Person:Caleb Shimer (1)

Caleb D. Shimer is 91 years old and lives in ?tsville, Ind. He was born May 21, 1823.
William R. Shimer was born Dec. 8, 1825, making him 88 years old. His home is in Irvington.
Isaac H. of Decatur, IN, was born Feb. 20, 1829, and is 87 years old.
Corydon R. Shimer, who also lives in Irvington, is a mere youth of 76 years, having been born
May 2, 1838.

E.H. Shimer, the father of the "Shimer Boys," came to Indiana from Zanesville, O. He was born Dec. 6, 1798, and died July 29, 1887. He came to Irvington in November, 1829 and bought 240 acres of land just south of the present site of Irvington. This land has been owned by members of the family ever since. In 1852, W.R. Shimer bought 106 acres just west of his father's property, in Center Township, and has lived on this farm ever since. C.R. Shimer, the youngest of the four brothers, was born on his father's farm, and has lived on it all his life.

... The eldest of these children, Caleb D., is seventy years of age, and resides in Hancock
County, Ind. He has been three times married,
first to Mrs. Margaret Mitchell by whom he had one child,
- Catherine M., who died in 1871, aged twenty-three years.
His second wife was Miss Susan Birdwhistle, by whom he had two children,
- Anna and William. The former died at the age of two years, and the latter is married.
Caleb's third wife was Miss Ellen Bingham, who bore him four children,
- Martha A., married Amie Geroude, and has two children, Donald and Eva;
- Emma, married Mr. Campbell;
- James C., married and has two children, Robert and Grace; and
- Katie, has been twice married, first, to Mr. Walter Tate, by whom she had one child Walter,
and the second time to Hulbert McNeily, by whom she has two children, Temple and Lizzie.
Emma, James C. and Katie reside in Topeka, Kan. ...