Genealogical Notes from the Porter County Vidette
September 21, 1882 - March 13, 1884
Abstracted and Compiled and Indexed by Nancy J. Vaillancourt
Porter County Library System
December 14, 1882 Avery Cohoon of Minnesota is son of R.
Cohoon
Exchange of property: N. Cooper - Mr.
Cardner
Mattie Wilcox returned to Michigan
Mrs. Winslow is mother of Mel
Stinchfield
Haines Wood has rented John Stewart's
farm
to S. W. Leroy
Died: Miss Mary Wells
Born: James Ostrander - boy
Mr. W.H. Rifenburg bought stolen horse
Married: Nettie Sargeant - Lyman Ritter
John T. Idol arrested for stabling Mr.
Bulger
Died: Lucy Jacobs - obit
Mrs. Thomason, of Hammond -
formerly
Alice Merrifield
Exchange of property: John M Jones -
J.A. Ruth
Caleb
Peterson and Wm. Ritter -
John McGinley
Died: Mrs. Mead Thomas of Minneaspolis,
Minn - the
m-i-l of Mrs. Cecilia Thomas
Joseph Shinnabarger
Married: Emmett O. Campbell - Mrs.
Sarah Kinney
Vet Young returns to be Valpo barber
Died: Mrs. Warner Pierce of Kouts
Fremont Church's parents live in Laporte
Lucy Mosier, of Hebron, is sis. of Mrs.
Jas McNay
Henry Slover is the uncle of Mrs.
Melissa Davidson and Mrs.
Sarah Finney, both of Joliet, Ill.
Henry F. White, Esq. of Benton Harbor,
Mich, is the b-i-l of the deceased
Mrs. John Herr Sr.
Reason Redd of Rasalia, Washington
Territory, is the s-i-l of Mr.
John Hansford of Wash. Twp.
Circuit Court News:
Mary Grogan vs. Northwestern
Life Insurance
Petition from Augustus Voight
Divorce: Stella & Wm. H. Buel
Sarah E. & John
Kinney
Granted liquor licenses:
Theodore Buchler, Andrew Blais,
Charles Nelson, Benjamin Little,
Harry Benson, Jacob Thum,
John Bruhn, John E. Baum, and
J.C. Urbahns.
Married: Frank P. Manaham - Mabel E.
Hallum
John N. Smith - Rosalia
Hopkins
H.J. Upthegrove home for sale
Exchange of property: C.C. Cole -
Charles Marine
Jacob Link -
Fred Leake
Married: Wm. Bowman - Anna Rogers
William Wickham - Tillie A.
Axe
Catherine Samuelson returned home from
Indianapolis Insane Asylum w with help of
Howard Dickover
Died: Mrs. Able Blunk
Daniel Trevan arrested at the insistence
of Wm. Poindeville
Otto Martin tried for assault & battery
Thomas Rowell arrested for improper
conduct
Exchange of property: Skinner & Harrold
- Bertha B. Cass
Fred Leake -
J.D. Lind
Marriage Licenses:
William Wickham - Tillie
Axe
Fred Goetz - Bertha
Wolttman
Willis Ault - Marietta
Lansing
John N. Smith - Rosalie
Hopkins
Married: Rose Bondy - J. L. Hirschman
Died: Dennis Clifford, bro. of P.T.
Clifford
David Wells of Shreve, Ohio, is cousin
of Recorder Wells
And uncle of Thomas Shreve
Mary McHugh is originally from
Yorkville, Ill.
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