Establishing Historic Landmark - 5450 S. Miami

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legal description 120' X 198' on Miami beginning 1917.9' south of NW corner NWT section 31, township 37, Range 3E Key Number 23 -1036 -1845 historical notes Title to this property was first entered in 1831 by Rev. Jacob Bowman, who came to St. Joseph County from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, with his wife and nine children. They built a log house and cleared and cultivated the farm. Bowman also served as pastor of the Dunkard Church. After his death the property was deeded to one of his daughters, Eliza- beth Briggs. She sold it to John Barnhart in 1848, who in turn sold it to Christian Wenger in 1851. Wenger sold it the following year to Adam Kollar. Adam Kollar was born in Rockbridge, Virginia in April 27, 1793. He moved with his father to Ohio, and in 1852, moved to St. Joseph County and bought this property. He built a new house on this site in 1862. He and his wife, Heste.r.Ann, had twelve children, including Belinda, who married John Wertz. Adam deeded the property to them in 1865. They lived here until 1872, when they sold it to Mathew Matthews, who in turn sold it the same year to Edward Jackson. Born in 'Pennsylvania, July 1827, Jackson moved with his parents the following year to Ohio, where they stayed for 26 years. In 1854 the Jackson family came to South Bend. They purchased a home in Union Township, where, with his father and brothers, Edward conducted a sawmill. He married Eliza Bolin on October 20, 1859. Eliza was born in Ohio and came to St. Joseph County in 1852..They purchased this property from.Matthews in 1872. The Jackspn's had five children, Emma, Charles, Oliver, Frank and Neva. Eliza died in 1884, and in 1896,- Edward gave the property, consisting. of 139 acres, to his two daughters, Emma and Neva. The 1862 house burned down in the same year on the original Jackson, who at that time was whom nothing is known. He had the property to-Harry and Kat 1908 and the present house was built foundation. It was built for Neva married to someone named Miller, about apparently died by the time Neva sold herine Matthews in 1922. Harry Matthews died in 1946 and -his wife rented the property to John and Betty McIntyre, who purchased it in 1951. They sold it to a developer, Albert Nall, 1959, who.subdivided the farmland, He sold the house in 1973 to Jack Wilhelm, who lost it two years later in a foreclosure. It was purchased by the current owners, Walter and Donna Nemeth. source of information 1979 Assessment Card Higgins 1875 Atlas of St. Joseph County, page 104 Deed Record: See attached sheets Howards' History of St. Joseph_ County, pages 881, 1081, and 1116