Nearly 100 farm families receive century farming award

Sunday, August 11, 2019 at 9:23 AM

By Indiana State Department of Agriculture release

Record number of farms presented with the Hoosier Homestead Award

Friday at the Indiana State Fair, Lt. Governor Suzanne Crouch and Indiana State Department of Agriculture Director Bruce Kettler presented 96 farming families with the Hoosier Homestead Award, setting a new record in the program's 40-year history.

To be named a Hoosier Homestead, the farm had to be kept in the family for at least 100 consecutive years, and consist of more than 20 acres or produce more than $1,000 in agricultural products per year.

Since the program was established in 1976, more than 5,600 families have received the award.

“The vast majority of farms in Indiana are family owned and operated,” Crouch said. “They are the foundation we rely on as a society, which is something we must never take for granted. It was an honor to recognize these families at the great Indiana State Fair.”

Families were eligible for three different award distinctions. Based on the age of the farm, they received the Centennial Award for 100 years, Sesquicentennial Award for 150 years or Bicentennial Award for 200 years of ownership.

Notably, the Bicentennial Award was presented to five families during Friday’s ceremony.

“Seeing so many generational farming families all in one place was truly humbling,” Kettler said. “They are the lifeblood of our state, and recognizing their legacy and perseverance today was a tremendous honor.”

The following list includes the 2019 summer Hoosier Homestead Award recipients.

County	Award Name	Homestead Date	Award Type
Allen	James & Deborah Roth	1919	Centennial
Bartholomew	Burney	1918	Centennial
Bartholomew	Guinn	1836	Sesquicentennial
Bartholomew	Larry Speaker	1908	Centennial
Bartholomew	Thayer	1854	Centennial & Sesquicentennial
Benton	Roberts	1912	Centennial
Boone	McDonald	1857	Sesquicentennial
Boone	Peabody/Batts	1908	Centennial
Cass	Mills	1919	Centennial
Cass	Personett	1902	Centennial
Cass	Richardson - Weideman	1844	Centennial & Sesquicentennial
Cass	Wilson and Mills	1919	Centennial
Clay	McCullough	1905	Centennial
Clay	Mercer - Summers	1918	Centennial
Clay	Peavey - Wolf	1858	Sesquicentennial
Davies	Cottee	1863	Centennial & Sesquicentennial
Davies	Singleton - Ward - Barber	1869	Sesquicentennial
Dearborn	Hopping	1816	Centennial, Sesquicentennial & Bicentennial
Decatur	Kirchhoff	1919	Centennial
Delaware	Marion & Alma Russell	1919	Centennial
Dubois	Schuler Temple	1901	Centennial
Dubois	Wagner	1869	Sesquicentennial
Elkhart	Lutes	1910	Centennial
Elkhart	Umbaugh	1874	Centennial
Fayette	Jack & Milah Frost	1819	Bicentennial
Floyd	Buechler	1906	Centennial
Franklin	Fledderman	1918	Centennial
Franklin	Logan	1919	Centennial
Franklin	Siefert	1869	Sesquicentennial
Gibson	Block & Dawson	1919	Centennial
Gibson	John Boeglin	1919	Centennial
Hamilton	Mosbaugh	1842	Centennial & Sesquicentennial
Hancock	Troy	1901	Centennial
Hancock	William D. Addison & Family	1906	Centennial
Hendricks	Garner	1858	Sesquicentennial
Hendricks	Ross	1831	Centennial & Sesquicentennial
Hendricks	Wyeth	1919	Centennial
Henry	Frazier - Chambers - Rifner	1851	Sesquicentennial
Henry	Richey	1919	Centennial
Howard	Hite	1863	Sesquicentennial
Howard	Hite	1903	Centennial
Howard	Kurtz	1919	Centennial
Howard	McDaniel - Petro	1886	Centennial
Huntington	Simon	1919	Centennial
Jackson	Bishop	1914	Centennial
Jackson	Goecker (Pfenning)	1857	Sesquicentennial
Jackson	Rieckers	1852	Sesquicentennial
Jasper	Odom	1878	Centennial
Jasper	Roberts	1919	Centennial
Jasper	Streitmatter	1919	Centennial
Jasper	Zimmer - Steinke	1910	Centennial
Jay	Green Acres Family Farm	1918	Centennial
Jennings	Elsner	1919	Centennial
LaGrange	Weaver	1866	Sesquicentennial
Lake	Bryant & Dowd	1854	Sesquicentennial
Madison	Holtzleiter	1918	Centennial
Marshall	Norris	1917	Centennial
Marshall	Stanley Weiss	1888	Centennial
Miami	Butt	1888	Centennial
Miami	Butt	1915	Centennial
Miami	Kunkle	1908	Centennial
Montgomery	Myers - Fruits	1918	Centennial
Morgan	Barbara J. & Neal W. Harder	1868	Sesquicentennial
Noble	Wilkinson	1919	Centennial
Noble	Riddle	1866	Centennial & Sesquicentennial
Noble	Shultz	1919	Centennial
Owen	Barton	1863	Sesquicentennial
Parke	Clarence & Gladys Pyle Family	1919	Centennial
Parke	Summers	1912	Centennial
Posey	Happe - Winiger	1917	Centennial
Posey	Vernon F. Blankenberger	1919	Centennial
Pulaski	Kline	1851	Centennial & Sesquicentennial
Randolph	Raymond K. Miller	1917	Centennial
Randolph	Runner	1918	Centennial
Ripley	Narwold	1866	Sesquicentennial
Ripley	Naylor	1846	Sesquicentennial
Ripley	Obendorf	1865	Sesquicentennial
Ripley	Otte/Webster	1866	Sesquicentennial
Rush	Mahan	1918	Centennial
Scott	Smith	1817	Sesquicentennial & Bicentennial
Spencer	Mehling	1919	Centennial
Spencer	Patmore	1919	Centennial
Steuben	Pfafman	1919	Centennial
Sullivan	Peterson	1853	Centennial & Sesquicentennial
Sullivan	Wallace	1844	Centennial & Sesquicentennial
Switzerland	Hall	1908	Centennial
Tippecanoe	Klutzke	1916	Centennial
Vigo	Barbour Family LLC	1819	Centennial, Sesquicentennial & Bicentennial
Vigo	Fitzpatrick	1858	Sesquicentennial
Wabash	Floor	1918	Centennial
Wabash	Schenkel	1882	Centennial
Warren	Morgan	1908	Centennial
Warren	St. John - Huber	1907	Centennial
Wayne	Glass	1918	Centennial
Wayne	Russell Allen Brower	1819	Centennial, Sesquicentennial & Bicentennial
Whitley	Fay Conrad	1919	Centennial