Dubois County Farmers Honored With Hoosier Homestead Awards

From State Sources

STATEHOUSE -- At the Indiana Statehouse, Lt. Governor Suzanne Crouch and Indiana State Department of Agriculture Director Bruce Kettler presented 55 families with a Hoosier Homestead Award, recognizing their commitment to Indiana agriculture.

To be named a Hoosier Homestead, farms must be owned by the same family for more than 100 consecutive years, and consist of 20 acres or more, or produce more than $1,000 in agricultural products per year.

“Agriculture is very much a family affair, with roughly 97 percent of farms family-owned and operated nationwide,” Crouch said. “For generations, these families have been foundational to the social and economic advancement of Indiana, and recognizing their legacy today was a tremendous honor.”

Families are eligible for three different distinctions of the Hoosier Homestead Award, based on the age of the farm. They can receive the Centennial Award for 100 years, Sesquicentennial Award for 150 years or Bicentennial Award for 200 years of ownership.

Since the program's inception in 1976, more than 5,500 families have received the award.

“It takes hard work and perseverance to keep a family farm a continued success for so many years,” Kettler said. “This award is a testament to the resiliency of these farmers, as well as their longstanding commitment to Indiana, agriculture and family.”

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

Farm County	Award Name	Homestead Date	Type of Award
Adams	Jacob & Mary Henschen	1913	Centennial
Allen	Marshall	1855	Sesquicentennial
Bartholomew	Franke - Thompson	1898	Centennial
Bartholomew	Robert & Barbara Pruitt	1919	Centennial
Carroll	Childers	1919	Centennial
Carroll	Carnell - Brown - Stone	1836	Sesquicentennial
Clark	Martin	1907	Centennial
Clark	McKinley/Roberts/Hoke	1877	Centennial
Clark	Richard M. Myers, Sr. & Larry N. Myers	1848	Sesquicentennial
Clinton	Skiles/Oliver	1908	Centennial
Clinton	Rothenberger	1867	Centennial & Sesquicentennial
Crawford	Sharp - Stephenson - Mohr	1819	Bicentennial
Decatur	Fry	1916	Centennial
Decatur	S & G Seeds, LLC.	1918	Centennial
DeKalb	Widney - Carpenter	1836	Sesquicentennial
Dubois	Jochum	1912	Centennial
Dubois	Rauscher - Thieman	1838	Centennial & Sesquicentennial
Dubois	Winkenhofer - Thieman	1841	Centennial & Sesquicentennial
Fayette	Sykes	1845	Centennial & Sesquicentennial
Harrison	Eisenmenger	1869	Sesquicentennial
Harrison	Stoner - Watson - Yates	1859	Centennial & Sesquicentennial
Howard	Alice L. Maish & Myron E. Maish	1860	Sesquicentennial
Howard	Peters	1908	Centennial
Huntington	Felton	1917	Centennial
Jasper	Wortley	1911	Centennial
LaGrange	Foster - Oliver	1881	Centennial
LaPorte	Shurte Family Farm	1854	Centennial & Sesquicentennial
Madison	Blake	1866	Sesquicentennial
Miami	Graham - Scott	1893	Centennial
Miami	Vincent	1865	Sesquicentennial
Montgomery	Goff - Clark	1912	Centennial
Newton	William Frederick Stath	1890	Centennial
Noble	Piper/McLallin	1869	Sesquicentennial
Parke	Thomas D. Thompson & Vera M. Lear	1886	Centennial
Pulaski	Leonard Farms Incorporated	1868	Sesquicentennial
Putnam	Alcorn	1918	Centennial
Ripley	Merkel	1864	Centennial & Sesquicentennial
Ripley	Jager	1866	Centennial & Sesquicentennial
Ripley	Raab	1866	Sesquicentennial
Rush	Hodson	1913	Centennial
Spencer	Adolph Hurm	1869	Sesquicentennial
Spencer	Lloyd, Linegar & Richards	1909	Centennial
Spencer	Richard & Loyce Gries (Arnold)	1902	Centennial
Spencer	Lueken	1868	Sesquicentennial
Spencer	Lloyd	1848	Sesquicentennial
Tippecanoe	Kirkpatrick	1841	Sesquicentennial
Tipton	Newlon	1849	Centennial & Sesquicentennial
Vermillion	Hughes	1834	Sesquicentennial
Vermillion	Redman	1914	Centennial
Vigo	Kessel	1901	Centennial
Vigo	Fred L. Wilson, Jr.	1817	Sesquicentennial & Bicentennial
Wabash	Dennis Keith Gilbert	1919	Centennial
Warrick	Lamar	1916	Centennial
Wells	Kreigh	1869	Sesquicentennial
Wells	White's Tangelwood Farm	1837	Sesquicentennia