Salem (Indiana) Democrat, November 4, 1898, p. 1. The Ohio Valley Telephone Company has reduced the rent for phones in residences to fifty cents per month. Most any old resident can now afford a phone.

A number of 1812 pension and bounty land applications for veterans of the War of 1812 are available free of charge at www.fold3.com. The information noted below was abstracted by Randi Richardson from the documents available online for George Beck. George Beck served in the War of 1812 first as an ensign and later commissioned as a lieutenant. He enlisted on November 28, 1812, from what is now Washington County but was then Salem, Harrison County, and was discharged on December 27, 1812. After his discharge, he re-enlisted on May 13, 1813 and served until May 27, 1813. He served under two captains, Henry Dewalt and his brother, John Beck, and sometimes worked as a scout and spy. He married Elizabeth Master on February 19, 1819, in Salem, Washington County. In 1851, his brother, John, was living in Texas.

Scottsburg (Scott County, Indiana) Chronicle, January 12, 1905, p. 4. CIRCUIT COURT NOTES Helen Motsinger vs. Dennis Motsinger, divorce. Defendant defaulted. Divorce granted plaintiff and given custody of child.

Scottsburg (Scott County, Indiana) Chronicle, January 12, 1905, p. 4. CIRCUIT COURT NOTES Salethe C. Harper vs. John N. Harper, divorce. Dismissed at plaintiff's cost.

Scottsburg (Scott County, Indiana) Chronicle, January 12, 1905, p. 4. Milton Harrod died on Wednesday night of last week at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. K. Kelley, in this place, of general debility. His remains were interred Friday afternoon at the Crothersville Cemetery. The deceased was 87 years of age. He was born in Jefferson County, this state, and was one of a family of fourteen children.

Scottsburg (Scott County, Indiana) Chronicle, January 12, 1905, p. 4. Mrs. Charles Shanks died at the family residence in this place about one o'clock Friday afternoon. Aged 26 years. Her remains were interred at the Scottsburg Cemetery Sunday. She leaves a husband and a two-weeks-old baby.

Scottsburg (Scott County, Indiana) Chronicle, January 12, 1905, p. 4. Fay, the 19-year-old daughter of Thomas Carlile and wife, died on Thursday morning of last week at the family residence in Finley Township of consumption. Her remains were interred at the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery Friday.

The sketch noted below was given to me by Wilma Davis of Paoli, Indiana, president of the Orange County Genealogical Society. It had no date or source and reads as though the last few paragraphs may be missing. William F Sears is believed to be the son of John and Mary Elizabeth "Polly" (Stanfield) Sears and the brother of John L. Sears who married into the Showers family who later achieved prominence in Monroe County. --------------------------------- For some time I have felt moved to pay the following tribute to one of our oldest and best known citizens, William F. Sears. William F. Sears, how residing on East Vincennes Street, was the fourth child in a family of eight children born to John and Mary Sears. The father died May 18, 1841, and the mother, whose maiden name was Mary Stanfield, about 1880. Both parents came to Indiana from Kentucky, and from Virginia to Kentucky. Mr. Sears also had one half brother and one half sister. The half brother died while on his was to California during the gold excitement in 1849. The parents entered the quarter section of land lying immediately south of town, before the town was laid out, and the subject of this article was born in the log cabin they built at the old well on the east side of the Paoli Road, 300 or 400 feet south of the present residence of O. W. Stephenson. The town was a small village of log huts and houses when Mr. Sears put in his appearance, there being but few frames of any kind. He assisted in the erection of many of the primitive dwellings in which some of our early settlers lived. He later saw or assisted in the removal of those buildings in order to make room for more pretentious and comfortable frame buildings. He was right here, a man grown when the yards, gardens and public square, even, were all protected by heavy rail fencing, just like the barnyards in the country used to be. He was a "scholar" in some of the first schools ever taught in the town and knows all about the big fireplaces, backless benches and the beech limbs that were always present and appeared to be so very indispensible in the prosecution of a boy's education in those early days. He never wore any, but has seen many a pair of buckskin breeches. In 1851 and 1852, Mr. Sears helped build what is now the Monon railroad. He helped lay the first "T" rail on our part of the road then rode a gravel train on the south end one summer and worked on a passenger train a year. He was on the train that made the first run from New Albany to Bedford. But he got tired of the road, quit, came home, got married and went back to the old farm, along the south side of the town. He was married to Miss Rebecca Ann Park in 1852. Five children were born to them before the mother died in 1870. In 1872, he and Miss Lizzie Stephens were married, and four children were born to them, and the wife died in 1883. Mr. Sears was next married to Mrs. Louisa Murray in 1891, and two children were born to this union. This, the third wife, died in 1900, and Mr. Sears and Mrs. H. C. Brown, his present wife, were married in 1907. After his first marriage in 1853, Mr. Sears lived at the old Sears homestead south of town till 1856 when he bought and moved to the farm where Volney Noblitt now lives, one and one-half miles southwest of town. Later he sold that farm to Thomas D. Lindsey and moved back to his father's old home that, by inheritance, his widowed mother was still holding. After a time he moved to Monroe County near Smithville and later from there to Clear Creek near Bloomington, and from there he went into the service of his country as a member of Co. F., 82nd Indiana, in August 1862. He was afterward detailed to service in the 67th Indiana and later returned to the 82nd from which he was discharged from the service on account of wounds received in the battle of Chickamauga, Sept. 20, 1863. He saw active service at Munfordville, Yazoo River, Arkansas Post, Grand Gulf, Ft. Gibson, Champion's Hill, Black River, Vicksburg and Chickamauga.

Paoli (Orange County, Indiana) Republican, August 28, 1962, from the collection of Wilma Davis, Paoli, Indiana. MRS. ORA ALLEN, 85, EXPIRES SUNDAY Mrs. Ora Allen, 85, died Sunday evening at the Keller Nursing Home in Bedford. Mrs. Allen, whose home was on Route 3, Paoli, was transferred to the nursing home two weeks ago from Orange County Hospital. Final rites will be held Wednesday afternoon at two o'clock in the Tunnelton Methodist Church with services conducted by Rev. Angus Jeffers of Paoli. Ritter funeral directors are in charge of arrangements. Burial will be in Tunnelton Cemetery. Mrs. Allen is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Blanche Kirby, Route 3, Paoli, two grandchildren, and one sister, Mrs. Stella Beasley of Bedford.

Paoli (Orange County, Indiana) Republican, November 1, 1966. JAMES ALEXANDER RETURNED FOR BURIAL Graveside rites were held Monday for James Alexander, 54, former Paolian. Services were Monday at DeBaun Funeral Home in Terre Haute, and the body brought here for burial. Rev. Richard Cillum conducted rites in Community Cemetery. Mr. Alexander died Saturday in a Terre Haute hospital following a long illness. He was a son of the late Walter Alexander and grandson of John Alexander. Surviving are his wife, his mother, Mrs. Grace Alexander of Terre Haute, a sister, Mrs. Joe Sparks of Ft. Wayne.

Paoli (Orange County, Indiana) Republican, August 23, 1966, from the collection of Wilma Davis, Paoli, Indiana. ALLEGRE SERVICES HELD MONDAY Funeral services were held Monday for Mrs. Estelle Allegre, 83, former Orleans resident. Rites were from Ochs Funeral Home with burial in Fairview Cemetery. Mrs. Allegre, who resided in Mitchell, died Friday night at the Gorge Nursing Home in French Lick where she had been a patient for a month. She was the former Estelle Moody, born March 7, 1883, in Orange County, a daughter of John and Margaret Ann Teagarden Moody. In 1904 she was married to Fred Allegre who preceded her in death in 1953. She was a member of Mt. Horeb Baptist church. Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Sylvia Bryant, Phoenix, Ariz., Mrs. Emma Payton, Orleans, Mrs. Lois Daugherty, Mitchell, and Mrs. Crystal Moore, Frankfort; three sisters, Mrs. Eva Maloney and Miss Blanche Moody, Lafayette, and Mrs. Bill Jackson, Detroit, Mich.; a brother, Earl Moody, Bloomington, 21 grandchildren and 16 great grandchildren.

Paoli (Orange County, Indiana) Republican, October 2, 1959, from the collection of Wilma Davis, Paoli, Indiana. RALPH ALLEGRE, 79, FORMER ASSESSOR, EXPIRED THURSDAY Elbert Ralph Allegre, 79, former Orange County assessor, died Thursday afternoon at the Sunny Acres Nursing Home in Bedford. He had been a patient there for a year. The body was returned to the Ochs Funeral Home where services were held Sunday afternoon in charge of Rev. Forrest Wilkins. Burial was in Orleans Fairview Cemetery. Mr. Allegre was a native of Orange County, born November 26, 1879, the son of Cyrus and Melissa Boxer Allegre. Most of his life was spent in the Orleans community. He served two terms as Orleans Township trustee and two terms as county assessor. In 1905 he was married to Anna McCrawley who preceded him in death in 1951. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Benson Isom of Greenwood and Mrs. Cedric Ellis of Birmingham, Ala., four grandchildren, one great grandchild and a sister, Mrs. Claude Colglazier of Mitchell. He was a member of the Orleans Christian Church.

Paoli (Orange County, Indiana) News, January 21, 1960, from the collection of Wilma Davis, Paoli, Indiana. CALLED BY DEATH Mrs. Carson Alexander was called to New Harmon (probably New Harmony) Wednesday aby the death of her father-in-law, J. A. Alexander. A retired farmer, Mr. Alexander died Tuesday at an Evansville nursing home. Funeral rites are being conducted Thursday.

Sharon, My source for the information about Hobart George Beach and others who died in the service during WWI, came from the book, as noted below, available online at http://archive.org/stream/goldstarhonorrol00indi#page/14/mode/2up. The names in the book appear in alphabetical order by Indiana counties only. I searched the book for a Leroy Rudolph and came up empty handed. This is what I am wondering: was Leroy a resident of Indiana at the time of his enlistment; are you certain that you have his name spelled correctly; is it possible that Leroy was a middle name or spell Lee Roy as opposed to LeRoy. My quick (30-minute) search for a Henry Rudolph with a spouse Josephine or Margaret in Indiana or Ohio revealed nothing as did a search for a Leroy Rudolph who might have died during WWI. In answer to your questions about this list--It was specifically designed for south central Indiana as defined by the Indiana Genealogical Society. However, as long as information pertains to any genealogy in any county in south central Indiana, I'm glad to have YOU share it here. On the other hand, time restricts ME to those counties that are narrowly defined. Unfortunately, I am not aware of a list for south east Indiana. You can, however, propose such a list in which case you will be expected to administer it. An alternative would be to subscribe to that list or those lists where your ancestor resided. If you don't know how to do this, please contact me privately and I will assist you. Many of the lists are only minimally active. A third suggestion is to state your query more robustly. For example, "I am searching for Leroy Rudolph, who was born about (birthdate) in (birthplace), to (first name of father) and (first name of mother) Rudolph. I believe he was living in (place of residence) when he enlisted in World War I. According to his father's obituary, Leroy died in France during the war. Leroy's father is my great grandfather. Any information would be most appreciated." In the absence of other information, I would also encourage you to include your grandfather's obit verbatim along with the source on multiple lists where you feel it might be most relevant. Your e-mail will be saved to the lists indefintely and can be found in a search of the list archives by in a very specific google search. Randi > Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 21:07:17 -0500 > From: Sharon Reynolds <sreynolds@knology.net> > Subject: Re: [IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL] Floyd County:  Hobart George Beach >     Died > To: in-south-central@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <D9B454D0-C91C-42A4-B673-20DDB96D2B86@knology.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Hello Randi > I'm a recent new comer to the Indiana rootsweb listing and have found > many of > the articles and information quite intriguing. > > Also, I've been looking for a relative who died in France during > WWI.  I didn't > even know he existed until I recently found > > my g-grandfather's obit where it mentions his son Leroy Rudolph who > gave the > ultimate sacrifice for his country in France. > > I've searched some of the major sites but nothing turns up.  Is there > a special > listing for the Gold Star Honor Roll?  Is this > > just for Indiana or all states.  Sorry, I'm still trying to learn > more about how > to search for war related items.  I've also looked > > on Fold 3 without luck.  Appreciate any ideas.  His father was Henry > C. R. > Rudolph, and mother either Josephine or Martha. > > Henry was married twice and I'm not sure which woman is his mother.  > They lived > in Indiana and Ohio.  Is there another list > > for Indian South-East.?  Please forgive me if this is not in the > realm of the > protocol of the list...just let me know and I'll not ask questions.  > > > Thanks, > Sharon > On Jun 27, 2012, at 8:17 PM, Randi wrote: > >> >> INDIANA WORLD WAR RECORDS, GOLD STAR HONOR ROLL:  A Record of >> Indiana Men >> and Women Who Died in the Service of the United States and the >> Allied >> Nations in the World War, 1914-1918, (Indianapolis:  Indiana >> Historical >> Society, 1921), p. 169. >> >> Hobart George Beach.Private

New Orleans (LA) Item, August 17, 1910, p. 5. ATTEMPT TO KILL BANKER FOR REVENGE Bedford, Indiana, August 17-Revenge is believed to have been the motive that prompted the attempt to murder Philip Rock, a banker and quarry owner, on a lonely road near here yesterday. Rock was seriously wounded. He carried $2,000 which was not taken by his assailants. Several years ago Rock fired into a mob of striking quarrymen, and one was killed. An attempt to avenge this killing is believed to have resulted in yesterday's attack on Rock.

Cincinnati (OH) Daily Gazette, May 10, 1866, p. 1. NOTE: The item below was abbreviated from the original as noted by the ellipsis. THE BEDFORD, INDIANA, TRAGEDY Trial of Dr. Benjamin Newland for the Murder of Prof. M. Evans New Albany, Indiana, May 8-At two o'clock the "Spiritual Hall" was again crowded with lawyers and spectators attracted by the prospect of heading the opening testimony in this important case. The inconvenience attending this trial in such a crowded and illy-constructed room are more cheerfully borne by the court and bar than they otherwise might be in consequence of the fact that a new temple of justice of ample proportions and beautiful design is nearly completed. Thomas M. Brown, Esq., prosecuting attorney, stated to the jury the charge against the accused.He stated, in relation to the proof to be adduced, that the State expected to prove that on the evening of March 5, Dr. Newland went to the residence of Mr. Madison Evans and, not finding him there, went to a hollow on the road near the house where he met Evans and there shot him with a pistol ball and cut him with a knife until he died. Hon. A. B. Carleton stated the defense to the jury.In the course of his address.he stated that Dr. Newland did not go to see Evans that night for any mere child's play, or to make a cheap reputation for bravery, but that he went there to kill the destroyer of his daughter.that he did the deed while under a mental alienation consequent upon the intense excitement caused by the confession that night from his daughter's lips of the guilt of Evans and of her own ruin. During the statement of the case by Judge Carleton, the defendant was deeply moved. As the judge detailed the care bestowed by the father upon the education of the daughter, how when he went into the army he left her under the especial charge of her respected teacher and pastor-the deceased-how betraying most foully this sacred trust, this pretended Christian used his position to the base purpose of the ruin of his ward, how suddenly all the fond hopes of the father were blasted by the daughter's own confession. As all these matters were presented, Dr. Newland became intensely excited. There were two ladies in court this afternoon-a sister of the murdered man, Miss Evans, and Mrs. Newland, the wife of the accused.Gen. Jeff(erson) C. Davis was in court, also, this afternoon, and was sworn as a witness. Dr. Newland was for a long while a member of his staff. There will be no difficulty in the proof of the fact that Dr. Newland committed the murder as he admitted it at the time he gave himself up on the night the murder was committed. The question will be upon his sanity.With this view, the statement of Mrs. Evans becomes important as it bears directly upon the defendant's conduct just before the deed was done. The first witness introduced was Dr. Howard C. LaForce. Lives in Bedford, Lawrence County, saw Madison Evans in Bedford several times on the day of the murder, next saw him lying dead on the road leading from Bedford to Hildensville (sic) about half after seven or eight o'clock. The immediate cause of his death was the severing of the arteries of his throat.There was also a gunshot wound of a ball entering the abdomen near the left hip bone. Homer Rawlins examined-Saw Dr. Newland on the evening of the murder in front of Mr. Carleton's drug store. M. H. Pearson examined-I saw Dr. Newland the evening of the murder near Carleton's drug store, not to exceed an hour and a half before I heard of the murder. He was standing there with Homer Rawlins. I passed by and did not hear what he said. James R. Macarte examined-I left my butcher shop about eight o'clock on the night of the murder on Holdensville (sic) Road. I found Madison Evans dead on the road. I had met Dr. Newland about half way between Barnes' Hotel and where I found Evans' body. He was walking tolerably fast and was getting his breath unusually loud as though he was tired.The time required to walk the distance from where I met Dr. Newland to where the dead body lay was one minute and a half, as I have since ascertained by timing it. I did not remember hearing the pistol shot at the time, but after mustering up my recollections, I remember to have heard a pistol or gunshot just before I entered the hotel. William Wallace examined-I was with Macarte the night of the murder and met a large man puffing and blowing and soon after we found a dead man. The State expects to prove by Mrs. Evans that on the evening upon which her husband, Madison Evans.was killed and about a half an hour before she heard of his death, the defendant, Dr. Benjamin Newland, came to the residence of said Evans where she then was...that upon arriving at the door he knocked thereat, and Mrs. Evans opened it to him. When she opened the door, defendant asked her if Mr. Evans, the deceased, was at home. She told him that he was not and inquired, in turn, whether defendant had business with deceased. Defendant answer her that he had, whereupon she invited defendant into the house and informed him that Mr. Evans would not be long gone as he was over at town on business. But defendant declined to come in. William I. Ward examined--I live about half way between Mr. Evans house and the spot where the murder was committed. I heard something-a man or an animal-passing very near the house toward town about eight o'clock. I heard, very soon after, a shot fired in the direction of where the murder was committed. At the adjournment this evening there was another objection made by the prosecuting attorney to the separation of the jury, but it was soon withdrawn and the jury was allowed to go their several ways under the charge to abstain from all reference to the matter on trial. This is stated by the judge to be a manner of proceeding only allowed in this circuit.

Clarksville (TX) Standard, October 8, 1880, p. 1. Calvin Phipp of Bedford, Indiana, drank a gallon of whiskey every day for a month and then died.

A number of 1812 pension and bounty land applications for veterans of the War of 1812 are available free of charge at www.fold3.com. The information noted below was abstracted by Randi Richardson from the documents available online for Joseph Albin. Joseph Albin enlisted in the War of 1812 from the State of Kentucky. He served under Capt. Craven Peyton from May 1, 1813, to August 25, 1813. He received bounty land in compensation for his service. On April 29, 1824, in Lawrence County, Indiana, in married Rosannah Sheeks. He died in Putnam County, Indiana, on July 24, 1863. His widow applied for a pension and at the time of her application was a resident of Putnam County.

Daily Oklahoman, February 16- 1911, p. 10. NOTE: The item below was abbreviated from the original as noted by the ellipsis. A POLICE CHIEF WON LONG FIGHT Officer Is Victor in a Long Drawn Out Struggle for Existence with a Queer Enemy Bedford, Indiana, Feb. 15-One of the strangest stories that ever startled the people of this section was made public recently by Chief of Police John Gretzer of this city who tells a story of twelve long years of suffering that recently ended in the expulsion of a tapeworm that actually measured 35 feet in length. During all these years the body of Bedford's police chief furnished a place of abode for this repulsive creature which sapped his strength and undermined his health. All of the nourishment taken into his stomach went to sustain the life of this monster whose voracious appetite at times demanded great quantities of food and at other times its presence would nauseate his victim to such an extent that he could not bear the sight of food. His digestion was ruined and all the functions of the stomach and bowels became deranged; his sleep was irregular, his face pallid and his breath offensive. There were severe pains in the region of his stomach, a sense of dizziness and floating spots before his eyes, but with all of these distressing symptoms, no one was aware of the real cause of the sufferer's trouble until recently. A few weeks ago Col. Frank A. Dillingham of Cincinnati, Ohio, a widely known traveler and lecturer on disease, came to Bedford and Chief Gretzer at once laid his case before him. After being told of the remarkable success of Plant Juice in expelling tapeworms, the chief decided to give the medicine a trial and two days later held in his hand a bottle that contained the 35-foot parasite that had made his life a nightmare of pain and misery for twelve years, while he thanked the Plant Juice remedies for his relief.

Seymour Daily Republican, January 3, 1898, p. 3. Mrs. Mary A. Knight returned today to Orange County from a pleasant visit with her daughter, Sarah J. Stewart and family.