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Columbus (IN) Daily Herald, October 8, 1897, p. 4.
Fred Obear is moving his family from Franklin Street near Thirteenth to
Kansas City, Mo. Mr. Obear recently moved his family here from Millville,
Ark.
Columbus (IN) Daily Herald, October 8, 1897, p. 3.
Alexander Clarkson died at the home of his parents in East Columbus this
morning at three o'clock, aged 17 years. He had been sick about a week with
malarial fever but was not considered at all dangerous until Thursday
evening he was taken suddenly worse with heart failure resulting in death a
few hours later.
Columbus (IN) Daily Herald, October 8, 1897, p. 3.
Mrs. Creighton, mother of Mrs. George Clutch, died at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Clutch in Maple Grove at one o'clock this afternoon.
Columbus (IN) Daily Herald, October 8, 1897, p. 3. See also obit for Nora
Treadway.
Nora, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cavanaugh , died at her home on
Sixteenth Street at seven o'clock Thursday night of spinal meningitis, aged
four years.
Calumet (MI) Country Evening News, July 28, 1898, p. 6.
Calvin Stewart, 14 years old, was drowned while swimming in White River at
Washington, Indiana.
Deming (NM) Graphic, November 5, 1909, p. 1.
MORAN-KRETZ NUPTIALS
Mr. Ed. F. Moran, a leading businessman and citizen of Deming, led Miss
Josephine Kretz to the hymeneal alter in El Paso Saturday, Rev. Father Roy
Officiating. Miss Kretz is a popular and accomplished young lady of
Washington, Ind. The Graphic extends best wishes.
Indianapolis (IN) Journal, August 18, 1902, p. 3.
CHURCH OPENING AND BASKET MEETING
Salem, Ind., August 17-The Church of Christ, which recently purchased the
Catholic Church building, opened it here today without formal dedication, by
a great basket meeting attended by hundreds of persons. The dinner was
served in Court Park, and the services were conducted by the Rev. H. H.
Adamson of Ellettsville, Ind.
Indianapolis (IN) News, November 30, 1895, p. 6.
UNCONSCIOUS FOR DAYS
David Zink of Salem Disabled by a Fractured Skull
Salem, Ind., November 30-David Zink has lain unconscious for several days
due to a blow that he received in the so-called "City Restaurant," which
adjoins what is known as the Turf Saloon owned by Peter G. Chastam (sic)
with Harvey Fulmer as bartender. Several affrays appear to have occurred in
the saloon during the day. James Young had his eyes blackened. The city
marshal, entering the room, saw Zink pushed off a high stool by Fulmer, and
Young claimed that Zink had previously been struck with a loaded "billy."
Both Zink and Fulmer were arrested, but the next day Zink's condition became
so alarming that the sheriff had him taken home. Fulmer was arrested and
placed under heavier bonds. The Salem Sun, of this week, makes a vigorous
attack on the saloon and restaurant asserting that it is a plague spot and
that the time has come to stop the lawlessness.
Indianapolis (IN) News, April 23, 1900, p. 11.
AN EPIDEMIC OF PNEUMONIA
Salem, Ind., April 23-Cornelius Spaulding, Sr., and his wife, an aged couple
living near this city, died of pneumonia and were interred in the same
grave. A brother of Mr. Spaulding and a sister of Mr. Spaulding have since
been stricken with the same disease and are not expected to survive. They
are quite old. There are a number of other cases of pneumonia in that
neighborhood while several have died.
Source: Monroe County (IN) Civil Court Records, Box 319, Monroe County
History Center, Bloomington, Indiana. The item noted below was abstracted
by Randi Richardson from one of the original documents in the file.
In September 1877, Malinda J. Keplinger sued her husband, Samuel Keplinger
for divorce. She said she had been living in Monroe County, Indiana, for at
least six months prior to filing her petition. She said, further, that she
married her husband in Spencer County on an unspecified date in the 1870s,
that since the marriage she had been mistreated and left without support.
She asked for alimony in the amount of $1,000 from her husband's expected
inheritance at the death of his mother.
Scottsburg (IN) Journal, November 11, 1914, p. 5.
Scott and Harrison Murphy, west of town, raised 77 (sic) tons of pumpkins on
32 acres besides 35 bushels of good corn to the acre.
Scottsburg (IN) Journal, November 11, 1914, p. 4.
Frank Peregrine and wife visited relatives at Flora and Mt. Vernon, Ill.,
last week. They visited their uncle, Tom Jackson, whom they had not seen
for 33 years, and found him in poor health. He is 74 years old, an
ex-soldier, and formerly lived here. He sends his best wishes to all his
old Scott County friends.
Scottsburg (IN) Journal, November 11, 1914, p. 4.
Thelma, the little three-year-old daughter of Lenna (sic) Chasteen, died
last Tuesday and was buried at Wesley Chapel Thursday, Rev. Kisner conducted
the funeral.
Scottsburg (IN) Journal, November 11, 1914, p. 1.
MRS. GEORGE VEST DEAD
Mrs. Lillian Vest, aged 20, died yesterday, Tuesday, at the home of her
father-in-law, Emerson Vest, in Johnson Township. She had been at a
hospital for treatment and had returned home. On last Friday her attending
physician determined that a Caesarian operation should be performed as a
last chance to save her life. This was done between midnight and four
o'clock Saturday morning by Dr. Garland Sherrill of Louisville, but the
patient continued to sink until the end came yesterday at eleven o'clock.
Mrs. Vest was a daughter of Robert L. Whitsitt and was known and loved by a
large circle of friends who mourn her sad and untimely demise. She had been
married to George Vest a year and fifteen days. Besides her husband and
parents, she leaves three sisters and one brother, Edgar Whitsitt.
The funeral will occur tomorrow, Thursday at ten o'clock from the home of
Emerson Vest. The interment will be in Scottsburg Cemetery.
Scottsburg (IN) Journal, November 11, 1914, p. 1.
CIRCUIT COURT-State of Indiana vs. James Cooper for petit larceny, plead
guilty. Court finds his age to be 16, and he is sentenced to Indiana
Reformatory for a period of two to five years and fined $10.00. This is the
old woman and her son who obtained a gold ring and $4.00 from Marion
Anderson on a fraudulent check.
Bloomington (IN) Newsletter, August 18, 1855, p. 2.
Died on Monday the 13th inst., at Bloomington, Larkin Reynolds, Esq.,
likewise a member of the bar in good standing. He leaves a widow and two
small children. May he who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb remember them
in the dark hour of their adversity.
Bloomington (IN) Newsletter, August 18, 1855, p. 2.
DIED-on Saturday night the 11th inst., at Bedford, George H. Monson
(consider Munson a spelling variant), Esq., of dysenteric fever. Mr. Monson
was about 30 years of age at the time of his death and had acquired a
reputation for ability as a lawyer. We sincerely sympathize with the
bereaved friends of the deceased in the hour of their affliction.
Robert Smith, editor, THE FRIEND: RELIGIOUS AND LITERARY JOURNAL, Vol. 1,
(Philadelphia: John Richardson, 1829), p. 364. NOTE: The item below was
abbreviated from the original as noted by the ellipsis.
Thomas Lindley, son of Jonathan, died the 5th day of the 5th months, 1828,
aged 46 years and ten days. For many years he had been an active member of
Lick Creek monthly meeting.
USDA Forest Service, Lick Creek African American Settlement, 8/2012,
available online at
http://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5303625.pdf. Note the
item below was abbreviated from the original as shown by the ellipsis.
The first African Americans (consider negro and colored as spelling
variants) settlers came to Orange County, Indiana, before 1820. Led by
Jonathan Lindley, eleven families traveled with a group of sympathetic
Quakers in search of a new land which forbade slavery. Jonathan Lindley
settled in Orange County in 1811, five years before the county was
established and Indiana became a state.
By 1860, 260 blacks lived in Orange County. Almost a third of them lived in
Southeast Township in the Lick Creek African American Settlement, at that
time a racially integrated community.