This Website was last updated on March 08, 2012

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Graphic by Vickie

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Four Corners (originally was Buena Vista),
Spencer Township, Jennings County, Indiana, USA

Click here to see a Map to Four Corners

Click here to learn more about the Krackenberger House and Farm

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I would like to dedicate this entire web site
to the memory of my Mother and Father:
Graphic by Vickie
Mary Edith (Henley) (Downs) Krackenberger
and
Leo Adam Krackenberger

Hello, my name is Richard Leo Krackenberger.   I retired from Eli Lilly & Co. December 31, 1993.   At the time of my retirement I was a machine designer in the Capsule Operations Department at the Kentucky Avenue plant site in Indianapolis, Indiana.   I worked for Eli Lilly & Co. for thirty years.   One of my favorite hobbies has always been genealogy and since my retirement I have been able to spend a lot more time on this hobby.   I am married to Carolyn S. (Sue)(Ballard) Krackenberger.   We have two grown daughters, Vickie J. Strode and Carolyn D. (Diane) VanGorden and five terrific grandchildren.   One girl and four boys. Brandy, Brian, Bobby, Tyler and Marlin Jr.   My wife, Sue, and I are proud to announce that we now have four great-grandchildren. Two girls and two boys.

I am a genealogy NUT as are many of us.   Once you have been bitten by the genealogy bug, you are bitten for life.   I have been researching my family tree since about 1980.   I continuously am adding to this data base as I find new connections.  I have a very large data base of names at the present and it is a never ending hobby.   Not all of my database in on this website so if you have question please email me.   Please be sure to visit my daughter's web site (Vickie's Genealogy Home Page) listed below in my favorite links.

I am, at present, trying to make a connection with the Krackenberger lines in Sheboygan, Wisconsin and also the state of Washington.   I am also researching the following names: Ballard, Bischoff, Chasteen, Clark, Daeger, Dagler, Davis, Downs, Hauersperger, Henley, Hubbell, Krackenberger, Longacre, Maschino, Maschinot, Pottenger, Taylor, Vawter, Vogel and many, many more.   If you think that any of the above names might be some of your relatives too, please check the surnames below and/or contact me by e-mail and we will check them out together.

CLICK HERE TO SEARCH A SURNAME

This photo was taken sometime during the year 1938, the year my parents were married.   They both had children from a previous marriage.   My Father's first wife, Veronica Elizabeth Munier passed away on the 31st of Oct. 1937 leaving him alone with three children to raise and my Mother's first husband, Richard Courtney Downs passed away on the 23rd of Apr. 1936 leaving her alone with three children to raise.   How my Mother and Father met I have yet to learn.

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If you have any questions or comments please e-mail me at: rlkcc@comcast.net

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