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From: Joe and Sharon Mills <>
Subject: [BRE] Re: Lechlightner, Mikel, Rummel
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2004 19:48:26 -0500
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I got Lechlitner from the Ancestry database of Indiana marriages, which
means Lydia's surname was misspelled on the marriage license. What a surprise.

The Winter 2004 issue of the Indiana History Society's _Traces_ magazine
has a feature story on the mint farmers of that area. A descendant of a
Lakeville family wrote the article about the Rouch family mint
farm. Apparently there were many mint farms from Lakeville to
Bremen. The farms are now dying out, but this must have been a common
type of farming for Brethren families in that area from the late 1800's
through perhaps the 1970s.

Audrey Mikel's siblings were Merle Raymond, Walter Monroe, Iva Marie,
Charles Alvin, and Howard Marion Mikel all born between 1898 and 1910. And
most of them did marry into one other family.

Sharon Mills


At 06:36 AM 3/7/2004, you wrote:



> >
> > Since I asked the question, several Elkhart/St Joe descendants confirm
> > that Audrey is a daughter of Joseph M Mikel. I don't have a name for
> > Joseph M Mikel's wife; however, a Joseph Mikel married a Lydia Lechlitner
> > in 1898 in Elkhart County. Joseph M Mikel was the son of Joseph MIkel and
> > Matilda Drake.
> >
>
>yes -Aunt Audrey's parents were Joseph Mikel and Lydia Lechlightner (I have
>a different spelling). They lived south of Nappanee -on IN 9, very close
>the
>Kosciusko/Elkhart line. They lived on the west side of the road, back a
>ways.
>At the end of their lane, on the road was a Peppermint Distillery. I
>remember
>Uncle Lloyd telling how once a woman came to see the distllery. She wanted
>a
>taste of pure peppermint -when they tapped off a little, they offered our
>normal
>approach -take one drop -split it with a toothpick -into a teaspoon of
>sugar.
>"Oh no! -I really want to taste it!", and plunged her finger into the oil,
>and stuck
>it in her mouth -and fainted. That stuff is STRONG! Lloyd and Audrey, when
>first married, lived in a family farmhouse on the east side of the road,
>just below
>the distillery.
>
>Lloyd RUMMEL m. 24 Dec 1930 Audrey MIKEL
>b. 15 Sept 1902 Wakarusa IN b. 25 Sept 1908 Bremen IN
>d. 1997 d. 12 Oct
>1990 Plymouth IN
>bur: Union Center Cemetery bur: Union Center
>Cemeter
>f. George Rummel f. Joseph Mikel
>m. Mary Ellen Skinner m. Lydia Lechlightner
>ch:
> Roy (1935- m. 1960, Gertrude Gorman (dec)
>Knoxville TN
> Dean (1946- 1/m 1970, Annetta Kercherian
>Kendallville IN
> 2/m 1985, Brenda Saunders
>somewhere here I have Uncle Lloyd's funeral data, but couldn't find it fast
>
>Merle C Rummel
>
>
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