The History of Hendricks County (Chicago: Interstate Publishing, 1885)--Clay Township, page 558
Simon Rammel, one of the pioneers of Hendricks County, was born in Franklin County, Ind., Nov.16, 1818, a son of Rev. Henry and Elizabeth P. (Heward) Rammel. Henry Rammel was a native of New Jersey, and a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church. He came to Indiana in 1817, and in 1828 to Hendricks County, and settled in Danville. He organized the first Methodist society in Center Township. He died Feb. 21, 1882, aged eighty-six years, one month and twenty-eight days. He was married three times and had a family of seven children, six of whom lived to maturity--Eli, a Methodist minister, died in Kansas in October, 1882; Simon; Elizabeth, deceased; James, of Nebraska; Ruth, of Illinois; Lydia A., deceased; Henry, deceased. Simon is the only member of the family living in Hendricks County. He is by trade a mason and has been one of the most industrious and enterprising citizens of Danville. He has served as Justice of the Peace twelve years. He has been twice married. His first wife was Lavina Ball, and to them were born four children--David, William, Eliza and James. His present wife was Cynthia A. Griggs.