Hello, Cathie
In the court order books - Court of Common Pleas (Probate) - of Ohio
County INdiana..................I have found
entries where:
Be it known that on this stated day personally appeared in the
clerks office of the Ohio Circuit Court,
then gives name and "reports himself for naturalization; then it states
native of country of , the age and going on that it is his intention
to become a citizen and renounces all allegiance to country from which
he is coming.
I have been unable to find any but the one reference for the person I
search.
The 1900 census will give you the year they came to USofA, N/A
(naturalized alien), and year of naturalization.
A lot of the entries I saw were for the late 1860's and for the 1870's.
Many of them are from Germany, but I remember seeing a few other
countries.
In Ohio County, Indiana, I am researching the family of OBERTATE.
John came to Rising Sun in 1872,
married Catherine Louise Hunting in 1874, and petitioned for
naturalization in 1876.
Also researching the RAKER (Raeker) family of Rising Sun and Hunter's
Bottom, Carroll Co. KY.
All from Hannover Germany ( Buer and Markendorff ).
Phyllis Counts Raker