"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP AND MARTINSVILLE, MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
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A. R. VANSICKEL was born at Martinsville, this county, February 27, 1842,
and is one of the eight children of Jacob and Mahala (Salmon) Vansickel,
natives of Sussex County, N.J. Jacob Vansickel was born in 1814, his wife
in 1812, and in 1838 they moved to Henry County, Ind., and thence to Morgan
County, where Mr. Vansickel died in 1860, and Mrs. Vansickel twelve years
later, Their family was Mercy A., Mary E., Sarah S., John D., Andrew R.,
Alonzo, George W. and Susan R. Our subject, August, 1861, enlisted in
company G, Twenty-Seventh Indiana Volunteers,and served until September,
1864, with much experience in many severe battles. After his discharge and
return to this county, he married, November 24, 1864, Mary L, daughter of
Henry and Phebe Miller, and a native of New Jersey, born February 20, 1840,
which union was favored with six children--Otis H. (deceased), Sarah E.,
William F., Maggie A., Joseph A. and Mary E. Mr. Vansickel is a member of
the Masonic order, of the G. A. R., and of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
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