Ancestors of

Rachel Johnson
(1823-1906)

Warren Kelley Shoemaker
(1842-1917)

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Spouses/Children:
1. Lydia Margaret Heckathorn
2. Jane Higgins Pence

Warren Kelley Shoemaker

Born: Dec 1842, Milton, Mahoning, Ohio
Marriage (1): Lydia Margaret Heckathorn on 2 Apr 1868 in Wells Co., IN
Marriage (2): Jane Higgins Pence on 19 Apr 1888 in Wells Co., IN
Died: 18 Mar 1917, Veterans Home, Marion, Grant, Indiana, USA at age 74
Buried: Marion National Cemetery, Marion, Indiana

General Notes:

Enlisted in Company E, Indiana 153rd Infantry Regiment on 06 Feb 1865. Promoted to Full Corporal March 1, 1865. Mustered out on 04 Sep 1865 at Louisville, KY.

The 1866 Tax assesment list has him as a stallion keeper in Harrison.

Both 1900 and 1910 censuses has Warren with second wife Jane in Wells Co. Indiana. In 1910 they had been married 22 years.

Records have him "buried" both at the Marion National Cemetery in Marion, Indiana, and at the Fairview Cemetery next to both wives in Fairview Cemetery in Bluffton.

Warren married Lydia Margaret Heckathorn, daughter of George Washington Heckathorn and Mary Ann Weist, on 2 Apr 1868 in Wells Co., IN. (Lydia Margaret Heckathorn was born on 12 Feb 1845 in Ohio, died on 24 Jul 1885 in Harrison, Wells, Indiana, USA and was buried in Fairview Cemetery, Bluffton, Wells, IN.)

Warren next married Jane Higgins Pence, daughter of James Harvey Higgins and Lydia Malory Chalfant, on 19 Apr 1888 in Wells Co., IN. (Jane Higgins Pence was born in 1859 in Indiana, USA, died on 14 Mar 1943 in Harrison, Wells, Indiana, USA and was buried in Fairview Cemetery, Bluffton, Wells, IN.)