Hello everyone. Here are some more articles from my Great Aunt's
scrapbooks. I hope they help someone.
Thank you-FRED
Fred's Family Page
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~findingyourfamily/fred.html
"OBITUARY"
"David H. Harris (my GREAT GRANDFATHER), was born in Tuscarawas Co.,
Ohio, March 26, 1851. He and his parents moved to Indiana when he was a
small child. He resided near and in Odon, Daviess County, until the fall
of 1899, when he and his family moved to Indianapolis. He married Martha
SOMMER, now deceased, June 11, 1880. To this union were born three
children - Ed HARRIS, Mrs. May Clutter and Mrs. Lillian Grimes( My Aunt
Lilly who saved all these wonderful scrapbooks and incuded some thing she
inherited as well), all living at home now. He has four grand children
living, and one deceased, and two great grandchildren. He has been as a
father also for quite a number of years to his wife's niece, Cindy
McBURNEY.
He was a master carpenter by trade having followed that skilled craft as
inherited from his German furniture maker ancestors. He followed that
trade until a fall injured him and left him unfit for manual labor.
He recently became a member of the Asbury Memorial Methodist Church. He
was a charter member of the Knights of Pythias Lodge in Odon, Indiana.
He depated this life Saturday, 1:25 AM, July 17, 1943, at his home, 223
Hiawatha St., after six months of suffering. Though his years were
numbered even beyond four score years and ten, his mind remainded clear
and active.
After church services, he was interred in the HARRIS family plot in Crown
Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis.
UPON THE EVENT OF HIS FATHER'S DEATH, HIS SON (MY GRANDFATHER) WROTE THE
FOLLOWING......
(My Grandfather was a camping and outing buddy of Indiana's own Hoosier
poet, James Whitcomb Riley, so if there are similarities of style, I can
understand)
"A FAMILY MEETING"
We are all we have
Father Mother Sisters Brother
Each chair is filled, we're all at home
Tonight let no cold stranger come
It is not often, thus around
Our old familiar hearth were found
So bless then the meeting and the spot
For once let every care be forgot
Let gentle peace assert here forever
And kind affection rule the hour
For we're all here.
Even they, the dead, though dead, so dear
Fond memories to their duty true
Bring back their faded form to view
How life through the mist of years
We now see them as in time long past
From each to each, kind looks we cast
We hear their words, their
smiles behold
They're round us, as they were of old
This may not long of us be said
For soon we too, must join the gathered dead
Then by some other hearth, we shall sit around
Oh, the that wisdom may we know
Which yields a life of peace below
So in this world to follow this
And each repeat these words of bliss
Bless God, we're all here---all here
By
Joseph Edgar HARRIS"
" OBITUARY"
"Joseph W. Seneff, after years of suffering and Consumption, died
Tuesday morning at 1:00am. Joe, as he was familiary known, was about 42
years old. He was a good citizen and a kind a friendly neighbor and an
exemplary gentleman. He was consistant member of the United Brethern
church of this place and his devotion to his religious duty was the
highest aim of his life. "How precious the love of Christ" and "I want
to be at home", were among his passions. He leaves a wife and four
children and a large circle of relatives to mourn his loss. His funeral
service was preached be the Rev Armen at the U B Church Wednesday
afternoon, after which his remains were place in their last resting place
in the Odon cemetery.
Novemeber 13, 1888"
"OBITUARY"
"Daniel Seneff died inDaviess County , Indiana, December 19th, 1877, aged
78 years, 19 months and 29 days. The subject of this notice was formerly
from the state of Ohio. He was coverted at the age of eighteen years,
and joined the Evengelical Association and was a member of that Church
until 1856 when he joined the United Brethern Churvch of which he was a
member until his death."
"OBITUARY"
"Susan Seneff, wife of Daniel Seneff, was born in Pennsylvania, and died
in Clarksburg, January 31, 1880, aged 73 years and two months. She
embraced religion at a very early age, and joined the Evengelical
Association of which she was a faithful member until the year 1856, when
she joined the United Brethern Church, in which she lived the balance of
her days. Her house for many years was a preaching point and a home for
the minister. She leaves five chidren, many grandchildren, and many
friends to mourn their loss. May they be reunited in Heaven."
"NEWS"
Clay City News (IN), July 1912
"Petticoats for 18 cents.
Outing flannel petticoats, in pink, blue of white, with fine stripe;
made with flounce; muslin band. Regular price 25 cents...Tuesday Special
....18 cents"
"Lawrenceburg-Certain persons have asked the Board of Education of this
city to seclude the picture of Frances E Willard which hangs on the walls
of the high school, until after the local option election has been held,
on the grounds that the likeness of the great Temperance worker would
have an effect of the local election results. (One can only IMAGINE what
THEY were voting on!)"
"Hartford City-Her objection to testifying against a neighbor is given as
the cause of the suicide of Mrs. F. H. Scott, 47. The Rev. Mr. Howard, a
minister of this city, is the defendant in a paternity suit brought by a
domestic of his family."
Have a wonderful 2003 everyone"
FRED