Columbus (IN) Daily Herald, October 8, 1897, p. 3. Alexander Clarkson died at the home of his parents in East Columbus this morning at three o'clock, aged 17 years. He had been sick about a week with malarial fever but was not considered at all dangerous until Thursday evening he was taken suddenly worse with heart failure resulting in death a few hours later.

Columbus (IN) Daily Herald, October 8, 1897, p. 3. Mrs. Creighton, mother of Mrs. George Clutch, died at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Clutch in Maple Grove at one o'clock this afternoon.

Columbus (IN) Daily Herald, October 8, 1897, p. 3. See also obit for Nora Treadway. Nora, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cavanaugh , died at her home on Sixteenth Street at seven o'clock Thursday night of spinal meningitis, aged four years.

Calumet (MI) Country Evening News, July 28, 1898, p. 6. Calvin Stewart, 14 years old, was drowned while swimming in White River at Washington, Indiana.

Deming (NM) Graphic, November 5, 1909, p. 1. MORAN-KRETZ NUPTIALS Mr. Ed. F. Moran, a leading businessman and citizen of Deming, led Miss Josephine Kretz to the hymeneal alter in El Paso Saturday, Rev. Father Roy Officiating. Miss Kretz is a popular and accomplished young lady of Washington, Ind. The Graphic extends best wishes.

Indianapolis (IN) Journal, August 18, 1902, p. 3. CHURCH OPENING AND BASKET MEETING Salem, Ind., August 17-The Church of Christ, which recently purchased the Catholic Church building, opened it here today without formal dedication, by a great basket meeting attended by hundreds of persons. The dinner was served in Court Park, and the services were conducted by the Rev. H. H. Adamson of Ellettsville, Ind.

Indianapolis (IN) News, November 30, 1895, p. 6. UNCONSCIOUS FOR DAYS David Zink of Salem Disabled by a Fractured Skull Salem, Ind., November 30-David Zink has lain unconscious for several days due to a blow that he received in the so-called "City Restaurant," which adjoins what is known as the Turf Saloon owned by Peter G. Chastam (sic) with Harvey Fulmer as bartender. Several affrays appear to have occurred in the saloon during the day. James Young had his eyes blackened. The city marshal, entering the room, saw Zink pushed off a high stool by Fulmer, and Young claimed that Zink had previously been struck with a loaded "billy." Both Zink and Fulmer were arrested, but the next day Zink's condition became so alarming that the sheriff had him taken home. Fulmer was arrested and placed under heavier bonds. The Salem Sun, of this week, makes a vigorous attack on the saloon and restaurant asserting that it is a plague spot and that the time has come to stop the lawlessness.

Indianapolis (IN) News, April 23, 1900, p. 11. AN EPIDEMIC OF PNEUMONIA Salem, Ind., April 23-Cornelius Spaulding, Sr., and his wife, an aged couple living near this city, died of pneumonia and were interred in the same grave. A brother of Mr. Spaulding and a sister of Mr. Spaulding have since been stricken with the same disease and are not expected to survive. They are quite old. There are a number of other cases of pneumonia in that neighborhood while several have died.

Source: Monroe County (IN) Civil Court Records, Box 319, Monroe County History Center, Bloomington, Indiana. The item noted below was abstracted by Randi Richardson from one of the original documents in the file. In September 1877, Malinda J. Keplinger sued her husband, Samuel Keplinger for divorce. She said she had been living in Monroe County, Indiana, for at least six months prior to filing her petition. She said, further, that she married her husband in Spencer County on an unspecified date in the 1870s, that since the marriage she had been mistreated and left without support. She asked for alimony in the amount of $1,000 from her husband's expected inheritance at the death of his mother.

Scottsburg (IN) Journal, November 11, 1914, p. 5. Scott and Harrison Murphy, west of town, raised 77 (sic) tons of pumpkins on 32 acres besides 35 bushels of good corn to the acre.

Scottsburg (IN) Journal, November 11, 1914, p. 4. Frank Peregrine and wife visited relatives at Flora and Mt. Vernon, Ill., last week. They visited their uncle, Tom Jackson, whom they had not seen for 33 years, and found him in poor health. He is 74 years old, an ex-soldier, and formerly lived here. He sends his best wishes to all his old Scott County friends.

Scottsburg (IN) Journal, November 11, 1914, p. 4. Thelma, the little three-year-old daughter of Lenna (sic) Chasteen, died last Tuesday and was buried at Wesley Chapel Thursday, Rev. Kisner conducted the funeral.

Scottsburg (IN) Journal, November 11, 1914, p. 1. MRS. GEORGE VEST DEAD Mrs. Lillian Vest, aged 20, died yesterday, Tuesday, at the home of her father-in-law, Emerson Vest, in Johnson Township. She had been at a hospital for treatment and had returned home. On last Friday her attending physician determined that a Caesarian operation should be performed as a last chance to save her life. This was done between midnight and four o'clock Saturday morning by Dr. Garland Sherrill of Louisville, but the patient continued to sink until the end came yesterday at eleven o'clock. Mrs. Vest was a daughter of Robert L. Whitsitt and was known and loved by a large circle of friends who mourn her sad and untimely demise. She had been married to George Vest a year and fifteen days. Besides her husband and parents, she leaves three sisters and one brother, Edgar Whitsitt. The funeral will occur tomorrow, Thursday at ten o'clock from the home of Emerson Vest. The interment will be in Scottsburg Cemetery.

Scottsburg (IN) Journal, November 11, 1914, p. 1. CIRCUIT COURT-State of Indiana vs. James Cooper for petit larceny, plead guilty. Court finds his age to be 16, and he is sentenced to Indiana Reformatory for a period of two to five years and fined $10.00. This is the old woman and her son who obtained a gold ring and $4.00 from Marion Anderson on a fraudulent check.

Bloomington (IN) Newsletter, August 18, 1855, p. 2. Died on Monday the 13th inst., at Bloomington, Larkin Reynolds, Esq., likewise a member of the bar in good standing. He leaves a widow and two small children. May he who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb remember them in the dark hour of their adversity.

Bloomington (IN) Newsletter, August 18, 1855, p. 2. DIED-on Saturday night the 11th inst., at Bedford, George H. Monson (consider Munson a spelling variant), Esq., of dysenteric fever. Mr. Monson was about 30 years of age at the time of his death and had acquired a reputation for ability as a lawyer. We sincerely sympathize with the bereaved friends of the deceased in the hour of their affliction.

Robert Smith, editor, THE FRIEND: RELIGIOUS AND LITERARY JOURNAL, Vol. 1, (Philadelphia: John Richardson, 1829), p. 364. NOTE: The item below was abbreviated from the original as noted by the ellipsis. Thomas Lindley, son of Jonathan, died the 5th day of the 5th months, 1828, aged 46 years and ten days. For many years he had been an active member of Lick Creek monthly meeting.

USDA Forest Service, Lick Creek African American Settlement, 8/2012, available online at http://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5303625.pdf. Note the item below was abbreviated from the original as shown by the ellipsis. The first African Americans (consider negro and colored as spelling variants) settlers came to Orange County, Indiana, before 1820. Led by Jonathan Lindley, eleven families traveled with a group of sympathetic Quakers in search of a new land which forbade slavery. Jonathan Lindley settled in Orange County in 1811, five years before the county was established and Indiana became a state. By 1860, 260 blacks lived in Orange County. Almost a third of them lived in Southeast Township in the Lick Creek African American Settlement, at that time a racially integrated community.

HISTORY OF LAWRENCE, ORANGE AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES, INDIANA: FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT (Chicago: Goodspeed Bros. & Co., Publishers, 1884), p. 611. James E. Lindley was born in Orange County, May 31, 1834, the son of Owen and Mary (Wilson) Lindley, and is a farmer by occupation. Appropriate mention of his parents occurs elsewhere in this volume. He has been successful in his business and now owns a farm of 290 acres with good improvements. His youth was spent on a farm where he learned all the methods of successful agriculture and that industry and honesty is the best policy. His education is limited but sufficient for business. January 26, 1860, he married Mary E., daughter of James and Nancy Kearby (consider Kirby a spelling variant). This lady was born in Morgan County, Ind., in March 1841, and has presented her husband with a family of which seven are living, as follows: Hannibal B., William J., Alfaretta, Junietta, Beatrice, Ida O. and James M. Mr. Lindley is a Republican and one of the best citizens in the county.

HISTORY OF LAWRENCE, ORANGE AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES, INDIANA: FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT (Chicago: Goodspeed Bros. & Co., Publishers, 1884), p. 611. William W. Lindley was born in Orange County, September 24, 1824, and is the third child of Owen and Mary (Wilson) Lindley. Owen Lindley was a prominent early settler and came from North Carolina with his parents in 1811 and was born in that state August 10, 1793, and married in Washington County, Indiana, in 1819. His wife was born in North Carolina August 31, 1793. They were highly respected and members of the Friends Church. The father died August 2, 1871, and his wife in 1878. Our subject is a farmer and resides on the land on which he was born. He married in 1870, Deborah J., daughter of Robert and Polly Williams, and by this marriage there are five children: Annie D., Mary E., Della, Rutherford and James C. Mr. Lindley has a birthright in the Friends Church. He is one of the leading fathers and stock raisers and takes an active interest in the promotion of the farming community. He is a Republican and, of course, his parents being Friends were opposed to slavery before the war. He and wife are people of much worth and respectability.