New Albany (IN) Evening Tribune, August 15, 1911, p. 4. John J. Oeffinger and Mrs. Clara Fitzgerald of this city were married secretly June 7 at Jeffersonville by Justice Keigwin. The bride was formerly Miss Clara Werle The groom is a cabinet maker.

New Albany (IN) Evening Tribune, August 15, 1911, p. 4. E. B. Funk and son, Walter Funk, of Princeton, Ind., are visiting Mr. Funk's mother, Mrs. J. P. Funk, 517 East Ninth Street.

New Albany (IN) Evening Tribune, August 15, 1911, p. 4. Miss Laura Shrader, 233 Park Place, has returned from a visit with her sister, Mrs. Charles Reeves, at Lafayette.

New Albany (IN) Evening Tribune, August 15, 1911, p. 4. Mrs. William Adams, West Market Street, left today for Chicago to visit her brother, Jesse Morris.

Indianapolis (IN) News, April 10, 1900, p. 6. A PRACTICAL JOKER'S MISCHIEF English, Ind., April 10-With the intent of quietly frightening Miss Eva Garr, who was driving in her buggy a few miles south of this place, Frank Leonard, her sweetheart, jumped from behind a tree and shouted. Instead of frightening the girl, the cry started her horse, and she was thrown out and her right wrist was broken.

Indianapolis (IN) News, July 5, 1901, p. 9. NOTE: A search for blacks living in Crawford County, Indiana,i n 1880 revealed two people: (1) Archibal [consider Archibald a spelling variant] Boone [difficult to read, indexed as Boons at Ancestry], black, age 55 and a native of Kentucky, residing in the household of John K. Oyler [difficult to read] in Ohio Township; and (2) Silvia Boone, age 78 and a native of Kentucky, residing in the household of Robert H. Fullinwider in Boone Township. In 1900, the only black person residing in Crawford County was Archibald Boone, age 73 and a native of Indiana, who was enumerated in the household of A. R. Sheckell in Ohio Township. ONE COLORED MAN IN CRAWFORD English, Ind., July 5-The trustees of the several townships of Crawford County have finished the enumeration of the white and colored male inhabitants of Crawford County over the age of 21 years and report a total of 3, 300 white and one colored. The latter is an old, blind negro who has lived on the farm of Abram Sheckels for over 50 years.

Indianapolis (IN) News, September 4, 1899, p. 7. TRAMPLED BY A HORSE English, Ind., September 4-Amos Hodges, who was attending the camp meeting at White Sulphur night before last, took a horse without permission and started to ride to this city to secure a supply of intoxicants. The animal was a spirited one and, during the trip, Hodges was thrown out and kicked and trampled until life was nearly extinct. One arm was broken, his shoulder was dislocated and his breast bone was crushed. On account of his injuries, the owner of the horse has no desire to prosecute.

Indiana State Sentinel, January 27, 1892, Available online at https://newspaper.library.in.gov/. Paoli, Ind., Jan. 24-Word was received here of the death this morning at English of Floyd Burgess, a native of this county and formerly a prominent citizen and businessman of this place. He was at the time of his death engaged in merchandizing at English. No man ever stood higher in this community than he. He was a prominent Odd Fellow, a democrat and a thoroughly honest man. His death will cause genuine sorrow wherever he was known.

Maysville (KY) Evening Bulletin, April 20, 1888, p. 1. Available online at www.chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/. WHITE CAPS AGAIN Two Men and a Woman Receive Attention in Crawford County, Indiana Corydon, Ind., April 20-The whitecaps flogged two men and a woman at English, Crawford County, Tuesday night. Bob Broomfield, James Sellers and Mrs. Wilson were the victims, and the charge against them was that they had been guilty of immoral conduct. Broomfield and Sellers were punished quite severely; Broomfield received 150 lashes and Sellers 125. Mrs. Wilson was given only 25 lashes but was warned that unless she reformed she would be given 100 the next time. The three were taken a short distance from town and tied together to a tree and, after having been divested of their clothes, were given their punishment in broken doses. Mrs. Wilson begged piteously that she be spared, but the whitecaps were merciless. At the end of the 25 lashes, the wretched woman was apparently in a dead faint and was spared further torture. The whitecaps then rode away to the residence of other disreputables to notify them to leave the country or take the consequences. Several people who have been warned have fled to Kentucky.

Jeffersonville (IN) Weekly Journal, February 19, 1897, p. 1. The mother of Henry F. Wrocklage died Wednesday in Louisville of consumption. Before her death she requested her son to marry on her birthday. Wrocklage and Miss Lena Hermerle of 1109 Hancock Street, that city, were engaged. The prospective groom did not think it would be proper for him to marry so soon after his mother's demise. Accordingly, he called on Father Bax of St. John's Catholic Church and asked his advice upon the subject. The Rev. gentleman told him that he could see nothing wrong in obeying his dead mother's wish. With this information, Wrocklage visited his betrothed and the marriage followed yesterday, the Rev. Father Bax officiating.

Jeffersonville (IN) Weekly Journal, February 19, 1897, p. 1. SENT HIS SWEETHEART AWAY The case of Robelia Stark for shooting with intent to kill Emma Field while escorting her from a negro dance to her home early last fall, was called under the head of re-assigned cases. Owing to the absence of the prosecuting witness, who is out of the city, the case was held up until next term.

Jeffersonville (IN) Weekly Journal, February 19, 1897, p. 1. WOES OF MARRIED LIFE Charles Bottorff's Wife, He Claims, Insisted on Sleeping Late, Refused to Prepare Meals and He Wants a Divorce Charles Bottorff this morning filed suit against Lille M. Bottorff for a divorce. The petition recites that the couple were married December 26, 1895, at the defendant's home in Finley Township, Scott County, and that on June 13, 1896, the defendant left him and returned to her home. It is averred that the defendant, on numerous occasions, would lie in bed, refuse to get up and prepare the plaintiff's meals; that he would have to do his own cooking or go to work without anything to eat. It is further alleged that the defendant's mother would come to plaintiff's house and coax her daughter to leave him. The plaintiff is a resident of Charlestown Township.

Jeffersonville (IN) Weekly Journal, February 19, 1897, p. 1. NOTE: The item below was abbreviated from the original as shown by the ellipsis. DREAMS DISTRUBED BY HIS VICTIM’S SPIRIT Ghost of John Tucker Made Life Miserable for Uncle Bill Taylor The departed, the departed. They visit us in dreams and flit about our pillows like shadows over streams. If old Bill Taylor didn’t sing this verse, he has been thinking it very strongly for the past year. Ever since William killed John Tucker two years ago over a little dispute about house rent he has been having a series of alarming experiences with divers and sundry disembodied spirits that seem to follow him about and play circus with his long nights. It’s a very uncomfortable situation to be in when one is the sole owner of a large, well-developed ghost that he cannot get rid of, even at a bargain sale, and for which he has no particular use. Bill Taylor has been encumbered with such a piece of property for a long time, and it has caused him to lose sleep and contract dyspepsia to such an extent that his friends feared he would be cut off in his prime. When William retires at the regular hour every night, this ghost, claiming to represent the spirituality of John Tucker, would crawl up on the footboard of the bed and fire questions at William that would have given a fired feeling to a station agent in a country town. It’s a might unpleasant thing to have a ghost ask questions about the weather, the elections, the latest from Cuba and then wind up with a long talk on the best place to be interred in the new cemetery, besides occasionally sampling your plug tobacco… Fortunately for Mr. Taylor, he was introduced to “Prof.” Charles Gilmore, a gentleman with a large ghost acquaintance, and one who makes a specialty of furnishing discontented or overworked ghosts with permanent situations in other states. A séance was arrange and, tired from loss of sleep, William Taylor made his way to the mysterious shrine of the ghost charmer…At any rate, the table was placed, the mysterious cloth drawn over it, and the “professor” and his client seated themselves to await the approaching spiritual shower. Sundry knocks and file-rasping sounds announced the presence of a ghostly visitor and then Prof. Gilmore introduced his tablet beneath the table cover. Mr. Taylor, reaching under from the other side and grasping the tablet tightly that the weight of the ghost’s chirography might not break it down. Soon the pencil was heard moving rapidly; next a thunder of raps fairly lifted the table off the floor and in the blue, sulphurous smoke that arose in the room the spirit of John Tucker was seen to vanish head first through a window. On bringing the table to the light, the following message was found: “Dear Bill—Rest easy. I don’t hold it again ye fer killin’ me. I forgive ye long ago. Truly yours, Tuck.” William Taylor walked the streets yesterday, proud, erect and happy. A great weight has been lifted from his soul…Tucker’s ghost has vanished forever from Jeffersonville…

Jeffersonville (IN) Weekly Journal, February 19, 1897, p. 1. Thad Drummond, who was recently found in a stable here ill of pneumonia and almost dead from exposure, is getting along alright at the county asylum where he was taken by Mr. Minor, for whom he had been working.

Bloomington (IN) Evening World, July 11, 1910, p. 1. TWO KILLED AT R. R. CROSSING Indianapolis Southern Train Runs over Aged Couple at Helmsburg Thomas Kelso and Wife Meet Death on Road to Church Thomas Kelso, aged 68, a prominent farmer and land owner residing in the Lick Creek neighborhood, Brown County, and his wife, Mary Kelso, aged 65, were instantly killed by an Indianapolis Southern passenger train about nine o'clock Sunday morning at the crossing near Helmsburg. The aged couple was in a buggy on their way to attend church at Georgetown when death in a horrible form overtook them. The point where Kelso was attempting to cross the railroad tracks is near the approach of a deep cut, and the engineer of the westbound train was unable to see the vehicle until the train was upon it. Running at its usual rate of speed, the engine struck the buggy completely demolishing it. Kelso and his wife were tossed high into the air, falling immediately in front of the rushing train. Again were the bodies of the unfortunate victims picked up by the pilot that completed its gruesome work of mutilation. Kelso's head was crushed out of all human semblance from the shoulders up, his brains being scattered for several yards along the track, and nearly every bone in his body broken. Mrs. Kelso was decapitated, the head being severed at the shoulders as if done by a guillotine. The train, which was in charge of Conductor Ackerman, was stopped as soon as possible, and the train crew gathered up the fragments of the bodies and placed them in improvised boxes. They were taken to Helmsburg and turned over to the agent and the coroner of Brown County notified. Strange to relate, the horse was uninjured and was caught some distance from the scene of the tragedy by a farmer. The buggy was reduced to kindling wood. The accident cast a pall of gloom over Brown County when the news became known. Few men in that county were held in higher esteem than Thomas Kelso, a pioneer resident. He was a man of means and a lifelong member of the Methodist church. It had been the custom for years for Mr. and Mrs. Kelso to drive each Sunday to Georgetown to attend worship, and when the weather was not too inclement, they were always to be found in their pew Sabbath morning. After viewing the remains and securing all the evidence at hand bearing on the tragedy, the coroner ordered the remains of the unfortunate victims returned to their home where preparations for the burial were completed and the funeral held this afternoon. The obsequies were attended by hundreds of people, the interment following at the family cemetery in the immediate neighborhood. No blame is attached to the engineer of the train as it was impossible for him to see the buggy until his engine was upon it. Coming out of a deep cut and on a curve, he was not aware of Kelso's predicament until within a few yards of the vehicle. He promptly shut off steam and applied the emergency brakes but the collision was inevitable and the tragedy enacted in the twinkling of an eye. Sympathetic trainmen gathered up the scattered remains of the aged couple and took them to Helmsburg. Mr. and Mrs. Kelso are survived by several grown children.

Bloomington (IN) Telephone, April 5, 1910, p. 4. John Sturgeon and family of near Nashville have moved to Templeton where Mr. Sturgeon is employed on a farm.

Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Courier, January 17, 1896, morning edition. Nashville had a $10,000 fire Wednesday night. It was the most destructive conflagration in the history of that town.

Bloomington (IN) Telephone, April 7, 1910, p. 1. NEVER TOO OLD! Nashville Democrat: "Uncle John Poling of near Needmore is determined on another voyage on the sea of matrimony and is not to be outdone by the law regulating marriages in Indiana or the objections raised by kith and kin. Tuesday morning he left with the idol of his heart, Mrs. Rebecca Graham, for Louisville, Ky., where he hopes to have the matrimonial knot tied as tight as 'Dick's hat band.' Mr. Poling is a widower in his 78th year and Mrs. Graham is in her 70's. Deacon Hershel Tullis accompanied Uncle Johnny and his intended bride."

Bloomington (IN) Telephone, April 3, 1910, p. 2. NOTE: This edition of the paper, although dated April 3, followed the paper dated April 8. A FATHER'S CRIME? Charged with unnatural treatment of his 14-year-old daughter, John Mobley, who moved here from Brown County and resides in University Park, was lodged in jail this morning. The girl appeared before Deputy Prosecutor Frank Regester this morning and told the story of the relations her father had forced on her since the death of her mother. Mobley was arrested at once. The family consists of the father, three young daughters and a son. They are in poor circumstances.

You're welcome. Making your day makes my day. Randi -----Original Message----- From: in-south-central-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:in-south-central-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Jim Hill via Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 6:53 PM To: gftl@bluemarble.net; in-south-central@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL] Washington County: Fred Berkey Died after Shooting Three Interesting !! William McClanahan was my great grandfather. Born in 1835, he was 50 when this happened. He died in 1893, and no, I never met him. :>) Thanks for all the time you spend sorting, scanning, and posting these excerpts. Jim Hill -----Original Message----- From: Randi Richardson via <in-south-central@rootsweb.com> To: IN-South-Central <IN-South-Central@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wed, May 20, 2015 12:00 pm Subject: [IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL] Washington County: Fred Berkey Died after Shooting Three Indiana State Sentinel, August 26, 1885. A TRAGEDY Fred Berkey of Salem, Indiana, Shoots a Young Lady, Three Men and Then Blows His Brains Out Salem, Ind., August 23-Fred Berkey, Jr., in a fit of drunken insanity tonight, shot a Miss Laura Klerner twice, turned and shot W. S. Percis slightly on his arm. Running up the street a short distance, he shot William McClanahan. A crowd then gathered and began pursuit when he called to a couple in a buggy to halt. He shot Jordon (consider Jordan a spelling variant) Payne and drove him from the carriage. He then took his buggy and compelled his companion to drive out of town. Pursuit then becoming very close, he put the pistol to his own head and blew his brains out and died in a few minutes while being driven back to town. Miss Klerner is shot in the shoulder and hand, badly but not dangerously. Payne is said to be seriously wounded. McClanahan was shot through the hand. Intense excitement prevails. All agree it is well that young Berkey's career is ended while the respectable family to which he belongs have the sympathy of the public. The suicide has been a wild, roving and dissipated character. The IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL Rootsweb list is for genealogists and historians who have an interest in the south central district of Indiana, as defined by the Indiana Genealogial Society, including the counties of: Bartholomew, Brown, Clark, Crawford, Floyd, Harris, Jackson, Lawrence, Monroe, Orange, Scott and Washington. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message The IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL Rootsweb list is for genealogists and historians who have an interest in the south central district of Indiana, as defined by the Indiana Genealogial Society, including the counties of: Bartholomew, Brown, Clark, Crawford, Floyd, Harris, Jackson, Lawrence, Monroe, Orange, Scott and Washington. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message