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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Ruby E. Ertel: Birth: ABT 1904 in Rush County, Indiana. Death: ABT 1983 in Riverside County, California

  2. Gertrude R. Ertel: Birth: ABT 1907 in Rush County, Indiana. Death: AFT 1940


Sources
1. Title:   Census of the United States Indiana
Page:   1930; Washington Township, Rush County, page 7B

Notes
a. Note:   Gary, Abraham Lincoln; Centenniel History of Rush County, Indiana, Volume II, pages 385-386.
  J. B. ERTEL, a representative citizen and enterprising farmer of Washington township, this county, was born in that township, December 4, 1882, a son of Charles and Rowena (Houston) Ertel, and a grandson of Philip and Mary (Ludy) Ertel, natives of Germany. When they came to the United States they settled in the city of Philadelphia and there the grandfather engaged in the milling business, later coming to Rush county. They had four children : Charles, Philip, Elizabeth and George. Charles Ertel was born in Philadelphia and was an infant when his parents brought him to Rush county. He was reared and attended school in Union township, and assisted his father until twenty-three years old, at which time he married and began farming for himself. He bought eighty acres of land to which his father added eighty acres, and for many years this farm of 160 acres engaged his main attention. He was an honorable, upright man and industrious and practical farmer. To his first marriage to Priscilla David, three children were born, Silas Marion, Mrs. Harvina Cockran and Lewis, who died aged two years. His second marriage was to Rowena Houston, who was born at Lancaster, O., and they had nine children, four sons and five daughters: Leota, John P., Nettie, Charles D., Ida M., George F., Lucy M., Pinnah E. and Joseph Benjamin. Leota married S. L. Newhouse of Rush county; Nettie married Albert McMillan, of Madison county; Ida M. married Curtha Wagner of Rush county; Lucy M. married Walter G. Carson of Rush county; and Pinnah Elizabeth married William M. Sprong of Madison county. Charles D. married Marie Cummins, and lives in Wild county, Colorado. George married Bessie Jane Donovant. They live in Rush county. John P. is a widower who had married two times. Joseph B. Ertel obtained his education in the public schools of Washington township and then assisted his father on the home farm until he was twenty-one years old, at which time in recognition of his help, his father gave him a farm of eighty acres. Mr. Ertel has his land under a fine state of cultivation, does general farming and feeds 100 head of hogs a year, attending carefully to his business and making his undertakings profitable. On October 19, 1902, he married Fannie B. Overhiser, who was born in Fayette county, Indiana, daughter of Willard B. and Elizabeth (Kemmer) Overhiser, and they have two children, Ruby E. and Gertrude R., both of whom are attending school. Mr. and Mrs. Ertel are members of the Plum Creek Christian Church, while the children are members of the Christian church at Raleigh. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity, a member of the Blue lodge at Raleigh, and politically is a Republican.


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