VANDIVIER, Lewis E.

Date of birth:  27 Feb 1865 – Union Township, Johnson County, Indiana
Date of death: 26 Sep 1941 – Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana

SOURCE: Mathena Scrapbook, Sept. 1941 (also Bli.1 p. 13)
Originally published in the Franklin Evening Star, September 26, 1941,
Volume 57 Number 65, page 1 column 5

Retired Farmer
Succumbs Here

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Lewis E. Vandivier
Dies At Age Of 76

¶ Lewis E. Vandivier, age 76, one of Johnson county’s most widely known retired farmers, died at 3:30 o’clock Friday morning at his home, 597 West Jefferson street. Although his condition had been regarded as critical only for the past week, he had been in failing health for se­veral years.

Services will be conducted from the First Mt. Pleasant church Monday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock, and burial will follow in the Mt. Pleasant cemetery. He had been a member of the church since child­hood. Friends are invited to call at the residence at any time.

Mr. Vandivier was born in Union township on Feb. 27, 1865, one of nine children of Isaac and Nancy Jane Hamilton Vandivier. His father had come here from Kentucky. A brother, E. C. Vandivier, living on West Jefferson street, is the last surviving member of the family.

Mr. Vandivier was married to Miss Flora Boles on March 7, 1889. They had two children, both of whom survive with their mother. They are Miss Marcella Vandivier, living at home, and Mrs. Charles Clawson of Martinsville. A grand­son, Robert Lewis Clawson, also remains.

He had spent his entire life in Johnson county, and in 1902 he re­tired from active farming and mov­ed to Franklin. Since that time he had managed his farming interests. Mr. Vandivier had received his edu­cation in the schools of Union township and had always taken an active interest in the Mt. Pleasant church.

Link to Lewis E. Vandivier’s grave

Submitted by Dietra Rosenkoetter