History of Daviess County, Kentucky, Inter-State Publishing Co., 
Chicago, 1883.  Reprinted by McDowell Publications, Utica, KY, 1980.  p. 
653.

LOUIS RIGHTMEYER was born in Pennsylvania in 1825, and lived there till 
twenty-one years of age.  He then moved to Evansville, Ind., and lived 
two years, when he enlisted in Captain Walker's Company, Second Indiana 
Infantry, and served a year in the Mexican war; was with General Taylor 
in the three days' fight at Buena Vista.  After the close of the war he 
returned to Evansville.  He was married Jan. 1, 1850, to Matilda 
Meissner, a native of Saxony, Germany, born in 1832.  They have nine 
children--Margaret, Robert, Emma, John, Catharine, Elam, Eli, J. H., 
William S.  Mr. Rightmeyer has 102 acres of fine land five miles west of 
Owensboro.  Politically he is a Democrat.

Rightmeyer Walker Taylor Meissner
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PA Evansville_Vanderburgh-IN Germany

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