This website contains photos and some history of the family, ancestors and relatives of Frederick (Ted) Martin Applegate of Corydon, Indiana, and his wife, Margaret (Maggie) Patten Applegate of Morristown, Indiana. Ted and Maggie had five daughters: Ann, Sue, Grace, Fredrica, and Barbara.
Ted Applegate was born and raised in Corydon and married Margaret Eliza Patten, of Morristown, Indiana, secretly in 1928 on Labor Day weekend.  They married again, officially, on March 2, 1929. Ted was a General Practitioner physician in Corydon, and practiced out of his home office on Walnut Street. They and their five daughters lived in Corydon until September, 1948.  The family then moved to Connecticut while Ted studied ophthalmology at New York Polyclinic.  In May of 1949, the family moved to Monahans, Texas, and Ted opened his medical practice there, specializing in eye, ear, nose and throat. Ted died from a heart attack in April, 1959, at the age of 55. Margaret died in December, 1981, at the age of 75.
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Weekend_in_Stamford_1948: Â Newspaper article about the family’s move in 1948 to Stamford, Connecticut.
05141972_Maggie_TTU: Â 1972 article in the Lubbock newspaper about Maggie being a dorm mother.
Ted and Maggie, 1928
Frederick Martin (Ted) Applegate age 25
Maggie, about 20 years
Reference for Ted from Indiana Governor Branch, 1925.
Reference for Ted from wife of Indiana Governor Branch, 1925.
Ted’s certificate to allow him to enter Indiana medical schools, 1926
Ted’s license to practice medicine in Harrison County, IN
Maggie and Ann Applegate 1932
Ted and Ann Applegate 1932
Ted, Ann George Applegate II (Papa)
Ann and Maggie Applegate_1933
Ted Applegate and unknown lady
Ted, Rica, Grace, Dottie Dachshund, Jan 1943
Ted, Ann, Sue, Grace, maybe Bill Buchanan
Captain Ted Applegate
Margaret Patten (Maggie) Applegate age 25
Ted 1943
Newspaper clipping about move to Ft. Bliis, 1942
Ted, Maggie, girls 1943
Ted, Maggie, girls 1943
Ted, Army photo, Feb. 16, 1943, removing a 2 inch splinter at field 1st aid station; far West Texas.
Ted, Army photo, Feb. 16, 1943, back
Ted Applegate Army photo, 1943
Ted Applegate Army photo, 1943
Ted Applegate, 1945
Article about Ted Applegate’s office nurse, dated Aug. 12, 1942
Article about Ted Applegate’s office nurse, dated July 30, 1942
Ted, Army pay card, June 14, 1945
Ted, Grace, Rica, Sue 1943
Ted, Maggie, girls 1943
Ted, Dec. 29, 1944
Dec. 29, 1944
Ann on right, Rica, Barb, unknown
Ann on right, Rica, Barb, unknown
Rica, Grace, Barb, Sue 1948
Rica, Ann, Barb, Sue, Grace_1944
Ann, Barb, Rica, Grace, Sue 1944
Ann, Grace, Sue, Ted, 1947
Back of our Corydon house
Side of our Corydon house, where Ted’s office was
Our Corydon house, on right
Sue, Ann, Barb, Grace, Rica 1944. Dr. Daniel’s (our great-grandfather) house is to the right.
Barb, Sue, Rica, Grace, Mary Ann Kirkham 1947
Barb, Ford Miles, Grace, Rica, Jackie Miles, unknown girl
Ann, Barb, Sue, Grace, Rica 1944
Corydon’s Anna M. Applegate Presbyterian girls choir
Sue on Nellie, Maggie, Ann on Ted, Grace on Lady, Rica on Lightning, Ted, Barb on Skippy, 1947
Maggie, 1944
Maggie, 1944
Maggie, 1944
Sue, Grace, Rica, Ann
Ted Applegate’s childhood home in Corydon
Ted and Barb with her Kachina doll from Wyandotte Cave
Applegate girls, Christmas 1944
Applegate girls, Christmas 1944
Sue, Maggie, Ann, Grace, Rica, Ted, Barb 1947
Our Corydon home, probably winter 1946
Maggie, about age 40
Article about Ted, 1940, Corydon Democrat newspaper.
Ted Applegate Rx form
1940 article on Harrison County physicians
Grace, Geo Applegate II (Papa), Ann, Rica, Sue, Barb, Nicky 1944
Ruth Faith, Ted Applegate’s nurse
Rica, Grace, Ruth Faith, Barb, Sue 1947
Maggie and Ted, about 1947
Sue, Ann, Grace, Rica 1941
Grace, Ann, Rica, Sue 1944
Ted and Lightning, Grace’s horse in Corydon
Ted riding, about 1948
Daddy, Mother and Grace at Wyandotte, 1947
Ted in Stamford, CT 1948
Ted, Lady, Nellie, Skippy in Corydon 1947
Our Corydon home in 1939. Our great-grandfather’s (Dr. William Daniel) house and small office is to the right.
Back of our Corydon house
Maggie in front of Corydon home
Nicky, our dog in Corydon, after Dottie
Cousin Susanne Evans, Grace, Sue, Rica
Lowell and Mabel Sibert, owners of the farm in White Cloud, where we loved to visit
Grace’s plan, 1947
Christmas card from Annis and Dowl McGrain of Corydon
Maggie, Grace, Ted, Barb, Rica, Sue, getting ready to leave Corydon for Stamford, Oct. 1948
Ted, Sue, Barb, Maggie, Rica Grace, getting ready to leave Corydon for Stamford, Oct. 1948
Getting ready to leave Corydon for Stamford, Oct. 1948
Rica, Barb, Sue, Grace, Stamford school, 1948
Ted in Stamford, CT 1948
Applegate girls on beach, Stamford, CT 1948
Ted and Maggie, Big Bend, 1949
Ted and Barb, Big Bend of Texas, 1949
Maggie and Ted, 1950, Monahans
Ann on Grasshopper, Sue on Tack, Grace on Lady Gardner, Rica on Joe, Barb on Baby, with Larry Skylstad, 1950
Sue on fence, Grace on Lady Gardner, Robbie Ramsey on Joe, Rica on Baby, 1950
Rica (in back) and Grace on Old Dun, Monahans
Lady or Ribbon, Monahans
Ted in Sheriff’s Posse outfit, 1951, Monahans
Ted, Barb, Sue, May 1952
Dee Ann and Dolores Patten, Rica, Barb, Maggie, Aug. 1952
Ted, 1950, Monahans
Ted and Maggie
Maggie and Ted, Monahans house
Ted and Maggie, May 1952
Sue, Rica, Barb, Maggie, Ted, about 1951
Ted and Maggie 1953, in front of our 1949 Buick station wagon
Ted in Ruidoso, 1953
Ted, Ann, Grace, Pete, 1956, swimming at Fort Stockton
Ted about 1956
Sue, Rica, Barb, Ted, about 1952
Ann, Sue, Grace, Rica, Barb, Ted, Maggie, Pete, Julie, Monahans 1957
Maggie, Ted, Barb, Rica, about 1950
Medical society dinner at Applegate’s in Monahans
Ted on left, about 1957
Sue, Monahans
Grace, Ted, Sue_1957
Maggie, Ted, Grace, Sue
Maggie, Ted, Great Dane Peter Pan in family room of Monahans house, 1958
Medical society dinner, Monahans
Ted in front of his office, May 1952, Monahans
Ted and Maggie at Ann’s wedding, April 1954
Ted, about 1950
Maggie, Grace, Ted, Pete Skylstad, swimming in Fort Stockton, about 1958
Sue, Ted, Grace, 1951
Ted at pump house door, Monahans
Ted driving 1949 Buick station wagon
Maggie, Ted, Bobbie (Grace Daniel Applegate), and Ann’s first-born, Peter Skylstad, 1955
Ted, Ann, Bobbie, Pete, Maggie, Larry, Barb, Rica_1955
Grandmother Bobbie, Grandfather Patty Doc, Ann and Pete, 1955
Ted, Ann, Bobbie, Pete, Grace, Maggie, Barb, Rica, 1955
Grandmother Bobbie, Grandfather Patty Doc, Ann and Pete, 1955
Larry Skylstad, Patty Doc (V.C. Patten), Ted and Pete Skylstad, 1955
Maggie, Bobbie (Grace Daniel Applegate), Ann, Pete Skylstad, 1955
Bobbie holding Pete, Patty Doc, Grace, Larry, Ted, 1955
Ted, about age 54
Maggie, about age 52
Ted and Maggie 30th anniversary, Monahans, Sept. 1958
Ted, Monahans, 1959, 30th wedding anniversary
Barb, Rica, Grace, Sue, Ann, Sept. 1958
Maggie and Mary E. Cooper, Monahans Country Club
Our house in Monahans
Ted’s obituary, April 1959
Maggie, Ann, Sue, Grace, Barb, 1966
Rica, Maggie, Sue, Grace, Ann, Barb, 1967
Grace, Ann, Barb, Sue, Richard, Larry, Don, Dick, 1966
Maggie’s obituary, 1981
Ann, Rica, Grace, Barb, Sue, 1986
Sue, Grace, Barb, Rica, Ann, April, 1999, New Braunfels reunion
Sue, Ann, Laura Etta Sibert Leffler, Barb, Grace, reunion in Texas, Sept. 2001
Hands of the 5 Applegate girls, April 1999
Corydon house
Grace in front of Corydon house, 1998
Back of Corydon house
Anna M Applegate Presbyterian Church, Corydon
Battle of Corydon sign
Corydon church
Old State Capitol, Corydon
Ted’s office in Monahans, 1949
Monahans swimming pool, 1949
Monahans News building, 1949
Monahans Court House, 1949
Monahans Country Club, 1949
Monahans main street, 1949
Pg. 1, Applegates in Monahans, written by Maggie
Pg. 2, Applegates in Monahans, written by Maggie
Pg. 3, Applegates in Monahans, written by Maggie
Pg. 4, Applegates in Monahans, written by Maggie
Ted Applegate’s 1929 graduation class, Indiana University Medical School
Applegate Sisters of Corydon, Indiana 
Anonymous said:
Hurray, thanks I have felt so guilty to have lost touch, your Dad was the start of a wonderful journey of research and new friends cheers Nance x
Nancy Grace said:
Hi all, Wow the internet is amazing, I have tried to make contact via various old email addresses now and then over the last 10 years or so but no luck. I thought I would just search Ted Applegate in a hope to make contact and here you are 🙂 Its Nancy the archaeologist from the National Trust in England. We have blogged about the army hospital and still use your Dads picture you kindly let us have a copy of and also snippets from the bits of letters you sent us. I also have a few spare copies of the book that your Dad appeared in if you would like more copies I can send them over. We have had more pictures form other families I need to have a close look in case your Dad appears in any, I think I have seen him in some. Would be lovely to make contact again. cheers Nancy
Barb D. said:
Nancy, it is wonderful that you found our website. I am Grace’s younger sister and forwarded your comment to her and our 3 other sisters so they’ll be sure to see it. It is so nice to hear from you!
Jane said:
Barb,
This looks great! Thank you from my generation and all those to follow. Love to you.
Barb D. said:
Jane, thanks so much! I haven’t worked on it for a while. Maybe this winter I can start writing up some fun family history and stories. I do love the photos!
Anonymous said:
Oh, man, nice array of excellent pictures, Barb! 9/23/2014
Grace