Hoosier Homestead Awards Honor Farm Families
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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowLieutenant Governor Suzanne Crouch and Indiana State Department of Agriculture Director Bruce Kettler honored 88 families Friday with the Hoosier Homestead Award.
To be eligible for the Hoosier Homestead Award, farms must also consist of more than 20 acres or produce more than $1,000 of agricultural products annually. There are three categories for the award, including the Centennial Award for 100 years of ownership, the Sesquicentennial Award for 150 years of ownership and the Bicentennial Award for 200 years of ownership.
“I want to congratulate all of the recipients of this prestigious award,” said Lt. Gov. Suzanne Crouch, Indiana’s Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development. “Our state, economically and socially, depends on our farming families, and we owe a great deal to the work they do.”
The recipients are:
County – Farm/Family Name – Homestead Date – Type of Award
Adams – Kruetzman – 1891 – Centennial
Allen – Bradtmueller – 1902 – Centennial
Allen – Yoder – 1918 – Centennial
Bartholomew – O’Neal – 1918 – Centennial
Bartholomew – Burbrink – Schroer – 1910 – Centennial
Bartholomew – Arnholt – Smith – 1890 – Centennial
Bartholomew – Reinking – Smith – 1856 – Sesquicentennial
Brown – Roark Brown County Family Farm – 1910 – Centennial
Cass – Cynthia Lynn (Smith) Beckom & Amanda Lynn Beckom – 1844 – Sesquicentennial
Cass – Green – 1918 – Centennial
Cass – Robert & Mary Apple Kitchel – 1917 – Centennial
Cass – McIntosh – McMillen – 1868 – Sesquicentennial
Clark – James A. Kruer – 1893 – Centennial
Clay – Groover – 1867 – Sesquicentennial
Clay – Schlegel – 1886 – Centennial
Clinton – Need Family Farms – 1916 – Centennial
Crawford – Perry Crecelius – 1918 – Centennial
Crawford – Crecelius – 1918 – Centennial
Daviess – Hunter – Nolan – 1818 – Bicentennial
Dearborn – Hartman – 1918 – Centennial
Decatur – Fry – 1887 – Centennial
Decatur – Jonathan C. & Sara A. Galbraith – 1848 – Sesquicentennial
DeKalb – Bowman & Bowman Farms, Inc. – 1873 – Centennial
DeKalb – Morr – 1900 – Centennial
DeKalb – Hines – 1836 – Sesquicentennial
DeKalb – Nelson Family LLC – 1868 – Sesquicentennial
Dubois – Victor A. Beckman – 1849 – Centennial & Sesquicentennial
Dubois – Joshua J. Himsel – 1887 – Centennial
Dubois – Weisman – 1866 – Sesquicentennial
Franklin – Burk – 1918 – Centennial
Franklin – Obermeyer – 1891 – Centennial
Franklin – Siefert – 1869 – Centennial
Franklin – Stenger – 1901 – Centennial
Fulton – Kline – Wagoner – 1876 – Centennial
Hamilton – Flanders/Sheller Farms – 1865 – Sesquicentennial
Hamilton – Joseph Wheeler – 1851 – Centennial & Sesquicentennial
Hamilton – Haughey – 1882 – Centennial
Hancock – Garst – 1918 – Centennial
Harrison – Chuck & Sandy Hess – 1854 – Centennial & Sesquicentennial
Harrison – Deatrick/Lind – 1915 – Centennial
Henry – Kautz – Query – 1918 – Centennial
Howard – Eller – 1905 – Centennial
Howard – Fisher – 1847 – Sesquicentennial
Howard – E. Wesley Smith – 1848 – Centennial & Sesquicentennial
Howard – Tarkington – 1918 – Centennial
Jackson – M & M Wischmeier – 1915 – Centennial
Jasper – Putt – 1902 – Centennial
Jasper – Guth/Waibel – 1899 – Centennial
Jennings – Graham – 1815 – Bicentennial
Jennings – Horstman – 1878 – Centennial
Johnson – William O. Canary – 1898 – Centennial
Kosciusko – Whetstone – 1842 – Centennial & Sesquicentennial
LaGrange – Robert Thompson – 1885 – Centennial
LaPorte – Hickory Grove Farm/Mohlke Family – 1918 – Centennial
LaPorte – Thomas – 1918 – Centennial
Lawrence – Robert G. Stipp – 1849 – Sesquicentennial
Madison – Ashton – 1864 – Sesquicentennial
Madison – James Steven Doty – 1868 – Sesquicentennial
Madison – Jarrell – 1917 – Centennial
Madison – Marshall & Margaret Gwinn Farm – 1917 – Centennial
Madison – Sandra S. Swindell — W.H.S. Farm – 1908 – Centennial
Marshall – Gottschalk – 1858 – Centennial & Sesquicentennial
Marshall – Sahlhoff – 1887 – Centennial
Martin – Billings – 1918 – Centennial
Montgomery – Moser Farm – 1917 – Centennial
Noble – Frank E. & Evelyn J. Evers – 1854 – Sesquicentennial
Noble – The Scheurich – 1866 – Centennial & Sesquicentennial
Ohio – Dennis – 1868 – Sesquicentennial
Ohio – Sommer – 1918 – Centennial
Orange – David & Jessica Watts – 1860 – Centennial & Sesquicentennial
Pulaski – Jarman – 1901 – Centennial
Randolph – Jordan – 1834 – Sesquicentennial
Ripley – Kegley – 1865 – Sesquicentennial
Ripley – Brunsman – Moster – 1905 – Centennial
Rush – Gray – 1863 – Sesquicentennial
Shelby – Weintraut – 1891 – Centennial
Spencer – Seger – 1915 – Centennial
Sullivan – Davis – 1918 – Centennial
Tipton – Achenbach – 1918 – Centennial
Union – Hawley – Brookbank – 1865 – Centennial & Sesquicentennial
Wayne – Alexander – 1897 – Centennial
Wayne – Martin – 1909 – Centennial
Wells – Minnich – 1872 – Centennial
Wells – Powell – 1916 – Centennial
Wells – David Werling – 1916 – Centennial
White – Lemming – 1894 – Centennial
White – Humphreys – 1883 – Centennial
White – Sheets – 1918 – Centennial