This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Mitchell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/5519/Ci.2ADE/4225.3 Message Board Post: I was trying to find Verna Mitchell who is listed in 4 yr. Do you have info on her? I think she might be a great-great-great grandmother. What state is this school in? Thanks!

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Mitchell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/5519/Ci.2ADE/4225.2 Message Board Post: I was trying to find Verna Mitchell who is listed in 4 yr. Do you have info on her? I think she might be a great-great-great grandmother. What state is this school in? Thanks!

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hutchens, Fulk, Ferrell, Amis, Reece Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Ci.2ADE/1633.1 Message Board Post: Hi there I have Sarah Hutchins/es as the d/o Jesse Hutchens and Lydia Clark, I have her siblings as Elkanah Clark Hutchens b Oct, 22, 1814 he m Diana Carmichael, 2nd Giles E Hutchens b Abt 1816 he m Lydia Brandon 3rd John Ellis b Sept, 7, 1819 b in Green Co, Indiana and he m Susannah Russell, 4th Alexander Balis b 1821 in Green Co, Indiana he m Nancy Walls, 5th, Isaac b abt 1824 he died 1897 and was m to Mahala Burns. 6th Alsey b abt 1827 in Green Co, she was b Oct,12,1845 and she m Eli Brandon, 7th Elizabeth Hutchens b abt 1828 and she m Andrew J Bays Feb,11, 1845 in Green Co, Indiana. My line is through Alexander Balis and Nancy Walls, I hope this helps, Laura Smith Ky.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Ci.2ADE/712.744.995 Message Board Post: My gr-grandmother was Susannah Plummer. She was the daughter of Thomas Plummer and Margaret Barker. Thomas was born March 16, 1817 in Greene Co., IN and died June 29, 1884. His father was Thomas Plummer born May 19, 1782 in NC or TN. He died Nov. 17, 1839 in Greene Co.. I do not have any information on Margaret Barker other than born May 18, 1820 and died Sept. 1, 1850. They are buried either in Prairie Chapel Cem. near Plummer, or possibly Hicks. I can find out if possible, I am in the process of that now and will be visiting cemetaries all day Memorial Day with elderly aunts who can help.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Ci.2ADE/1041.1056 Message Board Post: Margaret Barker, born May 18, 1820, was my gr-gr-grandmother. I do not know who her parents were, so would like any info you have. She died Sept. 1, 1850. I am not sure where she is buried, but know I do have folks buried at Scotland Cem. She was married to Thomas Plummer.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Myers, Plummer, Nichols, Wright, Headley, Marsh, Barker, Smith, Ledgerwood, Holt Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Ci.2ADE/544.1 Message Board Post: My grandmother was Flossie Wright, daughter of Dora Delano (I have info that it was"Delaine"?) Wright and Mary Canzada Marsh. Would like more info on Dora and Mary, I have none. I don't have anything on Flora, sorry...Mary died in Sullivan, where I live. Is she buried here?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Dean Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Ci.2ADE/4533.1.1 Message Board Post: Lynn, Just received your mssg about Wm. E, Dean. As you may know, there are at least two-three seperate groups of Dean's in Owen Co./Greene Co., In. I'm sorry, but I don't recognize your Wm. E. I would however be interested in learning what you may know about the Mitchell's of Greene Co., A John J. Mitchell married (his second) Rachel Dean in 1898. His first wife was Sophia b. abt 1840. Rachel Dean had also been previously married to Daniel Asher in 1857. I have found John Mitchell and family in Greene Co. in the 1870 census. I would welcome any more info you may have on him, or his. Thanks Mike Dean

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Mitchell, Spencer, Balzer Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Ci.2ADE/4533.1 Message Board Post: I have located marriage records for my great-aunt Verna nee Mitchell who was married to Wm. E. Dean, son of Wm. E. and Ella McBride Dean. I happened upon the records in Vigo County... not knowing that she had married this individual. Verna's spouse was born in 1893. I don't know if this is the same Dean family or not. My Mitchell's resided in Linton, Greene Co., Indiana. The 1920 census shows that Verna was divorced and at home with her parents. She later married Delmar Spencer and moved to Michigan.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: dean Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Ci.2ADE/4533 Message Board Post: I've been unable to locate Wm. H. Dean and family in the 1870 Census for Greene Co., In. Three of his youngest children claimed to be born in Greene Co., In starting about 1873. Can anyone direct me to a source of records which might identify Wm. H. in this time frame? Thanks Mike

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: JONES Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Ci.2ADE/4501.2 Message Board Post: I have a Mina Jones in my research of the Jones' in my family. I do not know if it is the same Mina Jones. The info I have on her is limited, but am willing to share what I have. Email me : bunkinhead1@yahoo.com and I will send you what I have. Maybe we can connect. THANKS

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: JONES Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Ci.2ADE/4501.1 Message Board Post: I have a Mina Jones in my research of the Jones' in my family. I do not know if it is the same Mina Jones. The info I have on her is limited, but am willing to share what I have. Email me : bunkinhead1@yahoo.com and I will send you what I have. Maybe we can connect. THANKS

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Ci.2ADE/4531 Message Board Post: I am interested in corresponding with anyone with information on the Claywell families in Indiana. I have a large data base of Claywells that I would be happy to share. Marilyn Monson

This reminiscence is a priceless glimpse of history. If we all could have been so fortune to have a letter like this from one of our ancestors, many mysteries would be solved. Stan PEGG, HEITMAN, TODD, MALICOAT, SCOTT, DAY ----- Original Message ----- From: <rjcksn@earthlink.net> To: <INGREENE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 3:54 PM Subject: [INGREENE] Reminiscence of His Pioneer Journey From New York in 1837 and Early Settlement Life in Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, by Wakeman W. EDWARDS, Abbeville, Louisiana, June 8, 1917. > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: CAVINS, CONDE, DOWNING, EDWARDS, FERGUSON, HILL, INMAN, KELSEY, LEARNED, LOCKWOOD, PATTERSON, RITTER, SHRYER, STROPES, SULLIVAN, TIBBETS, VANSLYKE, VANVORST, WEST > Classification: Biography > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Ci.2ADE/4530 > > Message Board Post: > > THE BLOOMFIELD DEMOCRAT, Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, Tuesday, June 19, 1917, Volume LVI, Number 51, Page 1, Columns 3 & 4, “SKETCH OF EARLY LIFE IN GREENE COUNTY.” [Transcribed 8 May 2002 from Bloomfield-Eastern Greene County Public Library’s IHS Microfilm Records.] > > The following interesting reminiscence of the early days has been sent the Democrat by W. J. EDWARDS, of Abbieville, La., who was a resident of Bloomfield several years ago and who is now editor and publisher of a paper in the South. Speaking of the sketch, he says: > > “This is one of a series of sketches dealing with the early settlement of Bloomfield. > > “It was written, without the aid of spectacles, by my father, Wakeman W. EDWARDS, now in his 92nd year, a hale, well-preserved specimen, physically and mentally, of the type of sturdy pioneers who blazed the pathway of civilization through the primeval wilderness of the “Northwest Territory.” His life span reaches back to the days of the stage coach, the canal boat, the post trader, the circuit rider, the log cabin and the flat boat.” > > A Reminiscence of an Old Timer. > > In the autumn of 1837 my grandfather, Henry EDWARDS, Sr., and his wife, and my father, Henry EDWARDS, Jr. and his wife and myself, removed from the Mohawk Valley in the State of New York, to Bloomfield, Indiana. As there were no railroads in those days, the journey was made in covered wagons of the Prairie Schooner type. > > We camped along the roadside at night and slept in the wagons. We were forty-two days on the road. In Rush County, near Rushville, lived an old friend and neighbor of ours from the Mohawk, named Adam CONDE, who had been living there several years. In those days the people along the Mohawk, about Schenectady, spoke the Dutch (not the German, but Holland) language, at times. When we got to Rush County we were very weary and fatigued. We made inquiries for Adam CONDE and found that he lived on a farm along the road we would travel, so we concluded to stop and pay him a visit. It was some ten years since we had seen him and father thought he would play a little joke on him, so when we got to his farm, father stopped the teams and went to the barn, a little distance from the road where Mr. CONDE, with his boys and some carpenters, were at work building a new barn. Father recognized Mr. CONDE at once, but of course Mr. CONDE did not recognize father. When father told Mr. CON! > DE that he was traveling with his old father and mother and that they were tired and wanted to rest a day or so; that they were poor and had but little money, but the neighbors told him that Mr. CONDE was a very kind and charitable man, and would probably let them stay over Sunday with him, free of cost, as it was then Saturday afternoon, Mr. CONDE stood up and looked at the wagons and replied, There is a host of you!” “No,” father said, “only four or five.” “All right” said Mr. CONDE, “drive up, I will entertain you.” Father beckoned to me (as I drove the front wagon) to drive up there and we all drove up. Grandfather, who drove the second wagon, got out and walked up to Mr. CONDE and spoke familiarly to him in Holland Dutch. Had a thunderbolt at that moment fallen from heaven Mr. CONDE would not have been more astonished. He had probably not heard a word of Dutch, outside of his own family, in man! > y years. Greatly excited, he replied in Dutch, “Who are you? Grandfather replied in Dutch, “I am what is left of Old Henry EDWARDS.” Mr. CONDE seized him and replied, “God bless you, I would not have you go by without stopping for a hundred dollars; where is your wife?” “In the wagon there.” Mr. CONDE rushed to the little wagon, where grandma rode and recognizing her at once, grasped her hand and helped her out of the wagon, then he called to the men working on the bar: “Come here, take these horses and unharness them, and give them a good feed.” “Come now, we will all go to the house.” We stayed Saturday night and all day Sunday and had a delightful visit. They talked Mohawk Dutch to their heart’s content; all about old times and old friends. We were well rested by the next Monday morning and took our leave of our old friend and resumed our journey. > > Perhaps some reader may say, “What has all this to do with Bloomfield? Tell us something about Bloomfield.” Be patient, gentle reader, I have not yet got to Bloomfield, never saw the town, how can I tell you about it before I get there? I’ll be there soon and then I will tell you all about it. > > I had an uncle and aunt living in Bloomfield at that time, Reuben H. EDWARDS and his wife, who had lately moved from New York. > > My father had an old copper bugle in York state, which he used as a dinner horn and he used to play a few simple airs on it and a few cavalry calls. My uncle and aunt were familiar with these bugle calls in New York, and they were expecting us to arrive soon in Bloomfield; so when we got on the outskirts of the town, father got out the old bugle and sounded a call. My uncle and aunt heard the sound of the bugle and at once recognized it and came to meet us. It was a joyful meeting, for now our long and tiresome journey was at an end. It was now the middle of October and the nights were beginning to get cool. > > WAKEMAN W. EDWARDS > Abbieville, Louisiana, June 8, 1917. > — > THE BLOOMFIELD DEMOCRAT, Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, Tuesday, June 19, 1917, Volume LVI, Number 53, Page 1, Columns 3 & 4, “BLOOMFIELD—Reminiscences of an Old Timer No. 2.” [Transcribed 8 May 2002 from Bloomfield-Eastern Greene County Public Library’s IHS Microfilm Records.] > > Bloomfield in 1837 was a hamlet or small village of about one hundred fifty or two hundred inhabitants. It was surrounded on three sides by three small hills with a big gully in the middle. There was a good spring at the head of the gully and no doubt this spring had much to do for the selection of the town site. > > The county seat had been lately removed from Fairplay, I think, to this place. About one-half of the houses in the town were log houses, built of hewn logs; the newer ones were frame buildings. The courthouse was of logs, also the jail and the school house, and were located in the southwestern part of town. > > The public square was at the head of the gully and Andrew DOWNING had the contract to build a new brick court house on the public square and he was preparing the ground for the building which he erected in the summer of 1838, a building some forty or fifty feet square. The gully occupied the south side of the square and the town the other three sides. > > On the northwest corner of the public square was a new frame building occupied as a store by Mark SHRYER. This building remained there in 1897 when I last visited Bloomfield. Opposite the store was the tavern, kept by Peter HILL, I believe, who was at one time Sheriff. On the north side of the public square Stephen LOCKWOOD had a cabinet maker shop and there were several small stores and at the northeast corner was a new two story frame store owned by Mr. NORRIS and Joe WEST had a saloon in a part of it. Diagonally across the street, John INMAN owned a store, one of the largest in the town. His wife was my cousin, Margaret VANSLYKE. Further down on the east side lived my uncle Henry KELSEY and my aunt Esther. > > >From the northeast corner of the square a road ran to Richland Creek and on the next square from the corner, my uncle, Reuben H. EDWARDS lived. He had a carding machine on his lot which was run by horse power, and he cared the wool for all the housewives to spin and weave into “Blue-Jeans” which was the clothing used in those days. No broadcloth, or store clothes were to be seen in those days, all was home-made, and the “Hoosiers” of those days felt as proud to be in his suite of blue jeans as he does now in “store clothes” or tailor made. > > While on the subject of clothes, I might as well state her that in those days the boys and girl in summer time wore only one single garment, a long shirt made of coarse cotton goods. They went bare foot and often without that; bare feet and bare heads were the style for children up to ten years in Bloomfield in those days and this style dress gave rise to the phrase “shirt tail boys.” > > East of Bloomfield Ruel LEARNED had a saw mill on Richland creek. He also had a small farm just south of town, which my grandfather purchased and on which he lived until his death and where my grandmother and uncle Lewis B. EDWARDS lived long afterwards. About a half mile west of the public square lived John VANVORST, and also my aunt, widow Cornelius VANSLYKE and her two sons, Henry VANSLYKE and Peter C. VANSLYKE. Nearly the entire town was built around the public square. There were not more than tree or four families living between the lots on the public square and the branch or brook west of the square; the woods began at the branch. On a street running west from the southwest corner of the square were the school house and jail and few families living. > > No one lived out where the seminary is now. The lot was there but nothing on it. > > My father had a wagon makers shop and a blacksmith shop on the street running from the northwest corner of the public square to White river. It stood about halfway between the square and the brook. He imported a wheelwright named Michael SULLIVAN, an Irishman, and a blacksmith named Robert TIBBETS, an Englishman, from New York, to operate the shops. The business was not a success. > > On top of the high hill north of the public square were two houses; one was owned by Dr. FREELAND, I think, but I do not remember who owned the other. > > On the street running from the northeast corner of the square up north to the hill, lived several families. One of these families was that of Uncle Sammie CAVINS, who was then, I think, Clerk of Court and for many years afterwards. His eldest sons, John and Aden CAVINS, were then shirttail boys, and I remember them as they chopped wood out in the street in front of the house in their long shirts. John CAVINS was one of the noblest boys that ever trod the streets of Bloomfield. The old saying “The good, whom the Gods love, they take early,” applied to him. He died young. Of Aden CAVINS it is only necessary to say that he was a good boy and lived long. Bloomfield people know more about him than I do. > > On this street was a saddler’s and harness shop owned, if I remember right, by one Tom PATTERSON, and there was also a tin shop on the street, but I do not remember who ran it. > > On the street running out east from the northeast corer of the public square lived three or four families. A Mr. FERGUSON was one of them and he had a blacksmith shop and a wheelwright shop on this street, and I think Mr. STROPES lived there. Mr. STROPES was a teamster and hauled goods from Louisville, Kentucky, to Bloomfield in a four-horse wagon. Everything in those days came from Louisville in wagons. That is about all there was of Bloomfield in 1837 and at that time Chicago was only a small town struggling for supremacy. > > Down the gully south of the public square there were very few houses. Moses RITTER had a mill on Richland creek, higher up than the LEARNED Mill. > > WAKEMAN W. EDWARDS > Abbieville, La., June 8, 1917. > > > > ==== INGREENE Mailing List ==== > Need to reach Colleen, the discussion coordinator? Send her an email at <ladyaudris@earthlink.net>. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: CAVINS, CONDE, DOWNING, EDWARDS, FERGUSON, HILL, INMAN, KELSEY, LEARNED, LOCKWOOD, PATTERSON, RITTER, SHRYER, STROPES, SULLIVAN, TIBBETS, VANSLYKE, VANVORST, WEST Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Ci.2ADE/4530 Message Board Post: THE BLOOMFIELD DEMOCRAT, Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, Tuesday, June 19, 1917, Volume LVI, Number 51, Page 1, Columns 3 & 4, “SKETCH OF EARLY LIFE IN GREENE COUNTY.” [Transcribed 8 May 2002 from Bloomfield-Eastern Greene County Public Library’s IHS Microfilm Records.] The following interesting reminiscence of the early days has been sent the Democrat by W. J. EDWARDS, of Abbieville, La., who was a resident of Bloomfield several years ago and who is now editor and publisher of a paper in the South. Speaking of the sketch, he says: “This is one of a series of sketches dealing with the early settlement of Bloomfield. “It was written, without the aid of spectacles, by my father, Wakeman W. EDWARDS, now in his 92nd year, a hale, well-preserved specimen, physically and mentally, of the type of sturdy pioneers who blazed the pathway of civilization through the primeval wilderness of the “Northwest Territory.” His life span reaches back to the days of the stage coach, the canal boat, the post trader, the circuit rider, the log cabin and the flat boat.” A Reminiscence of an Old Timer. In the autumn of 1837 my grandfather, Henry EDWARDS, Sr., and his wife, and my father, Henry EDWARDS, Jr. and his wife and myself, removed from the Mohawk Valley in the State of New York, to Bloomfield, Indiana. As there were no railroads in those days, the journey was made in covered wagons of the Prairie Schooner type. We camped along the roadside at night and slept in the wagons. We were forty-two days on the road. In Rush County, near Rushville, lived an old friend and neighbor of ours from the Mohawk, named Adam CONDE, who had been living there several years. In those days the people along the Mohawk, about Schenectady, spoke the Dutch (not the German, but Holland) language, at times. When we got to Rush County we were very weary and fatigued. We made inquiries for Adam CONDE and found that he lived on a farm along the road we would travel, so we concluded to stop and pay him a visit. It was some ten years since we had seen him and father thought he would play a little joke on him, so when we got to his farm, father stopped the teams and went to the barn, a little distance from the road where Mr. CONDE, with his boys and some carpenters, were at work building a new barn. Father recognized Mr. CONDE at once, but of course Mr. CONDE did not recognize father. When father told Mr. CON! DE that he was traveling with his old father and mother and that they were tired and wanted to rest a day or so; that they were poor and had but little money, but the neighbors told him that Mr. CONDE was a very kind and charitable man, and would probably let them stay over Sunday with him, free of cost, as it was then Saturday afternoon, Mr. CONDE stood up and looked at the wagons and replied, There is a host of you!” “No,” father said, “only four or five.” “All right” said Mr. CONDE, “drive up, I will entertain you.” Father beckoned to me (as I drove the front wagon) to drive up there and we all drove up. Grandfather, who drove the second wagon, got out and walked up to Mr. CONDE and spoke familiarly to him in Holland Dutch. Had a thunderbolt at that moment fallen from heaven Mr. CONDE would not have been more astonished. He had probably not heard a word of Dutch, outside of his own family, in man! y years. Greatly excited, he replied in Dutch, “Who are you? Grandfather replied in Dutch, “I am what is left of Old Henry EDWARDS.” Mr. CONDE seized him and replied, “God bless you, I would not have you go by without stopping for a hundred dollars; where is your wife?” “In the wagon there.” Mr. CONDE rushed to the little wagon, where grandma rode and recognizing her at once, grasped her hand and helped her out of the wagon, then he called to the men working on the bar: “Come here, take these horses and unharness them, and give them a good feed.” “Come now, we will all go to the house.” We stayed Saturday night and all day Sunday and had a delightful visit. They talked Mohawk Dutch to their heart’s content; all about old times and old friends. We were well rested by the next Monday morning and took our leave of our old friend and resumed our journey. Perhaps some reader may say, “What has all this to do with Bloomfield? Tell us something about Bloomfield.” Be patient, gentle reader, I have not yet got to Bloomfield, never saw the town, how can I tell you about it before I get there? I’ll be there soon and then I will tell you all about it. I had an uncle and aunt living in Bloomfield at that time, Reuben H. EDWARDS and his wife, who had lately moved from New York. My father had an old copper bugle in York state, which he used as a dinner horn and he used to play a few simple airs on it and a few cavalry calls. My uncle and aunt were familiar with these bugle calls in New York, and they were expecting us to arrive soon in Bloomfield; so when we got on the outskirts of the town, father got out the old bugle and sounded a call. My uncle and aunt heard the sound of the bugle and at once recognized it and came to meet us. It was a joyful meeting, for now our long and tiresome journey was at an end. It was now the middle of October and the nights were beginning to get cool. WAKEMAN W. EDWARDS Abbieville, Louisiana, June 8, 1917. — THE BLOOMFIELD DEMOCRAT, Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, Tuesday, June 19, 1917, Volume LVI, Number 53, Page 1, Columns 3 & 4, “BLOOMFIELD—Reminiscences of an Old Timer No. 2.” [Transcribed 8 May 2002 from Bloomfield-Eastern Greene County Public Library’s IHS Microfilm Records.] Bloomfield in 1837 was a hamlet or small village of about one hundred fifty or two hundred inhabitants. It was surrounded on three sides by three small hills with a big gully in the middle. There was a good spring at the head of the gully and no doubt this spring had much to do for the selection of the town site. The county seat had been lately removed from Fairplay, I think, to this place. About one-half of the houses in the town were log houses, built of hewn logs; the newer ones were frame buildings. The courthouse was of logs, also the jail and the school house, and were located in the southwestern part of town. The public square was at the head of the gully and Andrew DOWNING had the contract to build a new brick court house on the public square and he was preparing the ground for the building which he erected in the summer of 1838, a building some forty or fifty feet square. The gully occupied the south side of the square and the town the other three sides. On the northwest corner of the public square was a new frame building occupied as a store by Mark SHRYER. This building remained there in 1897 when I last visited Bloomfield. Opposite the store was the tavern, kept by Peter HILL, I believe, who was at one time Sheriff. On the north side of the public square Stephen LOCKWOOD had a cabinet maker shop and there were several small stores and at the northeast corner was a new two story frame store owned by Mr. NORRIS and Joe WEST had a saloon in a part of it. Diagonally across the street, John INMAN owned a store, one of the largest in the town. His wife was my cousin, Margaret VANSLYKE. Further down on the east side lived my uncle Henry KELSEY and my aunt Esther. >From the northeast corner of the square a road ran to Richland Creek and on the next square from the corner, my uncle, Reuben H. EDWARDS lived. He had a carding machine on his lot which was run by horse power, and he cared the wool for all the housewives to spin and weave into “Blue-Jeans” which was the clothing used in those days. No broadcloth, or store clothes were to be seen in those days, all was home-made, and the “Hoosiers” of those days felt as proud to be in his suite of blue jeans as he does now in “store clothes” or tailor made. While on the subject of clothes, I might as well state her that in those days the boys and girl in summer time wore only one single garment, a long shirt made of coarse cotton goods. They went bare foot and often without that; bare feet and bare heads were the style for children up to ten years in Bloomfield in those days and this style dress gave rise to the phrase “shirt tail boys.” East of Bloomfield Ruel LEARNED had a saw mill on Richland creek. He also had a small farm just south of town, which my grandfather purchased and on which he lived until his death and where my grandmother and uncle Lewis B. EDWARDS lived long afterwards. About a half mile west of the public square lived John VANVORST, and also my aunt, widow Cornelius VANSLYKE and her two sons, Henry VANSLYKE and Peter C. VANSLYKE. Nearly the entire town was built around the public square. There were not more than tree or four families living between the lots on the public square and the branch or brook west of the square; the woods began at the branch. On a street running west from the southwest corner of the square were the school house and jail and few families living. No one lived out where the seminary is now. The lot was there but nothing on it. My father had a wagon makers shop and a blacksmith shop on the street running from the northwest corner of the public square to White river. It stood about halfway between the square and the brook. He imported a wheelwright named Michael SULLIVAN, an Irishman, and a blacksmith named Robert TIBBETS, an Englishman, from New York, to operate the shops. The business was not a success. On top of the high hill north of the public square were two houses; one was owned by Dr. FREELAND, I think, but I do not remember who owned the other. On the street running from the northeast corner of the square up north to the hill, lived several families. One of these families was that of Uncle Sammie CAVINS, who was then, I think, Clerk of Court and for many years afterwards. His eldest sons, John and Aden CAVINS, were then shirttail boys, and I remember them as they chopped wood out in the street in front of the house in their long shirts. John CAVINS was one of the noblest boys that ever trod the streets of Bloomfield. The old saying “The good, whom the Gods love, they take early,” applied to him. He died young. Of Aden CAVINS it is only necessary to say that he was a good boy and lived long. Bloomfield people know more about him than I do. On this street was a saddler’s and harness shop owned, if I remember right, by one Tom PATTERSON, and there was also a tin shop on the street, but I do not remember who ran it. On the street running out east from the northeast corer of the public square lived three or four families. A Mr. FERGUSON was one of them and he had a blacksmith shop and a wheelwright shop on this street, and I think Mr. STROPES lived there. Mr. STROPES was a teamster and hauled goods from Louisville, Kentucky, to Bloomfield in a four-horse wagon. Everything in those days came from Louisville in wagons. That is about all there was of Bloomfield in 1837 and at that time Chicago was only a small town struggling for supremacy. Down the gully south of the public square there were very few houses. Moses RITTER had a mill on Richland creek, higher up than the LEARNED Mill. WAKEMAN W. EDWARDS Abbieville, La., June 8, 1917.

I'm trying to find someone who might be researching the family of : Charles MINKS m. Lizie S. BURKS 25 Nov 1894 in Monroe Co.IN........wondering which MINKS family Charles is from ...........as Lizie S. BURKS is the dau of John T/F BURKS and Sarilda A. SKINNER. From her fathers obit I know that they were living in Solsberry,IN Greene Co. 1928. If anyone has any information on these people, I would enjoy hearing from you. thanks so much, N.J.Skinner White vwhite0901@aol.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: DAGLEY, EMERY, MARTINDALE, VANMETER Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Ci.2ADE/4529 Message Board Post: THE BLOOMFIELD DEMOCRAT, Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, Friday, November 23, 1917, Volume LVI, Number 96, Page 4, Column 4, “OBITUARY—DAGLEY.” [Transcribed 7 May 2002 from Bloomfield-Eastern Greene County Public Library’s IHS Microfilm Records.] Edward DAGLEY, well and favorably known in this county, died on the 11th of this month at his home in Alhambra, California, of kidney trouble, from which he had suffered fro some time. Mr. DAGLEY was the son of Emmett DAGLEY, of Cincinnati, this county. He was at one time a teacher in this county, and later engaged in business at Jasonville. He served as town clerk of Jasonville, resigning the office when he went West. He is survived by his wife and one daughter. Mrs. DAGLEY is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William VANMETER, of Cincinnati. The remains were buried at Alhambra. — Link to the Obituary of his father, Emit R. DAGLEY: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=message&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.states.indiana.counties.greene&m=4122 __ Link to the Obituary of his mother-in-law, Agnes J. (MARTINDALE) VANMETER: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=message&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.states.indiana.counties.greene&m=3144 — NOTES—RLJ: INDEX TO MARRIAGE RECORDS OF GREENE COUNTY, INDIANA, 1939, WPA, Index Page 211: DAGLEY, Oscar E. to Nannie VANMETER, 15 Jun 1895, Book O, Page 202

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BYNUM, CROOKE, DILLON, GASTINEAU, MOORE, MCCRAY, SLINKARD Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Ci.2ADE/4528 Message Board Post: THE BLOOMFIELD DEMOCRAT, Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, Friday, November 23, 1917, Volume LVI, Number 96, Page 4, Columns 4 & 5, “OBITUARY--MOORE.” [Transcribed 6 May 2002 from Bloomfield-Eastern Greene County Public Library’s IHS Microfilm Records.] John D. MOORE, son of James and Mary MOORE, was born in Daviess County, April 9th, 1841, and departed this life November 12, 1917. He was married to Catherine SLINKARD, April 12, 1866. To this union were born ten children, three of whom preceded the father in death—two in infancy, and Marion, who died May 28, 1913. Surviving him re two brothers—William H. MOORE, of Newberry, Jabe MOORE, and one sister, Mrs. Mollie MCCRAY, both of Elizabeth, Harrison County, Indiana. Also, twenty-three grandchildren—seventeen girls and six boys—and two great-grandchildren. He and his wife started life in an humble way at farming, and reared a family of which they were justly proud. During the prime of his life Mr. MOORE was active in farming and gravel road contracting, and served as township trustee for two terms. In late life he purchased the Andrew SLINKARD farm, of about four hundred acres, and for a number of years the children, except Henry W. MOORE, of Terre Haute, and Mrs. Daisy BYNUM have lived in sight of home. Save five years ago Mr. MOORE had a stroke of paralysis from which he never recuperated and during his declining months he was a great care to his wife and children, but had every care and attention that could be given. Of late years he has been retired. He at all times enjoyed having his children and grandchildren about him. Even up to the very last he betrayed a keen interest in his grandchildren. He loved to make other happy, and in all his life was never known to intentionally inflict a wound on others’ feelings. Mr. MOORE never allied himself with any church, yet his life was one of kindness and gentle deeds, and he approached death unfalteringly, without doubt and without fears, “like one who wraps the drapery of his couch about him and lies down to pleasant dreams.” The great family he has left will miss him. Those who survive him are his wife, four sons—Will, Henry, Charles and Cleveland, and three daughters—Mrs. John CROOKE, Mrs. Ethan GASTINEAU, Mrs. Vernon BYNUM and Mrs. Katie MOORE, widow of Marion, deceased. Elder J. A. SPENCER, former pastor of the Christian church at Bloomfield, conducted the funeral service at the farm residence of the deceased. There were a large number of people present from Greene and Daviess counties. The body was interred in the Newberry Cemetery, west of town. — Link to the Obituary of his son, Henry W. MOORE: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=message&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.states.indiana.counties.greene&m=3884 — NOTES—RLJ: (1) DEATH RECORDS OF GREENE COUNTY, INDIANA, Health Department, East Spring Street, Bloomfield, Indiana, Book R-16, Page 106, #15: John Dillon MOORE, b. 9 Apr 1841 in Indiana, d. 18 Nov 1917 in Greene County, age 76, husband of Katherine MOORE, father—James MOORE, b. unknown, mother— _______ DILLON, b. Ohio. (2) Link to marriage record of parents, James MOORE and Polly Ann DILLON: http://199.8.200.90:591/FMPro (3) CEMETERIES OF EASTERN GREENE COUNTY, INDIANA, Cass Township, Newberry Cemetery, Page 50, Column 2: MOORE, John, 1841—18 Nov 1917; MOORE, Catherine, w/o John, d/o Henry & Margaret SLINKARD, 1846—Jan 1930.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: YEOMAN, YOMAN Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Ci.2ADE/4527 Message Board Post: Looking for obit. of Samantha Yeoman/Yoman, died October 17, 1862 in Green Co., IN.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Terrell, Edwards, Simpson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Ci.2ADE/4500.1.1 Message Board Post: Only have info on one child of Hezekia & Sarah. A daughter Mary Ann born 10/30/1855 in Ohio, married a Allen Edwards on 6/7/1877, (of whom I have no other info) supposedly had a child Samuel. Then married Daniel W. Axe on 11/4/1881 in Greene County, IN. Have more info on Mary Ann & Daniel's children. Have you would like can e-mail to you. Would love info on the ancesters that you have.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: DOBBS, MEREDITH, SHANKS Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Ci.2ADE/4526 Message Board Post: THE BLOOMFIELD DEMOCRAT, Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, October 5, 1917, Volume LVI, Number 8, Page 4, Column 4, “EAGLE NEST.” [Transcribed 6 May 2002 from Bloomfield-Eastern Greene County Public Library’s IHS Microfilm Records.] Mrs. Elizabeth MEREDITH died at the home of her son, H. N. SHANKS, here Tuesday, with whom she had spent the past summer. She was born in Monroe County and was one of Greene County’s oldest pioneers, being eighty years of age. She had twice been married, her first marriage being to William SHANKS. To this union two sons, Noble and Wesley, both living, and Mrs. Belle BRITTON, were born. Her second marriage was to Jacob MEREDITH. Mrs. Frances WRIGHT, of Lyons; N. V. MEREDITH, of Big Wells, Texas, who are living; Mrs. Ola FRY, Mrs. Stella EDINGTON, Mrs. Mollie BOWMAN, were born to this union. The latter three and the father preceded her in death. Aunt Liz, as we all call her, spent her married life and reared her family in Taylor Township, near Mineral, on a farm. When her children had all left the home nest but Wesley, she and he later moved to Lyons where she made and kept many friends. She was jovial and was good company to old an young. Sadie GATES, an orphan girl, made her home with her for the last few years, who received the love of a daughter, which was returned to her in her last sickness by her loving care in every way that it could be manifested. Her children were with her except N. V. MEREDITH, who spent some time here with her just before her last sickness, and was unable to return at the time of her death. She had been a lifelong member of the Baptist church. A minister from that church at Sanborn officiated. She was lain to rest at Prairie Chapel. Besides the immediate family, she leaves two sisters, a number of grandchildren and a host of friends. — NOTES—RLJ: (1) CEMETERIES OF WESTERN GREENE COUNTY, INDIANA, VOLUME I, Prairie Chapel Cemetery, Page 237, Row 16: Elizabeth MEREDITH, w/o Jacob, 7 Mar 1837—25 Sep 1917. (2) DEATH RECORDS OF GREENE COUNTY, INDIANA, Health Department, East Spring Street, Bloomfield, Indiana, Book D-5, Page 75: Hugh Noble SHANKS, b. 20 Mar 1857 {Cemetery marker has 20 Apr 1857} in Greene County, d. 15 Feb 1941 in Lyons, Washington Township, age 83-10-26, father—Wm SHANKS, b. IN, mother—Elizabeth DOBBS, b. IN, buried in Row 16 at Prairie Chapel Cemetery; Book D-4, Page 102: John Wesley SHANKS, b 12 Oct 1854 in Greene County, IN, d. 7 Mar 1936 in Lyons, IN, age 81 years 4 months 25 days; father—Wm SHANKS, b. Missouri, mother—Elizabeth DOBBS, b. in Monroe County, IN, buried in Row 16 at Prairie Chapel Cemetery; Book H-4, Page 87: Stella EDINGTON, b. 4 Feb 1872 in Greene County, d 14 Feb 1915 in Lyons, age 43, father—Jacob MEREDITH, mother 2��Elizabeth ______, buried in Row 17, Prairie Chapel.