Anna Rose Suzanne Jain 1814-1898 widow of Benjamin Jain. They immigrated to America in 1847 from Morges, Vaud, Switzerland and later to Vevay Indiana where they had relatives. Both were well-known in Vevay. Anna Mennet Jain was a dau. of Rev. Marc-Francois Mennet and wife Marie Muret of Morges Switzerland. Original photo in possession of Ilse Bruning of Longmont, Colorado.

John Benjamin Hastings Sr. was born 27 Oct. 1827 at Rising Sun, Ohio co., Indiana and died at his home on Popcorn Ridge in Switzerland county Indiana 6 May 1885. He was a son of Amos and Nancy (Howard) Hastings of Rising Sun and a nephew of John W. Howard of Switzerland county. He was married 20 Apr. 1853 to Jane McKain in Ohio county a dau. of Anthony and Katie (Nelson) McKain of Ohio county. They moved to Switzerland county in 1855 and Jane McKain Hastings died in Switzerland county 9 July 1863 following the birth of her 6th child. John B. Hastings Sr. married his second wife Mary Charlotte Muret 1845-1914 on Nov. 5, 1866 in Switzerland county. They had another 8 children. John was a farmer and also ran a lumber and coal oil business from his home. He and his first wife and several children from both marriages are buried in Salem cemetery in Switzerland county. The second wife is buried beside their youngest son and near her parents J.N. E. and Eliza Muret in Vevay City cemetery.

Mary Charlotte Muret was born April 16, 1845 in Switzerland county one of 10 children of Julius and Eliza (Singer) Muret. For some reason she did not appear in her fathers' biographical sketch in the 1885 History of Switzerland county. She married John Benjamin Hastings as his second wife Nov. 5, 1866 and they made their home on Popcorn Ridge. After the death of her husband in 1885 she continued raising her children and in 1894 went to Kay County Okla. where a brother had settled and where several of her children raised their families. She returned to Switzerland county, Indiana in 1910 and died at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Stoops (Maud Hastings) at East Enterprise June 3, 1914. She is buried in Vevay City Cemetery.

Julius Nicholas Emanuel Muret 1816-1894. He and his wife, Eliza Singer (1824-1894) lived on Tapps' Ridge in Switzerland county and were prominent Switzerland County residents. Julius Muret was the son of Dr. Charles Louis Muret who was an immigrant from Morges, Switzerland and of Rebecca Heady who was a daughter of early day county residents--Stillwell Heady and Rebecca Combs. Another picture of Julius N.E. Muret.

Elisabetha Sanger (Eliza Singer), wife of Julius N.E. Muret, was born in Switzerland county and was a daughter of George and Dorothea (Sheets) Sanger/Singer who emigrated to America from Bingen, Germany in 1808 and then settled in Switzerland county. The Singer home is still standing east of Vevay on the Ohio river.

Louisa Charlotte Muret - Wiley a widow of Switzerland county. She was born April 6, 1814 in Switzerland county a daughter of Dr. Charles Louis Muret and his wife Rebecca Heady. She was married Oct. 22, 1834 to Rev. Melville H. Wiley; a pioneer Methodist Minister of Switzerland county. Melville H. Wiley was a son of Rev. Allen Wiley and was born Nov. 21, 1813 and died Sept. 13, 1841. The Wileys' had children; but I don't know how many for sure. And I don't know when Mrs. Wiley died. She was a sister to Julius N.E. Muret.

Note: Julius N. E. Muret "Jule" was born in Switzerland county Indiana 18 July 1849 one of 10 children of Julius N. E. and Eliza (Singer) Muret. He was married 25 Apr. 1872 in Vevay to Sallie H. Lindley a daughter of Ira and Euphema (Farrar) Lindley. Jule and Sallie Muret had two children: Claude 1874-1932 and Atha born 1881.

The following news items did not mention the son for some reason. George, William and Julius Muret all settled at Hackney or Pleasant Valley in Cowley county Kansas as did apparently Euphema Lindley and at least two of her sons. The Lindley and Jules Muret families homesteaded farther west in Clarke county Kansas on the Okla. Territory border where Jule was killed. He is buried in the Tannahill cemetery north of Arkansas City Kansas.

      Carl Martin

From The Arkansas City Traveler July 4, 1885

DIED- Saturdays' Santa Fe train for the south contained the remains of Julius Muret, on his way to Hackney six miles below this city; the former home of the deceased.
   The facts and circumstances relating to Murets' death were told by Mrs. Muret; who was on the train together with her daughter, mother and two brothers. Her story is as follows:
   Mr. Julius Muret, wife and child moved from Vevay Indiana about two years ago to a farm near this city. Nearly a year ago he took a claim near Ashland in Clark county and moved there. Afterward Mrs. Lindley, mother of Mrs. Muret and her two sons came on to Clark county. Near Mr. Murets' claim was a claim which had been taken up by a man named Clouch. Clouch had not been near the claim for three months and with the advice of neighbors and friends, the old lady, Mrs. Lindley, decided to take the claim. Old Clouch, living near, had been claiming this claim was taken with a view of holding it till his daughter should be of age to take it. Thursday, as Muret and his brothers-in-law, the Lindleys were going to improve the claim for their mother, Muret arrived on the ground before the others and was at work with a spade, when old man Clouch and a young Kentuckian, Bill Churchill, who had been stopping with Clouch, came up and fired two shots at Muret, one taking effect near the heart and the second in the shoulder. By this time, young Mahlon Lindley, arrived, just in time to catch Muret as he fell forward, when Churchill fired one shot at Lindley, hitting him in the arm, and then they went off. Churchill was arrested, taken to Dodge City and lodged in jail. There was strong talk of lynching him before the sheriff should get him away.

MORE MURDER AT ASHLAND--DR. LAFIELD KILLED IN COLD BLOOD AND ROBBED OF $800.00--A TERRIBLE STORM

   Clark County comes in for criminal notoriety with a vim. It has recently had two despicable and revolting murders. Like every new county, it has its' "Bad men", though Ashland is a remarkably temperate, civil place for a border town. Last week Julius MURAT was shot through the heart. He went with his wife anbd child from Pleasant Valley, this county, and took a claim near Ashland. Afterward, Mrs. LINDSEY, mother of Mrs. MURAT, and two sons came to Clark county. She took a claim near MURAT that had not been occupied by the young man Clouch, who had taken it for three months. Old man Clouch had said his son was holding the claim till his daughter would be of age to take it. MURAT and the LINDSEY boys were going out to dig a foundation for a shanty for their mother. MURAT got there first and was spading, when old man Clouch and a young Kentuckian, Bill Churchill, came up. MURAT had never seen either of them before. Without a word Churchill shot MURAT through the heart. One of the LINDSEYS' arrived just in time to catch MURAT as he fell, when Churchill fired another shot. It went through MURATS' shoulder and into LINDSEYS' arm. The murderer was arrested and placed in the bastille at Dodge City. MURATS' body was brought to this county for interment. Mr. D. Rodocker shows us a letter from Miss Rose Frederick, well known here, chronicaling another terriv ble murder. Dr. Lafield, Ashlands' dentist, recieved $800.00 from the east a few days ago. That night, with it on his person, he was shot dead and the money taken. The murder was for no other cause than robbery. Tobe Taylor, a drunken cowboy, was arrested for the crime though there is no positive evidence against him. The same letter tells of a terrible storm that swept over that section the other day. Two storms met, one from the northwest and one from the northeast. Everything in their track was inundated and much property swept away. Dugouts by the dozen were filled with water and caved in, leaving the occupants homeless. And most of the wells, not yet being walled, caved in. It was very destructive and a hard blow on those trying to establish homes in the "wild west."