1. Allen County, Indiana,
Birth Index, 1887-1920. (hereafter cited as Allen County, Indiana, Birth
Index). 2. Frederick Peters, 1910
U.S. Census, Population Schedule, Allen County, Indiana, Wayn Township, Fort
Wayne City, Enumeration District 45, Supervisor's District 12, Sheet 19B, Dwelling
No. 299, Family No. 395, National Archives, Washington, DC (hereafter cited
as Frederick Peters, 1910 Census - Allen Co., Indiana); John C. Peters,
1880 U.S. Census, Population Schedule, Allen County, Indiana, Wayne Township,
Enumeration District 117, Supervisor's District 6, Sheet 30, Dwelling No. 241,
Family No. 254, Micropublication T9, roll 264, National Archives, Washington,
DC (hereafter cited as John C. Peters, 1880 Census - Allen Co., Indiana);
and John C. Peters, 1900 U.S. Census, Population Schedule, Allen County, Indiana,
Wayne Township, Wayne City, Enumeration District 34, Supervisor's District 12,
Sheet 10B, Dwelling No.179, Family No. 183, National Archives, Washington, DC
(hereafter cited as John C. Peters, 1900 Census - Allen Co., Indiana).
3. Frederick C. Peters &
Elizabeth J. Knight, Marriage License, 3 April 1902, Volume 25: page 152, County
Courthouse, Fort Wayne, Indiana (hereafter cited as Peters-Knight, Marriage
License). 4. Frederick Peters, 1910
Census - Allen Co., Indiana; and James Chenney, 1900 U.S. Census, Population
Schedule, Allen County, Indiana, Washington Township, Enumeration District 20,
Supervisor's District 71, Sheet 2B, Dwelling No. 40, Family No. 41, National
Archives, Washington, DC (hereafter cited as James Chenney, 1900 Census -
Allen Co., Indiana). 5. Frederick Peters, 1910
Census - Allen Co., Indiana; and Allen County, Indiana, Birth Index.
6. Frederick Peters, 1910
Census - Allen Co., Indiana; and Allen County, Indiana, Birth Index.
7. Frederick Peters, 1910
Census - Allen Co., Indiana; and James Chenney, 1900 Census - Allen Co.,
Indiana. 8. Peters-Knight, Marriage
License. 9. Frederick Peters, 1910
Census - Allen Co., Indiana; John C. Peters, 1880 Census - Allen Co.,
Indiana; and John C. Peters, 1900 Census - Allen Co., Indiana. 10. John C. Peters, 1880
Census - Allen Co., Indiana; John C. Peters, 1900 Census - Allen Co.,
Indiana; and Philip E. Bursley & Flora Wilhelmina Caroline Peters, Marriage
License, 13 November 1910, Volume 34: page 554, County Courthouse, Fort Wayne,
Indiana (hereafter cited as Bursley-Peters, Marriage Record). 11. John C. Peters, 1900
Census - Allen Co., Indiana; and John C. Peters & Mary Meyer, Marriage
Licence, 12 June 1873, Volume 10: page 18, County Courthouse, Fort Wayne, Indiana
(hereafter cited as Peters-Meyers, Marriage Record). 12. John C. Peters, 1880
Census - Allen Co., Indiana; John C. Peters, 1900 Census - Allen Co.,
Indiana; and Bursley-Peters, Marriage Record. 13. John C. Peters, 1880
Census - Allen Co., Indiana; and John C. Peters, 1900 Census - Allen
Co., Indiana. 14. John C. Peters, 1880
Census - Allen Co., Indiana; and John C. Peters, 1900 Census - Allen
Co., Indiana. 15. Allen County, Indiana,
Index to Deaths, 1896-1920. (hereafter cited as Allen County, Death Index).
16. John C. Peters, 1900
Census - Allen Co., Indiana. 17. John C. Peters, 1900
Census - Allen Co., Indiana; and Bursley-Peters, Marriage Record.
18. Bursley-Peters, Marriage
Record. 19. Ibid. 20. John C. Peters, 1900
Census - Allen Co., Indiana. 21. Ibid.; and Neil Aldrich
McKay & Bertha Sophia Caroline Peters, Marriage License, 4 November 1914,
Volume 36: page 331, County Courthouse, Fort Wayne, Indiana (hereafter cited
as McKay-Peters, Marriage Record). 22. McKay-Peters, Marriage
Record. 23. Ibid. 24. John C. Peters, 1900
Census - Allen Co., Indiana; and Arthur E. R. Book & Helen J. Peters,
Marriage License, 8 September 1917, Volume 46: page 34, County Courthouse, Fort
Wayne, Indiana (hereafter cited as Book-Peters, Marriage Record). 25. Book-Peters, Marriage
Record. 26. Ibid. 27. John C. Peters, 1880
Census - Allen Co., Indiana; John C. Peters, 1900 Census - Allen Co.,
Indiana; and Bursley-Peters, Marriage Record. 28. John C. Peters, 1900
Census - Allen Co., Indiana; and Peters-Meyers, Marriage Record.
29. John C. Peters, 1880
Census - Allen Co., Indiana; John C. Peters, 1900 Census - Allen Co.,
Indiana; and Bursley-Peters, Marriage Record. 30. Charles S. Knight,
1880 U.S. Census, Population Schedule, Cass County, Indiana, Logansport, Enumeration
District 29, Supervisor's District 5, Sheet 55, Dwelling No. 540, Family No.
570, Micropublication T9, roll 268, National Archives, Washington, DC (hereafter
cited as Charles S. Knight, 1880 Census - Cass Co., Indiana); James Chenney,
1900 Census - Allen Co., Indiana; Allen Hamilton & Helen Cheney Knight,
Marriage License, 18 October 1910, Volume 33: page 11, County Courthouse, Fort
Wayne, Indiana (hereafter cited as Hamilton-Knight, Marriage Record);
and Cleo Goff Wilkins, Incomplete Mortuary Records of Fort Wayne, Indiana
January, 1874 - August 1938 (Fort Wayne, Indiana: Public Library of Fort
Wayne and Allen County, 1964), page 545 (hereafter cited as Wilkins, Fort
Wayne Mortuary Records). 31. Frederick Evans Hoffman
& Mary Louise Knight, Marriage License, 23 November 1915, Volume 36: page
574, County Courthouse, Fort Wayne, Indiana (hereafter cited as Hoffman-Knight,
Marriage Record); and Wilkins, Fort Wayne Mortuary Records, page
545. 32. James Chenney, 1900
Census - Allen Co., Indiana. 33. Charles S. Knight,
1880 Census - Cass Co., Indiana; James Chenney, 1900 Census - Allen
Co., Indiana; and Hamilton-Knight, Marriage Record. 34. Charles S. Knight,
1880 Census - Cass Co., Indiana; and Wilkins, Fort Wayne Mortuary
Records, page 545. 35. Wilkins, Fort Wayne
Mortuary Records, page 545. 36. Charles S. Knight,
1880 Census - Cass Co., Indiana. 37. Charles S. Knight,
1880 Census - Cass Co., Indiana; James Chenney, 1900 Census - Allen
Co., Indiana; and Hamilton-Knight, Marriage Record. 38. Hamilton-Knight, Marriage
Record. 39. Ibid. 40. James Chenney, 1900
Census - Allen Co., Indiana; and Hoffman-Knight, Marriage Record.
41. Hoffman-Knight, Marriage
Record. 42. Ibid. 43. James Chenney, 1900
Census - Allen Co., Indiana. 44. Charles S. Knight,
1880 Census - Cass Co., Indiana; James Chenney, 1900 Census - Allen
Co., Indiana; and Hamilton-Knight, Marriage Record. 45. James Chenney, 1900
Census - Allen Co., Indiana. 46. Charles S. Knight,
1880 Census - Cass Co., Indiana; James Chenney, 1900 Census - Allen
Co., Indiana; Hamilton-Knight, Marriage Record; and Wilkins, Fort
Wayne Mortuary Records, page 545. 47. Hoffman-Knight, Marriage
Record; and Wilkins, Fort Wayne Mortuary Records, page 545. 48. William Paul &
Caroline Peters, Marriage License, 16 July 1850, Volume 2: page 241, County
Courthouse, Fort Wayne, Indiana (hereafter cited as Paul-Peters, Marriage
Record). 49. Claus Peters &
Caroline Catherine Eberlin, Marriage License, 12 October 1847, Volume 2: page
16, County Courthouse, Fort Wayne, Indiana (hereafter cited as Peters-Eberlin,
Marriage Record). 50. John C. Peters, 1880
Census - Allen Co., Indiana; and William Paul, 1850 U.S. Census, Population
Schedule, Allen County, Indiana, Wayne Township, Sheet 101, Dwelling No. 287,
Family No. 292, Micropublication M432, roll 135, National Archives, Washington,
DC (hereafter cited as William Paul, 1850 Census - Allen Co., Indiana).
51. John C. Peters, 1880
Census - Allen Co., Indiana; and William Paul, 1850 Census - Allen Co.,
Indiana. 52. Peters-Eberlin, Marriage
Record. 53. Paul-Peters, Marriage
Record. 54. Ibid. 55. William Paul, 1850
Census - Allen Co., Indiana. 56. James Chenney, 1900
Census - Allen Co., Indiana; Wilkins, Fort Wayne Mortuary Records, page
160; and Charles Henry Pope, The Cheney Genealogy (Boston, Massachusetts:
Charles Henry Pope, 1897), page 501 (hereafter cited as Pope, Cheney Genealogy).
57. Wilkins, Fort Wayne
Mortuary Records, page 160. 58. Cleo Goff Wilkens,
Obituary Records as Found in Fort Wayne, Indiana Newspapers, 1841-1900
(n.p., 1962), page 70 (hereafter cited as Wilkens, Fort Wayne Obituaries).
59. James Cheney, 1850
U.S. Census, Population Schedule, Defiane County, Ohio Richland Township, Sheet
26, Dwelling No. 349, Family No. 349, Micropublication M432, roll 674, National
Archives, Washington, DC (hereafter cited as James Cheney, 1850 Census -
Defiance Co., Ohio); Wilkens, Fort Wayne Obituaries, page 70; and
Wilkins, Fort Wayne Mortuary Records, page 160. 60. Wilkens, Fort Wayne
Obituaries, page 70. 61. James Cheney, 1850
Census - Defiance Co., Ohio. 62. Ibid. 63. James Cheney, 1850
Census - Defiance Co., Ohio; Wilkens, Fort Wayne Obituaries, page 70;
and Wilkins, Fort Wayne Mortuary Records, page 160. 64. Wilkens, Fort Wayne
Obituaries, page 70. 65. Ibid., page 70. 66. James Chenney, 1900
Census - Allen Co., Indiana; Wilkins, Fort Wayne Mortuary Records,
page 160; and Pope, Cheney Genealogy, page 501. 67. Wilkins, Fort Wayne
Mortuary Records, page 160. 68. Pope, Cheney Genealogy,
page 418. 69. Ibid., page 418. 70. Ibid., page 419. 71. Ibid., page 419. 72. Indiana Historical
Society Pioneer Committee, Cass County, Indiana Cemetery Records, 10
volumes (Logansport, Indiana: L'Anguille Valley Memorial Association), Volume
6, Number 2, page 173 (hereafter cited as IHSPC, Cass Co. Cemeteries).
73. Pope, Cheney Genealogy,
page 419. 74. Ibid., page 501. 75. Ibid., page 501. 76. Ibid., page 501. 77. Ibid., page 419. 78. Ibid., page 419. 79. Ibid., page 419. 80. IHSPC, Cass Co.
Cemeteries, Volume 6, Number 2, page 173. 81. Pope, Cheney Genealogy,
page 418. 82. Ibid., page 418. 83. Ibid., page 318. 84. Ibid., page 338. 85. Ibid., page 282. 86. Ibid., page 418. 87. Ibid., page 418. 88. Ibid., page 338. 89. Ibid., page 318. 90. Ibid., page 282. 91. Ibid., page 284. 92. Ibid., page 282. 93. Ibid., page 284. 94. Ibid., page 284. 95. Ibid., page 339. 96. Ibid., page 339. 97. Ibid., page 284. 98. Ibid., page 284. 99. Ibid., page 284. 100. Ibid., page 284.
101. Ibid., page 340.
102. Ibid., page 340.
103. Ibid., page 340.
104. Ibid., page 340.
105. Ibid., page 282.
106. Ibid., page 282.
107. Ibid., page 284.
108. Ibid., page 252.
109. Ibid., page 253.
110. Ibid., page 253.
111. Ibid., page 253.
112. Ibid., page 253.
113. Ibid., page 253.
114. Ibid., page 284.
115. Ibid., page 284.
116. Ibid., page 254.
117. Ibid., page 254.
118. Ibid., page 284.
119. Ibid., page 284.
120. Ibid., page 285.
121. Ibid., page 285.
122. Ibid., page 285.
123. Ibid., page 286.
124. Ibid., page 253.
125. Ibid., page 253.
126. Ibid., page 253.
127. Ibid., page 252.
128. Ibid., page 230.
129. Ibid., page 232.
130. Ibid., page 230.
131. Ibid., page 252.
132. Ibid., page 252.
133. Ibid., page 252.
134. Ibid., page 252.
135. Ibid., page 232.
136. Ibid., page 252.
137. Ibid., page 233.
138. Ibid., page 233.
139. Ibid., page 230.
140. Ibid., page 230.
141. Ibid., page 232.
142. Ibid., page 217.
143. Ibid., page 220.
144. Ibid., page 217.
145. Ibid., page 217.
146. Ibid., page 220.
147. Ibid., page 229.
148. Ibid., page 230.
149. Ibid., page 229.
150. Ibid., page 229.
151. Ibid., page 220.
152. Ibid., page 220.
153. Ibid., page 220.
154. Ibid., page 221.
155. Ibid., page 221.
156. Ibid., page 221.
157. Ibid., page 221.
158. Ibid., page 2334.
159. Ibid., page 233.
160. Ibid., page 233.
161. Ibid., page 233.
162. Ibid., page 233.
163. Ibid., page 221.
164. Ibid., page 221.
165. Ibid., page 217.
166. Ibid., page 220.
167. Ibid., page 217.
168. Ibid., page 217.
169. Ibid., page 220.
170. Ibid., page 220.
171. Ibid., page 208.
172. Ibid., page 208.
173. Ibid., page 209.
174. Ibid., page 210.
175. Ibid., page 209.
176. Ibid., page 210.
177. Ibid., page 211.
178. Ibid., page 210.
179. Ibid., page 208.
180. Ibid., page 208.
181. Ibid., page 209.
182. Ibid., page 209.
183. Ibid., page 209.
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