| 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.
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1858 - 1921 (63 years)