Family:Otis Hertsel and Missouri Taylor (1)

Parents: Jesse Hertsel and Mary Triplett Otis Samuel Hertsel b. 5 May 1846 Union Township, Whitley County, Indiana d. 1 Feb 1927 Whitley County, IN.

Parents: George Taylor and Mary Terrell Missouri Taylor b. 3 Nov 1851 Columbus, Ohio (according to the 1920 census) d. 26 Jan 1921 8:30 A.M. at home in Union Twp., Whitley County, Ind. Buried at South Park Cem

m. 16 Jan 1868

Married to Otis S Hertsel for 53 years.

Otis and Missouri were both young when they married in 1968. Otis was age 22 and Missouri was only 17.

Their first child was born in April of 1869. Missouri had a child almost every 2 or three years with her last child born when she was 46 years old.

4 Generations. Back: Otis S Hertsel, Ruth Hertsell, William Mannen. Front: Esther Mannen, Helen Hertsell and Missouri Hertsel.

Grave of Otis and Missouri at South Park Cemetery, Whitley County, IN

Missouri, William and Esther Mannen and Helen Hertsel around 1916

Missouri Hertsel around 1916