There were Indians (long gone in 1900s - did you mean 1800s) and there is an Eel River Twp and (I think a creek?) in Hendricks county right across from Putnam Co of that name. ----- Original Message ----- From: <gc-gateway@rootsweb.com> To: <INMONTGO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 7:36 PM Subject: Re: [InMontgo] IA: Iowa or Indiana > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Author: sibbian_1 > Surnames: > Classification: queries > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.indiana.counties.montgomery/1158.1.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx > > Message Board Post: > > I was just reading an article about the Eel River Indians and they were > talking about the town, that used to be by Putnam co.... Anyway they said > that an outbreak of Diptheria in the early 1900's made a bunch of people > move across a river. Sorry i can't be more exact, I didn't know this would > come back up. Anway I wouldn't totally discount that it happened in > Indiana > > Important Note: > The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you > would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link > above and respond on the board. > > > > > http://ingenweb.org/inmontgomery/ > > List Manager - inmontgo-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > INMONTGO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message