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Subject: Re: [INRUSH] Farlow/Gosnell
Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 20:06:05 -0400
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Whoops, got the wrong great-grandfather married to the wrong wife. My
great-grandfather Alfred Rhodes married Rachel Catherine North and moved
with her family to Howard Co. in 1865, marrying Joan Yager shortly after
Rachel's death. My great-grandfather James Wilson Johnson married Evalyne
Amanda Mullis in Rush Co., and when she died married Margaret Gordon in Rush
Co., and moved to Howard Co. in 1870. I am descended from the 2nd wives of
each.

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Subject: Re: [INRUSH] Farlow/Gosnell


>I don't know of any connection to this family, but my family story is that
>my great-grandfather Alfred RHODES was shot in the arm in Rush County while
>attempting to volunteer for the Confederate Army. Sounds as though tempers
>ran hot in Rush County on this subject. I wish there were someone who
>could give us more historical background in Rush County. Alfred, having
>been shot, did not join either army. He married Evalyne MULLIS in 1865 and
>moved to Howard Co., IN, with her family.
>
>
>> Story goes that he was known to have a temper (as most of his namesakes
>> do) and at
>> a political rally he shouted "I'll shoot the next son of a b_____ that
>> cheers
>> for Jefferson Davis "(this sometimes becomes another politician). Well
>> someone did, and he shot him. According to legend, he escaped by being
>> shut up
>> in a barrel by his brother, shipped down stream on a barge to the
>> Mississippi,
>> and was never heard from again. In reality, Sebastion Gosnell joined up
>> with
>> the Michigan Volunteers under the alias of Samuel Jones and was
>> mustered
>> out with Company E, 5th Infantry Regiment Michigan on 05 July 1865 in
>> Jeffersonville, IN with Distinguished Service (Probably able to use his
>> temper to good
>> advantage in the army). By 1892 he had moved back to Indiana and
>> married
>> Olive B. Sims. They are buried at the little Star Church in Downeyville,
>> IN.
>>
>
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