Touby Reunion 2012
We are so thankful... for our ancestors who honored God and loved their families, who worked hard and provided well for their children. We cherish all the fond memories we have as cousins who were best friends growing up and playing together at Grandma and Grandpa Touby’s house. HONORING Charles and Louise Touby Coan Fred and Dorothy Touby Kearney Frances Touby Arthur and Virginia Touby Coan Edver and Joan Touby Coburn
A Gathering of Cousins COAN
Virginia Touby Coan Jane & Bill Ellefson Nancy & Mark Snapp
COBURN
Charlotte & Terry McGowan Marcia & Gene Pett
Somewhere in Time B&B July 27-29, 2012
KEARNEY
Caroline & Kent Tudor Mark Kearney
Touby Reunion 2012 Somewhere in Time B&B, Lexington, Ohio
Touby Reunion 2012
Somewhere in Time B&B July 27-29, 2012
Touby Reunion 2012 Somewhere in Time B&B, Lexington, Ohio
Touby Reunion 2012 On a beautiful summer weekend, July 27-29, 2012, the Touby cousins gathered in Ohio to celebrate our family heritage. We stayed at the home built in 1904 by Martin Touby, now Somewhere in Time B&B. Seeking freedom from religious persecution, the Touby, Strater and Remy families together left Germany for America in 1844. They found their new home in Richland County, Ohio, a German settlement. John Martin Touby, his wife Anna Marie (Slout), and their nine children attended St. Peter’s Evangelical Church on German Church Road, and some are buried in the cemetery there. John Peter and John were two of the children who made the journey to America. At age 26, John Peter traveled on to Fayette Co., IN, continued his trade of wagon making, married Jane Duncan Colville, and in 1853 they settled in Howard Co. He took up farming and soon helped build a plank road which bordered his home, the Touby Pike. John Peter’s brother, John, was grubstaked in 1849 (age 23), and set out for California during the Gold Rush. He returned after 18 months and eventually purchased land on Pleasant Valley Road near Mansfield. John Peter and his wife Jane had a son, Albert Colin, who married Kate Willits. They built the Touby Homestead in rural Kokomo and had six children: Alice, Grace, Emmett Peter, Jennie, Mary and Bess. John married Anna Cathrine Kochheiser and had five children: Martin, Louisa C., Catherine A., Mary Anna and Albert. Martin married Anna Maria Schindler. They built their homestead near Mansfield, OH. The two cousins, Albert C (IN) and Martin (OH), were both successful farmers.
Nancy Coan Snapp and Jane Coan Ellefson
Virginia Touby Coan
Caroline Kearney Tudor and Mark Kearney
Charlotte Coburn McGowan and Marcia Coburn Pett
Mark Kearney
Special thanks to Mark who chauffeured Aunt Virginia. She was dubbed Grand Dame of the Reunion!
Terry & Charlotte McGowan
Gene & Marcia Pett
Bill & Jane Ellefson
Mark & Nancy Snapp
Kent and Caroline Tudor
Charlottinis!
Nancy’s blackberry and Charlotte’s rhubarb, peach and pecan pies.
The Albert Touby Home, 1401 Pleasant Hill Road, Mansfield, Ohio
Nancy J. Tumeo
The Martin Touby Home The Martin Touby home was built in 1904. The barn across the road still bears his name on the roof. Martin farmed 160 acres adjacent to the home and also raised cattle and race horses. During the Great Depression the home functioned as a boarding house. It is now a beautifully restored B&B, Somewhere In Time, owned by Nancy J. Tumeo. Martin’s cousin, Albert C. Touby of Howard County, IN, built the Touby Homestead where Emmett grew up with his sisters. Emmett married Elsie Locke , continued farming the land, moved into the home, and there they raised their five daughters, Louise, Dorothy, Frances, Virginia and Joan.