Elizabeth Reinbold Bickel with children Emma, Allen "Al" and Andrew "Andy"
[Elizabeth's father was Henry Reinbold 10/20/1810-1/21/1893, mother Mary Neidlinger 1807-1891;
both born in LeHigh Co PA and buried in North Union Cemetery, Locke Twp, Elkhart Co IN.
Her grandfather was Wilhelm Reinbold 11/28/1778 Montgomery Co PA-10/17/1878 Limaville, Stark Co OH. Her great-grandfather Ludwig Reinbold was born 1735 Zeibrueken, Platz, Germany-died in 1835 PA. Ludwig fought in American Revolution.

Frank (Francis) and Ida Bickel Doriot

Their first child, Mildred Marie (left), died at 9 months.
Their second child, Owen Walter (right) died at age six when hit in the stomach with a green apple.

Gerald (4) and Hollis (1), then as adults.
Gerald married Frances Johnson (born 1/30/1906);
Hollis married Arthur Wallace. Neither couple had any children.

George and elisabeth's son:
Allen BICKEL and his family
11/11/1873-3/27/1911
Born in Indiana

On 2/15/1896 Allen married Rachel Nickerson (born 4/1879).
He died in 1911. She then married John Gordon (9/29/1863 Whitley Co. IN-8/23/1943), and Beatrice (6) was living with them in 1920.
 Rachel died 1/25/1962. Rachel's daughter, Beatrice Bickel (born 3/29/1910), married Clifford Oster 12/31/1938. Beatrice and Clifford had one daughter, Janie who married Dale Birk and had Brian and Pamela Dianne. Rachel had a son Carl Nickerson who married Leona Balmer and worked many years at Mutchlers Factory in Nappanee.
In 1930 John and Rachel resided with his stepson Carl Nickerson (7).

Their daughter Beatrice was born about 1910.



Beatrice married Clifford Oster and they resided in St. Joseph Co., IN.
They have a daughter who lives in N. Carolina.

George and elisabeth's son:
aaron bickel and his family

Aaron Bickel (Born 10/21/1875 Madison Twp., St Joseph  Co. IN).
Married Clara Ebersole on 27 Aug 1898 in Elkhart Co, IN. Have not found Aaron's date of death.

Aaron married Clara Ebersole from Indiana (born 8/30/1879-11/30/1967),
and they had four children:
Lola (March 1899), Hazel Mae (8/15/1903-8/30-1989),
Wilma (5/29/1916-9/13/1977) and Ralph (1917).

Front: Aaron, Wilma, Clara;
Back: Hazel Mae, Ralph, Lola
 
 
1962 Clara with her children from left:
Hazel, Ralph and Lola (taken at Hazel's son Evart's home

Lola bickel Family

Lola Bickel married Lloyd Albert, Sr.
Children: Hope Irene, Lloyd R. Jr., Hazel Mae, and Ada Belle

Lola Bickel (baby); Lola Bickel Albert with her daughter Ada Belle
and Clara holding Jeff

 
Lola's daughters Hope and Hazel Mae Smith from FL


Hope Albert Young with husband Richard
and son Larry R. from Kalamazoo MI

 
Hope Albert and Richard Young visiting Hazel Pittman Christmas 1977

hazel mae bickel Family

Hazel Bickel (8/15/1908-8/30/1989) married
Willard Elba Pittman (5/27/1896-4/24/1968) on 12/9/1920.
Children: Violet Edna (8/19/1921), Evart Oscar (7/9/1923-5/14/1996)

Hazel Bickel Pittman with son Evart, daughter Violet, husband Willard in 1923

 
 

Hazel and Willard's son Evart Pittman

 
Group photo shows sister Violet second woman from left.
Hollis & Arthur Wallace, Violet Pittman, Lola Bickel Smith,
Gerald and Frances Doriot (she is kneeling),
Clara Bickel, Willard Pittman, Ida Doriot, Evart Pittman;
girl Frances is hugging is Clara Sue Smith.

Evart Pittman married Marie Johnson 6/6/1943

Evart married Marie Juanita Johnson on 6/6/1943 in Bremen,
and their children were Dixie Lee, Donn Alan (12/28/1949 died at birth)
and Doyle Evart. Dixie married Michael Sheetz on 8/31/1968
and gave birth to Suzanna Lee Sheetz.
Suzanna married Ralph Michael Dodds 2/20/2003.
Doyle married Linda Yoder on 6/24/1977.
Their children are Brian Eric and Kimberly Beth.
Kimberly married Jeremy Osgood of Claremont, New Hampshire on 10/14/2006.

1955 Pittman Picnic: Willard, Hazel, Evart,
Evart's son Doyle with wife Marie, Violet
(Family farm on First Road, north of Bremen)

Evart with Dixie 1952


Evart and Marie with Doyle and Dixie 1954;
Clara Bickel with Evart, Hazel, Doyle, Dixie, and dog Lucy 1953

The Pittman Farm in 2006

Wilma bickel

Wilma married Joseph Molner.

Wilma Bickel developed mental problems at age 31 as a married adult
and lived out her last 30 years in Logansport Mental Hospital.

ralph bickel Family

Ralph married Jennie Molner.
Children: Sharon (Mrs. Ron Palmer), Nancy Lynn (Mrs. Avon Cleary), and Robert

Ralph Bickel as a baby; Ralph with wife Jennie Molner Bickel

Lola, Hazel, Wilma and Ralph shared a wonderful mother, Clara Bickel

Clara Bickel's Ebersole genealogy is traced back to Konrad Aebersold born 1513
in Berne, Switzerland, on the www.ancestry.com tree.

George and elisabeth's son:
andrew "andy" baker
Born 10/15/1877 in St. Joseph County

George and elisabeth's daughter:
Emiline "Emma" Bickel and her family
Born 6/1880
(Emma's father George Bickel died in 1881.)

Emma married Benjamin F. Wise (born 12/1878 in Indiana)
Their children were Edward L., Edith, Chester, Harland, Carl, Cleo and Fern.