More Families Earn Hoosier Homestead Awards
Bruce Kettler is the director of the Indiana State Department of Agriculture.
More than 50 families from throughout the state have been recognized for operating longstanding farms. Lieutenant Governor Suzanne Crouch and State Department of Agriculture Director Bruce Kettler have presented the latest Hoosier Homestead Awards, recognizing farms owned by the same family for more than 100 consecutive years.
The honorees are:
Adams County
Jacob & Mary Henschen
1913
Centennial
Allen County
Marshall
1855
Sesquicentennial
Bartholomew County
Franke – Thompson
1898
Centennial
Robert & Barbara Pruitt
1919
Centennial
Carroll County
Childers
1919
Centennial
Carnell – Brown – Stone
1836
Sesquicentennial
Clark County
Martin
1907
Centennial
McKinley/Roberts/Hoke
1877
Centennial
Richard M. Myers, Sr. & Larry N. Myers
1848
Sesquicentennial
Clinton County
Skiles/Oliver
1908
Centennial
Rothenberger
1867
Centennial & Sesquicentennial
Crawford County
Sharp – Stephenson – Mohr
1819
Bicentennial
Decatur County
Fry
1916
Centennial
S & G Seeds, LLC.
1918
Centennial
DeKalb County
Widney – Carpenter
1836
Sesquicentennial
Dubois County
Jochum
1912
Centennial
Rauscher – Thieman
1838
Centennial & Sesquicentennial
Winkenhofer – Thieman
1841
Centennial & Sesquicentennial
Fayette County
Sykes
1845
Centennial & Sesquicentennial
Harrison County
Eisenmenger
1869
Sesquicentennial
Stoner – Watson – Yates
1859
Centennial & Sesquicentennial
Howard County
Alice L. Maish & Myron E. Maish
1860
Sesquicentennial
Peters
1908
Centennial
Huntington County
Felton
1917
Centennial
Jasper County
Wortley
1911
Centennial
LaGrange County
Foster – Oliver
1881
Centennial
LaPorte County
Shurte Family Farm
1854
Centennial & Sesquicentennial
Madison County
Blake
1866
Sesquicentennial
Miami County
Graham – Scott
1893
Centennial
Vincent
1865
Sesquicentennial
Montgomery County
Goff – Clark
1912
Centennial
Newton County
William Frederick Stath
1890
Centennial
Noble County
Piper/McLallin
1869
Sesquicentennial
Parke County
Thomas D. Thompson & Vera M. Lear
1886
Centennial
Pulaski County
Leonard Farms Incorporated
1868
Sesquicentennial
Putnam County
Alcorn
1918
Centennial
Ripley County
Merkel
1864
Centennial & Sesquicentennial
Jager
1866
Centennial & Sesquicentennial
Raab
1866
Sesquicentennial
Rush County
Hodson
1913
Centennial
Spencer County
Adolph Hurm
1869
Sesquicentennial
Lloyd, Linegar & Richards
1909
Centennial
Richard & Loyce Gries (Arnold)
1902
Centennial
Lueken
1868
Sesquicentennial
Lloyd
1848
Sesquicentennial
Tippecanoe County
Kirkpatrick
1841
Sesquicentennial
Tipton County
Newlon
1849
Centennial & Sesquicentennial
Vermillion County
Hughes
1834
Sesquicentennial
Redman
1914
Centennial
Vigo County
Kessel
1901
Centennial
Fred L. Wilson, Jr.
1817
Sesquicentennial & Bicentennial
Wabash County
Dennis Keith Gilbert
1919
Centennial
Warrick County
Lamar
1916
Centennial
Wells County
Kreigh
1869
Sesquicentennial
White’s Tangelwood Farm
1837
Sesquicentennial