Footnotes


1. "Osborne Origins", http://www.osborne-origins.org/.
2. "White Pigeon Cemetery Records".
3. Ancestry.com, "1860 United States Federal Census", [images online].
4. Ancestry.com, "1820 United States Federal Census", [images online].
5. "Terry VanderPloeg <jtvploeg@chartermi.net>", 3518 Croyden, Kalamazoo MI 49006.
6. Ancestry.com, "1900 United States Federal Census", [images online].
7. Ancestry.com, "1850 United States Federal Census", [images online].
8. Liahona Research, "Indiana Marriages to 1850", Ancestry.com.
9. "Ancestral File".
10. Ancestry.com, "1880 United States Federal Census", [images online].
11. Ancestry.com, "1870 United States Federal Census", [images online].
12. Ancestry.com, "1930 United States Federal Census", [images online].
13. "Tombstone".
14. "Death Certificate".
15. "Ottawa Co. Marriage Records".
16. David Thaler
17. Carolyn K. Thaler
18. "Obituary, Chesterton Tribune".
19. "Eight Square cemetery records, Pine Twp., Porter Co., Indiana".
20. Jo Anne Mackby (jamackby@qx.net), "Private communication".
21. "Porter Co. Indiana Marriages".
22. "Jan Meyers <jmmeyers@netnitco.net>".
23. "St. Joseph Co. MI marriage records".
24. "David City Cemetery records".
25. "Birth Certificate".
26. "Marriage Certificate".
27. Ancestry.com, "1910 United States Federal Census", [images online].
28. Ancestry.com, "1920 United States Federal Census", [images online].
29. Ancestry.com, "Indiana Marriages, 1845-1920", [database online] 2000.
30. "Social Security Death Index".