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• Name: Simon J PEABODY
• Sex: M
• Birth: 29 Sep 1851 in Noble Co, Indiana ^b
• Death: 1 May 1932 in Datona, Florida ^d
• Burial: Greenhill Cemetery, Columbia City, Indiana ^u


Parents:

• Father:
  
• John Lozier PEABODY Birth: 28 Jan 1812 in Pompton Plains, New Jersey Death: 13 Sep 1865 in Arcola, Indiana
Mother:

• Hannah AYERS Birth: 25 Dec 1818 in Pompton Plains, New Jersey Death: 18 Nov 1910 in Columbia City, Indiana

Family:
Marriage:

• Hannah S SWIFT on 22 May 1875 at Arcola, Indiana .^m1
  
• Hannah S SWIFT Birth: Marion, Massachusetts Death: 21 Mar 1879 in Taylor, Indiana

Children:

1. Lena Genevieve PEABODY Birth: 8 Apr 1876 Death: 20 Feb 1879

Marriage:

• Mary E TOBEY on 9 Oct 1882 .^m2
  
• Mary E TOBEY Birth: LaGrange Co, Indiana Death: 5 Apr 1911

Bibliography

Sources for birth and parent Information

date:

[Ref: Bill DuBois 4/29/2002, PeabodySH PEABODY p275],

place:

[Ref: PeabodySH PEABODY p416],

parents:

[Ref: Bill DuBois 4/29/2002, PeabodySH PEABODY p275]

Sources for death Information

date:

[Ref: Bill DuBois 4/29/2002],

place:

[Ref: Bill DuBois 4/29/2002]

Sources for burial Information

place:

[Ref: Bill DuBois 4/29/2002]

Sources with Information about marriage to Hannah S SWIFT

date:

[Ref: Bill DuBois 4/29/2002, PeabodySH PEABODY p416],

place:

[Ref: PeabodySH PEABODY p416],

child:

[Ref: Bill DuBois 4/29/2002, PeabodySH PEABODY p416]

Sources with Information about marriage to Mary E TOBEY

date:

[Ref: Bill DuBois 4/29/2002, PeabodySH PEABODY p416]

Research Notes:
lumberlan in Whitley and Wabash counties, Indiana [Ref: Bill DuBois 4/29/2002]

1868: purchased a "sawing outfit" from Pennsylvania Railroad, for $150, and used it to open a shingle sawing mill at Arcola [Ref: Bill DuBois 4/29/2002]

1871: opened a sawmill on Wabash Railroad line near Columbia City [Ref: Bill DuBois 4/29/2002]

owned sawmills at Akron, Albion, Roann, Inwood, Taylor's Station, Chili, Columbia City, Lafontaine, Liberty Mills, Denver, Rochester, Wabash, Pierceton, and Bourbon, IN [Ref: Bill DuBois 4/29/2002]

became exceptionally wealthy; maintained a winter home on "Millionaire's Row" in Datona, FL [Ref: Bill DuBois 4/29/2002]

endowed the Peabody Memorial Library, Columbia City, IN [Ref: Bill DuBois 4/29/2002]



Pedigree of Simon J PEABODY
                                                                /-----John PAYBODY
                                                       /-----Francis PAYBODY
                                                      |         \-----Isabell (PAYBODY)
                                              /-----William PAYBODY
                                             |         \-----Lydia (PAYBODY)
                                     /-----Richard PEABODY
                                    |        |         /-----Thomas HALE
                                    |         \-----Hannah HALE
                                    |                  \-----Mary HUCHINSON
                            /-----Asa PEABODY
                           |        |         /-----Richard KIMBALL
                           |         \-----Ruth KIMBALL
                           |                 |         /-----John SPOFFORD
                           |                  \-----Sarah SPOFFORD
                           |                           \-----Elizabeth SCOTT
                   /-----John Tyng PEABODY
                  |        |         /-----Nathaniel PRENTICE
                  |         \-----Mary PRENTICE
          /-----Asa PEABODY
         |         \-----Elizabeth STRANGE
 /-----John Lozier PEABODY
|         \-----Mary Van NESS
Simon J PEABODY
|         /-----Enos AYERS
 \-----Hannah AYERS
         |         /-----Garret DeBOW
          \-----Jane DeBOW
                   \-----Hannah Van NESS



Descendants of Simon J PEABODY