Susan Quickel
Susan Quickel (maiden name: Strickler) was born on April 27, 1840, in Milton, Indiana, to Daniel and Mary Strickler. Her father was a farmer who owned $10,000 of real estate and $1,500 of personal property by 1860. She grew up and attended school in Clay, Indiana. On October 28, 1860, she married Jacob Quickel, a farm laborer who worked for her parents. The couple settled in Jackson, Indiana.
They purchased eighty acres of land, and her husband worked as a farmer. They had no children, but they adopted a daughter named Minnie Whisler. She joined the United Brethren church in January 1859, but she converted to Methodism in 1873. In her old age, a local writer noted, “failing health…deprived [her] of the privilege of attending the church services, but [she] always responded in a liberal manner to the calls for financial aid when it was in the interest of her church.”
She and Jacob “labored together as husband and wife for more than 62 years, and by their mutual efforts and thrift secured for their declining years a good comfortable home.” She died of enterocolitis in Arcadia, Indiana, on April 20, 1923.
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| (1652) | Quickel, Susan ~ Strickler, Susan | 1840-04-27 | 1923-04-20 |
- Conflict Side: Union
- Role: Civilian
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- Gender: Female
- Race: White
Documents - Records: 3
People - Records: 3
Places - Records: 2
SOURCES
1850, 1860, 1880, 1900, 1910, and 1920 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Indiana Marriage Index, 1800-1941, available from Ancestry.com; Indiana Death Certificates, 1899-2011, available from Ancestry.com; The Noblesville Ledger (Noblesville, IN), 8 May 1923 and 12 March 1924.
