Charles Rempis ¹

  General Notes:

Biography of Charles L. Rempis, Jr., pages 775 / 776. History of De Kalb
County, Indiana. Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Charles L. Rempis, Jr., was born in Germany, March 21, 1831, a son of
Charles L. Rempis, who was born in Germany in 1801, and came to America with
his family in 1832 and settled in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and later in
Massillion, Ohio, remaining there till 1853, when he removed to De Kalb
County, and bought 120 acres of land on the southeast quarter of section 22,
Smithfield Township. Forty acres of land were cleared and under cultivation,
and had a log cabin and barn. He went to work to improve his farm, but lived
only six years after coming to the county, dying in December, 1859. His wife
survived him a number of years. They had a family of eight children, six of
whom are living, four in De Kalb County, Charles L. Rempis, Jr., went to
California in 1851, and remained on the Pacific coast three and a half
years. In the fall of 1854 he returned East, and his father having in the
meantime removed to De Kalb County, settled in this county. He was married
to Elizabeth, daughter of William Middleton, who settled in Adams County,
Ind., in 1842, and in 1843 removed to De Kalb County and in 1845 settled
on section 2, Union Township, but sold out in 1864 and moved to Waterloo,
where he died in 1866. His wife died July 19, 1874. They had a family of
four children---Isaac, died in Idaho Territory; Mrs. Rempis; Hester, wife
of Jacob K. Norton, of Eaton County, Mich.; James. The latter born in De
Kalb County. Mrs. Rempis is the only member of the family living in De
Kalb County. Mr. and Mrs. Rempis have three children---William H., Lewis
F. and Theodore. Mr. Rempis has a fine farm on the northeast quarter of
section 32, and is one of the most enterprising and influential farmers of
the township.

Submitted by:
Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
Agoodwin@ctlnet.com


"History of Dekalb County, Indiana, with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of old families" - 1914

As late as October, 1874, a bear was killed in Richland township. The
following account is from the Waterloo Press of October 29, 1874: "On
Sunday last a black bear was seen coming out of the Baughman marshes,
southeast of town. It was fired upon by several parties, but none of them
seem to have injured it. Monday morning early large parties of men, with
dogs and guns, turned out to hunt the game. The animal was followed to the
swamps south of Sedan, where the dogs brought it to bay, and it was shot to
death by Messrs. Charles Rempis, James Booth and others."

Charles married Elizabeth Middleton, daughter of William Middleton and Unknown.