Notes:

Source is two family trees assembled by Marjorie (Arbogast) Shrack and drawn
by Frances Arbogast, dated 17 Jul 1965 at Indianapolis, IN. Additional
information from files of Frances. Farmer, Parker, IN.

HISTORY OF
DELAWARE
COUNTY
INDIANA IN TWO VOLUMES

ROBERT S. ARBOGAST, a substantial farmer and landowner of Liberty township, who died at his home in that township in the fall of 1921, left a good memory in the community in which he had so long resided and it is but fitting that some modest tribute to that memory be paid in this definite history of the county of which he was a worthy citizen. Mr. Arbogast was born on a farm in the Parker neighborhood in the neighboring county of Randolph, February 4, 1858, and was a son of Sanford and Isabel (Hayes) Arbogast, natives of Ohio, who came over here into Indiana following their marriage and settled on a tract of land north of Muncie in this county but after awhile moved over into Randolph county and established their home on a farm of 160 acres in the Parker neighborhood, where the remainder of their lives was spent. Of the nine children born to this pioneer couple the subject of this memorial sketch was the fourth in order of birth. Three of these children are still living. Mr. Arbogast was survived by two sisters, Frances and Louise, and two brothers, page: 570 Henry M. and Albert Arbogast, the last named of whom died on April 2, 1924. Reared on the home farm in Randolph county, Robert S. Arbogast received his schooling in the Parker schools and from the days of his boyhood was interested with his father in the labors of developing the farm. He married at the age of twenty-two and for a year thereafter farmed as a renter on his father's place. He then, in 1881, came over into Delaware county and rented an "eighty" in Liberty township, the place on which his widow is now living; presently bought that place and ever afterward made his home there, increasing his holdings until he became the owner of 110 acres. Mr. Arbogast was a good farmer and improved his place in admirable shape, having two sets of buildings on the farm. In addition to his general farming he gave considerable attention to the raising of live stock and also for several years operated a threshing rig in the neighborhood. He was a Democrat and was a member of the Selma Methodist Episcopal church, of the official board of which he was for years the treasurer. Mr. Arbogast died on October 19, 1921, and his widow continues to make her home on the home place. It was in 1880 that Robert S. Arbogast was united in marriage to Leah Philena Neel and to this union were born three children, Grace, Grover C. and Lona, the latter of whom married the Rev. Earl Pittenger and died on February 11, 1922, leaving four sons, Sanford Earl, John Arbogast, Rex Arthur and Robert Everett Pittenger. Grace Arbogast married Everett Shroyer and Grover C. Arbogast married Flora Orr and has two children, Sylvia and Robert G. Arbogast. Mrs. Leah P. Arbogast was born in Liberty township and is a daughter of Jordan and Malinda (Hedrick) Neel, both of whom were born in Virginia and had come to Indiana with their respective parents in the days of their youth. Jordan Neel was a son of John Neel, a Virginian, who was one of the entrymen in Liberty township and who was the father of eleven children, ten of whom grew to maturity, so that the Neel connection of this line in the present generation is a considerable one. Jordan Neel was but a lad when he came here with his parents from Virginia and he grew up familiar with pioneer farming conditions and after his marriage became a farmer in his own right, the owner of a farm of eighty acres. When the Bellefontaine & Indianapolis railroad was being put through here in the early '50s he worked on the construction of that old "Bee Line" road, now the Big Four. Of the six children born to him and his wife four are now living, Mrs. Arbogast having two sisters, Sarah Ellen and Nancy Jane, and a brother, John Allen Neel, further page: 571 mention of whom is made elsewhere in this work. There were two other brothers, Philip Jordan and Frederick Priest Neel. Mrs. Arbogast is a member of many years standing of the Selma Methodist Episcopal church, a past president of the Ladies Aid Society and the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of that congregation, the present vice president of the local Woman's Christian Temperance Union and superintendent of the county organization of the W. C. T. U., superintendent of the children's department of the Foreign Missionairy Society and special secretary of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. She is a Democrat. The Arbogast home is on rural mail route No. 5 out of Muncie.

Robert married Leah Philena Neal in 1880. Leah was born on 18 Apr 1861; died in May 1928; was buried in Mt. Tabor Cem., East of Muncie, In. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Grace Arbogast was born in 1882; died on 11 Aug 1941; was buried in Mt. Pleasant Cem, North of Parker, In.
2. Grover Cleveland Arbogast was born on 30 Jul 1884; died on 11 Aug 1946.
3. Lona Arbogast was born in 1886; died on 11 Feb 1922 in Elkhart, In; was buried in Mt. Tabor Cem., East of Muncie, In.

Notes:

Source is a family tree which appears to have been done by Henry Miles
Arbogast or his descendants. His daughter, Marjorie (Arbogast) Shrack appears
to be the source of the document in file. Farmed near Muncie, IN, later to
south of Parker, IN, they purchased the homestead which they transformed from a
forest wilderness to a farm of unsurpassed fertility.

Sanford married Isabelle Hayes on 10 Dec 1846 in Oh. Isabelle was born on 15 Jul 1820 in Troy, Miami Co., Oh; died on 15 May 1909; was buried in Windsor Cem., Randolph Co., Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Source is a family tree which appears to have been done by Henry Miles
Arbogast or his descendants. His daughter, Marjorie (Arbogast) Shrack appears
to be the source of the document in file. Eulogy in file written by S. Albert
Arbogast from Sharon McNeeley. Daughter of James Hayes. Married at her home
in Ohio.

Notes:

MARRIAGE: Clark Co. OH marriage records Book 1-B, pg 50. Her father gives
consent.

Information from Kay Ellen Martinson Fleming of Tucson, AZ, 25 Jan 1993, in
file. Provides date and place of birth and death, spouse and 7 children from
the 1850 Logan County, Ohio, census.

1860 census Edgar Co., IL.

Enos married Catherine Fleming on 1 Jun 1823 in Clark Co., Oh. Catherine was born on 1 Mar 1806 in Clark Co., Oh; died after 1880 in Madison Co., In. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Information from Kay Ellen Martinson Fleming of Tucson, AZ, 25 Jan 1993, in
file. Provides date and place of birth and death, spouse and 7 children from
the 1850 Logan County, Ohio, census.

Possible parents are Jacob and Niomey Goodwin Fleming.

On 1880 Dolson Twp., Clark Co., IL census, age 74, with son, Albert and
family.

Other Events:

• Military: American Revolution

Notes:

Migrated to Champaign Co., later Clark Co., OH about 1811. He later
relocated to Madison Co., IN, about 1830-1831, where he died. Migrated to OH
with brothers, Michael, Jr., and Peter. Peter remained in Ohio.

MILITARY: Pvt., Capt. Peter Hull's Co., 2nd Bn., Augusta Militia, during
Yorktown Campaign, 1781, page 148, Virginia Militia in the Revolutionary War,
by McAllister.

From "Mulanax - Bales" by Katherine and Alvin Mulanax, April 1980, pp. 83 &
84, David is thought to have migrated to Madison Co., Indiana shortly after
1830 with his family and other relatives, including his niece, Catherine
Arbogast Mulanax (daughter of Michael Arbogast, Jr.), and her husband, Joseph
Mulanax. The Mulanax' report that three Arbogasts bought land in Madison
County in the 1830's, Jesse, Isaac and Jacob Arbogast. It is thought that
they are sons of David Arbogast who came to Madison County about 1831.

According to Vera Arbogast Turner (Mrs. Lynn Turner) of Bloomington, IL, David
purchased land in Madison Co., IN in 1833. Vera is descended through the son,
Henry, William, John Lewis and Rev. Wm. H. Arbogast, her father.

David married Elizabeth Fleisher on 4 Jul 1785 in , Augusta, Virginia, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Information from research of Amanda Arbogast Forbes in file. Children are
probably not in order of birth. Elizabeth is daughter of Peter Fleisher.

Childrens order of birth from family records of Galen Arbogast of Tabor, ND,
copy in file.