Van Pelt family line

Of all the family lines I've researched since starting with Family History, The Van Pelt line is the one I've put both the most time and work in, and the one I've made the least progress on. The road block has been my great grandfather Henry Van Pelt. He passed away while his family was still very young and my Great Grandfather just couldn't remember much about him when my mother asked about him.

After some time I was able to narrow the family that Henry came from to either the family of Charles and Ferba Van Pelt or the family or George and Hannah Van Pelt. Both sets of parents had a son named Henry born in Indiana within a year of each other. For reasons I don't remember I settled on the family of Charles and Ferba although I kept in mind it was a guess and continued to look for more information. Unable to find any proof of connection I started looking more at the family of George and Hannah.

From the marriage record we know Henry was married to Nannie Logsden in 1890. The 1890 Census was destroyed in a fire and I still haven't found the 1900 Census for Nannie (Henry passed away before this time) so I focused on the 1880 Census and have found some clues. Nannie was living in Port Fulton Indiana in Clark county at the time with her family. Looking at the family of George Van Pelt I found they also lived in Port Fulton at the same time along with their son Henry. Looking closely at the Census records I also found that not only did they live in the same town but the Census recorder visited Nannie's Family 5 households after visiting the Van Pelt Family which would indicate that they lived within 5 houses of each other and most likely on the same street.

The Henry Van Pelt I had been looking at before that was the son of Charles and Ferba lived in Missouri at this time. The Marrage record was in Clark county where Port Fulton is. I'm guessing that it is more likely that Nannie would marry a Henry Van Pelt she grew up knowing a few houses down then a Henry Van Pelt a State away. I'm Including the census records here.

Van Pelt Census

Logsden Census

Unless I get objections I'm going to go ahead and change my family history records to reflect George and Hannah Van Pelt as being the parents of my great grandfather and keep Charles and Ferba as an alternate. If any of my Van Pelt relatives have any comments feel free to send me an Email catseye1979@juno.com