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6 7 1st 1971 1972
7 8 2nd 1972 1973 dayton street
8 9 3rd 1973 1974 crawford
9 10 4th 1974 1975 holly ridge virgina st 10cc shark
10 11 5th 1975 1976 holly ridge virgina st what a night
11 12 6th 1976 1977 holly ridge - holly hills
12 13 7th 1977 1978 west
13 14 8th 1978 1979 west
14 15 9th 1979 1980 cherry creek
15 16 10th 1980 1981 cherry creek
16 17 11th 1981 1982 cherry creek
17 18 12th 1982 1983 cherry creek

Notes

Note H73 Index

William and Susie were divorced in La Crosse about 1925.
William returned to the New Albany area and remarried.
Susie and the children remained in La Crosse. Susie never
remarried.

Supposedly, One of Susie's step-sisters was the oldest
woman to ever be convicted in Indiana for killing her
husband. In fact, she killed two of them. It must have
been one of David Mosier's daughters.

Notes

Note H74 Index

Ferdinand and Anna lived near Bradford in Morgan Township,
Harrison County, Indiana until their deaths.

Notes

Note H2 Index

She died at the age of 50 in an auto accident on a family
outing, her son Thomas fell asleep while driving.

Rose's twin brother Nicholas died at birth.

Rose's mother died when she was two years old. She
was sent to live with the family of John and Rose
(Hermans) Jacobs. Rose Jacobs was Adelia (Hermans)
Nooyen?s sister.

Notes

Note H3 Index

Ferdinand Ott emigrated to the United States in
1854 or 1855; the name of the ship and port of entry
have not been established. He became a citizen in 1870.

Notes

Note H4 Index

The earliest recorded information regarding the
OTT surname was in the 1300's in Zurich,
Switzerland. There were several variations
of the name, including OTH, OTHE, OTTE,
OTTO, UTT, and UTZ. By the 1700's this
name had become quite common in the area
that would eventually become Germany, and
Ott's could also be found in France, England,
Netherlands, and the Scandinavian countries
as well as in Russia and other parts of eastern
Europe. Many Ott's had already emigrated to the
United States and were active in the establishment
of our country. Our story begins in the
Grand Duchy of Baden, in extreme southwest
Germany, in the very early 1800's.
Research is continuing to extend this line to earlier years

Cornelius and Maria lived in Baden, which
eventually became a part of the present Germany.

Notes

Note H75 Index

The Roths emigrated in 1854 aboard the Ship
Manchester from Havre France to New Orleans,
settling near Lanesville in Harrison County,
Indiana. After John's death in the early 1860's
Eva married Francis Bollinger.

After extensive reasearh it was determined that there is no John or Johann Roth (or Rode, or anything like it) buried in Harrison Co. I (Jack Ott) have established that John died in the first half of the 1860's, so it could be that he died in the civil war in some other state.

Notes

Note H76 Index

About a year after Susie was born,
Christina's mother Elizabeth talked her into
divorcing William and returning with the four children
to her home. With some neighbors' help, Christina was
eventually rescued from her mother's clutches and married
a widower by the name of David Mosier, whom my
Susie learned to call "Daddy". But this same David Mosier,
according to the 1850 census (30 years earlier), was a
married man in his late twenties with a family when Christina
was still a small girl about 8 or 9 years old. The Mosiers were
neighbors of the Summers in 1850. Sometime after David died
in the early 1900's, Christina went to help Susie raise her
family in LaCrosse. Christina is described as the role
model for "Granny Clampett" of the Beverly Hillbillies.
She is buried with Susie and two daughters who died
at birth in La Crosse.

William Hopper seemingly disappears from all records
after his divorce from Christina (Summers) Hopper in 1880.
Family records indicate that there was one contact with
him in 1898, Christina received a letter from him inquiring
about her general well being. It was from "Newtrenton" in
Franklin Co., IN. The letter included a reference to a woman
nicknamed "Bertie" who apparently was a church organist.
There was no further contact, but apparently he lived until
after 1920.

This picture is from William's second marriage to Mary ??,
taken about 1898. In the picture are William and Mary; the two
small kids are twins Noah and Nellie Hopper, born in 1895; the
middle boy is Claude Hopper (1892); and the tall girl is Alberta,
Mary's daughter from her first marriage. This information is
from the 1900 census, which shows Mary as a widow.
Apparently William died soon after the picture was taken.
William may have known that he was dying and wrote to Grandma
Susie in an effort to patch things up with her. He had not seen
nor contacted her since about 1881, when she was just two years
old. He probably included the picture with the letter.

It is rumored that either Alberta or Nellie (in the picture above)
was the woman who later murdered two husbands and became
the first woman in Indiana to receive the death penalty.