David,
I wish I could help you, but I have just started researching Franklin
County, Indiana myself. Mormon records show that my gg-grandparents,
Daniel Johnson and Caroline Owen, were married there in 1839. I am
trying to locate their ancestors.
Good hunting,
Richard Sanders
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From: Crombie
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Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 10:21 PM
Subject: Franklin co, Ind
Hello,
Your name and email are on the Franklin co, Ind US GenWeb page. Not
sure if you are currently involved with Franklin co or not.
My gt grandfather wrote a sort of autobiography in 1913. In it he
mentioned that his father (William McKown) had been married at age 19
(apx 1805) and lived in PA. There were several children from this
marriage of which gt grandfather only mentioned two in any detail, Jane
McKown b 1810 married William Augar and Martha McKown b 1816 who married
Jesse H. Perry. The first wife died and William married again in Ohio
before moving many times. Using
Ancestry.com, I have managed to track
these families in Ohio, Illinois and Indiana. In many cases it appears
that William's two daughters w/ families lived in the same place as did
William.
Jane McKown Augar, according to my gt grandfather lived to be an old
woman and died in Laurel (Franklin co) Indiana. I am hoping that there
might be some local record that would provide her death date, and
perhaps some detail about her life. All the connected McKowns were in
Fulton co Ill for the 1840 census and both Jane McKown Augar w William
and their children and Martha McKown Perry w Jesse and their children
are in the 1850 census of Franklin co, Ind. I can not find William
Augar in the 1860 Franklin co census, but Jane is there. By 1870 she is
gone but son Alonzo is there and in 1880 son Spencer (S.C.) is there. I
am guessing that William Augar died before the 1860 census, and it would
appear that Jane McKown Augar died between 1860-1870.
I don't know how many cemeteries there are in Laurel or if cemetery
records go back to 1860. As with many surnames, the spelling of Augar
is rather loose, Augear, Augur, Ager, etc. Are there any probate
indexes that list William Augar or Jane McKown Augar that would provide
a clue as to their death date?
What do you charge for researching Franklin co records and do you think
records might exist? If you don't personally do researching, can you
refer me to someone there who is familiar with the local records and
could determine if cemetery, probate and newspaper records would exist
from apx 1850 onward?
Thank you for your time.
Sincerely yours,
David Crombie
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