Pa. Children: 113 JANE (4) b. May 25, 1809; d. June 3, 1873; m. William Johnston, and lived in Westmoreland Co. Pa. 114 MARGARET (3) b. February 27, 1811; d. August 13, 1854. 115 NANCY (4) b. March 3, 1812; d. May 9, 1885; m. Mr. Robertson, Children: Thomas. Margaret m. 3 children, Mary J. Robert H. Martha. For letter written by Nancy Robertson, see last page. 116 CATHERINE (4) b. September 20, 1814; d. November 27, 1849; m. Joshua S. Newell. Children: Thomas. Elizabeth. Lived Fayette Co., Pa. 19 THOMAS NEWELL (4). 117 SUSAN (4) b. September 17, 1819; d. July 6, 1865. 118 ELIZABETH (4) b. March 28, 1817; d. February 14, 1894 in Fayette Co., Pa. 119 RACHEL (4) b. April 19, 1821; d. October 12, 1888; b. Mt. Pleasant, Pa. 120 SAMUEL (4) b. July 21, 1823; d. February 14, 1899; b. Fayette Co., Pa. Single. See my Book of Wills. 20 WILLIAM (4). 121 ROBERT (4) b. September 16, 1827; d. April 29, 1895. Single. Lived and died Fayette Co., Pa. See my Book of Wills. 9 EPHRAIM (3) LATTA, William (2) James M. (1). Lived in Westmoreland Co., Pa; m. Christina McFadden, a widow, who had one child, Rev. Daniel McFadden. About 1826 they went to Lattasburg, Wayne Co., Ohio. He died at Honey Creek, Ohio. Farmer. She was blind at the time of her death in Allen Co., Ohio, aged 104 years. Nine children: 122 WILLIAM (4) b. in Pa. January 30, 1809. Single. Teacher. 21 JOHN (4). 22 EPHRAIM (4) b. 1812; m. Diantha Kuffell. 23 DAVID (4) b. 1812-13 ; m. two times. First to Lavina Burnett. Second wife Jan (Schermerhorn) Baine. 123 TOBY (4) b. October. 24 SILAS (4) b. 1821; m. Sarah Franks. 124 SARAH (4) m. John Luzada. Lived and died in Ohio. 125 POLLY (4) m. John Jenkins. Lived and died in Ohio. 126 MARY (4). b. in 1815, at the age of 9 years killed by being thrown from a wagon on road from Pa. to Ohio, on their last day's journey. 10 MOSES (3) LATTA, William (2) James (1) b. in Lancaster, Pa. September 14, 1782. Moved to Ross Co., Ohio and in 1820 to Rising Sun, Ohio Co., Ind. Here he lived many years; m. Margaret Quary. In 1820 lived at Dearborn, near Rising Sun. He raised a large family. In the Spring of 1850 he moved to Muscatine Co., Iowa where he remained until his death November 18, 1854. His wife was born in Pa. August 13, 1786, and died at her daughter Jane's house December 12, 1868. Children: 127 JANE (4) b. in Pa. or in Ohio November 8, 1807; m. John Goodner, in Dearborn Co., Ind. November 9, 1826. Lived all her life after marriage a few miles of her father's house near Rising Sun, Ind. She died April 3, 1873; he died of cholera, October 14, 1852. Six children: Sarah M. b. about 1826; m. Mr. James in 1905; one son. Melissa. William. Andrew Jackson m. Virginia Smith. Lucinda. Julia m. Jacob Illk. 25 JOHN QUINCY (4). 128 WILLIAM (4) b. in Pa. or Ohio, September 5, 1810; d. November 17, 1832, at his father's home in Dearborn Co., Ind. Single. 26 ALEXANDER (4). 129 MARY A. (4) b. in Pa. or Ohio October 14, 1816; m. Benjamin Stone, of Crab Orchard, Neb. at home of Moses Latta, in Dearborn Co., Ind. They moved to Hancock Co., Ills. then to Muscatine Co., Iowa where she died December 19, 1860. 3 sons: Goldsmith was a college professor and died at Crab Orchard, Neb. Sylvester was a lawyer in South West, Kan. George was a physician in Ok. 27 CALVIN (4) m. Rachel Jenkins. 130 SARAH T. (4) b. in Dearborn Co., Ind. September 25, 1819; m. Victor M. Engle, August 10, 1837. She died in Muscatine Co., Iowa. Children: A.B., Anabelle, Isabelle. 28 JAMES QUARY (4) m. Sarah Jenkins. 29 ROBERT WASHINGTON (4) m. Julie Ann Jenkins. 131 ISABELLE I. (4) b. April 21, 1828; d. April 20, 1850. {Three Latta brothers married 3 Jenkins sisters.} _____________________________________ 11 SAMUEL POTTER (4) LATTA, John (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born near W. Greenville, Mercer Co., Pa. about 1803; d. near Severy, Greenwood Co., Kan. about 1878; m. Margaret H. Marshall, daughter of William Marshall. She was born in Beaver (Now, Lawrence) Co., Pa. about 1816. Died near Severy, Kan. about 1877. He was a wagon maker, and worked on the Erie Canal. He left Pa. in the spring of 1851, and stopped in Crawford Co., Ind. for 3 years, then went to Jackson Co. Iowa where he had some land, but on account of sickness he sold the land and went to Ills. and then to near Ft. Scott, Kan. where he lived on an Indian Trust claim. Eleven children: 30 WILLIAM ANDERSON (5). 132 CATHERINE JANE (5) school teacher; m. John Paul Zitterrell in 1856. Children: William J. Ida Grace Hammerstein. Margaret C. Daniels. Samuel C. Kate Tubbs. Rose Bell. In 1907 Catherine lived at Magnoketa, Iowa. 133 MARGARET ANN (5) m. Abe Stoner, in 1854; lived at Ft. Scott, Kan. 134 JOHN (5) d. in childhood in Mercer Co., Pa. 135 MARY EASTER (5) b. 1842, died of measles in 1848 in Mercer Co., Pa. 136 SUSAN (5) died in childhood in Mercer Co, Pa. 137 LEVI (5) at age 14 years died of scarlet fever in Mercer Co., Pa. 138 ISABELLE (5) b. about 1849; m. James Wilson in Bourbon Co., Kan. 1867. She died there in 1874. 139 SAMUEL (5) Single. Murdered by a man named McGowan, near Gainesville, Texas who wanted the land owned by a woman to whom Samuel was engaged to be married. McGowan was hung at Ft. Smith, Kan. 140 MARY (5) d. July 3, 1904; m. Jacob Couley in 1874 at Greenwood, Kan. He died and she went to No. Texas, and two years later married D.N. Brothers and moved to Pottawattie Co., Okla. One child, Ida. 141 BENJAMIN (5) b. Jackson Co., Iowa April 17, 1859. Car Painter. Single. In 1907 living near Maud, Pottawattie, Okla. 12 WILLIAM ROBERT (4) LATTA, Andrew (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born (Ky?) Dec. 27, 1798; d. two miles east of Hemlock, Howard Co., Ind. Married three times. One wife died in Jefferson Co. Ind., one died about September 20, 1838. Ten children by first wife, only name of one known: WILLIAM T. (5) in 1913 living at Seafield, White Co., Ind. Children by second wife: 142 _____ (5) girl; m. and in 1913 living at Kokomo, Ind. 143 _____ (5) 144 _____ (5) 13 JOHN ROBERTSON (4) LATTA, Andrew (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born in Ky. April 20, 1809; d. March 10, 1872. Married twice: (1) Rebecca Orr, at Attica, Ind. She died July 9, 1837, 6 months after marriage of consumption. Was buried in the cemetery at S. Attica. (2) Sarah Harder, October 26, 1840. She was born July 21, 1821 and died at Indianapolis, Ind., and was buried in the I.O.O.F. cemetery, Marion, Ind. He went to Ohio with his parents when an infant and about 1828 went to Attica, where he lived until his death, buried there in Riverside cemetery. Children born at Attica. 145 CECELIA REBECCA (5) b. January 20, 1844; m. Moses A. Comer December 1889. She was a writer. In 1914 lived at Fontaine, Wabash Co., Ind. Two children in Benton Co., Ind. 146 JOHN ROBERTSON (5) b. October 15, 1848; d. at Wellington, Kan. January 1894; b. at Riverside Cemetery, Attica, Ind. Married twice: (1) Elizabeth Bunnell at Hoppston, Ill. Child born dead. (2) Margaret A. Dixon, nee Cluster, at Kansas City, Mo. No children. She was born in Sistersville, W.Va. in 1851. After his death she married Mr. A. Graff. See Lineage Book, p. 144, D.A.R. 147 WILLIAM ROBERT (5) b. June 20, 1849; d. January 11, 1911 at Covington, Ind; Buried Riverside cemetery, Attica, Ind. 148 WILHELMINA ROSETTA (5) b. June 20, 1849; d. September 15, 1850; b. in Riverside Cemetery, Attica, Ind. 14 ROBERT ROBERTSON (4) LATTA, Andrew (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born in Ky., August 13, 1811; d. April 19, 1887; b. buried Indianolia, Ind. Said to have married twice. Family moved to Warren Co., Iowa about 1852. Many of the 12 children married and settled at Indianolia, Warren Co., Iowa. Wife (1) Elizabeth ______. Wife (2) Harriet Silcott, married: March 18, 1834, Adams Co., Ohio.She was born July 1810. In: Loudoun Co., VA. Died: June 26, 1874 in Indianola Warren Co., Iowa. She was the Daughter of William Silcott & Elizabeth Darr. Children by first wife: 149 MARION (5) Killed at battle of Mission Ridge, Ga. November 25, 1863. This killed his mother. It looks as if there might be an error in regard to Marion Latta. In the Roster of Iowa Vols. 3d Inf. "G" Co. it reads: LATTA, FRANCIS M. 20 years old. Nativity, Indianola, Iowa. Enlisted May 20, 1861. Mustered in June 8, 1861. Wounded slightly, September 17, 1861 at Blue Hills, Mo. Promoted 5th corporal, February 1, 1863. Killed in action at Jackson, Miss. July 12, 1863." Many persons are called by their middle names. I think the above is Marion Latta, who lived in Ohio, and removed to Indianola, Iowa, and that Marion was his middle name. 150 EMMA (5) m. Mr. Parker. In 1910 lived at Indianola, Iowa. 151 ELIZABETH (5) m. Henry Spray. In 1910 lived at Indianola, Iowa. 152 CARRIE (5). 153 ALBERT (5) b. 1839 Adams Co. Ohio - See Insert. 15 JAMES (4) LATTA, Robert (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born at Ballefontaine, Ohio, November 13, 1796; d. near Ligonier, Ind. February 14, 1855. Married 3 times: (1) Elizabeth Seegar, March 17, 1821. She was born in N.J. August 23, 1800, d. March 27, 1839. (2) Frances S. Goode of So. Bend, Ind. June 12, 1839; d. at Haw Patch, Ind. a short time after. (3) Mrs. Craig, nee Eliza Jane Reeder of Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, Ohio. She died at Ligonier, Ind. poet and Methodist minister. Wrote several books of poems and sermons. Judge on the bench in early days. In 1824 he went from near Urbana, Ohio to Bloomington, Ills. In 1832 he went to Haw Patch, near Ligonier, Ind. where his grandparents were buried, also his parents. No children by second or third wife. {Please see end notes for more detail} Children by first wife: 31 MILTON MILLER (5). 32 WILLIAM JONATHAN (5). 33 ROBERT SEEGAR (5). 34 SAMUEL LEMON (5) 154 JAMES JOHNSTON (5) b. June 23, 1832; d. April 15, 1894. 155 JABEZ ELBERT (5) b. July 6, 1836; d. August 17, 1874. 35 EDEN REEDER (5). 16 WILLIAM (4) LATTA, Robert (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born at Guernsey, now Noble Co. Ohio. November 5, 1801; d. at "Fairlawn", Goshen, Ind. November 5, 1847; m. Matilda Prudence Layton, of Clark Co. Ohio, November 16, 1826. She was born February 12, 1802; d. March 3, 1873. He was the third son of Robert. Farmer. Lived near Goshen, Ind. In 1828 went to Elkhart Co., Ind. and settled at "Fairlawn". Was first probate judge of Elkhart Co. and director and vice president of the State Bank at Indianapolis, Ind. and had branches all over the state. He was one of the prime movers and the first president of what is now the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad. Methodist and strong Whig. His business ability was above the average, and at the time of his death was considered one of the wealthiest men in the state. Children: 36 JOHN MILTON (5). 37 JAMES MELYNE (5). 156 ISABELLA ELIZABETH (5) b. March 29, 1829; m. Henry B. Hulvey April 10, 1856. 5 children. HARRIET A. (5) b. April 17, 1834; d. March 1867; m. George D. Copeland, 2 children. 157 MARY JANE (5) b. October 8, 1836; m. Wm. Bivins. 1 child, Mary. 158 ANNA LOUISE (5) b. March 6, 1844 ; m. Mansfield Farrell October 15, 1867. 159 SUSAN MATILDA (5) b. March 1, 1839; m. George Farrell, December 14, 1870. children; Alonzo M., Joseph M., Porter M. George was married three times. 160 GUSTAVUS ALONZO (5) b. May 25, 1845; m. Miss D. Miller November 9, 1870. 161 SARAH CAROLINE (5) b. February 12, 1848; d. Denver, Colorado July 14, 1929, m. George C. Hackstaff in 1872. One son, Louis, m. his cousin, Jessie M. Latta, daughter of James N. Latta at Denver, Colo., 1 child, Dorothy, who with her father died a few years after. Jessie then married Mr. Hoag of Houston, Texas. 162 ROBERT JOHNSTON (5) b. January 13, 1831; d. January 17, 1831. 163 WILLIAM JOHNSTON (5) b. November 6, 1841; d. October 12, 1843. 17 SAMUEL ALEXANDER (4) LATTA, Robert (3) William (2) James M. (1). Described in Appleton's Ency. Am. Biog. History of Samuel Arminius Latta. Born April 8, 1804, at Bellefontaine, Ohio; d. at Cincinnati, Ohio June 28, 1852 of apoplexy. Lived near Urbana. Methodist minister and physician. Married Twice: #1) Mary Ann Guthrie, niece of Rev. John Collins April 8, 1828; she d. July 15, 1829 On March 15, 1831 he married # 2) Caroline Blackman, who died February 27, 1870. When he died his funeral was attended very numerously -- the physicians in a body; the preachers North and South were there. { Please see end notes for more detail} Child by first wife: 164 AUGUSTUS (5) Lawyer died of consumption June 8, 1869. Single Children by second wife: 165 MARY ELIZABETH (5). m. Dr. J.C. Sparks. Three sons, 1 daughter m. Harry Hall. Edward Samuel Lewis b. at Natick, Mass. August 24, 1855; m. Anna Carried Sparks at Groesbeck, Ohio December 25, 1879; daughter of Dr. Joseph C. Sparks and Mary Elizabeth Latta. She was born at Groesbeck, Ohio July 2, 1856. In 1900 lived at Columbus, Ohio. Children: Carrie born at Little Rock January 28, 1855; d. 1885. Edward Rust b. Little Rock February 23, 1886. Harold b. Chattanooga, Tenn. December 21, 1888; d. at Cleveland, Ohio, January 30, 1891. Carroll Herbert b. Cleveland, Ohio, April 6, 1895. 166 ROBERT B. (5) b. at Rossville, Butler Co., Ohio. February 8, 1836; d. at Lackland, Ohio 1894; m. Ann E. Bachelor at Lackland, November 10, 1864. No issue. Educated at Harron Seminary, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1852-4. 167 LEONIDAS J. (5) b. about 1842; m. Mrs. Dell. 18 JOHNSTON (4) LATTA, Robert (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born at Bellefontaine, Noble. Co. Ohio. January 12, 1807; d. January 5, 1873; m. Martha L. Copeland January 6, 1873. She died in 1900. She was a woman of strong character and interested in politics. She lived at the old homestead, a beautiful estate 4 miles north of Ligonier at Haw Patch. He was a man of perseverance and ability and a noted physician near Ligonier, Ind. In 1841 he moved to Haw Patch, Ind. and lived and died on the old homestead. He left each of his children a large farm. Children: 38 WILLIAM WARREN (5). 39 JAMES NORMAN (5). 168 ISABEL (5) m. Reader J. Marony. In 1914 lived at Haw Patch, Ind. 3 children: Reader J., m. Winona Harrington. Leroy m. Minnie Harrington. Ruth. 169 FRANK (5) died in infancy. 170 MARY (5) m. Edward Narstow. In 1914 she lived at Schnectady, N.Y. and in 1935 lived at Ithaca, N.Y. Children: Marjory. Dorothy. 171 FRANK (5) m. Geraldine Vineyard; d. in 1898. 19 THOMAS NEWELL (4) LATTA, Samuel (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born Fayette Co., Pa. June 12, 1813; d. Sept. 27, 1867 in Bourbon Co., Ka.; m. in Pa. in 1846 to Elizabeth Atkinson, daughter of John Atkinson of Cecil Co., Md. In 1844 with his brother, William, went to Haw Patch, LeGrange Co., Ind. and bought farms. Afterwards went to St. Louis, Mo. One child: 40 FRANKLIN ALEXANDER (5). 20 WILLIAM (4) LATTA, Samuel (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born in Pa. March 24, 1825; d. January 25, 1898 in Webster Co, Mo. and buried there; m. Mary E. Cunningham June 6, 1858. She died July 16, 1907 in Kingman Co, Neb. at home of her son, Jonithan, aged 66 years, 3 mos and 12 days. Children: 172 MARTHA JANE (5) b. February 28, 1860; m. Michael Zehr February 27, 1881. Children: William b. July 7, 1882. Samuel b. July 21, 1884. Edward b. September 30, 1886. John b. October 2, 1888. David b. December 25, 1891. Claud b. July 19, 1893. 41 JOHN HENRY (5). 42 JONATHAN S. (5). 173 SARAH A. (5) b. March 20, 1863; m. David S. Gregg in 1907. Lived at Kingfisher, Okla. No children. 21 JOHN (4) LATTA, Ephraim (3) William (2) James M. (1) Born December 23, 1801; d. in Wabash Co, Ind. 1853 by horse stepping on his breast causing lung fever. Farmer; m. in Wabash Co., Ind. to Mary Elizabeth Bowman, daughter of Jonithan Bowman, a soldier in the Revolutionary War and War of 1812. Mary was b. October 31, 1816; d. in 1881 at Wolcotville, LeGrange Co., Ind. 9 children: 174 EPHRAIM (5). 175 MARGARET (5) b. Wobash Co. Ind. September 1, 1839; m. twice, second time to Mr. Estep. Children: George. Hiram. Jennie. David. Rose. Lived at Hastings, Ind. 176 CHRISTINA (5) b. Wabash Co., Ind. December 24, 1841; m. Andrew Yocum; d. in Kosciusko Co., Ind. 1899. Children: Josel. Mirl. Silas. Loren. William. Hattie. 177 JOHN 1st. (5) b. Wabash Co., Ind. September 18, 1843; d. in infancy. 178 SILAS (5) b. Wabash Co., Ind. October 30, 1845. Enlisted in the Civil War in 1863. Died there. Single. 179 SARAH (5) b. Wabash Co., Ind. September 10, 1847; m. Elih Boon. In 1906 she lived at Stillwell, Ind. Children: Charles. Daniel. Elizabeth. Edward. Laura. William. Fred. Claude. Maud. Melvin. Oscar. 44 JOHN 2d (5). 180 SAMUEL (5) b. Wabash Co., Ind. October 12, 1851; d. when small. 181 MARY ELIZABETH (5) b. Wabash Co., Ind. September 17, 1853; m. Frank Davenport February 11, 1872. Children: Anna. William. Carrie. Grace. Edna. In 1874 they lived on a farm near LaPaz, P.O. Address R.R. 1, Box 57, Bremen, Ind. 22 EPHRAIM (4) LATTA, Ephraim (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born in Westmoreland Co, Pa. November 22, 1812; d. October 29, 1866; m. Diantha Kuffel March 4, 1838 at Congress, Wayne Co., Ohio. She was born at New Lisbon, Ohio June 12, 1817, d. 1874. She was the granddaughter of Adam Poe, who was famous in the early history of Ohio having killed Bog Foot, the Chief, in a hand to hand encounter on the Ohio River, an account of which is given in early history of Indian wars. Also in President Theodore Roosevelt's book, "Winning the West". Blacksmith. His family moved to Wayne Co., Ohio. In 1841 he located to what is now called Lattasburg, Wayne Co, Ohio. The village was named after him. In 1844 he moved to Wabash Co., Ind. and died there. Farmer. Was highly respected. Children: 182 CATHARINE (5) b. at Lattasburg, Wayne Co., Ohio November 29, 1838; m. Miles Yocum, a farmer, at Congress, Ohio September 19, 1856. In 1905 all living in Wabash Co., Ind. Children: Ira Elmer. Susan Diantha. Tabor Lucian. Latta Ephraim, Miles Cameron. 183 WILLIAM ADAMS (5) b. November 14, 1840 at Lattadsburg, Wayne Co., Ohio. Enlisted in 1861 in 47th Ind. Regt.; d. February 26, 1863 in Service at Helena, Ark. Single. 184 SARAH ANN (5) b. at Lattasburg, Ohio November 23, 1842; m. Levi Keagle, merchant, June 16, 1867 at Roann, Ind. In 1905 living at No. Manchester, Ind. Children: Estella Arrolia, Elwood Vanness. In 1905 cashier at Omaha, Neb. 45 TABOR SUMMERTON (5). 185 MATILDA JANE (5) b. February 13, 1848 at Roann, Ind.; m. there to Benson Griswold February 10, 1876. One child, Orra Vista. In 1905 all living near Guadlajara, Mexico. Mining. 46 IRA ADAMS (5). 186 MARY EMALINE (5) twin to Elizabeth, b. December 21, 1853 at Roann, Ind.; m. Alva L. Martin at Minneapolis, Minn. May 18, 1881 where they resided in 1905. In 1877 they lived at Glencoe, Minn. One child, Harry V. 187 ELIZABETH SAMANTHA (5) b. December 21, 1853 at Roann, Ind.; m. Sherman K. Baker at No. Manchester, Ind. Children: Delight. Theron. 23 DAVID (4) LATTA, Ephraim (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born in Westmoreland Co., Pa. October 17, 1812; d. in LaGrange Co., Ind. August 28, 1887. Married twice: (1) Lavina Burnett. She was born in Washington Co., Ohio in 1821 and was married in 1841. She died in LaGrange Co., Ind. January 29, 1847. (2) Jane Schermerhorn, widow of Peter Baine. She was born April 19, 1811 in NYC, NY. Died in LaGrange Co., Ind. September 29, 1892. He lived at Lattasburg, Wayne Co, Ohio, afterwards in LaGrange Co., Ind. Farmer. Children by first wife: 188 MARTIN (5) b. in Washington Co., Ohio April 16, 1842. Enlisted at Sturgis, Michigan in "C" Co. 4th Michigan Vols. Civil War; d. single in the army in 1862 and was buried near Spotsylvania Court House, Va. 47 GEORGE (5). 48 SILAS (5). 189 CHRISTINA (5) b. in LaGrange Co., Ind. January 19, 1847; d. April 4, 1847. Child by second wife: 190 ANN LESLEY (5) Born: Dec. 27, 1850. Died: Feb. 12, 1930. Buried: Woodward OK. Married: Luke Brinley, July 29, 1869 in LaGrange, Ind.Children; Gertie, Samuel, Calvin, Margaret, Ora, Mary, David, Allen, Golda, Smilie, Iri, Winter. 24 SILAS (4) LATTA, Ephraim (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born in Pa. April 25, 1821; d. in LaGrange Co, Ind. March 2, 1860; m. Sarah Franks of Virginia at Mansfield, Ohio. She died in LaGrange Co., Ind. May 12, 1906 at 84 years. Tanner and farmer. Held many prominent positions of trust, including Justice of the Peace. Methodist. Children, except Ephraim and Isaac, born in LaGrange Co., Ind. 49 EPHRAIM (5). 50 ISSAC (5). 191 MARY ANN (5). m. Naomi Slack, In 1907 lived at Middlesbury, Ind. Children: Ada. Munro. Milo. Frank. 192 HANNAH VAN LURA (5) m. William Chrystler, brother of Sarah's husband. In 1907 lived 3 miles west and 2 miles north of LaGrange, Ind. Children: William. Albert. Edith. Mattie. Charles. Julia. Samuel. Fred. Myrtle. Cecil. Louis. 51 JOHN f. (5). 52 WILLIAM SYLVESTER (5). 53 DAVID M. (5). 193 SARAH Josephine (5) m. Mr. Chrystler, brother to Hannah's husband. In 1907 lived at Vistula, Ind. Children: Addie. Blanche m. Mr. Hoover. Edward m. twice, second wife, Vera Haynes. 25 JOHN QUINCY (4) LATTA, Moses (3) William (2) James M. (1) Born in Pa. or Ohio December 6, 1808; d. in 1870; m. three times: first to Sarah Morrison January 1, 1836. Second wife, Martha Blue. Third wife, Mrs. Martha Woods, widow with two children, Squire and Elizabeth. He went with his father to Dearborn Co., Ind. Stone mason. Had wonderful strength and vitality. Owned a grist mill, farm, etc. After maturity moved to Wirt, Jefferson Co., Ind. near Madison. Children by first wife: 54 WILLIAM MORRISON (5). 194 ROBERT WASHINGTON (5). Enlisted in Co., M. 10th Ohio Inf. Civil War; d. in 1870 of wound received in that war. Single. Children by second wife: 55 IRVIN I. (5). b. November 1855 (per 1900 census Jefferson Co., Ind.). 56 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (5). b. June 1849 - 1950 Meade Co, Ka. Children by third wife: 195 ETHAN ALLEN (5). 57 JOHN TAYLOR (5). 196 THOMAS (5). Killed by accident in 1903 or 1904. Single. 1900 - Jefferson Co., Ind; b. October 1850, single. Stone mason. 26 ALEXANDER (4) LATTA, Moses (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born in Ross Co., Ohio January 26, 1812; m. Margaret Stopher, daughter of Mathias Stopher in Dearborn Co., Ind. He went from Indiana to near Fairfield, Jefferson Co., Ind. where he died suddenly while the family was away. Spent last 30 years at Skunk River, Iowa, near Brighton. Had a fine farm. Children: 197 WILLIAM VOLNEY (5) b. Jefferson Co., Ind. April 27, 1848. He was a genius and mechanic. Farmer until 30 years of age then engaged in different pursuits with the patients. In 1933 still living. Single. 58 BENTON (5). 198 MARTHA JANE (5) b. July 4, 1854, at Des Moines, Iowa. 199 SARAH ANN (5) b. June 1846. 27 CALVIN (4) LATTA, Moses (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born in Ross Co, Ohio February 12, 1818; d. at Decatur, Iowa, February 4, 1892; m. Rachel Jenkins in Ohio Co., Ind. March 19, 1846. She was born in Ohio Co., Ind. August 25, 1824 and d. March 19, 1896. Both buried at Davis City, Iowa. In 1820 went with his father to Rising Sun, Ohio Co., Ind. In 1847 he settled in Muscatine, Muscatine Co., Ohio where he lived a year. In 1855 he went to Akron, Harrison Co., Mo. and farmed until October 11, 1866 then to New Buda Tp., Decatur Co., Iowa, near Davis City. Owned a farm of 240 acres under cultivation. Democrat. Children: 200 MARY ANN (5). b. July 14, 1848 at Muscatine, Iowa; m. T.F. Bryant September 22, 1883. 201 MOSES WASHINGTON (5) b. August 29, 1850 at Muscatine, Iowa; d. 1932. 202 MARTHA JANE (5). b. December 27, 1853; d. December 12, 1858. 203 SARAH MARGARET (5) b. June 24, 1856; d. February 12, 1859. 27a WARREN JOHNSON (5) b. April 16, 1858 at Akron, Mo.; m.Harriett E Robbins March 19, 1890. 204 STEPHEN BENTON (5). b. May 23, 1861 at Akron, Mo.; m. Flossie Robison. 205 JOHN LEE (5) b. October 16, 1864 at Akron, Mo.; m. Esther C. Cooper October 10, 1897. In 1939 lived at Independence, Mo. 28 JAMES QUARY (4) LATTA, Moses (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born at or near Rising Sun, Ind. March 10, 1821; d. April 1, 1869; b. in Odd Fellows Cemetery near Lakeview, Lake Co., Ore.; m. Sarah Jane Jenkins in Dearborn Co., Ind. She died when son John was two years old, about July 1848. Blacksmith. Worked at his trade in various lines in Illinois before 1850. Went to Muscatine, Iowa when his wife and daughter died. With his son, John, went to Harrison Co., Mo. then to California May 1, 1864. He lived at various places on the Pacific coast, Henly, Siskiyou, Calif., Clackamus Co., Ore. and other places. He died suddenly and rather mysteriously while at Goose Lake, Ore. while out prospecting (from Ashland, Ore. where he raised horses) for a location in Goose Lake Valley, Ore. He was found dead by his son in the woods. It was thought he and others were poisoned by drinking from a poisoned spring as he was not robbed but everything was found with him. Children: 206 EMILY (5) d. about 1853 when a baby. 207 JOHN QUARY (5) b. near Muscatine, Iowa July 27, 1850; m. Mary I. McKinney at Seattle, Wash. July 14, 1892. Daughter of Isaac S. and Nanch A. (Kayton) McKinney. She was b. in Cass Co., Mo. May 5, 1857. No children in 1905. Lived with his grandmother until 7 years of age. Lived for 16 years at Ashland, Ore. Educated at Ashland High School (now State Normal). Taught school for a while. Clerked. Was in business for himself and in 1884 at Tacoma, Wash. Was in the real estate business. Served at different stations. On October 1, 1900 was appointed Lighthouse keeper at Tatoosh, Wash. Was there until 1908. In 1910 went to Kent, Wash. 29 ROBERT WASHINGTON (4) LATTA, Moses (3) William (2) John M. (1). Born DesMoines Co., Ind. September 16, 1825; m. Julia Ann Jenkins at Muscatine, Iowa November 27, 1849. Three brothers married three sisters. Calvin m. Rachel Jenkins. James Q. m. Sarah Ann Jenkins and Robert W. m. Julia Ann Jenkins, daughters of a widow who lived near the Latta homestead in Dearborn Co., Ind. In 1864 Robert W. and James Q. left Mo. and Robert W. went to Otoe Co., Neb. and James Q. to the Pacific coast. In 1867 Robert W. went to Holt Co., Mo. to Forbes, 25 miles northwest of St. Joe, Mo. He lived there until 1879. His wife died September 15, 1872 and was buried near Forbes, Mo. In 1879 he went to Sumner Co., Kan. near Anson and bought a farm and later another near Millerton, Kan. In 1895 he sold out and went to the home of two or his sons near Caldwell, Kan. In 1904 lived at Claire, Grant Co., Okla. Children: 208 WILLIAM (5) b. Muscatine, Iowa, September 1851; d. there November 1851. 59 JOHN MILTON (5). 209 SARAH ISABELLA (5) b. Harrison Co, Mo. August 28, 1856. In 1903 lived with her brother James on a farm near Claire, Grant Co., Okla. 60 WILLIAM BENTON (5). 210 JAMES PERRY (5) b. Holt Co., Mo. May 25, 1869. In 1903 owned a farm near Claire, Okla. 211 WALLACE (5) b. in Holt Co., Mo. September 3, 1872; d. September 24, 1872. ____________________________ 27a WARREN JOHNSON (5) LATTA, Calvin (4) Moses (3) William (2) James M (1) Born: April 16, 1858. In: Akron, MO. Died: _____. In: Davis City, Iowa. Married: Harriett E Robbins, March 19, 1890. Child; 212 ALICE WILMA (6) Born: 1897. Married: Oscar Charles Tellier or Fellier. They had a child named: Atta Leila Tellier or Fellier. She was born:1917. And Married: E.R.Jepperson.they had a child named: Diane Jepperson, Born: 1940. She Married: Norman Nichols, M.D. They had 3 Children; Cizanne, Rodger, Tanya. 30 WILLIAM ANDERSON (5) LATTA, Samuel P. (4) John (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born in Mercer Co., Pa. January 7, 1836; m. Hannah Reed in Jackson Co., Iowa, July 10, 1865. She was born in Mercer Co., Pa., daughter of John and Mary Buckias Reed. In 1906 lived at Binger, Okla. and his boys were farming 640 acres as Sugar Creek Bottom, near Binger. Children: 213 CHARLES W. (6) b. Bourbon Co., Kan. November 13 or 15, 1866; m. Margaret Wiant of Greenwood, Kan. March 1, 1888. 214 SAMUEL POTTER (6). In 1906 lived at Binger, Okla. 215 FRANK (6)Also seen as "JAMES FRANKLIN LATTA". In 1906 lived at Binger, Okla. 216 MARSHALL (6). In 1906 lived at Binger, Okla. 217 MARGARET H. (6) b. Fort Scott, Kan. July 17, 1868. m. Byron Ezra Brown. Children, Jesse Allen, Jan.11, 1892. Blanche Elna, July 3, 1893. Roy Emmett, Jan. 31, 1895. Ross Harold, Mar. 28, 1899. 218 PEGGY ANN (6) b. Greenwood Co., Kan. Sept. 20, 1875; m. Burt Brown of Greenwood, March 14, 1887, d. at Binger in 1905. 219 NELLIE (6) lived at Binger, Okla. 220 MILLIE (6) lived at Binger, Okla. 31 MILTON MILLER (5) LATTA, James (4) Robert (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born Champaign Co., Ohio July 9, 1822; d. November 30, 1899. Married twice: (1) Julia Ann McDevitt in 1845. She was born December 31, 1821; d. June 16, 1861. (2) Julia R. Redfield of Cass Co., Mich. about 1871. In 1904 she was living at Goshen, Ind. Physician and surgeon at Goshen, Ind. Interred in Oak Ridge Cemetery. A sketch of his life was published in the Goshen Democrat December 2, 1899. { Please see end notes for more detail} His children were all born at Goshen. Children by first wife: 221 MARY ELIZABETH (6) b. April 14, 1846; d. at Goshen May 2, 1861; m. Dr. Charles C. Sparklin. No children. 222 JULIA ELVENA (6) b. August 23, 1848; d. October 18, 1869; m. Chas. B. Harris. In 1904 he was U.S. Consul at Nagaki, Japan, appointed by Pres. McKinley. 223 JAMES McDEVITT (6) b. March 1, 1850. 61 CHARLES CLARENCE (6). 62 WILLIAM JOHNSTON (6). 63 HENRY PEARCE (6). 224 ROBERT SEEGAR (6) b. August 31, 1860. Children by second wife: 225 ANNA REDFIELD (6) b. March 14, 1878. 226 LOUISE DORA (6) b. November 8, 1876; d. March 26, 1877. 32 WILLIAM JONATHAN (5) LATTA, James (4) Robert (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born Champaign Co., Ohio February 2, 1824; d. February 4, 1851; m. Catherine Wineland November 5, 1856. One child: 227 JOHN WESLEY (6) b. at Elkhart, Ind.; d. in California. Was cashier at bank in Goshen, Ind. 33 ROBERT SEEGAR (5) LATTA, James (4) Robert (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born in McLean Co., Ill. November 12, 1826; d. at Oasis, Cherry Co., Neb. February 13, 1900; m. Mary Tumbleson of Haw Patch, Ind. December 22, 1848 in Eden Tp. LaGrange Co., Ind. He was a prominent Methodist minister. Children: 64 WILLIAM CARROLL (6). 228 SARAH JOSEPHINE (6) b. in Jay Co., Ind. April 26, 1852; m. 3 times: Mr. Davis, by whom she had 3 children: Schuyler, Hiram and Charles. By Mr. Masters, by whom shehad 2 children: Ethel and Josephine. By Mr. Exinger, no children. 65 MILTON NIMMON (6). 229 MARY CAROLINE (6) b. in Olmstead Co, Minn. October 15, 1856; m. Frank R. LaGourgue about 1872. In 1928 living on a ranch at Anaheim, Calif. Children: Carl. Alta. Bernice. Robert. 66 JAMES THEODORE (6). 230 MARGARET ELIZABETH (6) b. in Olmstead Co., Minn. September 23, 1858; d. September 23, 1858. Twin with James Theodore. 231 GEORGE LINCOLN (6) b. Perry Tp. Noble Co., Ind. April 30, 1862; d. April 2, 1893 at Kennedy, Neb. Engineering and farmer. Single. 67 CHARLES LEWIS (6). 34 SAMUEL LEMON (5) LATTA, James (4) Robert (3) William (2) James M. (1). Named Lemon after a Methodist minister. Born on a farm near Bloomington, Ill. January 16, 1830; m. Frances E. Pearce of Baltimore, Md. February 19, 1858. She was born in 1838 and d. at Warsaw, Ind. January 30, 1905. He went to Ligonier, Ind. where the family resided for many years on a large farm. He invented the Latta Butter Worker and the Latta Steam Heater with m.f. near Ligonier. Children: 232 NINA ELIZABETH (6) b. at Ligonier, Ind. February 14, 1861; m. Frank Montgomery at Ligonier in 1865. He was born at Manchester, Ohio December 5, 1855. In 1908 he was living at Indianapolis, Ind. Children: Helen Edna. Mary Winona. 233 FLORA WINONA (6) b. near Winona, Minn. August 26, 1858; m. Jesse A. Rice at Ligonier, Ind. in 1882. He was born near Altoona, Pa. in 1854. 234 ERNEST WELLS (6) b. Ligonier, Ind. June 4, 1865. 235 JOSEPH LEMON (6) b. So. Bend, Ind. June 11, 1876. 35 EDEN REEDER (5) LATTA, James (4) Robert (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born at Haw Patch, Noble Co., Ind. March 24, 1839; m. Mary Elizabeth Wright at Delhi, Iowa September 29, 1863. She was born at Springtown, Hendricks Co., Ind. March 2, 1843 and died of fever at Osterdock, Iowa August 2, 1907. He was an instructor in the public schools at Colesburg, Iowa. In 1912 lived at Osterdock, Iowa. Minister and noted as a poet and hymn writer. Among his hymns was "Whiter than Snow". Wrote 1600 songs and hymns, many of which have been printed in foreign languages and sung in this and other countries. Also the author of a new and excellent system of short hand writing. For family reasons he changed his first and middle names to that of a brother of his stepmother. Children: 68 ARTHUR WRIGHT (6). 236 ROBERT NELSON (6) b. at Montana, Boon Co., Iowa July 28, 1868; d. at Guttenburg, Iowa May 23, 1888. 237 JENNIE MAY (6) b. at Manchester, Iowa June 11, 1870; d. at Debuque, Iowa September 14, 1901. 238 LOUIE CLAIRE (6) b. at Greely, Iowa August 21, 1874 at Edgewood, Iowa October 17, 1877. 36 JOHN MILTON (5) LATTA, William (4) Robert (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born September 3, 1827 d. March 6, 1855; m. Lydia ___. Had at least one child: 239 ALICE (6). 37 JAMES MELYNE (5) LATTA, William (4) Robert (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born at "Fairlawn" near Goshen, Ind. July 4, 1832; d. there December 25, 1896 of Brights disease; m. Elizabeth Potter Jack. He married on October 22, 1864 Elizabeth Potter Jack of Greensburg, Pa. (D.A.R. No. 9572, Goshen, Ind.). { Please see end notes for more detail} Children: 240 WILLIAM JACK (6) b. October 26, 1865 at Washington, D.C.; m. Mary Lesh August 9, 1894. In 1914 at Sanitarium at Mt. Clements, Mich. 241 LOUIS MELYNE (6) b. at Washington, D.C. April 25, 1867; m. Elizabeth Jackson September 14, 1894. 242 JAMES MELYNE JR. (6) b. at Washington, D.C. December 14, 1875. Enlisted as a private in the Spanish War. Transferred to the Hospitable Corps as a doctor. In 1908 lived at "Fairlawn" and in 1914 at Nirvana, Mich. 243 LOUIS (6). In 1914 lived in Va. 244 FLORENCE ROMAYNE (6) b. at Washington, D.C. December 14, 1877; m. B.S. Warren. Lived at Detroit, Mich. 245 CARLISLE EVANS (6) b. November 17, 1872. In 1898 enlisted in Calif. Vols. to go to the Philippines. 246 WALTER ROY (6) b. February 1881; d. August 22, 1881. 247 GORDON (6) b. at Boston, Mass. January 18, 1884. Killed by explosion of acid tank of Mexican Crude Rubber Co. at Detroit, Mich. Educated at the Episcopal School in LaGrange Co., Ind. at Highland Park Military Academy and at Pursue Inst. 33d degree Mason. 38 WILLIAM WARREN (5) LATTA, Johnston (4) Robert (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born at Goshen, Ind. 1842; d. there in 1849. Married twice: (1) Harriet M. Jackson, daughter of Fred'k K. and ___ (Winder) Jackson. She was born in 1846 and died in 1870 and was a woman of splendid education, had a remarkable sweet voice and was an excellent pianist. (2) Alice Layton. She died in 1831 and was buried in Eden Cemetery near Ligonier, Ind. He went with his parents to a farm 4 miles north of Ligonier. Farmer and live stock breeder. Children by first wife: 248 WILLIAM H. (6) b. November 5, 1868. On June 15, 1929 he was killed in an automobile accident near Carmel, Ind.; m. Carrie Hunt June 24, 1895. She was a celebrated writer and wrote serial stories. He was graduated from the Ligonier High School then he attended the DePau Univ. at Greencastle, Ind. for 4 years and was graduated. The next year he returned to the university to attend the law school. Practiced law at Indianapolis, Ind. In 1904 was the trial lawyer for the street railroad company. Had a large private practice. See my Scrap Book for his wonderful will. Will probated June 17, 1929. Estate closed December 2, 1936. Twelve percent paid creditors. See my Book of Wills. 249 WARREN E. (6) died in infancy. Child by second wife: 69 MAURICE LAYTON (6). 39 JAMES NORMAN (5) LATTA, Johnston (4) Robert (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born at Haw Patch, LaGrange Co., Ind. November 28, 1845; d. there November 21, 1895; m. Mary Ellen Minnich of Enon, Clark Co., Ohio. She was born there in 1850; d. at Los Angeles, Calif. about 1906. In 1900 she was living at Topeka, Kan. and in 1904 at Poughkeepsie, N.Y. He was a farmer and member of the Indiana Legislature in 1891. Children: 250 HAIDEE (6) b. about 1873; d. 1881. 251 JESSIE NORINE (6) b. September 22, 1875; d. in Calif; m. her cousin, Louis Hackstaff at Denver, Colo. June 1900. He and one child, Dorothy, died a few years after. In 1905 she m. Mr. Hoag, a lawyer, and lived in Okla. 252 KEITH NORMAN (6) b. July 6, 1878; d. in Mexico. In 1905 lived at Los Angeles, Calif. 40 FRANKLIN ALEXANDER (5) LATTA, Thomas H. (4) Samuel (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born in LaGrange Co., Ind. January 15, 1847; d. March 23, 1902; m. Elizabeth E. Thomas, daughter of John and Philemene (Howell) Thomas July 4, 1867. She was born in Clark Co., Ill. They lived in Kan. for 8 years then went to London, Kimble Co., Texas November 1874 where he died. In 1908 she was living with her son, Oscar, at Austin, Texas. Children: 70 OSCAR (6). 253 ISABELLE (6) b. in Kansas May 1, 1873; m. David M. Stewart June 8, 1887. Children: Orlan b. January 23, 1889. Alfred b. November 4, 1891/ Mamie b. April 6, 1897. Everett b. July 17, 1900. Jewell b. August 12, 1902. Elton b. July 6, 1904. 41 JOHN HENRY (5) LATTA, William (4) Samuel (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born January 23, 1865; d. January 13, 1930. Called Henry. Married Blanche Club July 30, 1893. In 1908 had a large farm at Norwich, Kan. R.F.D. Children: 254 ELMER WARD (6) b. Cherokee Strip, Okla. May 8, 1894; d. November 24, 1898. 255 GLADYS MAY (6) b. Norwich, Kan. July 26, 1897; m. S.L. Sparr,. 256 ELLEN (6) b. Norwich, Kan. July 28, 1902; m. A.C. Bomholt. 257 MARGARET GRACE (b) b. Norwich, Kan. January 26, 1905. 258 WILLIAM ALLEN (6) b. Norwich, Kan. January 17, 1911. Mechanical engineer. Traveling salesman for Pollock Paper & Box Co. of Dallas, Texas. 42 JONATHAN S. (5) LATTA, William (4) Samuel (3) William (2) James M. (1) Born May 24, 1867; m. Bertha Helm June 12, 1895. Farmer. Lived at Norwich, Kan. Children: 259 ROBERT WILLIAM (6)(Seen As:William Robert) b. January 4, 1901. Died: July 17, 1972. 260 CLARENCE PERRY (6) b. August 5, 1903. Died: April 30, 1996. 407 JONATHAN RALPH (6) b. July 31, 1908. Died: June 17, 1961. 408 FRANK M (6) b. Oct. 18, 1912 Died: March 12, 1962. 43 EPHRAIM (5) LATTA, John (4) Ephraim (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born in Wabash Co. Ind. 1857; d. in the army; m. ___. Two children, both died in infancy. 261 ___ (6). 262 ___ (6). 44 JOHN 2d. (5) LATTA, John (4) Ephraim (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born Wabash Co., Ind. November 14, 1849; d. at Palastine, Ind. April 18, 1893; m. ___. In 1906 she was living at Palestine, Ind. One child: 263 BONNIE (6). In 1906 living at Burkett, Ind. 45 TABOR SUMMERTON (5) LATTA, Ephraim (4) Ephraim (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born at Roann, Wabash Co., Ind. March 25, 1845; m. Geraldine F. Moore. She was born at Seville, Medina Co., Ohio August 23, 1844. He enlisted in 138th Ind. Vols. 1864. Served to end of the war; m. June 6, 1867. Postmaster at Silver Lake, Ind. during Grant's term. Many years in employ of C.R.I. & Pac. Railroad. In 1906 in employ of Elevated R.R. at Chicago, Ills. Children: 264 DORA LEONA (6) b. at Silver Lake, Ind. September 13, 1870; m. Arnold Heberly September 17, 1890. Children: Geraldine. Pauline. Otto. Ruth. 71 OTTO MANSFIELD (6). 265 SALENDIA DIANTHA (6). Born at Peru, Ind. December 8, 1875; m. Herald Roysen August 4, 1900. Children: Rohgna. Margarete. 266 IRA POE (6) b. at Peru, Ind. August 11, 1878. 267 EDITH MAE (6) b. at Peru, Ind. March 5, 1882; m. Thomas A. Rowsey. 46 IRA ADAM (5) LATTA, Ephraim (4) Ephraim (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born at Roann, Ind. October 15, 1850; m. Elizabeth W. Snyder December 28, 1880. She was born at Minneapolis, Minn. June 26, 1856, daughter of A.J. and Priscilla Snyder. Ira, in spring of 1877 went to Glencoe, Minn. Was in the lumber business. One of the organizers of the First national Bank of Glencoe. Was its first vice president and later president. Went to San Jose, Ca. in 1889 where he lived with his family in 1933. Extensively engaged in the culture of fruits and nuts, also interested in merchandizing, manufacturing and mining. Children born in Glencoe, Minn. 268 FLORENCE GERTRUDE (6) b. December 5, 1881. 269 EDNA IRENE (6) b. November 15, 1882. 47 GEORGE (5) LATTA, David (4) Ephraim (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born in Washington Co., Ohio, July 26, 1843; m. July Shire April 10, 1847. Enlisted at Lima, Ind. in "G" Co. 30th Ind. Vols. September 1861. Discharged at Indianapolis, Ind. September 1864. Children all born in Herring Co., Mich. 270 DAVID GEORGE (6) b. February 6, 1878. In 1907 lived at Kansas City, Kan. 271 CECELIA ROWENA (6) b. February 20, 1878; m. James A. Clayton March 14, 1906. Lived at Temasachie, Mexico. 272 MYRTLE LAVINA (6). Twin to Mabel Grace b. December 12, 1882. In 1907 lived at Guthrie, Okla. 273 MABEL GRACE (6). 48 SILAS (5) LATTA, David (4) Ephraim (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born April 16, 1854; at Kissimee, Fla. February 16, 1938; m. Lorinda Buck of Battle Creek, Mich. January 13, 1872. She died August 12, 1916. He then m. Sadie Beelman of Kissimee, Fla. February 17, 1921. She was born at Leipsic, Ohio November 26, 1873. In 1933 she was living at Kissimee, Fla. Silas and first wife buried at Guthrie, Okla. He enlisted at LaGrange, Ind. February 3, 1862 in "G" Co. 20th Ind. Vols. Discharged at Huntsville, Ala. February 3, 1865. In 1907 lived on rice plantation at Rosenburg, Texas. Children all born at Stephensville, Mich. 274 LAURA MAY (6) b. May 25, 1873; d. September 16, 1873. 275 JESSIE PEARL (6) b. December 19, 1874; d. at Holdredge, Neb. August 24, 1882. 276 DAVID (6) b. April 11, 1878; d. at Holdridge, Neb. September 7, 1882. 277 MAUD (6) b. February 22, 1882; m. Frank Schmenschal at Rosenburg, Texas February 22, 1903; d. there September 12, 1905. No children. 278 MYRTLE ARTLISA (6) b. June 19, 1876; d. at Holdridge, Neb. September 8, 1882. 49 EPHRAIM (5) LATTA, Silas (4) Ephraim (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born in Richland Co., Ohio; d. May 23, 1901; m. Jane Ann Gammill March 26, 1868, daughter of Wm. A. and Sarah A. (Stuckman) Gammill of Pa. Enlisted August 12, 1863 in "H" Co. 7th Ind. Vol. Cav. Mustered out at Austin, Texas, February 18, 1866. Served under Capt. John M. Moore. Methodist. Children: 72 SILAS WALTON (6). 279 LOU S. (6). m. Burritt S. Walter. In 1934 lived at LaGrange, Ind. Four children: Rollo No. m. Lola Baker. Franklin B. Nina M. m. Forrest Aldrich. Russell L. m. Wilma Simmis. Monroe S. m. Nina Haglind. 73 FRANK J. (6). 280 MARY PIRT (6) m. Elbert Merrifield. Children: Edna m. Harvey Yocum. Sidney m. Iva Choler. Phillip m. Virginia ___. Vera m. John Cline. Freda m. Forrest Miller. Howard. 74 GEORGE AUGUSTUS (6). 281 FEED (6) d. December 25, 1881. An infant. 50 ISAAC (5) LATTA, Silas (4) Ephraim (3) William (2) James M. (1). Married Rose Kiser. In 1919 lived at 225 Upton Street, Battle Creek, Mich. Children: 282 EPHRAIM (6). 283 WILLIAM (6). 284 JENNIE (6). 285 MINNIE (6). 51 JOHN M. (5) LATTA, Silas (4) Ephraim (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born LaGrange Co., Ind, m. Eva Stowell. In 1907 lived Shelby, Ind. Children lived there 1928. 75 THOMAS (6). 286 SILAS E. (6). 287 BLANCHE (6) m. Mr. Doty. Children: Vada. Virgie. Bernice. Wavagene. Robert. 288 JESS (6) m. ___. Children: Nina. Emma. Glenn. Mabel. Ernest. Clarence. Bessie M. Edith A. Lived Shelby, Mich. in 1928. 76 JOHN D. (6). 289 EDITH (6) m. Mr. Nave. Child: Paul. Lived Gary, Ills. 1928. 52 WILLIAM SYLVESTER (5) LATTA, Silas (4) Ephraim (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born in LaGrange Co., Ind. January 4, 1855; m. Laura B. Hoffman in 1879, daughter of Israel and Katharine Hoffman at Sturgis, Mich. She was born in Pa. August 17, 1854. Farmer. In 1907 both lived 4 miles west of LaGrange, Ind. Children all born in LaGrange Co., Ind.: 290 CORA CATHARINE (6) b. December 22, 1879; m. Mr. Myers. She graduated from high school with class of 1900. Attended State University at Bloomington, one summer. Taught 7 terms of school and attended Ft. Wayne International Business College. In 1907 working for Wayne Abstract Co. at Ft. Wayne, Ind. 291 CLARA MAY (6) b. January 28, 1881; m. Walter Atwater of LaGrange, Ind. in 1900. Graduated with class of 1900. Children: Maynard W. b. in LaGrange Co., Ind. July 19, 1901. Marion. 292 GEORGE WASHINGTON (6) b. March 12, 1883; d. in 1884. 293 GRACE BELLE (6) m. Earle Bullock of LaGrange Co. May 1906. Graduated from LaGrange High School, class of 1903. Taught one term of school in state of Mich. In 1907 lived at S. Milford, LaGrange Co., Ind. 294 HARRY CECIL (6). Attended public school until 15 years of age. In 1907 lived with his parents on farm. 53 DAVID M. (5) LATTA, Silas (4) Ephraim (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born November 28, 1857 in LaGrange Co., Ind.; d. in 1935; m. Catherine A. Kountx March 27, 1889. She was born in LaGrange Co., Ind. In 1936 they lived at LaGrange, Ind. Route 3. One child: 77 SILAS H. (6). 54 WILLIAM MORRISON (5) LATTA, John O. (4) Moses (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born in Indiana; d. at Meade, Kan.; m. Stella Wilson. She was born at Madison, Ind.; d. at Bisbee, Ariz. 1906; b. at Meade, Kan. He served in the Civil War in 3rd Ind. Cav. Lived for a while at Bowie, Texas. Afterwards lived with his brother, Benjamin, until his death; b. at Meade, Kan. Four children: 78 WILLIAM ROSCIUS (6). 79 LEONIDAS (6). 80 ROBERT WASHINGTON (6). Twin with brother, Richard. 295 RICHARD ALLIOTT (6) b. September 17, 1871. Shot by accident in Old Mexico January 10, 1905. Single. 55 IRVIN I. (5) LATTA, John O. (4) Moses (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born November 18__; m. Sarah J. Lived with his brother at Wirt, Ind. One daughter: 296 ___ (6). 56 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (5) LATTA, John O. (4) Moses (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born Rising Sun, ____ Co., Ind. June 5, 1849; d. March 5, 1917 at Fowler, Kan.; b. there; m. Louise Virginia Smith July 15, 1874. Went to Montgomery Co, Mo. in 1869 and worked for his Uncle Parker Rogers. In 1884 went to Meade Co., Kan. His children, except Mary, born in Montgomery Co. Farmer. 81 VIRGIL WILLIS (6) b. August 1875. 82 OLIVER PERRY (6) b. September 1777. 297 BERTIE ELIZABETH (6) b. December 26, 1879; m. Jeramiah Emmert. 298 EFFIE MARIA (6) b. September 26, 1881; m. Delbert Wetmore. 83 ELBA IRVIN (6) b. 299 MARY ETTA (6) b. Fowler, Kansas, October 3, 1895; m. Easton Galway. 57 JOHN TAYLOR (5) LATTA, John O. (4) Moses (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born ____; m. twice: (1) Mary Crenfite. No children. (2) Emma Miller. With his brother Benjamin bought 40 acres of land, and farmed it together. Later both went to Kansas. From Wichita Co., Kan. where his children were probably born, he went to Rising Sun, Ind. in 1892. Later returned to Kansas. In 1908 lived at Wirt, Ind. In 1931 at Nevada, Mo. Children: 300 MARY (6). 301 JOHN (6). 302 LUCY (6). 58 BENTON (5) LATTA, Alex. (4) Moses (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born in Walnut Tp. Jefferson Co., Iowa July 5, 1851; m. Matilda Manchester; b. October 9, 1864. She died at Kansas City, Kan. October 20, 1914. He lived at Leon, Iowa and in 1933 at Kansas City, Kan. Children: 303 VIOLET (6) b. Eden Tp. Decatur Co., Iowa, January 20, 1884; m. Ellis Wilson. In 1936 lived at Leon, Iowa. 2 children. 304 SOPHRONIA (6) b. Eden Tp. May 23, 1885; m. Thomas Smith. 305 GROVER (6) b. Eden Tp. November 27, 1886. 306 RACHEL (6) b. Eden Tp. January 20, 1888; m. Mr. McFarland. 307 ETHEL (6) b. Eden Tp. May 2, 1889, m. Mr. Overholster. 308 STEPHEN (6) b. Hamilton Tp. Decatur Co., Iowa July 10, 1892. 309 ANNA (6) b. July 26, 1894; d. July 9, 1920; m. Mr. Arnold. 310 SYLVESTER (6) b. Hamilton Tp. October 6, 1895; d. September 1, 1896. 311 MARY (6) b. Hamilton Tp. December 26, 1898; m. twice: (1) John Burkhart. (2) Theora Snethen. Lived at Pleasanton, Iowa. 312 JOHN MARION (6) b. Hamilton Tp. December 26, 1898. 313 LAWRENCE (6) b. Hamilton Tp. 314 AGNES (6) b. Hamilton Tp. July 9, 1906; m. m. Mr. Varner. 315 FLORENCE (6) b. Hamilton Tp.; m. Mr. Drop, or Samangon. 59 JOHN MILTON (5) LATTA, Robert W. (4) Moses (3) William (2) James M. (1) b. Musscatine, Iowa September 23, 1853; m. Jennie Hardy of East Norway, Doniphan Co., Kan. July 3, 1888. Went with his parents to Harrison Co, Mo. when a child, to Otoe Co., Mo. to Neb. in 1864, to Holt Co., Mo. in 1867. Named after Dr. Milton M. Latta. On October 14, 1874, while making railroad ties in Andrew Co., Mo. near Savanna he met with an accident which lamed him for life. He then studied telegraphy, but soon quit that to teaching school. He taught for six years in Doniphen Co., and Sumner Co., Kan. He took a course of medicine in the University of Michigan, graduating in June 1883. Went to Millerton, Sumner Co, Kan. where he practiced until 1904. He then went to Wichita, Kan. July 3, 1888. In 1908 lived at Wichita, Kan. children: 316 TRINE HARDY (6) b. December 13, 1890. 317 ROBERT HARDY (6) b. November 2, 1892. 318 JOHN HARDY (6) b. August 28, 1898. 60 WILLIAM BENTON (5) LATTA, Robert W. (4) Moses (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born in Harrison Co, Mo. December 3, 1860; m. Carrie Walton of Conway Springs, Sumner Co., Kan. in 1895. In 1904 owned a fine farm near Claire, Grant Co, Okla. One child: 319 VERA (6) b. in Grant Co., Okla. May 14, 1898. ___________________________ 213 CHARLES W (6) LATTA, William A (5) Samuel P (4) John (3) William (2) James M (1) Born: Nov. 13, 1866 at: Bourbon Co., Kan. (Also seen: Jackson Co., Iowa) Married: Maggie Wynant (Wiant), March 1, 1888 at: Greenwood, Kan. She was born about 1880 in Kansas and died: May 28, 1962 in Sweet Home, Oregon. Children; 397 SIDNEY (7) Born: 1898, Piedmont, Kan. Married: Geneva Sargent. 398 MABEL (7) Born 1901. Married: Marion Gant. 399 HARRY MIKE (7) Born 1905. Married: Thelma Grizzle. 400 GLADYS "Babe" (7) Born: 1907. Married: William Dixon. 61 CHARLES CLARENCE (6) LATTA, Milton M. (5) James (4) Robert (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born at Goshen, Ind. June 2, 1852; d. there about 1910; m. Edna Laura Case in Goshen, Ind. She was born at Middlebury, Ind. March 4, 1852. He was a traveling salesman for 25 years and in manufacturing business at Goshen. Children: 320 CLARENCE CASE (7) b. at Goshen, Ind. May 30, 1877; d. there September 17, 1905. 321 OLIVER LYMAN (7) b. at Goshen, Ind. January 13, 1879. 322 ROY LELAND (7) b. July 7, 1883. Advertising writer. Lived at St. Louis, Mo. in 1904. 323 LOUISE (7) b. March 26, 1888. 62 WILLIAM JOHNSTON (6) LATTA, Milton M. (5) James (4) Robert (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born in Goshen, Ind. July 15, 1856; m. Mary Janette Harbach, at Des Moines, Iowa. Physician. Graduate from N.W.. Medical School of Chicago, Ills. in 1881. Lived at Des Moines in 1903. Was President of Latta Life Annuity Assoc. In 1907 lived at Pueblo, Colo. In 1932 lived at Wagon Mound, N.M. where he died in May 1932. Children: 84 LOUIS MILTON (7) b. November 1889. 324 SARAH JANETTE (7) m. Jerry S. Taylor at Forest Hills, Ore. in 1914. 63 HENRY PIERCE (6) LATTA, Milton M. (5) James (4) Robert (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born: October 21, 1858. Died: March 26, 1926. Married: Katharine Lydia Martin Oct 24, 1894. She was Born: at Plainwell, Mich. June 7, 1869, daughter of John Summerfield Martin and Jemima Courtwright Huff "Martin". In 1904 lived at Toledo, Ohio. In 1905 at Mobile, Ala. Children: 85 MILTON MARTIN (7). 325 HARRY SUMMERFIELD (7) b. Toledo, Ohio December 16, 1897; d. November 18, 1918. 86 WILLIAM CHARLES (7). 64 WILLIAM CARROLL (6) LATTA, Robert S. (3) James (4) Robert (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born at La Porte, Ind. March 9, 1850; d. at Lafayette, Ind. December , 1935; m. Alta E. Wood at Mason, Mich. July 10, 1879. She was born at Woodville, N.Y. March 16, 1854. { Please see the end notes for more detail} All his children were born at Lafayette, Ind. 326 BERTHA (7) b. July 6, 1884. 327 ROBERT WOOD (7) b. May 3, 1886. In 1915 was professor at State College N.M. In 1928 lived at So. Bend, Ind. 328 PAULINE (7) b. August 4, 1890; m. Rev. H.J. Reemtsma, Presbyterian minister, September 7, 1921. In 1934 he lived at McAlester, Okla. Children: Carol Elste b. January 19, 1923. Henry Keith b. December 5, 1925. In 1928 he lived at Madera, Calif. 329 MARY (7) b. November 19, 1894. Insurance agent. Lafayette, Ind. 65 MILTON NIMMON (6) LATTA, Robert s (5) James (4) Robert (3) William (2) James M (1) Born in Perry Tp. Noble Co., Ind. 1854. Married twice. (1) Unknown. (2) Etta Masters, at Taylor, Neb. October 4, 1885. Invented the Latta Wheel Machine, and other inventions. In 1907 lived at Oasis, Neb. In 1928 Valentine, Neb. Clild by his first wife; 330 NONA (7) Died young. Children by his 2nd wife; 331 NILES (7) 332 VERA (7) Born: March 21, 1890. Married: Mr. Klingaman 333 GUY (7) Born: October 10, 1892. Killed. 334 MARY WANDA (7) Born: March 17, 1903. Died: March 18, 1905. 335 AUNO (7) Born: July 15, 1905. 66 JAMES THEODORE (6) LATTA Robert S. (5) James (4) Robert (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born in Olmstead Co., Minn. September 23, 1858; m. Abigail Simpson April 25, 1881 in Noble Co., Ind. Owned farm near Albion, Ind. In 1908 Treas. Noble Co. 336 ZUILA ESTELLA (7) b. at Millersburg, Ind. March 18, 1881; m. Willard Slabaugh at Ligonier, Ind. June 5, 1911. Children: Keith Elmer, Dorothy Evelin, Everett. Forrest. 337 THURLOW ROBERT (7) b. at Ligonier, Ind. July 2, 1883; d. March 26, 1924; m. Blanche Gerkin May 24, 1904. No children. 338 ORTA LEILA (7) Born: at Ligonier, Ind. January 4, 1895 ; Married: James Sullivan At Ligonier, Ind. July 8, 1913. Children: Donald Latta Sullivan, James Richard Sullivan, Betty J Sullivan, Keith Edwin Sullivan, Laura M Sullivan, Anabelle Sullivan, Lawrence Sullivan. 67 CHARLES LEWIS (6) LATTA, Robert S. (5) James (4) Robert (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born November 6, 1864 at Ligonier, Ind.; m. Daisy Stillwell March 1, 1896. In 1908 lived on a stock ranch and dairy farm near Oasis, Neb. Children: 88 WILLIAM THEODORE (7). 339 RALPH STILLWELL (7). 340 ROSCO (7) b. February 2, 1901; d. March 18, 1901. 341 OLIVER KEITH (7) b. June 17, 1902. 342 IDEL (7). 343 IRIS (7). 68 ARTHUR WRIGHT (6) LATTA, Eden R. (5) James (4) Robert (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born at Dennison, Iowa, August 29, 1864; m. Nora Becker. He lived t Millville, Ohio, June 27, 1806. Children: 344 RALEIGH ORDO (7) b. June 30, 1910. 345 HELEN MARY (7) b. May 16, 1906. 69 MAURICE LAYTON (6) LATTA, William W. (5) Johnston (4) Robert (3) William (2). James M. (1). Born 1887. Died in 1928 and buried in Eden Cemetery north of Ligonier, Ind. Married Helen Roberta Watchorn. He was born in Noble Co., Ind. in or near Ligonier. She died in 1920 at Ligonier, Ind. 2 children: 89 CARLYLE MELYNE (7). 90 DONALD BARRINGTON (7). 70 OSCAR (6) LATTA, Frank (5). Thos. W. (4) Samuel (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born September 14, 1868 in Kan.; Died Aug. 2, 1954. In 1908 living at Austin, Texas. Member of the Texas Rangers under Capt. Rogers. In 1921 he was Sheriff and Tax Collector and living at Junction, Kimball Co., Texas. Married twice; # 1) Mamie Earwood, September 8, 1889. Children all born in Kimble (Kimball) Co., Texas. # 2) Amanda Mae Jeter. She was Born: May 1, 1878. Children: 346 LAWRENCE E. (7) b. September 17, 1900. 347 FRANK (7) b. June 26, 1903. 348 JOHN D. (7) b. November 29, 1906. 349 PAUL. d. pneumonia around 1917. 350 LOFTEN 407 JONATHAN RALPH (6) LATTA, Jonathan S (5) William (4) Samuel (3) William (2) James M (1) Born: July 31, 1908. Died: June 17, 1961. All the family information on # 407 Jonathan was given by both; # 409 "Corrine" Latta & # 412 "Colleen" Latta. Married 3 times, *1) Wife: Pearl Dietz, Married: May 9th 1926 in: Anthony, KS. Jonathan abandoned his family sometime in 1930/31. Pearl borrowed the money and divorced on Aug. 13 1938. She was born: Jan. 8, 1906, OK, Territory, now called Grant Co. She is still living This Dec. of 1997. *2)(Not Legally Married)Wife: Hazel Bernetta Angelo, She was Born: October 4, 1906 at Wymore, Nebraska. Died: Jan. 16, 1981. *3) Wife: Nola Z. Walker, Married: Sept. 22, 1945, Wichita, KS. *Children of the 1st; 409 BETTY "CORRINE" (7) (Never used her first name)Born: Apr. 26, 1927, Latta Farm,Harper, KS. Married: John Daynne Afton, Sept. 3, 1948 in: Wichita, Ks. 3 children all born at Wichita, KS.; Alan Daynne Afton, Born: May 6, 1951. Judith Ann Afton, Born: Dec. 21, 1953. Michael John Afton, Born: Dec. 4, 1956. 410 BONNIE JEAN (7) Born: Feb. 5, 1929, at: The Dietz farm, Manchester Tw., Grant Co., OK. Married: Shirley Ronald Black, July 30, 1948, Wichita KS. 3 children all born in Wichita KS; Ronda Sue Black, Born: Feb. 17, 1951. Janet Gay Black, Born: Apr. 29, 1953. DeAnna Kay Black, Born: Dec 27, 1958. 411 THELMA "ANN" (7) Born: Feb 24, 1931. Alfalfa Co., OK. Married: Joseph Anton Friedel, Sept. 22, 1949. Wichita, KS. 8 Children all but one born in Wichita, KS; Daniel Joseph Friedel, Born: Aug. 3, 1953 in Oceanside, CA. Sandi Lynne Friedel, Born: Oct. 8, 1955. Glory Ann Friedel, Born: June 8, 1957. Eric Paul Friedel, Born: Oct. 11, 1958 Died: July 15, 1989. Stacy Marie Friedel, Born: Feb. 10, 1960. Lisa Kay Friedel, Born: Oct. 30, 1961. Kelli Rene Friedel, Born: Sept. 9, 1963. Mitchell Scott Friedel, Born: Dec. 31, 1964. *Child of the 2nd; 412 VERDA "COLLEEN" (7)Born: April 21, 1931. at: Topeka, Kansas. (Her birth record list Jonathan as her father.) Married: Mr. Miller, Divorced: 1980. they have 4 children all born at Enid, OK : Jeanne Marlene Miller, Born: July 28, 1951. Lee Everett Miller, Apr. 30, 1953. Pamela Sue Miller, Sept. 13, 1954. Mary Elleen Miller, Aug. 6, 1956. *Child of the 3rd; 413 RICHARD LEROY (7) Born: June 24, 1946, Wichita, KS. His name was changed to: Richard Leroy Morris. His mother remarried a man named Morris, she died when Richard was 13 years old. His Step-Father adopted him. He now (1997) lives in Portland, OR. 71 OTTO MANSFIELD (6) LATTA, Tabor S. (5) Ephraim (4) Ephraim (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born December 22, 1872 at No. Manchester, Ind. Named after Mansfield Farrell; m. Grace G. McCarty December 24, 1893. She was born in Lynn Co., Mo. November 12, 1869. In 1906 he was railroad station agent for Rock Island RR. at Brooklyn, Iowa. Children: 351 ARNOLD CADET (7) b. at Marengo, Iowa April 7, 1895. 352 HELEN M. (7) b. at Marengo, Iowa January 31, 1899. 353 DOROTHY M. (7) b. October 22, 1903. 72 SILAS WALTON (6) LATTA, Ephraim (5) Silas (4) Ephraim (3) William (2) James M. (1). Married Clara Printupp. Served in Philippine war. In 1906 lived at Lowell, Ind. Children: 354 WINONA J. (7). In 1934 lived at Fullerton Parkway, Chicago. Ills. 73 FRANK J. (6) LATTA, Ephraim (5) Silas (4) Ephraim (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born ____. Married Lucy Haslet. In 1934 lived at Gladwin, Mich. 5 children: 355 DONNA (7) m. Leslie Sweet. 356 ELMER (7) m. 357 OPAL (7) m. Charles Brushaber. 358 VADA (7). 359 LUCILLE (7). 74 GEORGE AUGUSTUS (6) LATTA, Ephraim (5) Silas (4) Ephraim (3) William (2) James (1). Born October 1875; m. Laura Allen. 2 children: 360 GLADA (7) m. Roger Dillon. 2 children: Duane and Donna. 361 BRUCE (7). 75 THOMAS (6) LATTA, John F. (5) Silas (4) Ephraim (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born ____; m. ____. In 1928 lived at Shelby, Lake Co., Ind. Children: 362 CECIL (7). 363 LULU GLENN (7). 76 JOHN D. (6) LATTA, John F. (5) Silas (4) Ephraim (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born ____. Married ____. In 1928 lived at Shelby, Lake Co., Ind. 1928. All his children lived at Belshaw, Ind. Children: 364 KENNETH (7). 365 ELENORA (7). 366 LOIS (7). 77 SILAS H. (6) LATTA, David M. (5) Silas (4) Ephraim (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born in LaGrange Co., Ind. October 4, 1890; m. Mae Snyder. Children: 367 KATHRYN (7). 368 MARION (7). 78 WILLIAM ROSCIUS (6) LATTA, William M (5) John Q. (4) Moses (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born on a farm 9 miles from Madison, Ind. in 1867; m. Nora Foley, at Williams, Arizona. In 1908 lived at Bisbee, Ariz. Railroad Conductor. Children: 369 MABEL (7). 370 MARGARET (7). 79 LEONIDAS (6) LATTA, William M. (5) John Q. (4) Moses (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born on a farm 9 miles from Madison, Ind. about 1869. Farmer; m. Emma C. Cousins at Eskridge, Kan. In 1908 lived there. Children: 371 GRACE MARIE (7) b. May 10, 1895, m. R.A. Hinshaw. In 1939 lived at Wakeenee, Kan. 91 JOHN LEONIDAS (7). 372 ETHEL LOUISE (7) b. May 7, 1901; m. Kenneth J. Renshaw. 92 BENJAMIN THEODORE (7). 80 ROBERT WASHINGTON (6) LATTA, William M (5) John Q. (4) Moses (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born September 17, 1871 on same farm with brothers; m. Laura May Wilson at Council Bluffs, Iowa. He lived there in 1908. Messenger for U.S. Express between Omaha and Denver. One child. 373 MAUD MAY (7). 81 VIRGIL WILLIS (6) LATTA, Benjamin F. (5) John Q. (4) Moses (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born August 28, 1875 in Montgomery Co., Mo.; m. Sarah Hadlock (sister to Oliver Perry Latta's wife) in Meade, Kan. December 21, 1904. In 1910 lived at Pueblo, Colo. In 1939 lived at Bakersfield, Calif. 5 children: 374 ADA PEARL (7) b. at Fowler, Kan. December 31, 1905; m. C.C. Owen. 375 LAVERE HAROLD (7) b. at Fowler, Kan. March 15, 1907. 376 HERMAN ORVIL (7) b. at Pueblo, Colo. August 14, 1911. 377 RUBY FAY (7) b. at The Dalles, Ore. July 4, 1922. 378 GLEN WILLIS (7) b. at Sants Paula, Calif. February 3, 1925. 82 OLIVER PERRY (6) LATTA, Benjamin F. (5) John Q. (4) Moses (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born September 26, 1877 at Montgomery City, Mo.; m. Catherine Hadlock, (sister to his brother Virgil's wife) of Montezuma, Kan. December 21, 1903 at Ingalls, Kan. She was born at Polk, Polk Co., Mo. March 21, 1886. Daughter of Absolum and Catherine Hadlock. In 1909 lived at Montezuma, Kan. 5 children: 379 OSCAR JAMES (7) b. October 7, 1904 at Fowler, Kan.; m. Vesta Mae LaRue. 380 PERRY WILLIS (7) b. November 27, 1907 at Montezuma, Kan.; d. Raymond Wash. 1932. 381 VELVA ALICE (7) b. February 1, 1906, at Montezuma, Kan.; m. Samuel R. Evans. 382 IRVIN ROBERT (7) b. July 3, 1913 at Montezuma, Kan. 383 ZELLA FERN (7) b. December 21, 1920 at Fowler, Kan. 83 ELBA IRVIN (6) LATTA, Benjamin F. (5) John Q. (4) Moses (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born December 24, 1883 at Montezuma, Kan.; m. Emma May Gamble December 27, 1905. 2 children: 384 ETHEL MATILDA (7) b. November 1907 at Meade, Kan. 385 OPAL (7) b. December 1917 in Gray Co., Kan. ____________________________ 397 SIDNEY (7) LATTA, Charles W (6) William A (5) Samuel P (4) John (3) William (2) James M (1) Born: 1898 in Piedmont, Kan. Married: Geneva Sargent, August 15, 1944 in Pasco, Washington. Children; 401 MICHAEL DENNIS (8) Born Aug. 1, 1945. 84 LOUIS MILTON (7) LATTA, William J. (6) Milton M. (5) James (4) Robert (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born November 4, 1889 at Des Moines, Iowa; m. Anita Blohm, at Carroll, Iowa April 10, 1915. In 1928 lived at Indianola, Iowa, and in 1935 at 1341 W. 22d Street, Los Angeles, Calif. One child: 386 ROBERT MILTON (8) b. March 8, 1927. 85 MILTON MARTIN (7) LATTA, Henry P. (6) Milton M. (5) James (4) Robert (3) William (2) James (1). Born September 23, 1895 at Toledo, Ohio; m. Frances Slate August 22, 1917. Enlisted in Minn. August 15, 1917, World War. Discharged June 14, 1919. 1st. Lieut. 166th Inf. Served overseas. Lived at 1018 4th Street, S.E., Minneapolis, Minn. Children: 387 INA CATHERINE (8) b. April 27, 1920.Married: Richard Charles Strasser, Aug 21, 1943. Children: Jennifer Ann Strasser Born: Oct 27, 1944., Linda Martin Strasser Born: Aug 23, 1948. 388 JULIA LOUISE (8) Born: Oct 31, 1928. 86 WILLIAM CHARLES (7) LATTA, Henry P. (6) Milton M. (5) James (4) Robert (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born: March 1, 1899, at Toledo, Ohio; m. Olga Von Ezdorf, November 5, 1923 at Goshen, Ind. Children: 389 NANCY LEE (8) b. October 10, 1924.At Goshen IN. Married: Carl Daniel Amsden "Jr" Feb 12, 1945. In: Goshen IN. Children: Michael Nancy Amsden Born: Jan 19, 1946., Carl Daniel Amsden III Born: Oct 31, 1948.In: Pine Lake GA. 390 JANICE MARTIN (8) b. March 8, 1926. At: Goshen IN. Married: Charles Frederick Bryner Nov 10, 1945. In: Goshen IN. Child: James Martin Bryner, Born: Aug 2, 1949. 87 NILE (7) LATTA, Milton M. (6) Robert S. (5) James (4) Robert (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born April 16, 1887; m. Klingaman. Killed by horse. One son: 391 NILE (7). 88 WILLIAM THEODORE (7) LATTA, Charles L. (6) Robert S. (5) James (4). Robert (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born December 11, 1896; m. ____. Has children. 89 CARLYLE MELYNE (7) LATTA, Maurice L. (6) William W. (5) Johnston (4) Robert (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born at Ligonier, Ind. December 5, 1900; m. Elizabeth Wagner At Ashville, N.C. June 19, 1928. In 1935 was State Mgr. Am. Auto, Ins. Co. at Milwaukee. 392 EMILY ANNAS (8) b. at Muskogee, Okla. 90 DONALD BARRINGTON (7) LATTA, Maurice L. (6) William W. (5) Johnston (4) Robert (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born at Ligonier, Ind. September 1, 1902; m. Hazel Irene Aldrich June 3, 1928 at Canon City, Colo. In 1936 County Judge, Teller Co., Colo. at Cripple Creek. Two children, both born at Cripple Creek, Colo. 393 DONALD WILL (8) b. April 1, 1929. 394 CAROL JEANNE (8) b. February 6, 1934. 91 JOHN LEONIDAS (7) LATTA, Leonidas (6) William M.(5) John Q. (4) Moses (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born January 14, 1897; m. Carrie Hartley. One child: 395 ROBERT LEE (8) b. about 1920. 92 BENJAMIN THEODORE (7) LATTA, Leonidas (6) William M. (5) John Q. (4) Moses (3) James M. (1). Born February 9, 1908; m. Velma Rae Miller. One child: 396 JOSEPH QUINTON (8) b. August 14, 1939. ___________________________________ 401 MICHAEL DENNIS (8) LATTA, Sidney (7) Charles W (6) William A (5) Samuel P (4) John (3) William (2) James (1) Born: Aug. 1, 1945 in Pasco, Washington. Married: Wife not known. Children; 402 MARCIE (9) 403 PHYLLIS ANNETTE (9) Born: Jan. 25, 1965. Married: Mark Swanson. 404 JEFFERY DUANE (9) Born: Dec. 25, 1965. Married: Valerie Thomas. 405 KIMBERLEY DENISE (9) Born: Dec. 5, 1967. 406 JOSHUA DOANEAS (9) Born: Sept. 7, 1979. ______________________________________________________________________________ THIS IS THE END OF THE BRANCH---BELOW ARE THE DETAIL NOTES ______________________________________________________________________________ July 4, 1807, Mr. Cultured. Please for to let Ephraim Latta have one barrel of Good Whisky, and I shall endeavor to see you paid in money or grain, and in so doing you will much oblige Yours, Wm. Latta. I do hereby certify I received on the above the amount of 34 gallons of whisky for my father at 3/0 per gallon. Ephraim Latta. The interest on the above to the 20th of July, 1807 is $1.22. In a letter to his brother, Robert, dated Mt. Pleasant, Pa. May 8, 1844, who was then at Good Hope, Noble Co., Ind. 8 Samuel (3) writes: "I received a letter from brother John's widow, dated April 8, she and her family were well, and sister Katherine Huey's family was well. My son Thomas, left home March 25, for your country. Robert's son Johnston, writes April 20, 1844 that Thomas arrived safely. From a letter written by Nancy Robertson,, December 5, 1842, Adams Co., Ohio, I find that she was the daughter of 8 Samuel (3) Latta, she mentions her son, Thomas, who lived 9 miles from Chester, Randolph Co., Ills. and her married daughter, Margaret, with three children, Mary Jane, Robert Henry and Martha Ann. Henry writes to her brother, Samuel, and her sister, Rachel. She signs her letter Nancy Robertson. See Will of Samuel and Robert Latta, her brothers, for mention of the Robertson Tract, which they left to their sister, Elizabeth, during her natural life. She evidently married a Mr. Robertson. She was the mother of Eliza Latta who took the name of Johnston. Margaret, Nancy's daughter, married Allen Robinson. December 5, 1842. Nancy Robertson, then at Decatur, Brown Co., Ind. writes to her brother, Samuel Latta at Mt. Pleasant, Pa. "I heard from Jane Latta about a month ago, she was getting able to ride about after another long spell of sickness and her brother John went to where their brother Robert died and lost his wife and five of his children and came back again. Robert R. Latta and family are well, and have six children, three sons and three daughters." She speaks of her son, Thomas, who was then in Randolph Co., Ills, and of her daughter, Margaret, who married Allen Robinson. They have three children. She also speaks of cousin Steven Thompson and Uncle Hatchion or Atheson, who are all the people she speaks of in her letter. A Jane Latta writes from Adams Co., Ohio, but her address is Decatur, Brown Co., Ohio and her letter Jan. 3, 1838 and written to her Uncle Samuel Latta, Mt. Pleasant, Pa. She speaks of Aunt Robertson, and of Robert Latta, as follows: "Robert Latta left Ohio April 1st for the Illinois. He took with him an engine to put up a saw mill. Robert came to us a short time before he went on his journey and told he intended paying you a visit as soon as her returned from the Illinois. He was very anxious for Aunt Robertson to go with him to see you, as he intended going in the fall, but our dear friend never returned home. He laid out a town on the Illinois river where he built a mill. He sold thirty odd lots at one hundred dollars apiece, and he had just got his mill started, was ready to come home, where he was taken with a very violent attack of the billious fever and lived but 14 days. He left his sister, Jane, 3/4 of his estate, and Mr. Foster, in whose house he lived, the other one fourth. Jane was sick all summer and had never forgotten her brother Joseph's death. Aunt Robertson sends her love to all." Who is this Jane Latta who writes this letter, and who is Robert and the Jane who is mentioned in the letter? In William's old farm in Westmoreland co., Pa. there is a tract of land still known as the Nancy Robertson tract. ____________________________ 1930's Detail Note about: 2 WILLIAM (2) LATTA, William (1.) There are a number of stories about his history. One is that he married Katharine or Jane Taylor, daughter of a clergyman. Was disinherited by his father. With his wife, he came to America. Settled in N.J.in 1740, afterwards near Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland Co., Pa. about 1760. In 1782 he lived in Lancaster Co., Pa. Katherine was said to be a great beauty. She died of apoplexy. He served during the Revolutionary War in Morgan's cavalry--James M. Latta, Jr. Goshen, Ind. Another history is: William was born in Ireland. Came to America during or just previous to the Revolutionary War. He quarreled with his father over his (the son's) proposed marriage to a beautiful but poor orphan girl, borrowed money from a friend, married the girl, and came to America the day of the marriage. Lived near Laurel Hill, Fayette Co., Pa. Settled in Lancaster Co., Pa. His will was executed in Bullship Tr. Fayette Co., Pa. April 21, 1803--John Milton Latta, M.D. Probated April 30, 1808. There must be an error about the poor orphan girl, as Mary Latta, daughter of Robert Latta, son of William, told that Robert Latta said that Katherine was a sister or aunt of Lord Conwallis, and that William had dozens of boxes of finely embroidered clothes, and that Robert had received from his mother's people very fine clothes to be married in. Another history is: Under the laws of Ireland was one known as the law of primogeniture. The father selected the wife for his son. The selection did not please my great grandfather, but the one he loved was Jane Taylor. They got aboard a vessel, married while crossing the water and landed in New York. As for the name of Katharine, it might have been a part of her name. If so, it is new to me. They finally settled in Westmoreland Co., Pa., where my grandfather was born.--James A.M. Curl, 77 years of age, September 22, 1907. Grandson of Robert Latta. I believe that Katherine was Jewess, as James, Caroline Hackstaff, Gustavus Alonzo, Mary Bivins, and other children of William, son of Robert Latta, had very pronounced Jewish features.--Dr. William Johnston Latta, son of Milton M. Latta. This would account for the opposition to marriage. See my loose leaf book of wills. __________________________________ 1930's Detail Note: 3 JOHN (3) LATTA, William (2) James M. (1). Born in Pa. September 15, 1756. On September 26, 1843, when catching his horse to ride to Greenville, Mercer Co., Pa. he was caught between his horse and a fence, went to town, returned unwell, and died October 4, 1843. His mind was bright until his death. He was mourned by the poor, the widow, and the orphans. When 15 years of age, he enlisted as a private under Washington, in the Revolutionary War, and became a major. ("I have heard my grandfather tell of that terrible Christmas night (December 25, 1776), when he crossed the Delaware River with Washington and his men--Catherine Jane Latta Zitterrell, daughter of Samuel Potter Latta."). After the war he served against the Indians. His regiment was sent to put down the Whisky War. He settled in the backwoods of Pa., and lived in Fayette Co. about 1795, and near Greenville, Mercer Co., in 1807. Both he and his wife died on their farm 5 miles north of Greenville. He married Margaret Potter, a number of a noted Revolutionary War family. She was born August 20, 1771, and died January 24, 1852. His grandson, William Anderson Latta, gives the following history of his Uncle Tom Potter. "Two of the Potter family were noted men. They carried dispatches for Washington during the war, and carried the mail for 300 miles through the wilderness when there was a big reward for their scalps. Finally, I think it was Uncle Tom and his whole family who were captured by the Indians, who killed and scalped the whole party of whites except Uncle Tom, his wife and one girl, robbed the house, and burned it. They bound Potter on a pony and started to take him to their chief to get the bounty. After several days they unbound him to make him cut wood and carry water. Aunt saved all her rations that the Indians gave her and prevailed on uncle to run away. One night they sent him for water and he ran away. He waded the creek all night so that the Indian dogs could not track him. In the morning he caught the limb of a big hollow tree and swung himself up. He hid in the hollow all day and he could hear the Indian dogs around the tree; but as they were so well acquainted with him, they did not bark. The next night he waded the creek and struck out for the white settlement. The Indians had stripped him naked, and tied a breech cloth around him so he was naked and bare foot. Soon after he ran a white thorn through his foot and was compelled to go on his hands and knees and catch lizards and snakes to live on. He was picked up by a friendly Indian, and hid until his foot was cured. The Indian helped him to get to the settlement. After several years he succeeded in getting his wife and girl back by paying a big sum of money. The girl would never stay at home, but would run away to the Indians." ________________________________ 1930's detail note: 7 ROBERT (3) LATTA, William (2) James M. (1). Born September 29, 1773 at Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland Co., Pa. He died at "Haw Patch", LaGrange Co., Ind., April 28, 1851. Married a widow, Isabella Waddell, December 22, 1795, 5 years his senior. Daughter of Wm. Johnston of Washington Co. Pa., and aunt of Wm. F. Johnston, Gov. of Pa. 1848-1853. She was born December 25, 1768; died February 2, 1855. One daughter by first husband called Ann Latta who married Mr. Dye of Eastern, Ohio. Robert weighed 300 pounds, in strength never met his equal. After his marriage he went to Greensburg, Pa. Saddler. The first night they spent in their newly erected log house the ridge pole fell down between them as they sat at the fire. They took that as an evil omen, packed up their effects and went to Bellefontaine, Ohio, then Guernsey, now Noble Co. There all his family was born. In 1814 he went to Champaign Co., Ohio, 6 miles north of Urbana, where he lived until 1832, then they moved to LaGrange Co., Ind., then to Ligonier, Ind. They were Presbyterians, but soon after moving to Ohio, his wife got into a controversy with Rev. Strenge, and took offense at his words. Robert went to horsewhip him, but finding him a pale, sickly man, decided to hear him preach instead, and at the conclusion of his sermon arose and said he had "heard the truth for the first time", and they both joined the Methodist church. The Lattas being quite prominent in that part of Ohio, his defection to the Methodist church was viewed with great disfavor, and he and his family suffered persecution which became so great that they were forced to leave the country. While in Pa., he was one of the "Whisky Boys", in which he took a prominent part. When he moved to LaGrange, Ind. in 1820, he bought 6400{Lawrence Sullivan States; This should read 18, 80-acre tracts. About 1,500 acres.} acres in the famous "Haw Patch" region in Noble Co. and LaGrange Co. He was a man of warm impulses and great executive ability and a great student. He exercised his executive ability by colonizing his purchase of land with one or more young married men of almost every profession and trade except the legal, and presented them with a deed to 80 acres of land on the condition that they live on it a certain number of years and do all his work for nothing. In this way he soon had himself surrounded by a community which was able to supply all his wants and which looked upon him as almost a feudal lord, for he abrogated to himself the right to settle all disputes. He did not neglect the ministry for he soon erected a large church and school house and individually paid the expenses of a man who was both minister and school master. He endowed scholarships in several state colleges for the sole use of the children of his colonists and even excluded his grandchildren from their use. He was a man of very distinguished appearance, 8 feet 6 inches {Lawrence Sullivan writes this should be 6' 8" or 6' 4"} in height, straight as an arrow, and temperate in all things but his temper, which allowed no one to dispute or gainsay him. He was an arden Whig in politics and quite prominent in state politics. He lived to see his colony firmly established and it became a by-word throughout the region. He had an old fashioned wall-sweep clock which in 1904 was owned by his grandson, William H. Latta. In May 8, 1844, he lived at Good Hope, Noble Co., Ind. _____________________________________ 1930's Detail Notes on; 15 JAMES (4) LATTA, Robert (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born at Ballefontaine, Ohio, November 13, 1796; d. near Ligonier, Ind. February 14, 1855. Married 3 times: (1) Elizabeth Seegar, March 17, 1821. She was born in N.J. August 23, 1800, d. March 27, 1839. (2) Frances S. Goode of So. Bend, Ind. June 12, 1839; d. at Haw Patch, Ind. a short time after. (3) Mrs. Craig, nee Eliza Jane Reeder of Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, Ohio. She died at Ligonier, Ind. poet and Methodist minister. Wrote several books of poems and sermons. Judge on the bench in early days. In 1824 he went from near Urbana, Ohio to Bloomington, Ills. In 1832 he went to Haw Patch, near Ligonier, Ind. where his grandparents were buried, also his parents. Azra M. Prince, Sec'y McLean Co. Historical Society of Bloomington, Ills. said that James Latta laid out the first lot there in 1824. Also said "He seems to have been the foremost man of this little community from the time he came to Bloomington in 1824 until 1832 when in the fall he moved to Indiana." Farmer and local preacher, but did not belong to any conference. He was one of the first settlers at Bloomington and the lot he bought is now part of the Court House grounds. He was one of the Commissioners appointed to organize Tazewell Co. Ills. in 1827. By request I furnished Bloomington his history. He served as first sergeant Capt. Andrew Hemphill's Col. Col. John McDonald's Regt. Gen. Menery's Div. Ohio Militia war of 1812. July 28, 1813 to September 5, 1813. See my Scrap Book for his full history taken from Daily Paragraph, Bloomington, Ills. January 31, 1927. No children by second or third wife. ____________________________ 1930's Detail notes on; 17 SAMUEL ALEXANDER (4) LATTA, Robert (3) William (2) James M. (1). Described in Appleton's Ency. Am. Biog. History of Samuel Arminius Latta. Born April 8, 1804, at Bellefontaine, Ohio; d. at Cincinnati, Ohio June 28, 1852 of apoplexy. Lived near Urbana. Methodist minister and physician. Was one of the three ministers who were instrumental in bringing about the rupture in the Methodist Church, resulting in the final division into the Church North and Church South. This was not on the ground of slavery. He was for the southern branch of the Church on the ground of Church property. When 16 years of age he was licensed to exhort, and in 1827 was licensed as a local preacher. He studied medicine in 1823 and was licensed to practice for three years. Married Mary Ann Guthrie, niece of Rev. John Collins April 8, 1828; she d. July 15, 1829. At Urbana in 1829 he was appointed to the St. Clair Mission in Michigan. In 1830 was stationed at Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1831 he was appointed to travel in the bounds of the Ohio Conference as agent American Colonization society. In 1832-3 he traveled Union Circuit. In 1834 filled Lebanon Station. In 1835-6 he filled Hamilton and Cossville Stations. In 1837 was appointed agent for Augusta College, the first Western College. In 1838-9 he was stationed at Dayton. In 1840 from an affliction of the throat he was compelled to take a superannuated relation. Went to Cincinnati. Resumed the practice of medicine, and soon commanded a good practice. Edited the "Methodist Expositor" and at the time of his death edited and published at Cincinnati, "The Chain of Sacred Wonders, or a Connected View of Scriptural Scenes and Incidents from the Creation to the End of the Last Epoch". On March 15, 1831 he married Caroline Blackman, who died February 27, 1870. When he died his funeral was attended very numerously -- the physicians in a body; the preachers North and South were there. ________________________________ 1930's Detail notes on ; 31 MILTON MILLER (5) LATTA, James (4) Robert (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born Champaign Co., Ohio July 9, 1822; d. November 30, 1899. Married twice: (1) Julia Ann McDevitt in 1845. She was born December 31, 1821; d. June 16, 1861. (2) Julia R. Redfield of Cass Co., Mich. about 1871. In 1904 she was living at Goshen, Ind. Physician and surgeon at Goshen, Ind. In 1840 entered the office of Dr. Johnston Latta. In 1841 entered Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, one term, then returned to Goshen. He stood at the head of his profession. He successfully performed difficult operations. Almost had a monopoly of that branch. During the Civil War Gov. Morton offered him a surgeons commission. He declined on account of the death of his wife and his having small children. Served the union as a draft surgeon and made many enemies of those pressed into the service who did not want to go. With five other men he secured the first railroad for Goshen. Was one of the first directors and builders of the hydraulic canal. A public spirited citizen and spent much time and money for the good of the people. For nearly 40 years was the Lake Shore surgeon. Buried from the Episcopal Church as Goshen under the charge of the Elkhart Co. I.O.O.F. of which he was a member. Interred in Oak Ridge Cemetery. A sketch of his life was published in the Goshen Democrat December 2, 1899. His children were all born at Goshen. _______________________________ 1930's Detail Notes on; 37 JAMES MELYNE (5) LATTA, William (4) Robert (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born at "Fairlawn" near Goshen, Ind. July 4, 1832; d. there December 25, 1896 of Brights disease; m. Elizabeth Potter Jack. Spent his youth on a farm. Had a good academic education at a now extinct academy at Ontario, Ind. and then entered law school at Poughkeepsie, N.Y. after which Harvard Univ. and graduated from the law school there in 1852. Practiced law at Goshen, Ind. In 1861 went to Washington, D.C. and took a position in the Interior Department. His fine legal and executive ability soon became noted and he was appointed legal advisor to the tax commissioner of Florida which he held for three years. During most of the time he was Provost Marshall General of Georgia, S. Carolina and Fla. During the reconstruction" period was offered the governorship of Fla. but declined to become one of the "carpet baggers". He married on October 22, 1864 Elizabeth Potter Jack of Greensburg, Pa. (D.A.R. No. 9572, Goshen, Ind.). He was quite intimate with Pres. Lincoln and all his secretaries. His son, James, has quite a number of letters from Lincoln, Usher, Chase and others. After the war he opened a law office at Washington but soon went into the real estate business quite successfully. He built 550 miles of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad in New Mexico. Owned extensive cattle ranches in New Mexico and he had large holdings of real estate in Boston, Kansas City and Chicago, besides being interested in several banks, gas companies and railroads. At the time he died he was president of the Goshen Cas Co., Citizens Electric Light Co., City Nat'l Bank of Goshen, Albuquerque, N.M. Gas Co., Muskegan (Mich.) Machinery and Foundry Co., Pottawatamie Club of Goshen, The Ariel Cycle Co. of which he was the founder. In 1873 he was sent by the government to the Austrian Exposition as special commissioner. Spent 14 years in Washington then went to New Mexico for 3 years while building the railroad. Went to Boston for several years, then to "Fairlawn" which he improved that in 1897 it was spoken of as the handsomest country seat in Indiana. He was a charitable man and he gave the Episcopal Church of Goshen a parsonage and lot valued at $4,500. ________________________________ 1930's Detail Notes on; 64 WILLIAM CARROLL (6) LATTA, Robert S. (3) James (4) Robert (3) William (2) James M. (1). Born at La Porte, Ind. March 9, 1850; d. at Lafayette, Ind. December , 1935; m. Alta E. Wood at Mason, Mich. July 10, 1879. She was born at Woodville, N.Y. March 16, 1854. She graduated from Mason High School and took special work in the ich. Agricultural College. Alto Eloise Brewster Wood (10th in descent from Elder William Brewster who came over in the "Mayflower" with the Pilgrims in 1620), daughter of Amos Freeman and Eunice Eliza Brewster Wood. William lived on a farm with his parents near Ligonier, Ind. Determined to have a college education he went to Ann Arbor, Mich. Worked his way through college and graduated from the Michigan Agricultural College near Lansing in 1877. Received the Bachelor degree of B.S. that year and M.S. from the same college in 1882. Became professionally with Purdue University Lafayette, Ind. in 1882. In 1908 was professor of Agriculture, and State Supt. of Farmers' Institutes. He was the founder of Ind. Farmers' Institutions and traveled all over the state lecturing to farmers. He thought that as the farmers could not go to college, the college should go to the farmers. He wrote History of Agriculture in Indiana. His portrait was unveiled on his 80th birthday in the Students' Union Building of Pursue Univ. All his children were born at Lafayette, Ind ______________________________________ 1930's detail notes of the Daughter of 7 ROBERT (3) LATTA MARY A. (4) LATTA b. March 21, 1805; d. November 29, 1869; m. William Darnell April 15, 1826. 7 Children: (1) Mortimer Byron b. May 19, 1827; m. Martha Craig, Spring 15, 1849. Children: Mary Ellen. William. Lethe m. James Putnam. Arthur died in the army. James m. Hattie M. White. (2) Caroline Isabell b. October 30, 183-; m. John J. Hipple. (3) Sarah Jane b. March 28, 1833; d. Long Beach, Calif. March 26, 1909; m. Capt. Alvah Bereman, 18th U.S. Inf. November 1, 1855. He died in Calif. February 8, 1887. They lived for years in St. Louis, Mo. and in Denver, Colo. Daughters: Maud, m. Fred'k Wislizenus, lawyer, in St. Louis, Mo. where she was killed by a street car in January 1902. Edith m. James K. Darnell of Breckinridge, Colo. Children: Maud. James. Fred. Fred was an Ensign in the navy during the World War. Agnes d. in Hoquiam, Wash. October 14, 1924; m. Lucian Bisbee, in Denver, Colo. One child: Allen. (4) Elias b. January 28, 1849; d. September 20, 1849. (5) William b. December 23, 1838; d. November 2; m. 1848. (6) Homer Leondas b. July 8, 1845, twin with Harriet. Surgeon, m. Emma Cuyler February 22, 1865. Army surgeon. Lived in Denver, Colo. Died at Soldiers' Home, Leavenworth, Kan. (7) Harriet Louise b. June 8, 1845; twin with Homer; d. August 21, 1846. _____________________________ 1930's detail note of the Daughter of 7 ROBERT (3) LATTA; MARGARET (4). b. January 26, 1802; d. February 27, 1850; m. Benj. Chandler January 15, 1818. He was born June 27, 1790. Children all born at LaGrange, Ind: James b. June 6, 1819. Nancy C. b. November 5, 1821. Joseph b. January 19, 1823. Samuel b. June 20, 1828. William b. September 13, 1830. Benjamin b. December 9, 1832. Elizabeth b. February 17, 1835; m. Abraham Faught; d. March 18, 1899. Had 5 children: Ellen m. George Martin, had 3 children, had 2 children, Loris and Ish. and 2 children by second husband, Arlie and Eliose. Mary m. Peter F. Miller, had 3 children, Iva and Pearl. Blanche Martin school teacher in Philippine Islands, California, and other parts of the U.S.; m. Capt. Charles L. Marsh. In 1932 he was stationed at Ft. George Wright, Wash. ______________________________ 1996 Note: information was added to # 63, 85, 86. This new information was given to me By; Mary Jane Of Phoenix AZ. The new information was taken from two books; Martin History and Genealogy 1918-1956 By Alice Brewer Shedd. Genealogy of the Martin Family By Charles William Francis 1918. ...................................................................................................................................................... The Latta Genealogy Newsletter --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Pioneer Polly" Latta (Branch 1) The following article was submitted by Barbara R. Smith, and is a composite of three stories about Polly from the following source: 977.14H2a, 1872 History of Champaign & Logan Co's of Ohio. Mary A. "Polly" Latta, third daughter of Robert and Isabella Johnston Latta [Branch 1, family 7], was born March 21, 1805 near Bellefontaine, Ohio. Her family moved to Champaign County, Ohio, when she was nine years old and here she grew to young womanhood. At eighteen years of age, Polly was a well-built girl, with dark hair and eyes, intellectually bright and having a lovely disposition, as an admirer remembered fifty years later. Today those attributes alone would have been enough for most any young man looking for a life partner. However, in 1823, a man's desires were shaped by more practical considerations, such as an ability to flip a pancake and land it in the pan unbroken, mend a man's buckskin hunting over-garments, knit and darn woolen stockings, and most importantly of all, to be a good spinner. In the early days of the settlement of this country every home had a weaver's loom and a small spinning wheel for each woman or girl in the family. These "little wheels" were used for spinning flax and tow and cotton which was carded with hand cards after the seeds were removed by the younger children. Each family also had at least one "big wheel" on which they spun the wool into yarn. The yarn was wound onto reels which were about three feet in diameter. On the front of the reel was a wooden instrument which operated much like the minute hand of a clock. The hand went around once each time the reel completed one hundred and twenty turns, and upon completing a full revolution it made a loud crack which indicated that a "cut" had been made, or one hundred and twenty threads were on the reel. A dozen cuts a day was considered a woman's task. The common wages paid to a good spinner were fifty cents a week. If the woman spun more than a dozen cuts she was entitled to additional pay, but if she spun less than twelve cuts she was "docked" in proportion to the number she was short. Since being a good spinner was so highly regarded, young women strove to excel in that endeavor and spinning parties became very popular. At a flax-pulling frolic or a house-warming, Polly Latta had few equals. Human nature being what it is, there soon evolved an air of contention over how many cuts Polly could or could not spin in a day's time. Soon a time and place were chosen and Polly set herself the task of doing the greatest amount of spinning in one day that had ever been done by one person. On the appointed day, Polly, her mother Isabella, and a large number of neighbors assembled at a log barn belonging to Col. Kelley, where all was in readiness. The first whirr of the spinning-wheel was heard the moment the sun made its appearance on the eastern horizon, and it ceased not for a minute until the sun had disappeared behind the distant hills of the beautiful Mad River Valley. Isabella and another lady provided food and drink so that Polly would not have to pause in her spinning. Mrs. Archibald Hopkins reeled the thread as the spools were filled. Noon arrived and Polly had not finished half of the promised work. Her attendants now hung quilts and blankets over ropes to form a more private area where she would not be hindered by the crowd of onlookers. As evening approached, Polly and her mother feared that she might not accomplish her goal. Polly now put forth all her energy and the wheel hummed and whirred faster than ever before. As the last rays of the setting son shone on the round logs of that now extinct barn, the last "crack" of the reel was heard to announce the completion of the forty-eighth "cut" and the fourth dozen. The pioneer girl was victorious, and that triumph helped shape her future. News spread quickly and an account of the great feat was published in a newspaper, giving the name and residence of the spinner. William Darnall, who was a schoolmaster, read the account and determined to meet the best spinner of the time. Although Polly had many admirers, she eventually did choose William and they were married April 15, 1826. They had been happily married for forty-three years when Polly died November 30, 1869 in Hancock County, Illinois. According to her husband, she was a prominent member of society in their community, a good partner, a kind mother, and benevolent sister. She was the mother of nine children and had sixteen grandchildren. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The End. ...................................................................................................................................................... The Latta Genealogy Newsletter Reprinted from Issue 3, Winter 1997 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Down at Latta's Mill by Laurence T. Sullivan (Branch #1) Mother couldn't have been madder if the fellow had broken in and stolen the family jewels. Which, in her way of thinking, was just what he'd done. "The Lattas were never anything but good, upright people," she said. "He had no business using the name of an honest family for thieves!" What had upset Mother was a little novel, The Salt and the Savor, which my sister Bettie had brought to her attention. The book draws heavily on historical sources to take the reader gently back to the pioneer days of LaGrange County, Indiana, where Mother's family had been among the earliest settlers. She loved the book, but thought it intolerable that the author would use her family name in vain. "Someone ought to do something about it," was how she put it. I figured she meant me, since there was nobody else in the room when she said it. Actually, only one character in the book is specifically identified as a Latta. He's a strapping and unruly lad named Buck Latta who "borrows" the schoolmaster's horse for a week of joy-riding and then dunks the fellow in an icy pond when he complains. Along the way the schoolmaster tries to teach Buck a thing or two with a horsewhip. "But it didn't do any good, not then nor later on, ever," the hero-narrator observes. Elsewhere in the book, the name pops up only in several references to Latta's Mill at Northport, just across the line in Noble County, as the meeting place of a gang of thieves known as "Blacklegs." Alas, author Howard W. Troyer knew his history well. One of the leaders of the "Blacklegs," a notorious gang whose activities ranged afield as far away as Ontario, Pennsylvania and Minnesota, was indeed a William Latta. We could probably pluck the rascal from our well-researched family tree, but I don't think I will. A 19th century county history says he married and settled down out west and died many years later highly respected by friends and neighbors. But the "Uncle William" who erected the sawmill [16 William 4 of Branch No. 1] is in the clear. He sold out within a few years, moved away, became a probate judge, and made a fortune in banking and railroading. He was dead and buried long before the "Blacklegs" gang was smashed and scattered. He was a younger brother of Mother's great-grandfather, the Rev. James Latta, who with their father established the Episcopal Methodist society in the Haw Patch region of LaGrange and Noble counties that began meeting in 1834. An 1882 bi-county history describes Noble County in words that are hard to swallow considering its present bucolic nature: Noble County at once became the headquarters of scores of convicts and criminals and soon gained national repute as a perfect hotbed of sagacious crime. In California, after the gold excitement had somewhat subsided, any man, it is said, who announced himself as coming from Noble County, Indiana, was regarded with suspicion and distrust. So it was as far east as Maine, as far south as Florida. A more objective book, the Writers Project history, Indiana: A Guide to the Hoosier State, published in 1941, paints a similar picture: South of Wolcotville is a fertile area that was once a dense tamarack swamp, the resort of a notorious gang of horse thieves and counterfeiters known as "Blacklegs," who operated in Noble County and throughout northeastern Indiana during the late 1840s and early '50s. ... Finally [in 1852] the State Legislature passed an act authorizing the formation of several companies of "Regulators, "whose duty it was to apprehend horse thieves and felons. When members of the gang were arrested it was discovered that several prominent citizens of the county were leaders of the "Blacklegs." Troyer apparently drew his facts for the story from History of the Regulators of Northern Indiana, a booklet written in 1859 by M. H. Mott, a Kendallville lawyer and recording secretary of a group of vigilantes who called themselves the Central Committee of the Noble County Invincibles. Here's what Mott had to say: On 17 January 1858, Gregory McDougall and eight others were arrested in or near Rome City. Taken to Ligonier, McDougall was brought before the Committee of Noble County Invincibles on the night of 25 January 1858 whereupon a committee of five men was duly appointed to examine the witnesses and report upon the evidence and the final disposition of the case. The committee, after having made a full and fair investigation of all the testimony ...recommended that the said McDougall be hung by the neck until dead on Tuesday, the 26th day of January 1858 [which is to say the following day!] at 2 o'clock p.m. The hanging went off as scheduled - nine days after McDougall's arrest and some 18 hours after his "trial" before the Invincibles. As he stood on a makeshift gallows near Diamond Lake, just east of Ligonier, waiting for his executioners to drive the farm wagon out from under him, McDougall delivered an impassioned plea to the young people in the crowd exhorting them to heed his sorry fate and forego a life of crime. The Regulators then set off in pursuit of William Latta, William Hill and George Ulmer, whom Mott describes as "the chief pioneers and leaders of the banditti." Motivated by rewards of several hundred dollars, private detectives pursued Ulmer all the way to Pittsburgh and back. He was finally caught in Warren, Ohio, on 17 July 1858. After three quick trials, he drew a sentence of eight years. Hill headed in the other direction and was nabbed later that summer along the Iowa-Missouri border and returned to Indiana. He escaped from the Noble County Jail on 6 March 1858 while awaiting trial and hadn't been heard from by the time Mott's little book went to press the following year. Latta's final reckoning also is unknown. Without explaining how he got it, Mott shares with his readers a letter he says was written to Latta somewhere in Iowa by McDougall's brother John and dated 10 February 1858. In it John McDougall warns Latta, "You had better be on your guard [for] they intend to have you." Except for this blot on the family escutcheon, the Lattas were an upright breed, as Mother would be the first to tell you. The family name -- which means "from the land of the Laithis," whatever that means -- first appeared along Scotland's Ayrshire coast. Sprinkled among the farmers and tradesmen of later generations are generous doses of ministers, doctors, scholars, teachers, poets and hymn writers. The family genealogy traces our branch to an "Irish nobleman" named James M. Latta who lived in County Donegal, Northern Ireland, during the early 18th century. The Northern Irish Genealogical Society said there was no record of a Latta among the nobility of Ulster and suggested that James Latta probably was a wealthy merchant instead. Whatever, Latta is said to have disinherited a son named William, forcing the young man to take his wife, Katherine, and head for the Colonies. They tried New Jersey, but quickly left to join the hordes of Scotch-Irish who were carving out the Cumberland Valley wilderness in western Pennsylvania. When the Revolutionary War broke out, according to unverified family lore, William joined a militia raised at Carlisle, Pa., but oddly known as Morgan's Virginia Riflemen. The unit's official name was the 11th Virginia Regiment. Our lineage follows William Latta's second-born son, Robert H. Latta (1773-1859), who went on to become an early settler of Fairfield County, Ohio, and later joined his son, Dr. Johnston Latta, on the Indiana frontier. Robert -- a giant of a man at 6 foot 4 and 300 pounds, according to family records -- eventually amassed nearly 1,500 acres in Indiana. Among his property was land he donated for the Eden Chapel and Cemetery on the edge of Topeka, where many of our ancestors lie. He was the first settler of Eden Township. His son Johnston (1807-73) was the first physician of Goshen; his son James (1796-1855) - Mother's great-grandfather, as already mentioned - was the first minister of Ligonier; and his son William (1801-47) built the first sawmill in Noble County's Orange Township. And that's where this tale began and ends. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------