How does one qualify for pioneer status?
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From: Mary2gard(a)aol.com
To: INCLAY-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Elijah Orman
Date: Monday, May 17, 1999 9:00 PM
Pioneers of Ohio
Submitted by
<A HREF="mailto:GFS Diana(a)AOL.com">GFS Diana(a)AOL.com</A>
AfteNancy Hicks and Tillman Chance are the first marriage in the Owen
County,
Indiana, Marriage Book #1, married October 14, 1819. The story goes
that
the
wedding was held at the home of Nancy's father, Samuel Hicks, in
Freedom
Township. They had to grind their own flour, so Nancy recruited her
brothers
to "pound" the grain to make flour for her wedding cake.
The minister
was
quite amused by this, and quipped "it's not many brides who
can say they
had
'pound cake' for their wedding cake."
Nancy and Tillman were married for nearly 50 years, and their daughter,
Diana
Chance and her husband Elijah Orman, qualify for Pioneer status in
both
Indiana and Iowa.
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