John Pillans Borthwick was born to William Borthwick, a wire worker, residing at 227 High Street, High Church Parish and his spouse Jane Pillans. A lawful son on the 6…
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Nicholas E Ensley
Lieutenant Nicholas E Ensley Company K. 44th Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry The only Commissioned Officer furnished by Butler Township, County of DeKalb, State of Indiana, during the great American Rebellion…
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Alfred R Rathbun
ALFRED R RATHBUN, born April 14, 1841, in Athens County, Ohio. He served in the 109th Indiana Regiment during the Civil War, and was married May 14, 1864, in Randolph…
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Obituary of Laura Isabel Smith
The daughter of John Perry Ensley and Elizabth Borthwick Ensley, Laura Isabel Smith was born in Ontario, California more than ninety years ago. A sixty-year resident of Riverside, she passed…
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William Engle
Raised on a farm, William Engle endured all the hardships common to pioneer life. He received a business education in the common schools. Wm. Engle cast his first vote for…
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