Mary (Rankin) Logan (1799 - 1888)

Born 27 May 1799 in Lexington, KY

Wife of Martin Logan — married 16 Mar 1820 in Lexington,KY

Descendants

Died 18 Mar 1888 at age 88 in Richland IN

Biography

Page 682 Bio of Earnest D Power -Grandson of Martin Logan and Mary "Polly" Rankin Logan Earnest D. Power, farmer and stockman of Fugit Township, Decatur County, IN was born November 1, 1871, in Milroy, Rush County and is the son of George and Lurissa (Crawford) Power, natives of Rush County now (1915) living and retired. The father was the son of the late John Power, native of Kentucky and an early settler in Rush County. Pg 683 George and Lurissa (Crawford) Power had three children, May, who lives at home; Ray C, who is a farmer near Milroy, earnest D., the subject of this sketch. Immediately after finishing his education in the schools of Milroy, In, Mr Power purchased a farm in Rush County, in 1894, consisting of two hundred and five acres, and thirteen years later in October , 1907 removed to Fugit Twp, Decatur Co, purchasing his present farm at that time. He has been living in Decatur Co, therefore, for about 8 years, and has become well known in Fugit township, and in fact throughout all Decatur CO, being related by marriage and otherwise to some of the oldest families in Decatur County. Mr Power was first married, in 1895, to Mary McCracken, the daughter of H.T. McCracken, an ol settler of Fugit township. By this marriage he had one child, Ruth, aged fifteen years, who is a student in the Clarksburg High School. Mrs. Power died in October 1910, and in October 1911, Mr. Power was married again to Lella Logan, daughter of Nathan M and Rebecca (Martin) LOGAN, the former of whom was born September 27, 1987 and the latter of whom was born on December 29, 1860, in Decatur county. Mrs. (Lella LOGAN) Power, who was the oldest child of her parents was born on May 31, 1882 and graduated from Monmouth College in 1908. She has been the mother of one daughter, Carmen Georgia, born on August 13, 1913. Of Mrs. (Lella LOGAN) Power's ancestry it may be said that her father ( Martin LOGAN) who owns a beautiful home of ninety acres of land in Fugit Twp, and one hundred and sixty acres in Jackson Co, Oklahoma, was born in a brick house erected by his father, Joseph A. (Alexander) LOGAN in 1855. Joseph A., who was born January 9, 1821, and who was brought to Indiana, on horseback at the age of six months, by his father and mother, Martin and Mary (Rankin) LOGAN, was married to Mary Jane Straney, a native of Lexington, KY, born on may 12,1824. She dies on May 26, 1888. They (Martin and Mary Jane LOGAN)had eight children, of whom (1915) all are deceased, except Nathan M. LOGAN father of Mrs. Lella LOGAN Power. The deceased children are as follow: Mrs. Nancy M. May, born on March 9, 1844, died in 1909; Mrs Mary A. Cork, October 14,11845, died in 1911; Mrs Margaret F. Manlove, August 13, 1847, died on August 5, 1889; John H. LOGAN, November 8, 1849, is deceased; Leander LOGAN, February 9, 1853, died in 1911; William R. LOGAN , August 20, 1855, died in 1857; Luna A. LOGAN, October 23, 1865, died on January 3, 1891 A hard worker and na industrious citizen, Joseph A LOGAN resided on the farm and in the house he built in 1855, the greater part of his life, the only

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exceptions being short lived residences in Oxford and Rushville(IN). In the latter years of his life he lived whit his childrer. He died in 1913 at the age of 94 years. His father Martin LOGAN, who was born in 1800 and who died on December 18, 1879, and his mother who before her marriage was Mary Rankin, who was born in 1799, and who is now deceased, lived on the farm now included in the limits of Lexington, Kentucky , on the site now occupied by the college .(Presumed to be University of Kentucky) In 1821 Martin LOGAN journeyed to Decatur County, Indiana, and settled on a government tract of one hundred and sixty acres at a time when wolves and panthers were plentiful. This farm ( in 1915) is now occupied by Ezra Kirby. Martin LOGAN was one of the founders of the Richland Untied Presbyterian Church. He had four children, Joseph A, (Alexander)LOGAN; Mrs Jane LOGAN McClurkin, deceased, of Iowa; Carrie LOGAN who married Hugh Logan and who is the mother of Mrs. C.M. Beale, wife of Dr C.M. Beale and John Beale, a graduate of Oxford University and for some time a student of Doctor Johnson of Clarksburg, now residing in Kansas. "I have another source of Logan Robinson Record complied by Leatha Logan of Marion, Indian presented to rev William W. Logan Louisville dated Jan 21, 1935 which states there were * children of Martin and Mary Rankin Logan SEE Below " Martin LOGAN at one time walked from his home in Decatur county to College Corner Ohio in one day. It was an interesting fact that the coming of the Martins, Kincaids and LOGANS to Decatur county was occasioned by the reports given by Uncle Billy Anderson ( of Scott Co. KY) , who returned from the battle of Tippecanoe to his home in Kentucky through Decatur county, and here saw the fine land, and told these Kentucky families about what he saw.

Nathan M. LOGAN's wife to whom he was married on May 24, 1881 and before her marriage was Rebecca Martin, its the daughter of David and Mary (Kincaid) Martin, the former of whom (David Martin) was born in 1833 and who died in 1896 in Decatur Township. Daivid Martin was the son of David Martin, Sr., of Kentucky, who came to Fugit Township in 1821. Mrs Earnest D. Power ( Lella LOGAN) who, as heretofore states, was the oldest child born to Mr and Mrs Nathan M. LOGAN, is one of three children. The others are Luther Martin LOGAN, born in 1887, and who died on January 29, 1902 ( reported by family history in a blizzard) ; the third child Mary (Christine) LOGAN who was born on August 18, 1983, was graduated from Monmouth College in 1915, the same institution as that attended by her sister (Lella LOGAN Power) Note: Mary CHristine Logan was Married to James P Lylte DD in June 1915, died in 1955 of meningitis and laid to rest with him at Springhill Presbyterian Church. Both the Power family and the LOGAN family are mebers of the United Presbyterian Church at Springhill, ( 3954 E County Road 640 N in Greensburg IN)

.....No prettier nor more attractive spot can be found in Decatur County than the Fugit Township farm of Earnest D. Power. Mr. Power is proud of his farm, as he has every right to be, and the people of Fugit township are also proud of it, as they also have the right to be. Not only do thye point wit pride to the beauty of his farm, but the people of this township admire the rugged honesty, well rounded efficiency and genial personality of its owner and one of their foremost citizens.(

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"I have in my possession a hand written bound manuscript " Logan- Robinson Record complied by Leatha Logan of Marion, Indiana presented along with a letter to her cousin to Rev William W. Logan Louisville dated Jan 21, 1935 which states there were * children of Martin and Mary Rankin Logan SEE Below "

Martin Logan B 2-10-1800 KY , d - 1872 ; B(buried ) Richland (IN); M (married) in KY - Mary RANKIN B 5-22-1799 KY d - 3- 1888; B(buried ) - Richland. (IN) CHILDREN: Joseph Alexander, James Harvey, Rhoda, Hetty, Nancy Jane, Samuel Andrew, Rebecca Caroline ,Dr John Pressley

Sources

1. ↑ History of Decatur County, Indiana: Its People, Industries and Institutions Lewis Albert Harding - Decatur County (Ind.) - 1915 - 1216 pages

• History of Decatur County, Indiana: Its People, Industries and Institutions

Lewis Albert Harding - Decatur County (Ind.) - 1915 - 1216 pages

• DAR Record s

1. 663142 Mary Jean Lytle

#663143 Margaret Ann Lytle Watt