Daniel Neidigh

Daniel Neidigh

Birth
Richland County, Ohio, USA
Death 5 Mar 1923 (aged 84)
Burial Lyons, Greene County, Indiana, USA
Memorial ID 12738253 · View Source
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Daniel Neidigh was born in the state of Ohio on August 4, 1838 and departed this life March 5, 1923, at age of eighty-four years, seven months and one day. With his parents he came to Greene County, Indiana, when a mere boy, and had resided in the county ever since. He was united in marriage to Susan E. Casey March 12, 1868. To this union were born six children, all of whom, with the good wife and mother, had long since preceded him to the great beyond. On December 20, 1891, he was again united in marriage to Elizabeth Meredith, who survives him. The death of this good man and neighbor, although rather expected, fell like a pall upon the people of the community where he lived, in the town of Lyons, and on his many friends near the neighborhood of Shiloh Church, where he formerly lived the greater portion of his life, he having moved to Lyons only a few years ago. His constant love for everything good and pure; his uprightness and honesty and forgetfulness of self in his ministrations to other, so endeared him to the community that his death will leave a vacant place in our lives that will be hard to fill. He leaves a wife, one sister, many relatives and a host of friends to mourn his departure to the other world.



Daniel Neidigh, one of Washington township's substantial farmers, was born in Richland county, Ohio, August 4, 1839. He is the son of Abraham and Elizabeth (Branstetter) Neidigh, the former a native of Pennsylvania, the latter a native of Maryland, who were early settlers of Ohio, but came to Greene county in 1848 when the subject was a small boy, the family first settling in Highland township, but moved to Washington township in 1853 and bought a piece of land, which was unimproved, but they soon had it transformed into a good farm, which is now owned and occupied by Marion Jackson. The parents of the subject were members of the Lutheran church. They had the following children: Catherine, widow of Thomas Benham, iving in Washington township; Barbara, wife of Marion Jackson, living on the old homestead; Susan is the widow of Andrew Miller, who lives in Washington township; Daniel, the subject of this sketch; Abraham, who lives in Arkansas; Calvin, who lives in Linton, Indiana; Mary, deceased. The parents of the subject lived on the farm they first moved to in Washington township until they died.

The subject has spent practically all his life in the county. He got only a meager education in the old-time subscription schools, having been raised on his father's farm, where he remained until he was twenty-eight years of age. In 1867 he married Ellen Casey, a native of Kentucky, who died about 1889. Six children were born to this union, namely: Albert, Lendora, Emma Jane, William W. and two infants, all deceased. Daniel Neidigh married the second time in 1892, his last wife being Elizabeth Meridath, who was born in Spencer county, Indiana, November 14, 1857, the daughter of David and Mary (Ault) Meridath, both now deceased. The Meridath family came from Ohio to Spencer county, Indiana, in an early day and later moved to Greene county, settling in Washington township
on a farm now owned by the subject of this sketch. The Meridath family consisted of ten children: David Meridath was twice married, first to Caroline Ralph, to whom four children were born, namely: Ananias, who was also a soldier, lives in Owensburg, Kentucky; Newton, a sailor of the Twenty-fifth Indiana Volunteer Regiment, Company D, died December 20, 1904; William David Meridath married the second time, his last wife being Mary Ault, to whom six children were born, namely: Alice, deceased; Elizabeth, wife of the subject; John, deceased; Fidelia; Martha, deceased; Roberta. Mrs. Neidigh is a member of the Methodist church.

The farm where the subject now lives was wild and in the woods when he moved on it, but he has cleared it and made general improvements until it is a good farm of forty acres with a good house which was erected in 1907. Other modern buildings are on the place. The subject and wife have no children, but they are raising a child. They are highly respected in their neighborhood. Mr. Neidigh is a Democrat.

Source: "Biographical Memoirs of Greene County, Ind. with Reminiscences of Pioneer Days", B.F. Bowen & Co., Indianapolis, IN, 1908.


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  • Find A Grave Memorial 12738253
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