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Hi again list. How does one find out the township name where your relative
lived? I have absolutely no idea where they were except that they were in
French Lick in 1892. How would I find out?
Thanks again,
Debbie H.
SURNAMES: PAYTON, PENDLAY
Hi list. I am brand new to this list. Need information on the family of
Ulysses Grant PAYTON and Lillie Irene Gillham PAYTON. They were my
great-grandparents and had my grandmother, Bessie PAYTON. Bessie had 7
brothers and sisters, and she was born in French Lick on May 31, 1892. They
soon moved to Vincennes where she grew up. Any information or lookups on
birth records would be appropriate. Does anyone have any family roots in
the French Lick/Orange county area that may have any info, family stories,
etc., about this particular Payton family. Ulysses sometimes went just by
Grant. His wife, Lillie, died in 1908, from complications of pneumonia and
measles during pregnancy, in Vincennes.
Thanks everyone,
Debbie H.
Hello Listers:
Yes our LINDLEY history book is full of history of the orange Co. Also
, the Historical Society ladies are so nice. One of my cousins, LINDLEY
desc, Mrs. Marjorie Lapping is this year's President
They also put out a nice Annual...in 1995 or so.
Write her or call her and see what she can do for you
www. rootsweb.com/~inochs
PHS
PO Box 454 Paoli, IN 47454
Alicia in Jacksonville, FL
Orange Co, : DAYHUFF, Daniel - Mary Chambers/ Rachel Smith;
LINDLEY, Jonathan/ Deb Dicks; Elinor Lindley-
Samuel Chambers.
Here's another article from the same paper. The doctors seemed to have
formed a union and set some pretty steep prices for their services. Imagine
$10 for having a baby!
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Notice
French Lick, Jan. 16, 1919
To whom it may concern:
Owing to the immensely increased cost of our equipment, cost of living, etc,
we, the undersigned physicians are compelled to, and will charge according
to schedule below for our professional service: within corporate limits of
town of French Lick. For day call, single patient at one house - $2.00.
Night call, single patient - $3.00. Extra for each additional patient.
County calls: 1st mile or under - $2.50, for additional mile or fraction
thereof, 50 cents for single patient at one house. Extra for each additional
patient. Obstetrical work, $10.00 up. No office call for less than 50c. No
less than $5.00 plus charges for the call will apply in all councils.
Above schedule effective on and after Feb. 1, 1919. W. W. Hoggatt, M.D., F.
E. Hammond, M.D., W. W. Sloan, M.D., G. S. Beatty, M.D., J. H. Seneff, M.D.,
W.E. Ryan, M.D., J. R. Dillinger, M.D.
On or after Feb. 1, 1919, all who owe a doctor bill will receive no more
medical service from any doctor until all previous bills have been
satisfactorily settled.
During the final years of the World War I, the West Baden Springs Hotel was
converted into a Hospital by the Department of Defense. Here's an front page
article from the Springs Valley Herald, February 6, 1919, that shows us that
not all of them were gentlemen.
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ROUGHNECK SOLDIERS
While the majority of the soldier boys at the West Baden Hospital are
gentlemen and nice fellows, and deserve honor for what they have done for
their country, and the public appreciates them and their service, there are
a few roughnecks who come over here and act as though every female in this
city was a woman of the streets.
Only last Sunday two of those fellows tried to flirt with a couple of
respectable married women who were sitting in their front room overlooking
the street where they passed. The soldiers entered the front yard and
approached the front door when the women fled to an outhouse in the rear.
One of the soldiers then had the nerve to pass around the house looking for
them. He found them, but they had been joined by a neighbor woman, a regular
giant in size who gave the boys to understand by some very forceful and
sulphurous language that they were looking in the wrong place for what they
evidently were after and told them to get off the premises and to be in a
hurry about it, which they did.
How while the hospital authorities are looking after nuisance, we think
it would be well for them to see that no soldier connected with the hospital
makes a nuisance of himself while on leave of absence and we think they
will. If they wish further information on the above episode they can get it
by calling at this office. Editor
Does anyone know if there are newspapers available for the period 1880-1920
with local obituaries? If so, where? I would sure like to find one for my
great grandfather, John A. Wells, who was in the Civil War.
Jane Sarles
Is there a written history of Orange Co. for the period 1820 to 1835? I'm
writing a narrative history of a Revolutionary War soldier, Joseph Bolling,
who lived here at that time, and would like to weave some local history
into his personal history.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Dennis McCormick
>What are the Saline lands and why are they called that?
When the Indiana Territory was surveyed in 1805, the Federal law required
that all lands containing salt marshes and springs be held in reserve and
ownership of those lands remained with the Government. The reason for this
was based in the importance of the salts, used for preserving foods, which
at that time was of prime concern, no salts being available, no food
preservation, no settlers.
The Springs located in French Lick Township qualified under that law. They
are the Saline Lands. Several hundred acres were held in that reserve. The
springs were tested, wells drilled, and in the final examination the
chemical composition of the waters were found to lack the salt needed to
actually qualify for food preservation, instead they consisted of large
quantities of sulphur and other laxative compounds, not exactly what you
want to preserve your food with.
In the early 1830s the lands were put up for sale, with the Bowles family
purchasing the bulk of the lands. The towns of French Lick and West Baden
Springs are where the actual lands are located. Most of the acreage is
located on both the French Lick Hotel and the West Baden Springs Hotel and
is the reason for the growth of the health spa resorts in the Springs
Valley.
>What county & twp was the NE twp of Orange
>county part of in 1813-1814?
This was before Orange County was an actual county and the county borders
were blurred at this time. A large portion of the eastern part of the County
was part of Washington County, which Orange County was carved from when it
was established. This was at a time when we were part of the Indiana
Territories. I may be wrong on this point, could others on the list help
with this?
>Thanks,
>Selma
>
>
>>
>> Good evening everyone:
>>
>> My family and I are on vacation in Southern Indiana and found a Bible in
a
>> second hand store. It has a fair amount of family information in it so I
>> copied it. I have a hard believing someone would let that go in an estate
>> sale but.....
>>
>> Surnames included seem to center on Washington County but I found the
>Bible
>> in Orange Co.: PATTON is the first entry of the grandparents, one of
whom
>> was born in Kansas. Other names are MATTOX, MARTIN, TURLEY, COULTER,
>TRINKLE
>> and RADCLIFFE.
>>
>> The gentleman who owned the store didn't seem interested in selling the
>> Bible, just displaying it (the published date was 1904). but to someone
>who
>> finds family in it, I believe he might reconsider. I have the name and
>phone
>> number of the store is someone is interested in pursuing. I also have
>taken
>> pictures of the entries and can email them to you if these name seems
>> familiar.
>>
>> There was an old meditational paper someone had put in the front of the
>book
>> that advertised the Salem Creamery in Salem, Indiana.
>>
>> Email me personally for more info:
>>
>> Linda
>> lindaleebutt(a)wordnet.att.net
>>
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The following letter was sent to Mr. Taggart at the big hotel from a visitor
to the springs. He must have thought it humorous enough to pass on to the
Springs Valley Herald, which they printed on the front page of the April 12,
1923 paper.
____________________
Busbyhead, Okla.
Feb. 20, 1923
Dear Mr. Taggart:
I am writing to tell you of the wonderful thing the pluto water did for
me last summer.
Two years ago I was disappointed in love. I wrote to all the newspapers
"advice" columns and all said my failure was due to lack of beauty. Well
that might have been true. Anyway I was very discouraged. I had tried all
the beauty recipes I heard of and all failed.
One day a friend told me of the wonderful proserpine spring at French
Lick. She said it would give instant and everlasting beauty to those who
drank from it. I wished they had such springs in Oklahoma, but they haven't,
so it seemed my only chance was to sell all my belongings and get money to
go to French Lick.
When I finally reached the town I was very much surprised. The girls
whom I saw were noticeably lacking in beauty. Why in the world don't they
drink from that wonderful spring?
I went to the Whitman's Hotel (yours was too high priced for me). I
began making daily trips to the proserpine. It tasted awful, but I thought
anything was better than to be homely. After a few days I thought I'd find
out if I was gaining beauty. I kept a look out for nice looking young men to
try an experiment on. There are lots of handsome young men in French Lick.
I'll say - enough to make up for the beautiful girls it lacks. I guess the
boys must have tried the proserpine more than the girls.
Every time I saw an eligible looking young man he was with another girl.
Finally I met a fat jolly looking chauffeur. We became great friends. I was
sure the proserpine was doing its work for there was surely admiration in
that glance of Tom's. One day the climax came. He told me he loved me. Then
I was wild about the proserpine. I told myself I'd tell every girl in
Oklahoma of its wonderful magic. My thoughts were interrupted by Tom's voice
saying "I'll love you forever, I don't care if you are fat, freckled, red
headed and ugly. I like you better than any beautiful dolled up blonde."
Maybe you think that didn't give me a set back! and I had thought I was
getting beautiful. But any way the proserpine did me a great service for
which I'll always be grateful. For what good would it have done to be
beautiful when Tom likes ugly girls best?
You may use this as a testimonial in your great proserpine advertisements if
you wish.
Ever gratefully yours,
Mrs. Tom Jenkins
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