I certainly appreciate and am glad to have found this e-mail list.
I am specifically trying to find information to tell me who my maternal
grandfather's parents were.
John Stump.
I have a birthdate of about 1895 marrying my grandmother Lillian Dawson on
29 Mar 1919.
Date of Death is listed about 1937.
In 1920 Census Grant Co IN he's listed as 24, factory laborer, living in
Mills.
In 1930 Census he is listed as 34, farming laborer, living in Marion.
My mother was born in 1920 in Gas City and I remember her telling me that
she was 13 when he died, which would be 1933. She said he was shot over a
piano debt or something like that. A death certificate would give me a
place to look for this story if that's what happened.
There was a notation that perhaps his obituary was in the Elkhart Truth News
Paper. So maybe they were all living there when he died.. I really don't
know for sure. In that case, I'll make some phone calls.
My mother went to live with other relatives or family friends. Glen and
Hazel Pierce in Gas City until she married her first husband at a young age
15-17. She never saw her mother again nor did she know she had a sister 17
yr younger who is still living.
I am not sure if John Stump died in Grant County but I think probably so.
Just thinking, since the obituary was in Elkhart, IN maybe that's where his
family are from.
Now if that's not complicated enough.. I'm also looking for information on
an Eli Boswell who is buried in Marion. His son, Harry E Boswell was my
paternal great grandfather.
this is what I found listed about Eli's gravesite.
Boswell,
Eli died Apr. 13, 1892 aged 74y.7m.6d. May25,1817
Harry E. Apr. 8, 1862 - Mar. 29, 1910
Rosie L. dau of E. & T. Boswell died May 26, 1882 aged 22y.3m.11d.
Tamar wife of Eli Boswell died July 29, 1882 aged 53y.8m.17d.
I found information that Tamar or Thamer Longfellow indeed was the mother of
Harry E. Boswell and Eli was his father. Harry married Sydney M. Sharon 10
Jul 1869 and they had 4 children. Ethel, Madeline, Rosa and William Guy.
Rosa Fern Boswell married my paternal grandfather Charles Wilson Hendey.
So.. it's a mystery where Eli Boswell and Thamer may have been born but they
were married in Wayne Co, IN and ended up in Marion.
Thanks for reading all this.. any sort of information will be fantastic
news.
Jennette
----- Original Message -----
From: <judinclark(a)sbcglobal.net>
To: <INGRANT-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 5:08 PM
Subject: Re: [INGRANT] birth certificates
Hi,
I have been reading.
I live in Grant county, Marion actually.
Close to the Library also, can I help in anyway?
Save a long distance call perhaps?
Also, do you look into the Library web site?
Judi