History of Washington County, 1884, from the earliest bound volume of transcribed obits available at the John Hay Center, Salem, Indiana. NOTE: The following information was provided by the transcriber: "He was first married to Lucy Ann Baylor who died September 3, 1880; he married Laura Rodman December 1, 1881." John Tash, a prominent citizen and native of Polk Township, was born October 30, 1821, being the sixth child in a family of ten children born to John and Sarah (Stanley) Tash who were natives of North Carolina and came to this state in the year 1816 and settled on the farm that was owned and occupied by John Tash, Jr. He remained on the old homestead all his life being the support of his widowed mother to whose care he was left when but ten years of age. He received a common school education such as the facilities of his day afforded. November 9, 1847, his marriage with Anna Bixler was solemnized, and to this union four children were born, of these three are now living: Emma J., now Mrs. Jasper N. Thompson; Francis M., whose present wife is Laura Rodman; and Mary E., wife of James A. Packwood. Mr. Tash was bereaved of his beloved wife October 9, 1871. Lizzie Buchanan became his second wife and one child blessed their union May 16, 1877, Bertha M., and June 1, 1877, he was again compelled to witness the death of his wife. His occupation was always farming at which he has been quite successful. He was a member of the Christian Church at Pekin and always contributed liberally to the support of that institution. In politics he was a Democrat.

Salem (IN) Democrat, March 23, 1893, from the earliest bound volume of transcribed obits available at the John Hay Center, Salem, Indiana. John Tash, one of the most highly respected citizens of our county, died at his home near Pekin, Saturday evening. Mr. Tash was born on the same farm where he died, had resided there all his life and will be greatly missed. He was nearly 72 years of age. ---------------------------------------------------------- No source noted, March 24, 1893, from the earliest bound volume of transcribed obits available at the John Hay Center, Salem, Indiana. PEKIN POINTERS Died last Monday, John Tash, aged 73 years, of neurasthenia. He was buried at Mt. Washington on Tuesday after funeral services by Rev. Parr. Thus has passed away one of our best citizens. He will be greatly missed. He was a quiet and good neighbor and friendly to all, a kind husband and father.

Republican Leader, August 12, 1881, from the earliest bound volume of transcribed obits available at the John Hay Center, Salem, Indiana. The will of John Tash, deceased, of Polk Township, has been contested and will come up for trial at the Steptember term of court.

No source noted, February 5, 1895, from the earliest bound volume of transcribed obits available at the John Hay Center, Salem, Indiana. MT. PLEASANT An infant child of Jacob Tash was interred in the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery Last Sunday.

Salem (IN) Democrat, May 4, 1881, from the earliest bound volume of transcribed obits available at the John Hay Center, Salem, Indiana. NOTE: The item below was abbreviated from the transcription as noted by the ellipsis. There was additional information below the obit and it appears to have been provided by the transcriber rather than a part of the obit. The information pertains to the marriages of eight of the Tash children: Rachel married Christian Souder; Martha married Isaac Hinkle; Lydia married Henry Davis, Jr.; Sarah married Joel Coombs; Louisa married John Elrod; Nancy married William Packwood; Henry married Anna Collins Collins; and David married Catharine Souder. I There died on the 13th of April 1881, one of the old pioneers of Washington County. Jacob Tash was an old man and had a large number of descendants. He was born February 15, 1790, in Rowan County, North Carolina. He married in that state to Mary Stanley and two children were born to them there. In 1816 he left the old North State and started over the mountains for Indiana. He settled on the middle fork of Blue River near Pekin, Washington County, in 1816, where he resided until 1874 when he went to reside with his son, David Tash, in Scott County. Mary Tash, his wife, died in 1834. The children by the marriage were ten in number, seven of whom still survive. Two boys died young, and one daughter died recently in Missouri. Jacob Tash married a second time to Martha Roe by whom he had no children. She died May 26, 1880. Jacob Tash had numerous descendants when he died. There were living as the offspring of his body seven children, 54 grandchildren, 1,006 (sic) great grand children and fourteen great great grandchildren, making 1,081 descendants. Jacob Tash was a member of the regular Baptist Church for about 50 years. He was an honest, industrious, economical man and had a peaceful and quiet life, and died respected by all who knew him. In politics he was a Democrat of the strictest sort. He voted for every Democratic candidate for president from James Monroe down to and including Gen. Hancock.

Jim, I truely wish I was able to contribute more to the IN-South-Central Rootsweb list about each of the counties in the area. What appears quickly in your e-mail mailbox is actually fairly time consuming and expensive. First is the process of locating information. Do I have to go somewhere (the closest place is about 60 minutes from me at the Indiana State Lirary or to the county as much as three hours away). Then I have to locate the material on microfilm (assuming that the county has a functional microfilm reader, some don't). On a good day I can copy about 50 pages from microfilm in a three-hour period and the cost is from .10-.25 cents per page. Each page is sourced, then I have to manually type each relevant item into a Word document. Some items are transcribed from the computer. With the exception of Monroe County, everything is indexed so I don't duplicate what has already been done. And then there are those items that are abstracted. That takes even longer. The easy part?? I cut and paste each item from the Word document to an e-mail and send it on its way to the list. The other thing going on behind the scene is database entry. Some of the counties in the south central district have very little genealogy online and very inactive genealogy societies. Orange County would be a good example. So I'm trying to create some databases for each of the counties that I can make available for free at the Indiana Genalogical Society website. I just finished a database for Orange County. It is an index to grooms from 1902 to 1908 (362 names) that provides a page and line number. The names were hand transcribed from microfilm at the Allen County Public Library in Ft. Wayne then typed into a database. Unfortunately, the legibility of the MF is so poor that extracting the name of the brides does not seem like a wise investment of time. And ideally, I'd like to proof my database against the original record in Paoli, but that involves a 90-minute trip. So I've delayed placing the database online. I've just started on a database of land owners as noted in the 1920 plat map for Crawford County. The legibility on that document is so poor that I decided to compare the names on the plat map with the names of land owners noted on the 1920 census record. There were obvious errors on the census record that I felt an obligation to correct. And rather than going back and forth from the census record to the plat map, I decided to hand transcribe the names of all land owners from the census records. Then I had to look through the whole list in order to compare a name from the census with a name from the plat map. So I decided to go ahead and enter the land owners from the census record into a database that would sort the names into alphabetical order. In the end, having both sets of records (the owners as noted on census records and those from the plat map) will be a richer source than the plat map alone, but it just takes time. Thankfully, I'm retired. But I like to work and sometimes I think about going back to work at a real job where I could make money. Then I realize I just don't have time for a real job! And anyway I'm happier doing genealogy. On those days that I'm home, I probably spend 6-8 hours at the computer. It would be my guess that every subscriber to this list has some documents relevant to their research. Maybe a will, an obit, some cemetery research. By sharing the information, the list becomes so much richer. Today I'm leaving for four days. The last time I was gone I set up my e-mail to send items to the list in my absence. Unfortunately, soon after I left I lost my electricity, my computer shut down, and the e-mail did not go out. So this time I'm sending myself all those items that need to be sent, then when I get to where I'm going, I'll open my mail and send those five items to the counties on a rotating basis. And update the sheet where I keep a record of the number of items sent to a given county on a given date and, additionally, note my starting place in the Word document for the next time I send items from that document. Now I'll climb down from my soapbox and quit whining. Randi PS: If I could only subscribe to one paid website, it would be Ancestry. It's that good and it keeps getting better. I don't regret one penny that I spend on my subscription. On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 01:36:33 -0400 (EDT), Jim Hill wrote: > Agree 100%. Ancestry has more, and more reliable information than any > site I know of. But the best part is their search-engine. Second to > none. And while I'm here, Randi, thanks very much for your daily > postings. Selfishly, I'd like to see more Washington County news, and > the majority of posters are correct, including the bad and ugly with > the good presents a truer picture of 150 years ago. > Thanks again, > Jim Hill >

Randi, At 05:31 AM 6/22/2012, you wrote: >Jim, > >I truely wish I was able to contribute more to the IN-South-Central >Rootsweb list about each of the counties in the area... As the Lawrence county webmaster, I just wanted to thank you for your contributions. The newspaper articles you send us each week are eagerly awaited AND are added, soon after their arrival, to our web site's newspaper collection at: http://www.ingenweb.org/inlawrence/paper.htm Please stay healthy! Chuck Carey

Agree 100%. Ancestry has more, and more reliable information than any site I know of. But the best part is their search-engine. Second to none. And while I'm here, Randi, thanks very much for your daily postings. Selfishly, I'd like to see more Washington County news, and the majority of posters are correct, including the bad and ugly with the good presents a truer picture of 150 years ago. Thanks again, Jim Hill -----Original Message----- From: LucasJT <LucasJT@aol.com> To: in-south-central <in-south-central@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thu, Jun 21, 2012 6:42 pm Subject: [IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL] Paying for 1940 Census I agree. Would hate to think what it would cost to physically visit the ocations found on Ancestry, e.g. county seats, state archives, etc. I've ad a subscription to Ancestry for years. Jim Lucas he IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL Rootsweb list is for genealogists and historians who have n interest in the south central district of Indiana, as defined by the Indiana enealogial Society, including the counties of: Bartholomew, Brown, Clark, rawford, Floyd, Harris, Jackson, Lawrence, Monroe, Orange, Scott and ashington. ------------------------------ o unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL-request@rootsweb.com ith the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of he message

I agree. Would hate to think what it would cost to physically visit the locations found on Ancestry, e.g. county seats, state archives, etc. I've had a subscription to Ancestry for years. Jim Lucas

I'm with you Carolyn -- how much would they pay to drive to each historical library from their location?? -----Original Message----- From: Carolyn Jones Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 7:48 PM To: in-south-central@rootsweb.com Subject: [IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL] Paying for 1940 census Personally I don't understand why everyone gets so upset about ancestry.com charging for research; there are plenty of other pay sites, ancestry is not the only one. I have paid for ancestry for years and consider it a great bargain! Its less than 50cents a day for the US research, a little more for international. How much do some of you pay daily for a soda, a coffee??etc. Please put this in perspective. I for one find I find things much faster on ancestry than on family search; saving me a lot of time. Thanks for listening; I just needed to say this. Carolyn Jones 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

 Personally I don't understand why everyone gets so upset about ancestry.com charging for research; there are plenty of other pay sites, ancestry is not the only one. I have paid for ancestry for years and consider it a great bargain! Its less than 50cents a day for the US research, a little more for international. How much do some of you pay daily for a soda, a coffee??etc. Please put this in perspective. I for one find I find things much faster on ancestry than on family search; saving me a lot of time. Thanks for listening; I just needed to say this. Carolyn Jones

Ancestry Press Release from before the the census came out. Free until the last of 2013. I'll bet at that time FamilySearch will have the link to Ancestry and you must pay to see the original image. http://corporate.ancestry.com/press/press-releases/2011/08/1940-u.s.-census-to-be-free-on-ancestry.com/ -- Sheri FamilyTwigs <http://freepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~familytwigs/> TwigTalk <http://familytwigs.blogspot.com/> Indiana Trails To The Past <http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/%7Eintttp/> SA Jackson County <http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Einjacktp/>Trails To The Past

There is precious little that is not grabbed by Ancestry. Ancestry is a money making outfit. W In a message dated 6/21/2012 10:23:11 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, jwilker471@aol.com writes: I did a little of the 1940 indexing for Family Search. Before I started, it was my understanding that it would not go to Ancestry and be charged for. It was to remain at Family Search for free to everyone. -----Original Message----- From: Nancy Ganoe <killinchydown@yahoo.com> To: in-south-central <in-south-central@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wed, Jun 20, 2012 11:11 pm Subject: Re: [IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL] 1940 Indiana Census Now Online EVERYTHING on FAMILYSEARCH wil ALWAYS BE FREE. ________________________________ From: Randi <gftl@bluemarble.net> To: inmonroe@rootsweb.com; in-south-central@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 11:56 AM Subject: [IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL] 1940 Indiana Census Now Online Fellow genealogists-- I just received the news from the Indiana Genealogical Society that the 1940 Indiana census records are now online. They can be accessed at https://familysearch.org/1940census/1940-census-indiana/. And they are free for now!! Randi 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 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

I did a little of the 1940 indexing for Family Search. Before I started, it was my understanding that it would not go to Ancestry and be charged for. It was to remain at Family Search for free to everyone. -----Original Message----- From: Nancy Ganoe <killinchydown@yahoo.com> To: in-south-central <in-south-central@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wed, Jun 20, 2012 11:11 pm Subject: Re: [IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL] 1940 Indiana Census Now Online EVERYTHING on FAMILYSEARCH wil ALWAYS BE FREE. ________________________________ From: Randi <gftl@bluemarble.net> To: inmonroe@rootsweb.com; in-south-central@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 11:56 AM Subject: [IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL] 1940 Indiana Census Now Online Fellow genealogists-- I just received the news from the Indiana Genealogical Society that the 1940 Indiana census records are now online. They can be accessed at https://familysearch.org/1940census/1940-census-indiana/. And they are free for now!! Randi 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

Unless something changes, you can view the images at http://1940census.archives.gov/ I have found most of my family without an index. Ron Davis Woodland, CA > I do know that, when I search now at FamilySearch.org, many of the census > images there link to Ancestry.com. So as Randi said, at some point the > 1940 census probably will go the way of previous records and all of them > will require a subscription to some site or other in order to actually view > the images. If I'm not mistaken, there are also some images that link > to Fold3.com, at least some of which require a subscription to view.

I think that I read some time earlier that the 1940 was more or less "free" until completely indexed, or indexed. Antoinette (Tacoma, Washington) On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 7:57 AM, M Nickless <unicorn1950@comcast.net> wrote: > > > A while back I tried to submit a correction to a name in a California > Marriage Index to FamilySearch.org. I am SURE there was a convenient > “submit correction” button or I probably wouldn’t have bothered. > Anyway, > a couple of weeks or so later I received a reply that basically said > thanks, but we can’t make corrections right now. The email provided > this link that discusses corrections in FamilySearch records: > https://help.familysearch.org/publishing/793/101553_f.SAL_Public.html > > At the same time I got an email in my mailbox, but addressed to someone > else! Hmmmm It concerned an error in the 1930 census. In > that > email, they said: "At this time FamilySearch cannot make or accept > corrections to transcriptions, but a feature to allow such changes is in > the > planning stages”. They provided the the same link as shown above. > So, I guess the plan is to somewhere down the line attempt corrections. > > I do know that, when I search now at FamilySearch.org, many of the census > images there link to Ancestry.com. So as Randi said, at some point the > 1940 census probably will go the way of previous records and all of them > will require a subscription to some site or other in order to actually view > the images. If I'm not mistaken, there are also some images that link > to Fold3.com, at least some of which require a subscription to view. > > > Marilyn > > > > ========================================================================= > -----Original Message----- > From: gftl > Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 4:48 AM > To: in-south-central@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL] 1940 Indiana Census Now Online > > Jan, > > I don't know how to address corrections at FamilySearch. Maybe someone > else can provide the information?? > > Randi > > On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:38:26 -0400, Jan Flowers wrote: > > Looking at my family in the 1940 census for Madison county, Indiana > > there > > are some mis-spelling of names and incorret dates and ages. > > > > How can these be corrected? > > > > Jan Flowers > > > > > 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

A while back I tried to submit a correction to a name in a California Marriage Index to FamilySearch.org. I am SURE there was a convenient “submit correction” button or I probably wouldn’t have bothered. Anyway, a couple of weeks or so later I received a reply that basically said thanks, but we can’t make corrections right now. The email provided this link that discusses corrections in FamilySearch records: https://help.familysearch.org/publishing/793/101553_f.SAL_Public.html At the same time I got an email in my mailbox, but addressed to someone else! Hmmmm It concerned an error in the 1930 census. In that email, they said: "At this time FamilySearch cannot make or accept corrections to transcriptions, but a feature to allow such changes is in the planning stages”. They provided the the same link as shown above. So, I guess the plan is to somewhere down the line attempt corrections. I do know that, when I search now at FamilySearch.org, many of the census images there link to Ancestry.com. So as Randi said, at some point the 1940 census probably will go the way of previous records and all of them will require a subscription to some site or other in order to actually view the images. If I'm not mistaken, there are also some images that link to Fold3.com, at least some of which require a subscription to view. Marilyn ========================================================================= -----Original Message----- From: gftl Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 4:48 AM To: in-south-central@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL] 1940 Indiana Census Now Online Jan, I don't know how to address corrections at FamilySearch. Maybe someone else can provide the information?? Randi On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:38:26 -0400, Jan Flowers wrote: > Looking at my family in the 1940 census for Madison county, Indiana > there > are some mis-spelling of names and incorret dates and ages. > > How can these be corrected? > > Jan Flowers >

Jan, I don't know how to address corrections at FamilySearch. Maybe someone else can provide the information?? Randi On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:38:26 -0400, Jan Flowers wrote: > Looking at my family in the 1940 census for Madison county, Indiana > there > are some mis-spelling of names and incorret dates and ages. > > How can these be corrected? > > Jan Flowers >

Scottsburg (Scott County, Indiana) Chronicle, January 12, 1905, p. 4. The wife of County Supt. James A. Boatman died Tuesday at the family residence about 3 ½ miles northwest of this place of pneumonia. Her remains were interred at the Zoah Cemetery Wednesday afternoon.

Scottsburg (Scott County, Indiana) Chronicle, January 12, 1905, p. 4. On Tuesday afternoon, Rollie Thomas was shot through the foot by his cousin, Emmet Thomas, while hunting near Thomastown, Finley Township. The boys are about 14 years of age.