Most of my info comes from Shinn, Benjamin G. Ed. 1914. Blackford and Grant Counties, Indiana. Vol. 1. Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. p. 222: German or Pennsylvania Dutch parentage
moved from VA to OH; to Blackford Co. IN, “new land in†Harrison Twp in 1847.
Farmed till 1849-50, then went to CA for gold rush. Letters stopped suddenly after about 2 yrs, presumed dead. (Full passage follows)
“She [daughter Margaret Teach] was fourteen years of age, in 1847, when she came to Harrison township, Blackford county, with her parents, John and Ann (Muster) Teach, the former of whom was born February 10, 1803, and the latter November 5, 1802, both being natives of Pennsylvania. Mr. Teach was of either German or Pennsylvania Dutch parentage, while Mrs. Teach was of Irish stock. They were married in 1830, and with their family came from Virginia to Ohio and then to Blackford county, Indiana, in 1847, locating on new land in Harrison township, where they cut out and started to make a farm. First a log cabin was erected and Mr. Teach engaged in agricultural pursuits until 1849, when he became infected by the gold fever which swept over the country following the discovery of the precious metal in California, and made the trip to that state. He was heard of for two years, but soon his letters ceased abruptly, and nothing more was ever heard of him. His widow, believing that he had met a violent death, after many years was married to Robert Duffey, and during the seventies moved to Lincoln County, Kansas, where both died when past seventy-five years of age, Mrs. Duffey July 21, 1878, and Mr. Duffey a year or two before. They had no children. By her first marriage, Mrs. Teach had the following children: William Johnson, born April 1, 1831, died in Kansas, when quite old, after a career spent in agricultural pursuits, married Elizabeth Duffy, deceased, and left a family; Margaret E. became the wife of Andrew J. Shannon; Avilda C., born December 18, 1841, in Ohio, married Jacob Simonton, October 10, 1861, and died June 16, 1913, her husband passing away September 23, 1913, and leaving a family of three children,—Asbury E., married, and an oil worker in Oklahoma; Margaret Ann, the wife of George M. Rains, living on a farm in Harrison township; and C. Meta, the wife of John Fox, of Montpelier.â€