Hello. I'm a new subscriber to this list, as of last night when I
discovered I'd had family in this area at one time.
My ggrandmother, Ellen Richards Verran, in 1897-98, was in this county
in Indiana, where her oldest child, about 3 years of age, named Arleigh
or Harley or Harold, died. Supposedly he only had 2 outfits of clothing
and when he got the first one wet, the other wasn't dry yet either, and
he got a fever and died and was buried immediately. I think he really
had diptheria. We cannot find any information about him except stories
that have been passed down. Aren't even sure of his name. They called
him Arleigh, but when his younger sister (my grandmother that never knew
him, as she wasn't born until 1899) had her first son, her aunt told her
to name him after her brother...Harold. Which she did. Later we find
that Arleigh or Harley is probably more correct.
When my mother was a child, she recalls visiting a cemetery somewhere in
that area, where her grandmother, Ellen Richards Verran Hage (Arleigh's
mother), mother and aunt (sisters of Arleigh), got out of the car and
walked to his grave. We are beginning to wonder if his last name wasn't
Richards...and his mother wasn't married, for all the hush-hush going
on. But she DID marry Philip Verran at some time. Anyway...I'm looking
for an OLD cemetery in that area that might have records of those buried
there. Do you know of any? Thanks.
Joanne Scobee Morgan