Selected Families and Individuals


Thomas BUNKER [Parents] was born 26 Mar 1792 in New Garden, Guilford NC. He married Rebecca SWAIN on 8 Mar 1827 in Wayne, Indiana.

Rebecca SWAIN married Thomas BUNKER on 8 Mar 1827 in Wayne, Indiana.

They had the following children:

  M i Francis Swain BUNKER was born 22 Dec 1838 and died 13 May 1887.

Daniel R. REGESTER was born 6 Dec 1815 in Columbiana, Ohio. He died 30 Dec 1875 in Jay County, In and was buried in Westgroce Cemetary, Jay County. Daniel married Elizabeth SIMPSON on 1 Jan 1853 in Jay County, In.

Other marriages:
WALTON, Elvira

Daniel R. Regester6 (Robert5, Abigail, Mary, Sarah, George), b.Columbiana
Co., O., 12, 6, 1815; d. Jay Co., Ind., 12,30, 1874; buried West Grove Cem.; m. Jay
Co., 1, 1, 1853, Eliza Sumption, b. about1835; d. Jay Co. (4, 23)?, 1868; buried
West Grove Cem.; dau. of John Sumption andSusan Lewis, of Jay Co. Second m.,
1, 15, 1870, to Elvira McCoy, b. Wayne Co.,Ind., 6, 18, 1840, widow of Sylvester
McCoy and dau. of Abraham Walton and MaryAllison. He removed about 1840 from
Ohio and settled in Jackson Twp., Jay Co.,Ind. While not a member of the Society of
Friends he conformed to their discipline;was interested in education; an
abolitionist and a Republican. Issue:

Elizabeth SIMPSON married Daniel R. REGESTER on 1 Jan 1853 in Jay County, In.


Wilbur REGESTER [Parents] was born 23 Feb 1873 in Jay County, In. He died 1954. Wilbur married Lillian Emily SHIRK on 12 Sep 1891 in Jay County, In.

Lillian Emily SHIRK [Parents] was born 19 Jun 1876 in Jay County, In. She married Wilbur REGESTER on 12 Sep 1891 in Jay County, In.

They had the following children:

  M i Thuston Avon REGESTER was born 19 Nov 1892 in Jay County, In. He died 1892.
  F ii Mary Alletia REGESTER was born 12 Feb 1894 in Jay County, In. She died 4 Oct 1894 in Jay County, In.
  M iii Jesse Leola REGESTER was born 21 May 1895 in Jay County, In.

Levi JOHNSON [Parents] was born 28 Feb 1818 in North Carolina. He died 17 Feb 1900 in Jay County, In. Levi married Harriet RIGBY on 11 Apr 1845 in Jay County, In.

Other marriages:
WALTON, Elvira

Harriet RIGBY [Parents] was born 1827 in Columbiana County, Ohio. She married Levi JOHNSON on 11 Apr 1845 in Jay County, In.

They had the following children:

  F i Pluma JOHNSON died Nov 1926.
  F ii Jane S JOHNSON.
  F iii Elvira JOHNSON was born about 1847.

Jesse JOHNSON married Frances SWALLOW.

Frances SWALLOW married Jesse JOHNSON.

They had the following children:

  M i Levi JOHNSON was born 28 Feb 1818 and died 17 Feb 1900.

Dilwin P. SMITH was born 14 Feb 1840 in Columbiana County, Ohio. He married Sarah E DUGDALE about 8 Dec 1861 in Jay Indiana.

SMITH, Dillwyn P.

Posted by Eloine Chesnut on Tue, 16 Feb 1999

Surname: BROWN, BUTTON, CRAMPTON, DUGDALE, ENGLE, HILLIS, HUNT, LEWIS, MENDENHALL, MONTGOMERY, SLAY, SMITH

Dillwyn P. SMITH, one of Jay county's sturdy octogenarian farmers and landowners, now living practically retired at his pleasant farm home on rural mail route No. 4 out of Bryant, section 16 of Penn township, was born in that township and has lived there all his life. Mr. SMITH was born on February 14, 1840, and is a son of Edmund and Eliza ( BUTTON ) SMITH, the latter of whom was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, from which county so many of the early settlers of Penn township came. Edmund SMITH was born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania. His father died when he was a child and the family later became residents of Columbiana county, Ohio, where he grew to manhood and was married. He grew up as a carpenter and cabinet maker and was married in Columbiana county, not long afterward (in 1838) coming over into Indiana with a one-horse wagon and settling in Penn township, this county, where he had leased a quarter of a section of land for a period of five years and proceeded to clear fifteen acres, dig a well and put up a cabin and barn. for the rental of the place for five years. In the early '40s he bought the "eighty" on which his son Dillwyn is now living in section 14 and established his home there, erecting in 1850 the house which still is used as a residence on the place. Edmund SMITH was a skilled carpenter and cabinet maker and the shop which he set up on his place was largely patronized by his pioneer neighbors, much of the furniture used in the neighborhood being made by him, as well as the coffins of that time and place, and as the log houses came to be replaced by frame houses his services were much in demand as a builder. The price of coffins in those days ranged from $5 for the coffin of a grown person to $1.25 for that of a child, this price including conveyance to the cemetery in a farm wagon in the case of an adult or on horse back in the case of a child. Edmund SMITH later added an adjoining tract of ten acres to his place and thus was the owner of ninety acres, on which he was living at the time of his death in 1853, he then being but thirty-eight years of age. His widow survived until February 27, 1891. They had eight children, Maria, Maurice, Dillwyn, Charles E., Joseph D., Mary Johanna, Caroline arid Edmund, Jr., of whom but three are now living, the subject of this sketch and his brothers, Charles E. SMITH, of West Branch, Iowa, and Joseph D. SMITH, of Twin Falls, Idaho. Dillwyn P. SMITH was reared on the home place in Penn township and was educated in the West Grove school and in the Paxson school, completing his public schooling when twenty years of age. He was but thirteen years of age when his father died and his youth was given up to the development of the home farm, which he bought after his marriage and established his home there, having thus been proprietor of this place since 1862. Of late years Mr. SMITH has been living retired from the active labors of the farm, the management of which is in the hands of his son, Louis A. SMITH, further mention of whom is made elsewhere. Mr. SMITH for many years has been an ardent Prohibitionist and for more than fifty years has been a member of the United. Brethren church. It was on December 8, 1861, that Dillwyn P. SMITH was united in marriage to Sarah DUGDALE, a daughter of William and Anna ( HILLIS ) DUGDALE, and to this union were born five children, Eva, Mary Eliza, Charles W., Louis A. and Anna L., all of whom are living. The mother of these children died on September 20, 1904. Eva SMITH married Sylvester HUNT, who died leaving four children, Emily A., Mabel, Leslie D. and Harland. Emily A. HUNT married Henry M. GRAVES and has six children, Edward, Paul, Justine, Ralph, Wilbur and Lois GRAVES. Leslie D. HUNT married Gladys CRAMPTON and has two children, Donald F. and Minnie Evelyn. Mrs. Eva SMITH HUNT married (secondly) William D. SLAY. Mary Eliza SMITH married P. MONTGOMERY and has two children, Ada and Mark MONTGOMERY. Charles W. SMITH married Carrie LEWIS and has one child, Helen Dean. Louis A. SMITH, as is set out elsewhere, married Harriet MENDENHALL and has four children, Vera, who married Harvey ENGLE and has one child, Robert Louis ENGLE, Elva (deceased), Dwight and Lloyd. Anna L. SMITH married Forest A. BROWN, who died leaving one child, a daughter, Mildred BROWN.
BROWN, BUTTON, CRAMPTON, DUGDALE, ENGLE, HILLIS , HUNT, LEWIS, MENDENHALL, MONTGOMERY, SLAY, SMITH

IA, West Branch
ID, Twin Falls
IN, Jay Co.
OH, Columbiana Co.
PA, Beaver

SOURCE: Milton T. Jay, M.D., History of Jay County Indiana, Historical Publishing Co., Indpls. 1922, Vol. II, pp.317-318. Transcribed by Eloine Chesnut.

Sarah E DUGDALE [Parents] was born about 1841. She married Dilwin P. SMITH about 8 Dec 1861 in Jay Indiana.


Charles ROBINS married Martha J. DUGDALE about 3 Jan 1869 in Jay County, In.

Martha J. DUGDALE [Parents] was born about 1847. She married Charles ROBINS about 3 Jan 1869 in Jay County, In.


Henry BELL was born about 1680 in New Jersey. He married ELIZABETH about 1700 in New Jersey.

ELIZABETH was born about 1680 in New Jersey. She married Henry BELL about 1700 in New Jersey.

They had the following children:

  F i Elizabeth BELL was born 1704.

Jacob PAXSON [Parents] was born 13 Oct 1737 in Kins Hall, Somerset, NJ.. He died 7 Feb 1777 in Hunterdon, NJ. Jacob married Mary WEBSTER.

Mary WEBSTER was born about 1745 in New Jersey. She died after 1779 in Bucks County, PA. Mary married Jacob PAXSON.


Mary J. IREY was born 18 Mar 1841 in Jay, Indiana.

She had the following children:

  M i Mahlon PAXSON was born 11 Nov 1842 in Penn, Jay, Indiana/Jay Co., IN. He died 15 Feb 1920 in Penn, Jay, Indiana/Jay Co., IN and was buried in Pennville, Jay IN.
  F ii Martha Jane PAXSON was born 20 Jul 1844 in Jay County, In. She died 9 Dec 1930.
  M iii Phillip A. PAXSON was born 4 Nov 1846.
  M iv Ely B. Bertie PAXSON was born 24 Oct 1848 in Jay County, In.
  M v David PAXSON was born 11 Jun 1853 in Jay County, In.
  M vi William Alpheaus PAXSON was born 22 Mar 1855 in Jay County, In.

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