SOURCE: Monroe County, Indiana Tax Records (Duplicates) 1861, Bloomington, Bean Blossom Township, page 2, entry 27, Bollenbacher, Peter is listed as a property owner in the tax records. Information from LDS-FHL film 1295564.
NOTE: Following is a paragraph from the 100th anniversary booklet for the Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church in Madison Twp, St. Joseph Co, IN: "The "Evangelishe Zion's Gemeinde" of Madison Township, St. Joseph County, State of Indiana was organized on October 2, 1856 by the Rev. Philip Wagner. The newly formed congregation, consisting of about 19 families, elected Philip Marker as their delegate to the conference of
the Evangelical Synod of North America then convening in Mansfield, Ohio during the closing days of October, 1856. At this conference, the congregation was officially recognized, and its organizing pastor, the Rev. Philip Wagner, was commissioned by the conference to be Zion's first pastor. Charter members were Philip Beehler, Peter Bollenbacher, John Schafer, Nichalaus Schlarb, Philip Schlarb, Jacob Schlarb, Matthias Klein, John Marker, Godfred Bernhard, Anton Albert, Peter Hoos, John Hoos, Christian Hinze, Mr. Ramsey, Jacob Getz, Mrs. K. Spohn, Philip
Fries, Christian Horein, and Philip Marker. The first Zion Church, a hewn-log church, was erected in the Spring of
1857." According to information in a booklet from the 100th anniversary of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed
Church in St. Joseph County, IN; some of these families from the Church in Winesburg must have moved to St. Joseph County, IN, as many of the samesurnames are listed in early records for the church in IN.DEATH: The WPA Monroe County, Indiana, Death Index is being compiled into a database by Lana Taylor and Cathy Riddle and will be made available at a site on Rootsweb To order death records, send a request with name of the deceased and date and place of death to: Monroe County Health Department, 119 W. 7th Street,
Bloomington IN 47404-3989. Certified copies are $6.00; genealogical copies (these have more information) are $4.00. Remember to include: a copy of your photo ID, indicate the purpose for which you need the record (genealogy), your relationship (if any) to the person, and your mailing address and phone number.
LAST NAME, FIRST NAME, AGE AT DEATH, DATE OF DEATH
BOLENBAKER REBECCA 83 12 FEB 1900
BOLLENBACHER GEORGE 60 17 SEP 1885
BOLLENBACHER MINNIE E 6 07 JUL 1892
BOLLENBACHER PETER 70 01 FEB 1885 (1885-70=1815)OBIT: Bloomington (IN) Republican Progress, Feb 11, 1885, page 3. Peter Bollenbacher, who died on Sunday a week, resided a number of years on his farm one mile east of Bloomgton but sold his land last fall, and himself
and wife, they had no children, have resided in town since then. Bollenbacher had been a citizen of Monroe County about 30 years (1885-30=1855 est. arrival in county). He was born in Bavarian in 1814.