Another great newsletter�.Thank you so much for continuing this work. I think the real reason no one has come forth to pick up the ball on the Chenoweth board is because no one thinks they can come close to filling the shoes of those who are currently doing this work �the newsletter, reunions, etc. I am quite serious. You guys are so impressive. Thank you for sharing your skills with the rest of us amateur genealogists.

16 June 2008
Diane Parrish

Thanks for keeping the link. I hope most cousins don�t think this way. I never really wanted to be on the board, I have so much else on my plate. It doesn�t take genealogy ability to be on the board, only an interest in the family and a desire to build and organization. I am not so much a genealogist anyway, so many others actually studied it as a field and know what to look for. Everything I know has been stumbled across in a slow learning curve� What I am (or was good at) was handling data and remembering things. I think my abilities are beginning to be affected by age, so it is well that I sort of hit this while I had the ability to grasp the whole of the family and help sort it out. I liken it to the Giordian Knot that Alexander the Great solved by slicing it through. Once I cleared the brush away from William�s line, many things began to fall into place�.It has been a real adventure that keeps surprising me. � Jon Egge

Pete, Great job on the June newsletter. Found a slight error in the information on George Alfred and wife, Mary Louise. She was born and both died in Sampson Co., NC, not Simpson. The reason his first wife died elsewhere was they were going home from a trip to visit my grandparents in Indiana, and she had a stroke and died in the motel where they spent the night. I�ve seen (and probably have in my possession) a letter she wrote to my mother before the trip saying the doctor had advised her not to go�.In the latest obits are two spouses from my line, so I�m adding this info to my database. They are Bertha Janet Easton and Edna Lavina Chenoweth nee Groff. I�ve never met either of them nor their spouses.

I sent a note to Jon, telling him that even though I knew my dad and Uncle Clarence (Orien Steele�s two sons) weren�t mentioned in the Harris book, I let that go right by me. Actually, George wasn�t mentioned either � just his birth date. Anyhow, you got me! Enjoyed a good laugh.

16 June 2008
Carolyn Newby

I had not thought of you when I wrote about the sons of Orien Steele Chenoweth as part of the �How�s your Chenoweth Expertise?� question. It is one of the few oversights in the Harris book. The Hiatt book is very hard to find things in without an index. I actually had a good experience in my recent effort to make this index, as I added in a number of families that Cora had pinpointed for us, but the clues had not been fully looked at�.How odd that I missed that this was your line when I was writing about it�- Jon Egge

Jon, Thank you for the information. It is Father�s Day and I miss my dad, Ralph W. Ashbrook very much. He was the epitome of a dad, and makes me proud of my relatives. I would love to come to a reunion and meet some of the relatives. I hope you can continue this very worthwhile endeavor.

16 June 2008
Karen Sego

I do enjoy doing what I do. Make Father�s Day a way for remembering. In a way that is what genealogy is, the memory of those who formed you. I am delighted to have fitted this line in with your help. � Jon Egge

Jon, Nice commentary on structure. Do we even know what regions our folks fall into? Does anyone else live out here on the West Coast?

10 June 2008
Charles Vinson

This was a thought I had after the Baltimore reunion. I sometime wonder if I have become part of the problem. The short history of the reunions goes like this:

In 2000, the first one was staged in Bowling Green, KY. It was sort of an oddball place as it had little to do with the Chenoweth family, but it is where the Harris research notes are deposited. Richard Harris was the key guest. Folks of all branches, from all over came. It was a wild success. There was a thirst and curiosity. I introduced myself to the family at that reunion. I had a well prepared talk and it went on far into the evening as I traced out the family as I was still learning it. It is a different sort of history than what was contained in the books.

The 2nd was staged in Elkins, WV. There were far less people that struggled into this isolated location in the Appalachians, but they were joined by a huge local body of Chenoweths and the numbers worked out. I was always a bit lost at that reunion as the living arrangements were scattered and I missed the ability to just sit down with people in the lobby. Seeing the local family celebration with Virginia Bird�s roll call and the family picnic was a powerful part of the reunion.

The Portland Reunion was a nightmare for Bill. He did yeoman�s work in getting the reunion organized. It was not as well attended by locals as we had hoped, though I met some amazing people. I thought the trip to Timberline Lodge was special.

The Baltimore reunion was a real disappointment to me as it was basically shunned by the vast local Chenoweth families with the exception of the families of the sponsoring hosts, in the line of the unknown John who married Anne Perrine. I just couldn�t understand how a place with more Chenoweth names in the phonebook than any other metropolitan area, traditionally honored birthplace of the family, could produce so little interest. By then may be my speaking at each reunion was beginning to wear a bit thin

But the reunions have been a grand success for me. There is a core of attendees that have become friends. There has always been someone new to meet and information to acquire. Everyone seems to have enjoyed each event, and there has always been quality time in meeting relatives� But what is fun for me, is a lot of work and effort on the part of the organizers and there are cost considerations that require minimum numbers. It is so hard to keep the cost within reason. There have always been complaints about this but I have been amazed at how well organizers have done to keep those costs down to keep the costs reasonable. The same 3 people have bore the load for 10 years and it is hard to ask them again. But this is not my battle. I am only a cheerleader.

There are Chenoweths in great numbers across the country. It is truly something amazing. But most of them are not interested in genealogy and everyone�s life seems so busy now a days. It would be wonderful to sprout up a number of regional reunions, but it would take a lot of people and a lot of effort. It certainly would be worth while as there is something very special here, a body of family well over 200,000 strong all tracing back to a common root spread out in every nook and corner of this land.

The well publicized gas crunch has had an impact, but there are so many Chenoweths in Indiana that live close enough, it shouldn�t matter. Indiana is one of the great Chenoweth stages. I still remember Bill and Joyce and all the other Indiana Chenoweths at the Baltimore reunion singing the Indiana State song. It gave me goosebumps.

�Oh, the moonlight�s fair tonight along the Wabash, From the fields there comes the breath of new mown hay
Through the sycamores the candle lights are gleaming,
On the banks of the Wabash, far away.�
..... Jon Egge

Jon, A few months ago, you helped me update Roy Leon McQuown�s family and relatives. Now they are all back to nothing again.

10 June 2008
Barb & Arthur McQuown

They are all in my file. I have not up dated the website in some time and do not know when I will get to. It is a lot of work�.Maybe some day. It is on my list of to-do�s, but it has been there for a few years while we work on other stuff. � Jon Egge

Peter, Thanks for another great newsletter. I�ll see you next month in Indiana�.hopefully we�ll be surprised by an influx of cousins.

11 June 2008
Lawra Duy

As of 28 Jun 2008 we had 73 registered for this reunion. Looks like we should have a decent crowd. � editor.

Jon, for all your good work, I�m sorry about the dwindling interest and hope it all works out. I�m not one to get into this, but hope someone else does that would help.

10 June 2008
Eva Solberg

I hope they find a way too to continue this as I have always enjoyed the Reunions. The people are really great, and why not, their kin. � Jon Egge

I talked with you about a year ago when you put me in touch with Shannon Graham. I�m a southern, IL Chenoweth. What a wonderful resource for me. I might be able to participate on the board. What�s the time requirements of a board member. I�m already on two different boards so I don�t want to commit to another if I can�t deliver what is expected of me. I�ve always been fascinated with genealogy although only as a novice. We can�t make the reunion this year however my wife and I we�re planning on going to next years if our schedule will allow.

10 June 2008
Art Cline

I do miss Shannon� She was always fun to wrangle with over the years and she led me to Elmer Haile, whose insight in early Baltimore is a core part of my background page. It is always good to hear from a cousin from my �newly acquired� ancestor Thomas. I am copying this to Pete as he is spearheading a try to reconstitute the board. � Jon Egge

Have I ever told you that I appreciate you? I do. After much mental wrestling I have opted to attend the Fort Wayne Reunion. I am sure that the escalating costs of travel, the uncertain political times, and global warming has a lot to do with the lowered registration numbers. The whole board has done exceptional duty. There is no way that I, personally, could step into the shoes of any of you. Salute!

10 June 2008
Jo Yeager

I can understand the gas price thing�. This has been a really tumultuous year. The airplane travel to Louisville was so bad, that Deanna and I found it cheaper and easier to fly in to Chicago and take a car. I hope that no one stays away for fear of leaving some sort of a carbon foot print. That is a step too far for me�I am looking forward to seeing this great library. Glad to have you aboard. Joyce had sent that you had registered earlier this week. Maybe a few more will straggle in. Thanks for all your past help � Jon Egge

I feel compelled to write you even though I am one of those who watch from the sidelines. Back when I was actively trying to get info on my part of the family and get it to you, I had lots of free time. Now I don�t have so much free time. I�m still actively working and trying to get my endeavors to fund my life. I am a mediator (mostly divorce), a wedding officiant, and an artist so between those three things and my husband, son and family, there is little other time.

I do hear you though and your frustration after all these years and hard work and devotion that others are not picking up the baton and running with it. I have been part of organizations where that happens all the time. The few do everything for the many and if the many don�t chip in, the few get burned out and leave, as they must! You need to take care of yourself as well. My philosophy to this occurrence is that each individual must make a decision as to whether they continue or not based on their own best interests. Allow the opening that your leaving will create and let the opening be its own energy that will pull others toward it, or not. Sometimes you have to let go before the new thing comes in. Sometimes you have to allow something to just be what it is. Otherwise, you are the one who suffers.

What you have accomplished is awesome and I, for one, am grateful that there is so much information out there on the Chenoweths. I am sorry that my situation does not allow me to get to the family reunions or participate more in keeping up the website. It just is what it is. So, I guess I want you to know that some of us silent ones actually do notice what you are doing and appreciate it. I also support you in making a decision that is best for you and if you decide you need to let go of your huge involvement and responsibility, then good for you for choosing for yourself. Thank you for your caring, passion, commitment and tenacity.

10 June 2008
Lexy Alexis Namaste

Thanks for the kind thoughts. I enjoy what I do. The reunion is actually run by others, though I seem to be the conduit. I have enjoyed attending each and hope they continue, but that is out of my hands. � Jon Egge

Jon, You and your �cousins� have done an incredible job on the newsletter. I am so sorry I will not be at the Reunion. It sounds like you all will have a wonderful time.

I wish there was something I could do to help you with reunions, or your next newsletter, etc. so that the �cousins� get to stay in touch.

I have been in contact with Jean Nealis � you may remember, but you put us in touch several years ago because we hail from the same line: John Foster and Margaret Ferguson. She and I have met in person several times and have shared photographs, fun, etc. We are meeting again in August in Kansas to do some more research and meet with some other Chenoweth cousins.

I promise if you have another reunion�I will be there and bring hundreds of fun photos and if you need me to help with the organization..please let me know. I am semi-retired now and have lots of time to help.

I live in Ojai, CA � near Santa Barbara.

10 June 2008
Patti Bagley

I am really not in charge of the reunions, though I have enjoyed them. Thank you for your comments and help. Deanna and I got some great responses to our weekend in Louisville so we are set. I am a little �snowed under� as the email response was quite heavy. Actually it was snowing at the pass last night here (June). Things are a bit crazy. I am pleased that you have networked with your cousins. That is part of the dynamic of this whole thing. � Jon Egge

It is so sad to see the reunions not happening anymore. I was looking forward to having another one here in WV. With 3 children, a management position and gas prices so high I can't afford to travel this summer to Fort Wayne. Where was the next one to be held? I attended one when it was held at Davis and Elkins college with my Aunt Elaine Valentine and had a great time. I hope the decision is not made to discontinue them.

11 June 2008
Lisa Digman

I am not in charge of the reunions and at present do not know what will be done. Maybe they will go to a 3 or 4 year schedule. Maybe they will have early sign-up commitments to see if the numbers are there. As I understand it they were thinking of Branson, MO, but so far nothing was firm. Most of this will be hashed out in Fort Wayne. Almost everyone I have talked with really enjoyed the reunions, but staging something over 4 days is a lot of work and requires some minimum numbers. We have never, outside of the Elkins Reunion, had many people from Randolph Co. interested in coming, though a number of descendants from that line from across the country have shown up. � Jon Egge

Don�t feel discouraged if participation is low. With the high cost of just about everything, and especially gas, and therefore travel, people are not going to be eager to travel. Ft Wayne is a long way for me, for one, and I think the Chenoweth family may be well scattered. Maybe a reunion every five, or even 10, years would be more practical. (I don�t know how often you have been meeting.) Travel is definitely out for me for now.

11 June 2008
Celin Schoen

We don�t expect everyone to come, but it would be a help if the reunions were supported more locally by the people close � Jon Egge

followed by: - You really have created a stupendous website! I�m not that involved in genealogy, but for anyone trying to trace family members, WOW! I do have one question, however. My mother�s father (Clarence P. Chenoweth of Lafayette, IN) met my grandmother, Anna Matilda Decker, from New York state at a religious tent meeting somewhere, but I don�t know where or how. I don�t suppose anyone among your widespread family members, would know, but I�d love to find out if that�s possible. Possibly one of the Chenoweths in Lafayette?? We ;met a Dorothea Chenoweth on a visit out there in the 1970s. - Celin Schoen

This is a little too esoteric for me. I am copying it to Joyce Wiegand, who lives in Lafayette, but in 1900 and before your Clarence was living in Illinois. The move to Indiana was after 1905. � Jon Egge

Joyce replied to Celin - The question is when did the Decker family come to Indiana? The possibility your grandparents met a a religious tent meeting here in Tippecanoe County is quite possible. I have no personal knowledge of them, but would not be surprised they were here in the late 1800-1910 era. I would suspect them to have been in or near Battle Ground, IN. The site of the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811, between William Henry Harrison, and the Indians. Trains would bring loads of people to the area for all sorts of events � political, etc. I have often wondered how they fed the masses! Many Chenoweth�s lived in Battle Ground. My parents graduated from Battle Ground High School.

When I started elementary school in the mid to late 1940�s, the only place to purchase K-12 school books and supplies in town, Lafayette, was at Decker�s. This was of course before school book rental. The Decker�s store, as I remember, switched to office supplies and such, probably after book rental became popular. It has been several years since Decker�s closed their doors. I don�t know who opened/operated the store or when it closed. It may have been open yet when you were here in the 1970s. � Joyce Wiegand.

Thanks for all your hared work, I sincerely enjoy getting your newsletters. With regards to the reunions, I believe that our economy/high fuel prices has everything to do with participation.

11 June 2008
Mark Chenoweth

Not to worry. The reunion is on and they are always fun, but as the saying goes the more the merrier. I understand about gas prices, after all, I am the dummy who decided to drive from Chicago to Louisville to Cincinnati, to Urbana, to Ft Wayne, to Chicago� � Jon Egge

We have waited to the last minute, but we just cannot make it. Dad, Robert Chinowth, had a stroke on the way home from Baltimore two years ago and recovered, but he has balance problems and falls a lot. He has also not been feeling very well these last two months. His diabetes has caused loss of feeling in his feet and he really has to watch for injuries.

We debated a long time on trying to make it. But it was along drive home from Baltimore (15 hours) and he wouldn�t let us stop at a hospital along the way. I know Ft Wayne is close but we just don�t want to chance it. Say hello to everyone for us and keep up the good work. Health problems are the only thing keeping us from coming.

11 June 2008
Linda Kidd

I am saddened to hear of your father�s health problems. I know personally the havoc that strokes can bring. God bless you all and take care. We will miss you all. � Jon Egge

Just would like to say �Thanks� for the great job Pete does on the newsletter and Jon does on our family tree. I�m sort of a new cousin I guess but have certainly enjoyed the newsletters. I would love to attend the reunion but living in California it takes a special effort to get that far east and this year it just didn�t work out. Hopefully you will be able to have one at least more to the middle of the country. I would like to have a T-shirt so if someone would mail it to me. I would pay for the postage of course. I am a descendant of John2. The last time I visited the National Archives I found John�s pension records. That was exciting to read.

12 June 2008
Helen Odegard

I am forwarding this to Joyce, but I think if you want a T-shirt you need to get a form off Bill�s site and fill it out for a T-shirt only. You are talking about John the son of Thomas..At the last reunion Joyce showed me a letter she had of her ancestor Richard, testifying as to John�s service. � Jon Egge

Hi, I�m sorry I can�t come this summer, but keep sending these letters. I�ll make it sometime!

10 June 2008
Lee Anne Lawson

The newsletter, conceived by Pete has turned out to be a roaring success. People feel connected. Each newsletter sparks new knowledge and I am able to preserve a small bit of the constant discoveries. Pete is always surprising us with wonderful oddball tidbits, and Greg is opening my eyes to the past. The newsletter is a keeper. Of course one of the reasons it works is that it can be done at no cost, as long as someone is willing to put in the time. � Jon Egge

Sure wish I could make the reunion but due to the location just can�t make it. Maybe the gas prices are keeping the attendance down. If I was retired I would consider helping with something but I rarely have time for even a whole weekend off. We had a reunion of my grandfather Clark B. Chenoweth�s family on 6/1 in Perry, OK and had about 85 in attendance from his and his wife�s (my grandmother) side of the family. We hadn�t had one in at least 10yrs so decided since we had several in their 90s we better have one.

During the reunion we received word that my sister, Patricia Diane Chenoweth Conway had died at 4:20am on 6/1/08 in Abilene, TX. She was 68. She was the daughter of Edd Preston Chenoweth and Alta Maida West Chenoweth and granddaughter of Clark Braden Chenoweth. Her birthday would have been this past Sunday 6/8/08. Her ashes were spread near Abilene. She leaves her daughter, Tyrann and son, Stephen and 3 grandsons.

Yesterday I received word that my Aunt Vira M. (Bobbie) Chenoweth Horton died Friday 6/6/08 in Perry, OK. Her burial will be there today at Grace Hill Cemetery. Her father was Clark Braden Chenoweth. She was married to Johnny Horton who died a few years ago. They had one daughter, June.

10 June 2008
Donna Chenoweth Beekman

Our sincerest condolences for the loss of your sister and aunt. Thank you for taking the time to inform me of these sad events. � Jon Egge

Rats, I feel bad about the reunion but there is no way we can go, not that I wouldn�t like to. It is a shame people aren�t more into it, but with rising travel costs and costs in general it may be the way it will be in the future. I know I have said this before but we appreciate the things you have done for the family tree and what we have been able to add to our own tree via your hard work on it. We don�t have many in our family who are interested anymore either. The older ones but they are dwindling away. So far the younger generations are not into it. I am hoping we are putting info away for some duture descendants who will be thrilled and not have any other way to get it all. With the current protections for privacy etc I have often wondered how much and how long data will be around for people to collect. Well thanks again for all you do and have done. I for one appreciate it!

10 June 2008
Ken & Dianne Skidds

The credit for most of the work in this line goes to Jane Ryan and Ken Gorman. I am just the conduit. You are right that certain aspects of this �business� are getting difficult (mainly finding phone numbers), but other aspects are full of ways to get information. We live in a golden age for access to genealogy data at the moment. Census info is at your finger tips. � Jon Egge

Let me know your Warren County plans. I will be going to Europe the 31st of July, but might be around when you are here. Are you planning to visit the Warren County Gen. Soc. In Lebanon? The Historical Society might have some things of interest as well.

9 June 2008
John Rausch

I was thinking of you a bit earlier when I told Peter, that you might supply a newsletter article on your Butler research. For the reunion we are flying into Chicago (Thursday the 17th) and driving to Louisville where we will spend the weekend. Greg is going to meet us in Louisville and we should be in Milford Monday night. Greg has to be at the reunion Wednesday morning for a meeting. I want to get there by that same afternoon. I think it is a tight schedule. I would like to hook up but I don�t know how that works. � Jon Egge (PS Greg tried to set up a lunch with John in Waynesville, OH, but it did not work out

I guess I have been asleep while reading my emails. Let me first give you my �other� address, in case you ever have problems with the one that you have.

Is there a charge for the Ft Wayne reunion� Where is everyone staying? We just found out today that we may have a new hybrid car in about 2 to 3 weeks, which will make traveling at least more reasonably priced. Thank you for all that you do for us.

9 June 2008
Brenda Hare

I use a flat file and really can�t handle two email addresses, so ID the one you want to use, and if you change it, let me know. As to the reunion, there is a hotel, but the information is all at Bill�s website. They recently released the rooms that they were holding, so if you want a reservation, you should act. Obviously, the gas increase seems to be affecting us all. � Jon Egge

My experience with reunions is Up and Down. We have been doing a Henkle Reunion for 99 years now. Some years we get 150, some years 60. And this is pretty much a regional reunion held in one locality, The Willamette Valley. It has only been the last 4 reunions that we have broken out of the Corvallis/Philomath area. This family has been doing this since 1907 (1943-44 & 45 were cancelled due to the war, Gas rationing you know, only 3 gallons a month allocated to households).

Don�t get discouraged, travel costs are up.

9 June 2008
Lee Merklin

There is a lot of difference between a one day local get together and a 4 day national reunion. I don�t think we have ever gotten a Rachel Henkle at the Chenoweth reunions. Often daughter lines do not identify with the larger family. There was a great opportunity for this to happen in Portland, but no one came. I would be glad to post a notice about your local reunion at the site if it falls at a somewhat recurring time and place. Robust attendance only comes from identification with the group. � Jon Egge

I would like to find out anything I can about Mary Silvernail. My father was Richard Jennings Chenoweth and my mother was Goldie E. Harris Chenoweth, both now deceased. His dad was Emmer Chenoweth (Spelling could be off) and his mother was Marguerite Wells Chenoweth. My parents divorced when I was 2 weeks old, so I am without some vital information. I would like to find out about any Indian blood that we may have. Thank you.

10 June 2008
Karen Sue Chenoweth

Silvernail seemed Indian to me when I first started this, but though, many in the Chenoweth family, in every branch have tales about a vague Indian ancestor, I have never in 12 years found even one. At some point I found Mary in the 1850 Census of Fulton Co, IL living with her parents, Jacob and Alice Silvernail. Jacob was from New York. Then in 2002 Beatrice Meeker and Marsha Pritt added detail.

I did get curious about the name and one internet source (genealogy.familyeducation.com/family-names) said: it was a translation of German Silbernagel. � Jon Egge

Wednesday � 23 July

Registration 1-5pm in the hospitality room at the hotel, Fellowship gathering and get acquainted time with snacks, and soft drinks during the evening. Sightseeing, research, lunch and dinner are on your own. Individuals are encouraged to bring family data sheets, pictures and memorabilia to share with everyone.

Thursday � 24 July

Registration 7-8am. The bus tour to Shipshewana leaves at 8am and returns at 6pm with a late lunch at Das Essenhaus Restaurant in Middlebury. That evening: Welcome ceremonies at the hotel folled by general membership meeting. Greg Walker will also have a discussion on Mary Calvert.

Friday � 25 July

Registration 1-5pm. A tour of the Genealogical section of the Allen Country Public Library has been scheduled in the morning. A semi-retired professional genealogist will be available for our group of researchers. The biennial gathering of the Chenoweth family photo shoot is scheduled at the hotel prior to the evening banquet, where we will enjoy music by the Mossburg Strings. Chenoweths in Indiana disccusion by Jon Egge

Saturday � 26 July

Registration 9-5pm. Sightseeing, research, lunch and dinner are on your own. In the afternoon Pete Chenoweth will give us a discussion of the transference of the DNA project from Relative Genetics to Ancestry.com. In the evening, a presentation of awards will follow the traditional reunion cake and beverage.

Sunday � 27 July

Inter-Denominational Praise and Worship Service 8:30-9:30 followed by a breakfast buffet.

Indiana is in the heartland of the Chenoweth migration west from Virginia. In order, by what was available, the family had moved into Kentucky and Ohio. Indiana followed shortly after. Indiana was formed into a separate territory from the Northwest Territories in 1800. By 1816 it entered the Union as the 19th State. Probably the first Chenoweths in Indiana were those in the Jefferson Co., KY area crossing the Ohio into Floyd Co. Looking specifically at the Chenoweth name: John Chenoweth, IV of Virginia, settled in the Washington Co. area from Ohio by 1813. John Chenoweth, son of Thomas(2) was in Vigo Co., shortly thereafter, dying in Vigo Co. in 1818. The first Census to include Indiana in 1820 finds 5 Chenoweth named families: John in Washington Co., Abraham, William�s son, in Jackson Co. with his wife Rachel , d/o Arthur Chenoweth, Thomas the son of Richard of Louisville in Jefferson Co., and two of [THOMAS2] John�s sons Eli and Isaac in Vigo Co. These were the Virginia families of John(2) and Thomas(2) coming via Kentucky and Ohio. Among daughter lines, Elizabeth Casebier�s family was in Spencer Co., IN, living next door to the farm of Thomas Lincoln, father of �Abe�. Barbara Martindale, William�s daughter from Warren Co., OH had settled in Wayne Co. Katurrah Kinnear, the daughter of Thomas in Jefferson Co. had started a family, having married there in 1818. Though not many of Hannah�s Carter line ever came to Indiana, John Rees, Jr. was in Fayette Co. by 1820. The line of William(2) was strongly represented by families of his daughter Mary Sutton who also came to Fayette Co. There was the family of Joanna Heaton, a daughter of Mary Sutton, who like the Rees family, had come from Washington Co., PA via Ohio. Also found in the Sutton line in Fayette Co. were Ebenzer Heaton, Jr., Nancy Heaton who had married James Sutton, David Sutton and his daughter Ivah Petro, next door. In the Thomas Line, John�s daughter Sarah Lewis was in Vigo Co. This puts at least 16 families in Indiana by 1820. Arthur of Kentucky, the father of Abraham�s wife, Rachel, settled his family in Bartholomew Co. shortly thereafter dying there in 1829. His son Arthur is found there in 1830.

Other 1830 Census Chenoweth families were: In the Thomas line, John and Isaac, sons of John, had moved from Vigo Co. to Vermillion Co. Thomas III had also come to Vermillion Co. from Franklin Co., OH. His brother Benjamin Franklin Chenoweth was in Warren Co., IN. Hiram Chenoweth, Arthur�s son had also come to Vermillion Co. from Pike Co., OH with his widowed mother Susannah. Within the next three years three of her children, Harriett, Luke and Permelia would each marry in Vermillion Co. Susannah�s married daughter Ada Boswell would settle in Tippecanoe Co. by 1835. In the line of John, Rachel and her husband Abraham moved to Barthlomew Co. where Rachel�s brother Arthur was still located. William�s son Casper came to Wayne Co. from Warren Co., OH. In Washington Co., John IV�s presence exploded with the married families of his sons and daughters, including Joseph, Eleanor Wilson, Rachel Hollowell, Philip, and Elias. Into Jay Co., came William E., the son of Elias of Perry Co., OH. Richard�s son Thomas was still in Jefferson Co. and his son James had married and settled in Johnson Co. This totals 15 males line families. By 1840 this had grown to 23 families. The 1850 Census gives 50 Chenoweth named families and another 120 daughter line families totaling 857 family members spread over 42 counties. Only Ohio had more family members.

Many of these families had come in from Ohio and Kentucky. There was also the significant immigrant to the Chenoweth families of William of Hampstead in Carroll Co., MD that settled in the Randolph Co. area in the 1840�s. By 1860, the Chenoweth numbers would swell to 252 families and 1,243 individuals. 112 of these families were from the lines of John(2). Roughly a third of these were from John(3) of Hampshire Co. They included 18 families from the original migration of John IV, 16 of which were concentrated in both Washington and neighboring Orange Cos. 13 families of William S. located in Miami, Huntington, Wayne, Stark and Wabash Cos. Six families were from James in Henry and Carrol Cos. Three families from Mary�s marriage to Levi Ashbrook, Jr. were in Hendricks Co and three families from Elias were in Jay Co. From Kentucky 14 families from Richard were now in Indiana and, 13 from Absolom, Jr., 8 from Arthur, and 28 from Rachel. Many of Rachel�s lines and the Chenoweth families of Ephraim, the son of Absolom, Jr. were concentrated in Morgan and Owen Cos. Mary�s Ashbrook families numbered 8 in total from the Fairfield Co. area of Ohio. There were still three Rees families from Hannah Carter in Carroll Co. and the family of Sinah Horn in Cass Co. The presence of Arthur(2) through a series of late migrations from the Maryland families of Arthur, Jr. and the Virginia families of John and Samuel numbered 21. Seven of these were in Randolph Co. William(2) now had 53 families in Indiana. Most of these (47) were from Mary Sutton, who had such a large early presence in the State in 1820. The other six were from William, Jr., primarily, Warren Co., OH families. In slightly larger numbers were 59 families of Thomas(2). 14 of these were from John(3) who had settled so early in Vigo Co. 12 were from Thomas, Jr., 4 from Arthur and 17 from families of Richard who had settled primarily in the Tippecanoe Co. area in the 1840s. Rounding out Thomas were 5 families from Mary Downing, 2 from Elijah and 5 from Abraham. Three families from Ruth, who had come from Georgia into Ohio and settling in Fulton Co. brought the family representation to 6 of the 8 lines of original family. Only Richard�s families, still primarily located in Maryland, Tennessee and Arkansas, and Mary�s Watsons, never yet identified, were missing from the mix. Ironically, there was not one family from John(2)�s son William, whose descendants today represent one quarter of today�s families.

In all in 1860 family members were spread to 55 of Indiana�s 92 counties. By location, Morgan Co. leads the list with 23 families, followed by Clinton (16), Vermillion (14), Tippecanoe (13), Fayette (12), Randolph (12), Henry (11) & Miami (10), about 40% of the total distributed families in Indiana. Significantly in 1860, Indiana was the home to more descendants bearing the Chenoweth name than any other state, this torch being passed from Ohio. Indiana has held this top position in each subsequent published Census through 1930. Though we do not have a way of fully measuring the family today, available phone listings place Indiana 4th on the list, surpassed only by California, Maryland and Texas, each states with significantly larger general populations. Curiously, Indiana is a very rural state without the large urban complexes found in other states. This rural, small city mix very much reflects the early family who settled and farmed the land.

Chenoweth Families in Indiana in the 1850 Census

• Bartholomew Co:
  • WILLIAM C.5 IRWIN (MARGARET4 CHENOWETH, ARTHUR3, JOHN2, JOHN1)
  • ELIZABETH ELLEN5 CHENOWETH (ARTHUR4, ARTHUR3, JOHN2, JOHN1) married WILLIAM E. NETHERTON
  • HAVILAH A.5 CHENOWETH (ARTHUR4, ARTHUR3, JOHN2, JOHN1)
• Blackford Co:
  • RHODA5 PETERS (MARY4 ASHBROOK, MARY3 CHENOWETH, JOHN2, JOHN1) married PETER MCKEE
  • AZUBAH 'ZUBA'6 MCKEE (RHODA5 PETERS, MARY4 ASHBROOK, MARY3 CHENOWETH, JOHN2, JOHN1) married JOSEPH PALMER
• Boone Co:
  • SARAH6 CHENOWETH (JAMES5, THOMAS4, RICHARD3, JOHN2, JOHN1) married WILLIAM M. BOWER
  • ELIZABETH5 IRWIN (MARGARET4 CHENOWETH, ARTHUR3, JOHN2, JOHN1) JAMES L. MCCONNELL
• Carroll Co:
  • Mary 'Polly' White widow of WILLIAM5 REES (THOMAS4, ANN 'NANCY'3 CARTER, HANNAH2 CHENOWETH, JOHN1)
  • ELIZABETH6 REES (WILLIAM5, THOMAS4, ANN 'NANCY'3 CARTER, HANNAH2 CHENOWETH, JOHN1) married JOHN BURKHOLDER
• Cass Co:
  • MARGARET5 CHENOWETH (JOHN4, JOHN3, THOMAS2, JOHN1) married SAMUEL STURGEON
• Clay Co:
  • SARAH5 FINDLEY (RUTH4 CHENOWETH, RICHARD3, THOMAS2, JOHN1) married (1) JOHN POWDERS. (2) WILLIAM HUFFMAN
• Clinton Co:
  • NANCY C.6 GIST (ANN5 BAXTER, SARAH4 CHENOWETH, ARTHUR3, ARTHUR2, JOHN1) married BENJAMIN WEBB, JR.
  • JEMIMA6 GIST (SARAH5 BAXTER, SARAH4 CHENOWETH, ARTHUR3, ARTHUR2, JOHN1) married JOHN S. FERGUSON
  • THOMAS HUTCHINSON5 MILLER (NANCY4 CHENOWETH, WILLIAM3, WILLIAM2, JOHN1)
  • DAMARIS C.6 THURMAN (MARY5 CHENOWETH, ABSOLUM4, ABSOLUM3, JOHN2, JOHN1) married THOMAS AMOS
  • MARY5 CHENOWETH (ABSOLUM4, ABSOLUM3, JOHN2, JOHN1) married ELIJAH THURMAN
  • ELIZA6 THURMAN (MARY5 CHENOWETH, ABSOLUM4, ABSOLUM3, JOHN2, JOHN1) married JAMES GREGG
  • DAVID6 HEATON (DANIEL5, JOANNA4 SUTTON, MARY3 CHENOWETH, WILLIAM2, JOHN1)
  • MELINDA PEARL6 HEATON (DANIEL5, JOANNA4 SUTTON, MARY3 CHENOWETH, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) married SAMUEL WAGGAMAN
  • JOSEPH C.5 CHENOWETH (THOMAS4, RICHARD3, JOHN2, JOHN1)
  • THOMAS4 CHENOWETH (RICHARD3, JOHN2, JOHN1)
  • JOHN P.5 CHENOWETH (THOMAS4, RICHARD3, JOHN2, JOHN1)
  • SARAH EDMONSON 'SALLY'5 CHENOWETH (ARTHUR4, ARTHUR3, JOHN2, JOHN1) married JAMES EDWARDS
  • LEONARD C.5 SHOEMAKER (ANNE4 CHENOWETH, ARTHUR3, JOHN2, JOHN1)
  • ELEANOR4 CHENOWETH (ARTHUR3, JOHN2, JOHN1) married JOB HARRYMAN
• Fayette Co:
  • ELIZA6 PETRO (IVAH5 SUTTON, DAVID4, MARY3 CHENOWETH, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) married JEPTHA STILL
  • JAMES H.6 PETRO (MARY5 SUTTON, DAVID4, MARY3 CHENOWETH, WILLIAM2, JOHN1)
  • ABRAHAM B.5 SUTTON (DAVID4, MARY3 CHENOWETH, WILLIAM2, JOHN1)
  • IVAH5 SUTTON (DAVID4, MARY3 CHENOWETH, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) married MICHAEL SEE PETRO
  • JONATHAN PERRY6 PETRO (IVAH5 SUTTON, DAVID4, MARY3 CHENOWETH, WILLIAM2, JOHN1)
  • DANIEL HEATON6 WHITE (MARY5 HEATON, JOANNA4 SUTTON, MARY3 CHENOWETH, WILLIAM2, JOHN1)
  • MARY5 HEATON (JOANNA4 SUTTON, MARY3 CHENOWETH, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) married JOSEPH WHITE
  • NANCY ANN6 PETRO (MARY5 SUTTON, DAVID4, MARY3 CHENOWETH, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) married (1) WILLIAM J. SUTTON (2) ADONIRAM NEEDHAM
• Floyd Co:
  • family of ABSALOM C.5 ASHBROOK (MARY W.4 CHENOWETH, JOHN3, JOHN2, JOHN1)
  • ANGELINA5 CHENOWETH (ABSOLUM4, ABSOLUM3, JOHN2, JOHN1) married (1) EMANUEL STUCKEY (2) HENRY REINEKING
  • LYDIA ANN6 STUCKEY (ANGELINA5 CHENOWETH, ABSOLUM4, ABSOLUM3, JOHN2, JOHN1) married BENJAMIN B. STEWART
• Grant Co:
  • STEPHEN K.5 CHENOWETH (JAMES4, JOHN3, JOHN2, JOHN1)
• Greene Co:
  • SAMUEL6 MEREDITH (RUTH5 BAXTER, SARAH4 CHENOWETH, ARTHUR3, ARTHUR2, JOHN1)
  • BENJAMIN JOHN6 MEREDITH (RUTH5 BAXTER, SARAH4 CHENOWETH, ARTHUR3, ARTHUR2, JOHN1)
• Hamilton Co:
  • JOANNA V.6 HEATON (DANIEL5, JOANNA4 SUTTON, MARY3 CHENOWETH, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) married CHESTER D. GRANGER
• Harrison Co:
  • JAMES ROSS5 CHENOWETH (ABSOLUM4, ABSOLUM3, JOHN2, JOHN1)
• Hendricks Co:
  • MELINDA5 ASHBROOK (ELEANOR4 CHENOWETH, JOHN3, JOHN2, JOHN1) married STEPHEN COFER
• Henry Co:
  • NANCY5 CHENOWETH (JAMES4, JOHN3, JOHN2, JOHN1) married JOSHUA SHIELDS
  • SARAH ANN5 CHENOWETH (JAMES4, JOHN3, JOHN2, JOHN1) married OLIVER CROMWELL BALL
  • NANCY LEITH6 WHITE (MARY5 HEATON, JOANNA4 SUTTON, MARY3 CHENOWETH, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) married SAMUEL FURGASON, JR.
  • ASA5 HEATON (JOANNA4 SUTTON, MARY3 CHENOWETH, WILLIAM2, JOHN1))
  • JOSEPH W.5 HEATON (JOANNA4 SUTTON, MARY3 CHENOWETH, WILLIAM2, JOHN1)
  • DAVID S.6 HEATON (JOSEPH W.5, JOANNA4 SUTTON, MARY3 CHENOWETH, WILLIAM2, JOHN1)
  • JOHN W.6 HEATON (JOSEPH W.5, JOANNA4 SUTTON, MARY3 CHENOWETH, WILLIAM2, JOHN1)
• Howard Co:
  • DANIEL5 HEATON (JOANNA4 SUTTON, MARY3 CHENOWETH, WILLIAM2, JOHN1)
  • JOSEPH W.6 HEATON (DANIEL5, JOANNA4 SUTTON, MARY3 CHENOWETH, WILLIAM2, JOHN1)
  • LAVINA6 HEATON (DANIEL5, JOANNA4 SUTTON, MARY3 CHENOWETH, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) married THADDEUS BAXTER
• Huntington Co:
  • JOEL6 CHENOWETH (JACOB5, WILLIAM S.4, JOHN3, JOHN2, JOHN1)
  • ABRAHAM6 CHENOWETH (CASPER5, WILLIAM S.4, JOHN3, JOHN2, JOHN1)
  • CATHERINE6 CHENOWETH (CASPER5, WILLIAM S.4, JOHN3, JOHN2, JOHN1) married LESTER WAYNE WALTON
  • HEZEKIAH STITES6 CHENOWETH (CASPER5, WILLIAM S.4, JOHN3, JOHN2, JOHN1)
  • SARAH ANN7 WHITE (DANIEL HEATON6, MARY5 HEATON, JOANNA4 SUTTON, MARY3 CHENOWETH, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) married JOSIAH BEAVER
  • FRANCES J.5 RICE (JOSINAH 'LIND'4 CHENOWETH, WILLIAM3, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) married JAMES SALISBURY
• Jasper Co:
  • JOSEPH JEFFERSON6 FREDERICK (RICHARD SEATON5, SARAH4 SEATON, RACHEL3 CHENOWETH, JOHN2, JOHN1)
• Jay Co:
  • ELIAS4 CHENOWETH (JOHN3, JOHN2, JOHN1)
  • WILLIAM E.5 CHENOWETH (ELIAS4, JOHN3, JOHN2, JOHN1)
  • ELIZABETH S. 'ELIZA'5 CHENOWETH (ELIAS4, JOHN3, JOHN2, JOHN1) married WILLIAM H. BAIR
• Jefferson Co:
  • KATURRAH5 CHENOWETH (THOMAS4, RICHARD3, JOHN2, JOHN1) married ROBERT KINNEAR
  • RUHANNA5 CHENOWETH (THOMAS4, RICHARD3, JOHN2, JOHN1) married SAMUEL WILSON
  • NORVAL6 WILSON (RUHANNA5 CHENOWETH, THOMAS4, RICHARD3, JOHN2, JOHN1)
• Johnson Co:
  • JAMES5 CHENOWETH (THOMAS4, RICHARD3, JOHN2, JOHN1)
  • SIMON M.6 CHENOWETH (JAMES5, THOMAS4, RICHARD3, JOHN2, JOHN1)
  • JAMES S.4 CHENOWETH (RICHARD3, JOHN2, JOHN1)
• La Porte Co:
  • MICHAEL C.6 PETRO (MARY5 SUTTON, DAVID4, MARY3 CHENOWETH, WILLIAM2, JOHN1)
• Madison Co:
  • MARY5 CHENOWETH (JOHN C.4, THOMAS3, THOMAS2, JOHN1) married (2) JOHN MORRIS
• Marion Co:
  • AARON6 HEATON (EBENZER5, JOANNA4 SUTTON, MARY3 CHENOWETH, WILLIAM2, JOHN1)
  • ELI6 HEATON (JOSEPH W.5, JOANNA4 SUTTON, MARY3 CHENOWETH, WILLIAM2, JOHN1)
• Miami Co:
  • BARBARA5 CHENOWETH (WILLIAM S.4, JOHN3, JOHN2, JOHN1) married JESSE MARTINDALE
  • MARTIN HERBERT6 MARTINDALE (BARBARA5 CHENOWETH, WILLIAM S.4, JOHN3, JOHN2, JOHN1)
  • ANN6 MARTINDALE (BARBARA5 CHENOWETH, WILLIAM S.4, JOHN3, JOHN2, JOHN1)
  • MARGARET 'PEGGY'6 MARTINDALE (BARBARA5 CHENOWETH, WILLIAM S.4, JOHN3, JOHN2, JOHN1) married JOSEPH FRANCE GUYER
  • HANNAH6 MARTINDALE (BARBARA5 CHENOWETH, WILLIAM S.4, JOHN3, JOHN2, JOHN1) married WILLIAM JETT
  • BENJAMIN GRIFFITH6 MARTINDALE (BARBARA5 CHENOWETH, WILLIAM S.4, JOHN3, JOHN2, JOHN1)
• Morgan Co:
  • EPHRAIM B.5 CHENOWETH (ABSOLUM4, ABSOLUM3, JOHN2, JOHN1)
  • JAMES KENNER 'BIG JIM'6 WHITAKER (BLANDFORD B.5, MARGARET ELIZABETH4 SEATON, RACHEL3 CHENOWETH, JOHN2, JOHN1)
  • MARGARET ANN6 WHITAKER (BLANDFORD B.5, MARGARET ELIZABETH4 SEATON, RACHEL3 CHENOWETH, JOHN2, JOHN1) married HEZEKIAH APPLEGATE
  • CYNTHIA ANN6 WHITAKER (BLANDFORD B.5, MARGARET ELIZABETH4 SEATON, RACHEL3 CHENOWETH, JOHN2, JOHN1) married THOMAS APPLEGATE
  • GRAFTON BAKER5 WHITAKER (MARGARET ELIZABETH4 SEATON, RACHEL3 CHENOWETH, JOHN2, JOHN1)
  • MARGARET6 WHITAKER (KENNER SEATON5, MARGARET ELIZABETH4 SEATON, RACHEL3 CHENOWETH, JOHN2, JOHN1) married ANDREW WILSON
  • LEVI W. WHITAKER (MARGARET ELIZABETH4 SEATON, RACHEL3 CHENOWETH, JOHN2, JOHN1)
  • JOHN J.5 WHITAKER (MARGARET ELIZABETH4 SEATON, RACHEL3 CHENOWETH, JOHN2, JOHN1)
  • KENNER SEATON5 WHITAKER (MARGARET ELIZABETH4 SEATON, RACHEL3 CHENOWETH, JOHN2, JOHN1)
  • ELIZABETH K.5 WHITAKER (MARGARET ELIZABETH4 SEATON, RACHEL3 CHENOWETH, JOHN2, JOHN1) married JOHN WILLIAMS, JR.
  • ALLEN5 ROSE (ELIZABETH4 SEATON, RACHEL3 CHENOWETH, JOHN2, JOHN1)
  • family of RICHARD SEATON5 FREDERICK (SARAH4 SEATON, RACHEL3 CHENOWETH, JOHN2, JOHN1) married MALINDA A. RONEY.
• Orange Co:
  • MARY JANE6 CHENOWETH (JOSEPH5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, JOHN1) married DANIEL MCINTOSH
  • WILSON6 CHENOWETH (JOSEPH5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, JOHN1)
  • ROBERT6 HOLLOWELL (RACHEL5 CHENOWETH, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, JOHN1)
  • JOHN CHENOWETH6 HOLLOWELL (RACHEL5 CHENOWETH, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, JOHN1)
  • THOMAS6 HOLLOWELL (RACHEL5 CHENOWETH, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, JOHN1)
  • MARY ANN6 CHENOWETH (PHILIP C.5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, JOHN1) married JOHN HARDIN, JR.
• Owen Co:
  • BLANDFORD B.5 WHITAKER (MARGARET ELIZABETH4 SEATON, RACHEL3 CHENOWETH, JOHN2, JOHN1)
  • JOSEPH JEFFERSON6 FREDERICK (RICHARD SEATON5, SARAH4 SEATON, RACHEL3 CHENOWETH, JOHN2, JOHN1)
• Parke Co:
  • REBECCA5 ROGERS (SARAH4 CHENOWETH, JOHN3, THOMAS2, JOHN1) married (2) LEWIS DEPEW
• Porter Co:
  • IVAH6 PETRO (MARY5 SUTTON, DAVID4, MARY3 CHENOWETH, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) married OLIVER STELL.
  • DAVID6 PETRO (MARY5 SUTTON, DAVID4, MARY3 CHENOWETH, WILLIAM2, JOHN1)
• Putnam Co:
  • ELEANOR DAVENPORT 'ELLEN'5 CHENOWETH (JOHN4, JOHN3, ARTHUR2, JOHN1) married LAWRENCE DAINGERFIELD
  • LUCY BELLE6 DAINGERFIELD (ELEANOR DAVENPORT 'ELLEN'5 CHENOWETH, JOHN4, JOHN3, ARTHUR2, JOHN1) married THOMAS E. TALBOT
  • JOHN WESLEY5 CHENOWETH III (JOHN4, JOHN3, ARTHUR2, JOHN1)
  • ELIZABETH5 CHENOWETH (THOMAS4, WILLIAM B.3, THOMAS2, JOHN1) married JOHN R. PARIS
  • AMANDA5 CHENOWETH (THOMAS4, WILLIAM B.3, THOMAS2, JOHN1) married ELIJAH GARRETT
• Randolph Co:
  • AMANDA M.6 CHENOWETH (JACOB5, WILLIAM S.4, JOHN3, JOHN2, JOHN1)
  • CAROLINE6 CHENOWETH (JOHN BAXTER5, WILLIAM4, ARTHUR3, ARTHUR2, JOHN1) married JAMES KELLEY
  • WILLIAM THOMAS5 CHENOWETH (WILLIAM4, ARTHUR3, ARTHUR2, JOHN1)
  • SAMUEL JOSEPHUS7 CHENOWETH (JOHN THOMAS6, WILLIAM THOMAS5, WILLIAM4, ARTHUR3, ARTHUR2, JOHN1)
  • WILLIAM COLUMBUS 'LUM'6 CHENOWETH (WILLIAM THOMAS5, WILLIAM4, ARTHUR3, ARTHUR2, JOHN1)
  • LEONARD6 PETRO (IVAH5 SUTTON, DAVID4, MARY3 CHENOWETH, WILLIAM2, JOHN1)
  • JOHN FOSTER5 CHENOWETH (JOHN C.4, THOMAS3, THOMAS2, JOHN1)
  • ABRAHAM J.5 CHENOWETH (JACOB4, ABRAHAM3, THOMAS2, JOHN1)
  • ABRAHAM JOHN5 CHENOWETH (JOHN4, ABRAHAM3, THOMAS2, JOHN1)
• Rush Co:
  • MARY C.6 PETRO (MARY5 SUTTON, DAVID4, MARY3 CHENOWETH, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) married JOHN M. DEATH
  • DAVID5 SUTTON, JR. (DAVID4, MARY3 CHENOWETH, WILLIAM2, JOHN1)
• Tippecanoe Co:
  • INDIANA5 CHENOWETH (ELI4, JOHN3, THOMAS2, JOHN1) married ARCHIBALD STEPHENSON
  • JOHN5 CARTER (REBECCA4 CHENOWETH, JOHN3, THOMAS2, JOHN1)
  • LORENZO5 CARTER (REBECCA4 CHENOWETH, JOHN3, THOMAS2, JOHN1)
  • REBECCA5 CHENOWETH (JOHN C.4, THOMAS3, THOMAS2, JOHN1) married THOMAS ROYAL
  • ADA 'ADDIE'4 CHENOWETH (ARTHUR3, THOMAS2, JOHN1) married CHARLES PARNAM BOSWELL
  • ARTHUR4 CHENOWETH (RICHARD3, THOMAS2, JOHN1)
  • ELIZABETH5 WILLIAMS (HANNAH4 CHENOWETH, RICHARD3, THOMAS2, JOHN1) married ALFRED H. LONEY
  • ASSINITH5 WILLIAMS (HANNAH4 CHENOWETH, RICHARD3, THOMAS2, JOHN1) married JAMES D. KILLGORE
  • URIAH4 CHENOWETH (RICHARD3, THOMAS2, JOHN1)
  • REBECCA4 CHENOWETH (RICHARD3, THOMAS2, JOHN1) married (2) DANIEL SHOEMAKER
  • WILLIAM5 HOLLENBACK (REBECCA4 CHENOWETH, RICHARD3, THOMAS2, JOHN1)
  • ABIGAIL5 HOLLENBACK (REBECCA4 CHENOWETH, RICHARD3, THOMAS2, JOHN1) married SAMUEL LUCAS
  • RICHARD FOSTER5 CHENOWETH (THOMAS C.4, ELIJAH3, THOMAS2, JOHN1)
• Union Co:
  • MARIA G.6 WHITE (MARY5 HEATON, JOANNA4 SUTTON, MARY3 CHENOWETH, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) married CHARLES CONNAWAY
  • SAMUEL SUTTON7 MONTGOMERY (ANCHOR6 PETRO, MARY5 SUTTON, DAVID4, MARY3 CHENOWETH, WILLIAM2, JOHN1)
  • JOHN6 PETRO (IVAH5 SUTTON, DAVID4, MARY3 CHENOWETH, WILLIAM2, JOHN1)
  • ELMIRA5 RICE (JOSINAH 'LIND'4 CHENOWETH, WILLIAM3, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) married JOHN IRWIN
• Vermillion Co:
  • JOHN4 CHENOWETH (JOHN3, THOMAS2, JOHN1)
  • HIRAM5 CHENOWETH (JOHN4, JOHN3, THOMAS2, JOHN1)
  • LEMUEL �LEMON� 5 CHENOWETH (JOHN4, JOHN3, THOMAS2, JOHN1)
  • ISAAC4 CHENOWETH (JOHN3, THOMAS2, JOHN1)
  • WILLIAM5 CHENOWETH (ISAAC4, JOHN3, THOMAS2, JOHN1)
  • MARY ANN5 CHENOWETH (ISAAC4, JOHN3, THOMAS2, JOHN1) married THOMAS HENRY SMITH
  • RACHEL4 CHENOWETH (THOMAS3, THOMAS2, JOHN1) married ELIJAH LOWE
  • BENJAMIN C.5 LOWE (RACHEL4 CHENOWETH, THOMAS3, THOMAS2, JOHN1)
  • THOMAS4 CHENOWETH III (THOMAS3, THOMAS2, JOHN1)
  • JOHN5 CHENOWETH (THOMAS4, THOMAS3, THOMAS2, JOHN1)
  • HARRIETT4 CHENOWETH (ARTHUR3, THOMAS2, JOHN1) married AMOS BRANSON SMITH
  • PERMELIA 'MILLIE'4 CHENOWETH (ARTHUR3, THOMAS2, JOHN1) married DANIEL SMITH
  • THOMAS F.5 CHENOWETH (JACOB4, ABRAHAM3, THOMAS2, JOHN1)
• Vigo Co:
  • JOHN5 ROGERS (SARAH4 CHENOWETH, JOHN3, THOMAS2, JOHN1)
  • LEWIS5 ROGERS, JR. (SARAH4 CHENOWETH, JOHN3, THOMAS2, JOHN1)
  • JOHN5 CHENOWETH (ELI4, JOHN3, THOMAS2, JOHN1)
  • ELIZABETH5 CHENOWETH (ELI4, JOHN3, THOMAS2, JOHN1) married (2) JOSEPH VAN CLEAVE
  • ELIZA A.5 CHENOWETH (ELI4, JOHN3, THOMAS2, JOHN1) married WILLIAM G. HARRIS
• Wabash Co:
  • ROBERT S.5 CHENOWETH (ARTHUR4, ARTHUR3, ARTHUR2, JOHN1)
• Warren Co:
  • ELIZABETH JANE6 CHENOWETH (WILLIAM I.5, WILLIAM S.4, JOHN3, JOHN2, JOHN1) married Leven Henry Hickman
  • REBECCA5 CHENOWETH (URIAH4, RICHARD3, THOMAS2, JOHN1) married James Bryan
  • family of WILLIAM4 CHENOWETH (ABRAHAM3, THOMAS2, JOHN1) married NANCY JOHNSTON
  • THOMAS JOHNSTON5 CHENOWETH (WILLIAM4, ABRAHAM3, THOMAS2, JOHN1)
  • JOHN F.5 CHENOWETH (JACOB4, ABRAHAM3, THOMAS2, JOHN1)
• Washington Co:
  • JOSEPH5 CHENOWETH (JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, JOHN1)
  • RACHEL5 CHENOWETH (JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, JOHN1) married SMITHSON HOLLOWELL
  • WILLIAM6 HOLLOWELL (RACHEL5 CHENOWETH, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, JOHN1)
  • ELIAS5 CHENOWETH (JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, JOHN1)
  • LEVI5 CHENOWETH (JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, JOHN1)
• Wayne Co:
  • ELIAS6 CHENOWETH (JACOB5, WILLIAM S.4, JOHN3, JOHN2, JOHN1)
  • WILLIAM THOMAS6 CHENOWETH (CASPER5, WILLIAM S.4, JOHN3, JOHN2, JOHN1)
  • ABIGAIL6 CHENOWETH (CASPER5, WILLIAM S.4, JOHN3, JOHN2, JOHN1) married JOSEPH PYLE
• Wells Co:
  • JOSEPH A.5 WILLIAMS (RHODA4 ASHBROOK, MARY3 CHENOWETH, JOHN2, JOHN1)
• White Co:
  • JAMES5 CHENOWETH, JR. (JAMES4, JOHN3, JOHN2, JOHN1)
  • RHUAMA5 CHENOWETH (ARTHUR4, RICHARD3, THOMAS2, JOHN1) married JOHN MATTHEWS
  • THOMAS T.4 CHENOWETH (RICHARD3, THOMAS2, JOHN1)
  • IRA M.5 CHENOWETH (THOMAS T.4, RICHARD3, THOMAS2, JOHN1)
  • PETER H.S.B.5 CHENOWETH (THOMAS T.4, RICHARD3, THOMAS2, JOHN1)
  • CHARLES S.5 CHENOWETH (THOMAS T.4, RICHARD3, THOMAS2, JOHN1)

�Power!��the new novel by Michael Chenoweth constructs a massive satellite in orbit to constantly beam inexpensive solar energy directly to earth.

For the first time in recent literary history, readers now have an uberwoman-heroine-protagonist for whom to cheer. Chenoweth writes his main character, �Danielle� (and Mig-29 Instructor Pilot) as the embodiment of a highly evolved, intellectual and ethical human being who decidedly knows how to convert a huge idea into an even bigger reality. The sheer enormity of Chenoweth�s thought is captured by the joy of watching Danielle think and make decisions that will affect the entire planet. Her character is skillfully drawn out through her ability to assemble the world�s wealthiest investors in an agreement to front the capital for a series of super cargo planes, strategically placed power transformers on various continents, and a gigantic orbiting satellite with the theoretical output of 100 billion watts. The project�s name? Prometheus.

Chenoweth brilliantly interlaces the obstacles confronting Danielle�s character with how the story of the plot unfolds: as if revolutionizing the world�s energy source is not already a big enough obstacle in and of itself, she also contends with a predominantly male-centered investor syndicate, and oil rich nations who will do anything to stop her. But it is against the backdrop of her leadership, political savvy, and firm grasp of technological advancements that Chenoweth creatively sifts out her character between the lines�that enduring element of humanity which thrives on thinking and doing beyond the confines of our planet�s finite space.

The tone underneath Chenoweth�s text traverses the socio-political and technological realms of human ingenuity and cultural improvements in a post-industrial society at a pace perfectly mirroring the very urgency surrounding the issue of sustainable energy itself. He starts the novel with, �Everything is political,� and the amazingly detailed narrative he unleashes from that sentence until the very end underscores that point exactly. The �What if�?� question he asks in both the first chapter and in the post script is a relevant signifier pointing toward that ever-blossoming signified that even his evil-doer, pro-fossil-fuel, �enemy� characters have had to consider in the same light: possibility. And that subtext of possibility which follows Danielle�s global jet-setting efforts to lift Project Prometheus [literally] off the ground�from Kenya, Namibia, and Morocco, to London, India, and Asia, to a remote South Pacific island�is itself an underlying current that emerges as the very focal point for both Chenoweth�s writing, and for that which his writing asks of the reader.

If the reader is an aviation junkie, an engineer, a tax-code lawyer, an environmental activist, an energy aficionado, a physicist, or just a simpleton like me who, since I can remember, has had the word �possibility� filed in his �Favorite Words� folder, this book is a must-read. Even the delightful and unexpected curve-balls Chenoweth throws with a car-bombing or aircraft sabotage do not set aside how aptly the novel�s title plays on its two most commonly understood meanings�gigawatts, and what Nietzsche meant when he wrote, �Life is the will to power and nothing besides.� (Copies of the book will be available to purchase at the Family Reunion � editor)

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The 19 stars on Indiana�s state flag reflect its spot as the 19th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. Naturally, the state�s name means �land of the Indians� in reference to the Native Americans that made the area their home for many centuries Likewise, the state capital Indianapolis (with its Greek suffix) means �City of the Indians.�

Although it�s been known as the Hoosier State since at least the 1830s, the origin of Indiana�s nickname is uncertain. Some believe it came from a preacher named Harry Hoosier, while others claim that the territory�s nosy settlers used to yell �Who�s here?� when passing a homestead. At least one source claims it refers to �hoo,� an old Anglo-Saxon word for �hill.� In reference to the southern section of the state. Still, no definitive answer has been found.

Indiana is the smallest of the contiguous states west of the Appalachian Mountains, and its location in between the Eastern and Central Time Zones has long been a source of consternation. Parts of northwest and southwest Indiana use Central Time, while the rest of the state remains in Eastern. And until 2006, parts of Indiana declined to observe Daylight Saving Time in order to keep on the same schedule with nearby cities in other states. With national adjustments to DST in 2007, the confusion continues.

While most U.S. states chose to depict historic symbols on their state quarters, Indiana�s 2002 coin is decorated with an image of a modern-day Indy race car. Indianapolis is home to the Indianapolis 500, the world-famous auto race held every Memorial Day weekend.

The political slogan �Tippecanoe and Tyler Too� was based on William Henry Harrison�s days as the first governor of the Indiana Territory. In November 1811, Harrison led troops in defusing a Shawnee uprising at Tippecanoe, IN. In 1840, Harrison ran for president with John Tyler as his running mate. They won the election, but Harrison died of pneumonia after only one month in office, leaving Tyler to take the reins of the country.

Another famous phrase that has its roots in Indiana is often erroneously attributed to New York Tribune publisher Horace Greely. In 1870, his newspaper prompted thousands of Americans to �Go west, young man.� Truth be told, he borrowed the phrase from John Soule, who had printed it in the Terre Haute Express in Indiana nearly 20 years earlier.

If one U.S. state is specifically associated with a team sport, it has to be Indiana and basketball. In high school, college, and the pros, the state has been home to some of the hardwood�s greatest names, including Larry Bird, Oscar Robertson, Bob Knight, Reggie Miller, Digger Phelps, Ann Meyers, John Wooden, Bobby Plump, Isiah Thomas and Damon Bailey. Of course, one can�t mention Indiana sports without discussing the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, which has won NCAA championships in everything from football to fencing.

Famous people born in Indiana include actor James Dean; writers Booth Tarkington, Lew Wallace, Theodore Dreiser, James Whitcomb Riley, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. and Ernie Pyle; politicians Thomas Marshall, Wendell Wilkie, Eugene V. Debs, and Dan Quayle; labor leader Jimmy Hoffa; choreographer Twyla Tharp; fashion designer Bill Blass; TV host David Letterman; songwriters Hoagy Carmichael and Cole Porter; Inventor siblings Orville and Wilbur Wright; and the Jackson family of entertainers (including Michael and Janet).

Recently Elizabeth Chenoweth, d/o Charles Ernest and Amy Abigail (Weed) Chenoweth celebrated the 105th anniversary of her birth date of December 4, 1902. The oldest daughter of six children she was born in Albany, Gentry Co., MO. We at the Chenoweth Family Association congratulate her on her longevity and wish her many more celebrations. Another Chenoweth centenarian was Elmer Leroy 'Bill' Kelley who died this July 2, at the age of 100 years, 3 months, 27 days.

Note: After the newsletter was printed, it was learned that Elizabeth sadly died on July 14