Other Family Information

Religion

There isn’t a lot to know about our ancestor’s religion, but we know a little:

There were no Catholics in the family.

There was at least one Quaker family who settled near Richmond, Indiana.

Two men were described by at least some accounts as ministers: Daniel Hudson and Issac Fallis.


Occupations

Of course, almost everybody prior to 1900 was a farmer. One of the most significant changes in the family was the participation in the industrial revolution by working at Delco-Remy and Hill-Standard  in what are called “the skilled trades”.

There were no doctors (not counting chiropractic as practiced in the mid 1900’s).
There were no lawyers.
The two ministers were actually farmers. The ministry was very part-time.

But we had a few men who were not farmers in the 1800’s:

One ran a tannery.
One was a photographer just after the civil war.

And we get several occupations in the 1900’s other than farming and mechanical skilled trades.

We had no high school graduates until the middle 1900’s and no college graduates until the baby boomer generation.