Nancy,
Caroline, Emma, and Daniel Baggs are in the 1880 Census in Peru, along with
a servant and a farm laborer. Did Henry die or just take off? After
emailing with Kathie Donahue I believe Caroline to be an older child and
daughter of Henry and Charlotte Landgrave whose other children were George,
Philip, and Dorothy according to the 1850 Census, Washington, Miami County.
Caroline was already married to Baggs by 1850 and had her first son Frances
in 1850and so is not listed with them. Do you have access to any wills in
which we might be able to show that Caroline is a daughter of Henry and
Charlotte? They have the same last name and were born in the same place in
Germany and live in the same county in Indiana but I would like to see the
connection in writing. I would also like to know where Henry Church came
from and where he went. He listed his birthplace as Virginia but there were
many Henry Churches. Any Help there?
Thank you,
Sandy
Thanks
-----Original Message-----
From: MmeDefarge [mailto:mmedefarge@attbi.com]
Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 6:41 PM
To: INMIAMI-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [INMIAMI-L] Henry Church
Hi, Sandy!
Whew! I'm relieved you knew about the Baggs connection and that my info
is apparently correct. I try to be careful when matching people in the
database.
About the "divorce" notice - it wasn't really a divorce at that time.
I
call them "Abandonments". And Henry's was very polite. The majority of
them say that the wife has left the husband's bed and board without any
provocation! (Ha!) Some of them are from parents saying they won't be
responsible for their children's debts.
I didn't find anything about an actual divorce for Henry Church and Mary
Caroline Landgrave Baggs Church, but unless it was something sensational,
the newspapers didn't have a lot about divorces. They DID have what we
would today call a Notice by Publication, but that was when of the parties
had left the area.
Thank you for the information about Caroline's last name (she always
went by Caroline except for the marriage to David Baggs when she is listed
as Mary Caroline). I have corrected my database so she now appears as a
Landgrave.
Nancy