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- Allen Noggle was the right age to serve in the Civil War, but evidently he did not. He does not appear on the lists prepared by the Ohio adjutant general, nor is he listed in the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System database, and he didn't live long enough to answer the service-related question on the 1910 census. There is something else curious about Allen. He went from being a reasonably prosperous farmer with $4,000 in real estate in 1870 to being a butcher in 1880 and then a day laborer in 1900. His brother William had a similar career path, but his pecuniary situation may be explained by his disabilities after the war and his having to provide for seven children. Allen seems not to have those excuses, although he did die of consumption. Further confusion comes because his death certificate, four years after the 1900 census, says he is a merchant. Perhaps the mix-up occurred because Allen and Celia's daughter Mable's family was living with them and son-in-law Alvin Miller was a market salesman.
There is the additional conundrum of why Allen's father made a point of stating in his will that when his wife died all the property both real and personal was to be divided among his children or their heirs "excepting Cecilia Noggle - to her I bequeath $2." Based on Celia's age in 1870, she was only 17 when she and Allen were married, but surely the disinheritance was based on something other than her youth. All the more reason for a thorough examination of the records in the Darke County courthouse, library, and historical society.
After Allen's death Celia lived as a boarder with in her widowed daughter Mable's hotel in Bradford, Miami County, Ohio. Bradford straddles the Miami and Darke county line about 20 miles from Allen and Celia's last known residence in New Madison. Facts in the census imply that Mable owned the hotel: she is listed as an employer with a partner Mae Hapner. Mae's husband is listed as "husband to partner." Yet, Mable's house is a rental. Mable and Celia are listed as the mothers of two children, two living. Celia had three children; did she forget about John who had died nearly 40 years before? And Mable had two girls in 1900, Corrine who was 10 and Gannell G., 4. Now she has a girl Grace, 14 and boy Donald, 2. With several contradictions the possibility of enumerator errors must be considered, but there are too many curiosities to ignore.
Celia's death date is currently unknown. She was not found on the 1920 Ancestry.com Census Index in either Miami or Darke counties. Add the records in nearby Miami County to the accumulating list of research objectives for an onsite visit to Darke County. The cemetery transcriptions done by Short and Bowers did not include any tombstone listings for Allen or Celia. There is one for their son John in the First Universalist Church Cemetery, but his death was in 1871, soon after his Grandfather John Noggle was buried there. By the time Allen died, another cemetery may be the one the family used more frequently. Records in the county may reveal their resting places.
Kay Germaine Ingalls research
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1839 - 1904 (65 years)
