Interesting--is this the same Michael Gerbrick who appears in the 1860 Census listed as a "grocer" age 49 b. Maryland? If so he is listed on page 2 of the Indiana Montgomery Co. Ward 1 Crawfordville with his wife, Almorine age 28 b. Ohio:children Edward F. 6, Ida J. and Samual 2. Also living with them is a relative of mine, Araminta Ferguson age 16 who later that year would marry Davis Whited. (I am assuming her parents had died by that time--but it is interesting that she is listed as age 16 in June of 1860 and age 18 on her marriage 19 Sept of that same year.) I have always wondered why she was living with this couple--also why she apparently married a 44 year old widower--however that marriage was by all accounts a happy one and they went on to have many children in MO. Just thought it was interesting. Somewhere also along the way in my research (and I couldn't for the life of me tell you who, where or why) I did hear that Michael Gerbrick was somewhat of a character--and possibly a drinker. Sadly I don't remember why I kept that little factoid in my brain!! But if it is the same guy, possibly one of the above boys was the son who remained at the poor farm. SondraTexas > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:02:06 -0400 > Subject: [InMontgo] Mike Gerbrick - intersting to say the least > > Source: Crawfordsville Sunday Star 27 Feb 1899 > > > > The man who held the throttle of the little coffee-pot wood-burning locomotive which hauled the first train that ever came to Crawfordsville that being on the railroad running between here and Lafayette died at the poor farm on Friday night. He was 84 years old. A month ago a stranger came here and bought a lot at Oak Hill Cemetery and paid funeral director D.C. Barnhill for a first class casket and hearse attendance for the old man. He ordered Mr. Barnhill as soon as the old man was dead to take immediate charge of the body and give it a respectable burial. The old man was then dying. He did so and the poor old fellow sleeps in Oak Hill tonight. The unknown man is supposed to be a distant relative of Gerbrick. When Mike brought the first train to Crawfordsville he was the hero of a big public reception given at the home of the honored Col. I.C. Elston, Sr. then the leading man of the town, and it was honor for the fair ones for the day to dance with him. Whisky was h! > is curse. He neglected his family and they died off or disappeared. A half-witted son still lives at the farm, an object of charity. > > http://ingenweb.org/inmontgomery/ > > List Manager - [email protected] > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message