HISTORY OF LAWRENCE, ORANGE AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES, INDIANA: FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT (Chicago: Goodspeed Bros. & Co., Publishers, 1884), p. 590. Samuel T. Lindley of Paoli was born on the same farm where he now lives, April 12, 1823. His grandfather was Jonathan Lindley, the most influential man of his day in Orange County, a native of Pennsylvania who in early life, with his parents, settled in North Carolina where he remained until 1811, coming in that year to Indiana and bringing with him what was then a large amount of money. He represented Orange County in the first State Legislature and several subsequent terms. He entered the land now occupied by the east part of Paoli and it was through his endeavors that the county seat was located where it now is. Thomas, the father of Samuel T., was the second of his thirteen children and was born in North Carolina where he was married to Amy Thompson. They came to Indiana in 1811 and soon after Mrs. Lindley joined the Quaker Church and became one of the noted ministers of that denomination in the United States. They bore a family of nine children. Thomas Lindley died in 1828 and immediately afterward Samuel T. was taken to Jackson County, Ind., where his youth was spent until he was 20 years of age and received most of his education. Upon his return to Orange County he engaged in the dry goods trade at Paoli for three years. Since then he has followed farming in connection with the agricultural implement trade. He owns 240 acres of good land, most of it near the town of Paoli. August 21, 1845, his marriage with Eliza J. Trueblood was solemnized and to their union three children have been born, John E. and Mrs. Alice Stout yet living. Both Mr. and Mrs. Lindley are members of the Society of Friends by birthright. He was formerly trustee of Paoli Township and in politics is a Republican.

Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Sunday Star, June 5, 1910, p. 7. Bedford has organized an automobile club with 36 charter members. It is said that there are 75 automobile owners in that town. The organization will interest itself in having good streets and roads, keeping the streets free from debris, such as broken glass, building fires in the streets, etc.

Bloomington (IN) Sunday Star, June 26, 1910, p. 8. BEDFORD FORGIVES ERRING YOUTH Charles Mitchell, aged 16, stole a suit of clothes from a room in a boarding house at Bedford and came to Bloomington in a Pullman box car last Tuesday night. He was found occupying a lower birth when he was pulled by Policeman Hinkle who returned his prisoner to Bedford. The boy had the clothes on over his old ones, and the suit looked as if it might fit Squire Iseminger. The youthful culprit was told to "git" and reform, and he went to Mitchell to live under the high moral influence of that town in hopes that he may grow up to be a better man and someday become a member of the city council.

Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Telephone, June 1, 1929, p. 1. A. C. Dowling of Bedford yesterday afternoon entered a plea of guilty to the charge of issuing a fraudulent check for $15 to the Subway (difficult to read) Restaurant in this city and was given a term of 90 days at the penal farm. The judge, however, inserted a clause suspending 60 days of the time on the condition that he take up the check before the opening of the September term.

Seymour (IN) Republican, January 5, 1901, p. 1. LANTZ MURDER TRIAL NEXT WEEK Bloomington, Ind., Jan. 5-Oliver Thomason and Charles Gaines, who have been in the reformatory for safekeeping since last July, charged with killing Frank Lantz (consider Lentz a spelling variant) of Limestone, Lawrence County were brought here for trial yesterday. Their cases come up next week, and they will be kept at Bloomington until then. There is still some fear of a mob, and it was intended to keep their removal quiet.

Evansville (IN) Journal, October 13, 1869, p. JACKSON COUNTY REGULATORS-A MAN HANGED We learn by a private telegram from Bedford, Lawrence County, that a report was current to the effect that a party of Jackson County Regulators hung a man named Stephen Clark at Heltonville, in that county, on Thursday last. It appears that Clark had been arrested, charged with stealing, and while the officers were on their way to Brownstown, Jackson County, with the prisoner, the regulators took Clark from them and hung him to a tree. A dispatch in another column reports the hanging to have occurred near Clear Spring, Jackson County. -N. A. Ledger

Warren (MN) Sheaf, May 12, 1915, p. 8. Mr. and Mrs. E. Blish Thompson of Seymour, Ind., who were the only known Indiana people who were on the Lusitania, were on a business trip to the old country. Mr. Thompson is secretary and sales manager of the Blish Milling Company of Seymour.

Maysville (KY) Daily Evening Bulletin, January 5, 1882, p. 2. Mrs. Ellen Farrell died at Seymour, Ind., from an overdose of morphine.

Hopkinsville (KY) Kentuckian, December 25, 1917, p. 8. LUSITANIA WIDOW WEDS Seymour, Ind., December 24-Announcements have been received here of the marriage of Mrs. Maude S. Thompson, widow of E. Blish Thompson, a victim of the Lusitania, to Lt. Jean de Gennes. The wedding took place in Paris on November 23. Mr. and Mrs. de Gennes left at once for the Italian front. Lt. de Gennes is in the French aviation corps. He entered the service as soon as war was declared. Mrs. de Gennes has been in France since July 1916. She spent her first year in Paris in the surgical dressings work and since June of this year has been in as auxiliary nurse in the American Red Cross Hospital No. 2 in Paris.

Guthrie (OK) Daily Leader, March 3, 1900, p. 1. DUEL FOUGHT TO A FINISH AND BOTH COMBATTANTS LIE DEAD Seymour, Ind., March 3-James Powers, a school teacher, and W. A. Fuller, a farmer, fought a street duel yesterday afternoon with revolvers. Nine shots were exchanged and both were killed. The trouble originated over Powers having chastised Fuller's daughter at school.

Hopkinsville (KY) Kentuckian, May 15, 1915, p. 8. E. B. THOMPSON LOST The family of E. Blish Thompson of Seymour, Ind., who with his wife was a passenger on the Lusitania, have given up hope for his safety. Mrs. Thompson was among the rescued.

Recently while trying to fill in some gaps in the information I have about the childrern of Samuel Kelly (1777-1806) and his wife, Margaret Kelly (1776-1815) of Clark County, IN, I came across a Rootsweb Message Board for that County asking for information about this couple and related family members including Rebecca and George Watkins, Elizabeth and John Mills, and Eleanor/Ellener and Patrick Welsh/Welch. However when I tried to reply to it I was not able to do so. The email was posted 10 Feb 2010 and was from "Patricia". If she is on this list or someone knows how to contact her, please let me know and I will be happy to share the information I have on this family with her or anyone else who would be interested in it. Thanks for the assistance. Mary F Kelley (Researching my Kelly/Kelley Family in VA, KY, TN, IN, OH, KS, NEB and IA)

Breckenridge (KY) News, June 28 1916. NOTE: The item below was extracted from an obit for William McGlothlan. William McGlothlan was born October 7, 1804, and was married to Melvina Rawlings about the year 1829. Four children blessed this union: Edward, reached the age of maturity; John died in young manhood-well might we say his son went down at noon-his remains rest in the village cemetery at Mauckport, Ind.

William H. Roose, Indiana's Birthplace: A History of Harrison County, Indiana (New Albany, IN: Tribune Company Printers, 1911), p. 70. Buena Vista in Taylor Township was laid out by William Wallace in 1850. It was here that a meteor fell about four o'clock in the afternoon of March 28, 1859. The falling of the meteor was attended with great rattling and hissing noises that were heard for miles. The meteor was secured by Dr. E. S. Crosier and it is now in the British Museum in London.

William H. Roose, Indiana's Birthplace: A History of Harrison County, Indiana (New Albany, IN: Tribune Company Printers, 1911), p. 70. Bridgeport was laid out in September 1849 by Thomas Joyes and David M. Farnsley, but its growth has been slow. The post office has always borne the name of Locust Point.

William H. Roose, Indiana's Birthplace: A History of Harrison County, Indiana (New Albany, IN: Tribune Company Printers, 1911), p. 69. New Amsterdam was platted September 19, 1815, by Jacob Funk and Samuel McAdams. Daniel Funk and Henry Funk, who were soldiers in the Revolutionary War are buried one mile below the town on the bank of Indian Creek.

William H. Roose, Indiana's Birthplace: A History of Harrison County, Indiana (New Albany, IN: Tribune Company Printers, 1911), p. 68-69. The Town of Palmyra was leased by Hays McCallen, November 14, 1810, and was originally known as McCallen's Crossroads. It was laid out in 48 lots in October 1836 and named Carthage. There being another Carthage in the state, the name of the town was changed to Palmyra on March 25, 1839. It is said that McCallen secured the land from an earlier settler who complained that he had become too crowded because Fredericksburg had been settled four miles on one side of him and Greenville six miles on the other.

New Albany (IN) Evening Tribune, October 18, 1895, p. 4. Mary Coffee (consider Coffey as a spelling variant), West Fourth Street, filed a complaint against Emmett Braxton, colored, whom she charges with choking her.

New Albany (IN) Evening Tribune, October 18, 1895, p. 4. Miss Katie DePauw, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. N. T. DePauw, is seriously ill of typhoid fever at their home on East Main Street. Mr. DePauw, who was in New York City, has left for this city in response to a telegram.

New Albany (IN) Evening Tribune, October 18, 1895, p. 4. A NEEDLE Drawn from the Leg of City Treasurer Jacob Best's Two-Year-Old Son, Morris This morning Dr. Garey removed a corroded needle from the left leg of Morris, the 2-year-old son of City Treasurer Jacob Best, East Spring Street. It is thought the needle had been in his system for the past six months. For several days the boy has been peevish and complained of a pain in his leg where a small lump was noticed. This morning Mrs. Best was dressing the boy and, in drawing on his stocking, felt the sharp point of some object. She looked closely at the lump and saw the point of a needle protruding from the flesh. Dr. Garey was called and with the aid of instruments removed the piece of steel that was nearly two inches long. How it got into the flesh is not known. Last spring the boy complained a great deal and the hard lump formed on his leg, and it is thought he swallowed the needle and that it has been working its way out, as many cases of this kind have been reported.