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BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL RECORDS OF ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1887
WILLIAM KLINE, farmer, section 7, Union Township, owns 120 acres of
land. He was born March 25, 1840, in Root Township, this county, where he
was reared, and educated in the common schools of his father's district.
His parents were Jacob and Barbara Kline. He was married August 5, 1860, to
Miss Nancy E. Mumma, who was born in Tuscarawas Co., OH, June 23,
1840. When she was thirteen years of age she came with her parents and
three other children to Adams County, the family settling in Root Township,
where the father died October 16, 1878, and is buried at Pleasant Valley
cemetery. He was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, February 7,
1810, and when a boy removed with his parents to Tuscarawas Co., OH.
The mother was born in Maryland March 25, 1810, and when a girl removed
with her parents to Tuscarawas County. She is still living. Both parents
were members of the United Brethren church. Mr. and Mrs. Kline have five
children -Louisa J., born May 23, 1861, now the wife of John Nidelinger;
Emma F., born September 6, 1863; Franklin E., born September 4, 1866; Elmer
A., born April 13, 1872; Bertha A., born September 22, 1881. Mrs. Kline's
grandfather, John Mumma, died in Union Township, this county; her
grandmother, Magdalena Mumma, also died in Union Township, and both are
buried at Pleasant Valley cemetery. Her parents were John and Catherine
(Snyder) Mumma. Her grandmother, Catherine Snyder, died in Root Township,
and is buried in Pleasant Valley cemetery. Mr. Kline joined the army
September 22, 1864, rendezvoused at Wabash, then went to Indianapolis,
where he and his comrades were distributed among different regiments. Mr.
Kline was assigned to Company I, Fifty-first Indiana Infantry, and joined
his company at Bridgeport, Alabama. His first skirmish was at Columbia,
Tennessee; then followed the battles of Franklin, Duck River, and two days'
fight at Nashville, where the regiment suffered great loss. He was under
fire thirty-three days. He was discharged June 17, 1865, and returned home
and engaged in farming.