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- Findagrave.com:
findagrave.com/memorial/12353343/peter-gotshall
Source:
History of Logansport and Cass County by Rev. Thomas Dean Arthington. 1987:
Peter Gotshall died November 1857 in Noble Township. He was born in Pennsylvania. He was a farmer and was assessed at $2000 on 30 August 1850. On 13 August 1875, his estate was assessed at $5,305.
Biographical and Genealogical History of Cass, Miami and Tipton Counties, Indiana. Lewis Publishing Co., 1898
“Peter Gotshall was born in Pennsylvania, and in 1837, with a large company of emigrants seeking homes in the then far west, with twenty-eight teams altogether, came by way of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and Richmond, Indiana, with the intention of settling in Illinois. On the way, however, he stopped in Indiana for a short time, where he rented a piece of land, and changed his intention to go to Illinois, and located at a point eight miles south of Terre Haute, Indiana, whence, in 1845, he came to Cass County, settling in Noble township on a tract of land which he had purchased during the autumn of the preceding year. Here he built a log house and in true pioneer style began to develop a farm and fit out a comfortable home; and here he spent the remainder of his days, as a farmer, and died in 1857, at the age of fifty-seven years. His wife, whose name before marriage was Ann Woodling, survived him until she had reached the age of seventy-nine years.
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