American Indian Genealogy

Champlain Cox was an American Indian that fought in the Mexican American War. He was married to Ellender Bunch and lived in Greene County, Indiana.

Descendants of Champlain Cox

Generation No. 1
1. CHAMPLAIN1 COX He married ELLENDER BUNCH 01 Jan 1850 in Greene Co, Indiana.
Children of CHAMPLAIN COX and ELLENDER BUNCH are:
i. LUCRESAE2 COX, b. 1847; m. UNK, 20 Feb 1885, Greene Co, Indiana.
ii. JESSE R. COX, b. 1860; m. UNK, 08 Oct 1885, Greene Co, Indiana.
2. iii. EVAN COX, b. 19 Jun 1867; d. 01 Aug 1971, Greene County, Indiana.

Generation No. 2
2. EVAN2 COX (CHAMPLAIN1) was born 19 Jun 1867, and died 01 Aug 1971 in Greene County, Indiana. He married WINIFRED H. HUNTER 28 May 1893 in Greene County, Indiana, daughter of WILLIAM HUNTER and EMILY BUCKNER. She was born 25 Oct 1875 in Greene County, Indiana, and died 16 Feb 1962 in Greene County, Indiana.
Notes for EVAN COX:
His grave marker states that he lived to be 104 years old.
Notes for WINIFRED H. HUNTER:
Oneta Crites wrote: "Oh, how Winfred loved Winnie, she got pneumonia and he walked several miles to visit her; he took a cold that went into pneumonia and they both died about two weeks apart at 86 years of age.
Children of EVAN COX and WINIFRED HUNTER are:
i. CLAUDE3 COX, b. 19 Oct 1893, Greene County, Indiana; d. 16 Dec 1987, Greene County, Indiana; m. GRACE; b. 12 Aug 1901; d. 03 Sep 1981, Indiana.
ii. ELMA COX, b. 1896, Greene County, Indiana; d. 1992.
3. iii. ZELMA COX, b. 1896, Greene County, Indiana; d. 1989.
iv. BRONSO COX, b. 09 Feb 1899, Greene County, Indiana; d. 22 Oct 1984, Greene Co, Indiana; m. ROSALIE; b. 12 Mar 1905; d. 18 Dec 1969, Greene County, Indiana.
v. ELLA COX, b. 14 Aug 1901, Greene County, Indiana; d. 1901, Indiana; m. ALZA CLUMBOUGH, 09 Mar 1918, Greene Co, Indiana.
vi. DELMER COX, b. 1902, Greene Co, IN.
vii. ELMER COX, b. 1902, Greene County, Indiana; d. 1976, Bridgeport, Conn.; m. BELL.
viii. ESTAL COX, b. 08 Nov 1906, Greene County, Indiana; d. 09 Feb 1989, Greene County, Indiana; m. (1) MARIE JOSEPHINE MILLER; b. 27 Feb 1911; m. (2) WILMA JEAN MARTINDALE, Greene Co, Indiana.
ix. WILLIAM COX, b. 1909, Greene County, Indiana; d. 1973, Louisanna; m. JEAN.
x. DOVIE COX, b. 1911, Greene County, Indiana; m. LOUIS WEAKS.
xi. EVA COX, b. 1913, Greene County, Indiana; m. EARL PULSE.
4. xii. GENEVA COX, b. 1913, Greene County, Indiana; d. 1995.
xiii. MAC COX, b. 1915, Greene County, Indiana; d. 1988, Greene County, Indiana.

Generation No. 3
3. ZELMA3 COX (EVAN2, CHAMPLAIN1) was born 1896 in Greene County, Indiana, and died 1989. She married RAYMOND MCCELLAN PITTMAN.
Children of ZELMA COX and RAYMOND PITTMAN are:
i. LEONA4 PITTMAN, b. Abt. 1922.
ii. NAOMA PITTMAN, b. Abt. 1922.

4. GENEVA3 COX (EVAN2, CHAMPLAIN1) was born 1913 in Greene County, Indiana, and died 1995. She married ELMO SHIELDS. He was born 1910, and died 1977.
Child of GENEVA COX and ELMO SHIELDS is:
i. REX4 SHIELDS, b. 13 Mar 1932, Greene Co, IN.

Where has Soul Food gone?

We have become a country of fast food restaurants. Our culture has become a "melting pot" of quick meals and in a hurry eating. Cultural foods and recipes are taken out of their recipe boxes only on special occasions and holidays.

Most young people today do not know the difference between "scratch" cooking and convience foods. Teens often are given the responsibility of feeding the family. They don't know what nutritious foods are, or how to prepare foods from recipes.

Are package directions the recipes of the future?

Can cooking shows replace grandma's food cooked with love in the kitchen?

We must save the soul of our food cooked at home. Food cooked by traditional family recipes, and made with love for family and friends can never be replaced. Soul food must be taught and practiced so it is not lost like canning, and preserving food at home has been lost.

Six Hunter Sisters

These three pictures of the six Hunter sisters tell of happy times the six sisters shared together. The six Hunter sisters of Winfred & Elsie (Huffman) Hunter were: Ona Mae Hunter born 9 Feb 1900; Ruby Emily Hunter born 6 Sep 1901; Mary Belle Hunter born 25 Feb 1910; Blanche Inez Hunter born 19 Jun 1912; Audrey N. Hunter born 23 Nov 1914; and Evelyn O. Hunter born 22 Dec 1916.

The first picture taken of all six sisters together in their straw hats. There mother bought straw hats and dressed them in there Sunday best dresses and lined them up to take pictures. There were two brothers not pictured, two more boys were born later. This picture was taken in about 1918. The second picture was taken about 1924. The third picture was taken about 1950.

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1. MICKEY ANN1 PICKARD (WILLIAMA, HENRYB PACKARD, WILLIAMC, WILLIAM HENRYD PICKARD, NICHOLASE, BARTHOLOMEWF, BARTHOLOMEWG, ROBERTH, JOHNI, ROBERTJ, JOHNK) was born 26 Mar 1850 in Greene County, Indiana, and died 19 Jan 1929 in Greene County, Indiana1. She was raised by her maternal grandparents the Hodges. She married three Civil War Vets, and then a German immigrant. She married (1) THOMAS CRITES 07 Mar 1867 in Greene County, Indiana, son of WILLIAM CRITES and MARY DORROUGH. He was born 15 Sep 1844 in Perry (or Wayne County), Ashland, Ohio2, and died 15 Jul 1876 in Greene County, Indiana. She married (2) SOLOMON IRWIN 23 Sep 1877 in Greene County, Indiana3. He was born 1810 in Kentucky, and died Aft. 1900. She married (3) JOHN J. CLIFFT 22 Oct 1893 in Greene County, Indiana4, son of THOMAS CLIFFT and MELINDA JONES. He was born 22 Feb 1837 in KY. She married (4) JOHN JENSON 04 Apr 1901 in Greene County, Indiana, son of DAVID JENSON and MARY JOHNSON. He was born 24 Aug 1851 in Germany.
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Monday Madness

Mickey Pickard Crites is still keeping her secrets.
Update from July is that I got a copy's of her death record and guardianship record. The question now is Goodwin or Goodman cemetery? One cemetery was lost to a strip mine.

John Dillinger Gang's Fort Wayne, IN Connection

Homer Van Meter was born December 3, 1906 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Homer died in a storm of police gunshots in a St. Paul, MN alley, August 23, 1934. The newspaper reported that the parallels between John Dillinger and Homer Van Meters deaths were betrayal by women, and death by gun fire in alleys. “His straw hat rolled in the dust that blackened his white shoes, and blood flowed from more than two score wounds.” Homer Van Meter came back to Fort Wayne, Indiana to be buried in Lindenwood Cemetery, Saturday, August 25, 1934.
The newspaper headlines in Fort Wayne Saturday, August 25, 1934, read “Minimizing the Glamour.” With human consideration for the wishes of the innocent survivors of the late Homer Van Meter, slain when he resisted arrest by police officers in St. Paul, MN, and with the purpose of minimizing the glamour which excessive publicity so easily confers upon enemies of society, the News-Sentinel will not “play up” or sensationalize accounts of the dead bandit’s funeral services and burial nor will we make any attempt to procure photos of the same.
Carey and Mary (Miller) Van Meter had three children: Harry, Homer, and baby sister Helen. They lived in the middle class Bloomingdale neighborhood, where the children went to school. Carey worked for the railroad, and Mary stayed home to care for their three children. Both Cary and Mary were dead when Homer started getting in trouble with the “law.”
Homer’s first crime was for “disorderly conduct,” in Aurora, IL in 1923. Later that same year he was convicted of vehicle theft in IL, and sentenced to 1 to 10 years in the Southern IL State Penitentiary. In 1925 he and Con Livingston held up passengers for several hundred dollars and jewelry. Con Livingston was killed by the police in South Bend, IN, and Homer Van Meter fled to Chicago, IL where the police caught up with Homer and he was arrested. Homer served time at the Lake County Reformatory, but was transferred to the IN State Prison. May 18, 1933 the parole board recommendation was to free Van Meter, because they “believed that he would make good in the future.”
There were times and occasions when Homer Van Meter tried to “make good in the future.” Homer would disappear, and the police wouldn’t “hear” from Homer for months at a time. One time he was believed to be living in New Orleans, LA. After Homer was on parole from the Indiana State Prison, he refused to take part in Indiana bank robberies. He did however participate in the IL, OH, and MI Dillinger gang bank robberies.
John Dillinger was released from prison June 1933, and then he was back in jail in Lima, OH. September 1933 there was a raid on the Lima, OH jail, and Dillinger was freed, and Homer Van Meter rejoined the Dillinger gang.
Relatives said that Homer was handsome. He had a strange twitch in his leg that caused his friends to call him “Shake Leg.” He could be quite charming when he wanted to be, which is why John Dillinger used Homer as the advance man. Homer was often sent into the banks ahead of the gang to scope things out. His good looks and personality made it easy for him to enter the bank and put on the charm to find out inside information.

The Peru Indiana police remembered how Homer Van Meter posed as a detective magazine reporter. Homer told the Peru police that he was working on a story about an old Miami County robbery. The Peru police thought that Homer was like a “friend,” until he showed up a few days later with the Dillinger gang. The Dillinger gang along with Van Meter, seized $2,000 of the police arsenal.
The Dillinger gang often drove in stolen cars, and one time they were in a car with Michigan plates when a police car came upon them. John Dillinger was reported to have been ready for a shootout, when Homer stopped him, left the car, and went up to the police car. He told them that they were from Michigan, and they needed to know how to get back on the right road to Michigan. He then showed an interest in the squad car and their machine guns. Homer said, “It’s a wicked weapon and would end John Dillinger if you found him.” Homer cheerfully shouted, “Good Night.” As he went back to the stolen car and John Dillinger.
Homer didn’t write letters home, and his relatives said that they had nothing to do with him. One winter day his brother Harry went to his garage where his beat up old car was parked. When he entered the garage he saw a beautiful shiny new car with the keys and the title on the front seat. Harry had to go to court and prove that the car was a repayment for money that Homer owed Harry.
Information from The News-Sentinel, Fort Wayne, IN newspaper microfilm August 24 & 25, 1934, ACPL, Fort Wayne, IN.