Decatur Daily Democrat
Adams County, Indiana
Tuesday, Jan 16, 1912
(Error in Decatur Obit abstracts)
FUNERAL MONDAY
Mrs. Margaret Jane Bixler Laid to Rest With Appropriate Service
ONCE LIVED HERE
With Her Daughter, Mrs. J. D. Meyers - Well Known Wells County Lady
The J. D. Meyers family, Mr. and Mrs. George Henneford and others, were at Bluffton Monday afternoon, where they attended the funeral of Mrs. Meyers' mother, Mrs. Margaret Jane Bixler, whose death occurred Friday evening at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Fred Groh. For a while Mrs. Bixler made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Meyers, in this city, but went to Bluffton about six years ago to make her home with Mrs. Groh. Mrs. Bixler, who was born in Huntington County, Pa., January 17, 1830, would have reached her eighty-second birthday Wednesday. In early life Mrs. Bixler moved to Ohio and in Wooster, March 12, 1851, was married to Jacob Bixler. They afterwards moved to Bluffton, where he worked at his trade as a rope maker and there their five sons and three daughters were born.
After a prolonged residence there, the family moved to Vera Cruz, where they opened the Bixler hotel, which was one of the earlier institutions of the kind in the county. A short time after he entered business, about forty-four years ago, Mr. Bixler passed away, his wife maintaining the institution until about ten years agao, when she went to make her home with her daughters. The old hotel building was torn down, but Mrs. Bixler retained the ground. Six of her eight children survive. They are Mrs. J. D. Meyers of this city; Scott, of Delphos, formerly of this city; Mrs. Fred Groh, Bluffton; William Bixler, Bloomington, Ill.; Harry Bixler, Huntington, and John Bixler of Bluffton.
Mrs. Bixler became a member of the Christian church January 17, 1850 and since she had been a resident of Bluffton she was a member of the Reformed church.
Family Members
Parents
Sebastian Keely
1802–1877
Catherine Shultz Keely
1806–1883
Spouse
Jacob Bixler
1827–1867 (m. 1851)
Siblings
Sarah Ann Keely Foncannon
1833–1909
Sattia Haines Keely Kline
1836–1921
Lucinda T. Keely Clark
1836–1905
Marie Steele Keely Mosure
1847–1908
Children
Winfield Scott Bixler
1852–1917
William H Bixler
1854–1919
John Albert Bixler
1856–1927
Theresa K Bixler Meyer
1858–1931
Harry W Bixler
1862–1924
Sarah C Bixler Groh
1865–1949