John Larimer

Died of Infection in throat caused by a deer bone splinter which lodged there. Military Service: 1813 90 days man

BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH: From the History of Our Larimer Family, Volume 3 page

1508 of "Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania. Also from information compiled by Robert Work of Vincennes, Indiana.

From the book published by J.C. Work of the Larimer Family 1740 -1959

John Larimer was born in Pennsylvania, before the family emigrated to Ohio. In the year 1813 being in his teens, he served as a 90 days man, from Ohio, in the war that was then on with England. In the year 1818 he married Miss Rachael Smith, and lived near the old homestead until 1835 they moved west to Elkhart County, Indiana, and settled on new land in Middlebury Twp.

Rachael, wife of John Larimer died in the year 1838, later John Larimer returned to Ohio and married Mrs. Nancy Smith, a widow of his first wife's cousin, who lived on a farm near Logan, Ohio. He returned to Indiana with his second bride and her three children Ellen, John, and Green Smith.

John Larimer died in the year 1843, with an infection of his throat caused by a deer bone splinter which lodged there. Soon after his death, Nancy returned to the near Logan, Ohio farm where she lived until her death about the year 1859. Ellen Smith her daughter married Isaac Everitt and they lived on a farm not far from his father's farm.