Kim, this was a delightful picture of an old council meeting. You know, I am a "selectman" in my town, and despite the distance in time and space, this meeting sounds just like home to me. "The miserable crossing" really struck a familiar chord! Imagine the long dresses sweeping through the dust (and mud) of the street, and how welcome a brick crossing must have been. I'm still excited because yesterday (I'm in DC) I had an unexpected chance to spend half a day in the DAR Library, and even though I didn't have any genie notes or computer with me, I had a great time. I thought I would focus on my favorite problem of the moment, adding documentation to the "weak" generation between John Fulwider and Joseph Henry Fulwider (there are two John Jacob Fulwiders of approximately the same age, and wild "guesses" as to the locations of birth/death). However, I didn't know the library well enough to get anywhere with that project, so I browsed the shelves and found a treasure trove of old county histories. I found a record that Michael Bannon, my gg-grandfather, was a trustee of the first church (Methodist Episcopal) built in Deerfield Twp of Warren County, Ohio, along with his brother-in-law James Clark. That made it a great dayfor me, even though the clock chimed long before I was ready to quit! > Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 01:26:26 -0500 > From: hancock@link2000.net > To: inmontgo@rootsweb.com > Subject: [InMontgo] The Old Town Cemetery > > Is there a catagory for general postings of the City council or Cemetery > > > > Crawfordsville Weekly, July 27, 1894 > > > > THE OLD TOWN CEMETERY > > Two Hundred and Twenty-Two Bodies Exhumed - The City Building to Be Papered > and plastered- Other Matters. > > The council met Monday evening at a late hour with Measrs, Thomas and > Robinson absent, both being out of the city. > Mr. Myers made remarks favoring the opening of Oak street, he and the > engineer having made a survey of it. > The Board of Public Improvements was granted further time to consider > the proposed addition of Mr. Ireland and also on the request of W. M. Darter > for the vacating of eight feet on Grant avenue in front of his residence. > J. H. Cook, as the superintendent of the work of exhumation of the > bodies in the vacated portion of the old town cemetery, reported that 222 > bodies had been exhumed. Of these 208 had been reinterred in the old town > cemetery and 16 removed to other cemeteries. The expence of removal was in > the neighborhood of $375. Of the bodies exhumed 174 were those of unknown > persons. > The question of placing two arc lights in front of the Cathlolic church > for Rev. J. R. dinnen's jubilee came up, but was not disposed of, no one > making a motion to put the thing through. > Mr. McCampbell very properly roasted the miserable crossing now running > across Main street from Myers & Charni's store and on motion a brick > crossing was ordered put in. > It was moved and carried to repair the city building with paper, paint, > etc., and it was decided to receive bids for the same at the next meeting. > A large photograph of the floral tributes at the funeral of the late W. > Vanarsdall was presented to the council by the family of the deceased and > received a vote of thanks. > Gen. Lew Wallace was present and stated to the council that he had a > petition to present to them signed by nearly all the business men in town > and about 200 young men. At his suggestion it was voted to have a called > meeting on Thursday evening to consider the petition which relates to the > purchase of uniforms for Company B. > The resolutions calling out the city commisioners to consider the > opening and extentions of Oak street from College to Haw was unanimously > passed. > The question of the purchase of the lot just north of the city building > came up but nothing was done, the council holding a secret after meeting to > consider the question. > The council adjourned without further business. > > 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

John who married Elizabeth Hall? Oh, yes, I too loved the outlook on the old meeting. I forwarded it to my hubby who spent 7 years as Waveland Town Board president. He ran a tight ship :) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kathleen Lynch" <kslynch62@hotmail.com> To: "Montgomery County" <inmontgo@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 9:45 AM Subject: Re: [InMontgo] The Old Town Cemetery > > Kim, this was a delightful picture of an old council meeting. You know, I > am a "selectman" in my town, and despite the distance in time and space, > this meeting sounds just like home to me. "The miserable crossing" really > struck a familiar chord! Imagine the long dresses sweeping through the > dust (and mud) of the street, and how welcome a brick crossing must have > been. > I'm still excited because yesterday (I'm in DC) I had an unexpected chance > to spend half a day in the DAR Library, and even though I didn't have any > genie notes or computer with me, I had a great time. I thought I would > focus on my favorite problem of the moment, adding documentation to the > "weak" generation between John Fulwider and Joseph Henry Fulwider (there > are two John Jacob Fulwiders of approximately the same age, and wild > "guesses" as to the locations of birth/death). However, I didn't know the > library well enough to get anywhere with that project, so I browsed the > shelves and found a treasure trove of old county histories. I found a > record that Michael Bannon, my gg-grandfather, was a trustee of the first > church (Methodist Episcopal) built in Deerfield Twp of Warren County, > Ohio, along with his brother-in-law James Clark. That made it a great > dayfor me, even though the clock chimed long before I was ready to quit! > >> Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 01:26:26 -0500 >> From: hancock@link2000.net >> To: inmontgo@rootsweb.com >> Subject: [InMontgo] The Old Town Cemetery >> >> Is there a catagory for general postings of the City council or Cemetery >> >> >> > Crawfordsville Weekly, July 27, 1894 >> > >> >> THE OLD TOWN CEMETERY >> >> Two Hundred and Twenty-Two Bodies Exhumed - The City Building to Be >> Papered >> and plastered- Other Matters. >> >> The council met Monday evening at a late hour with Measrs, Thomas >> and >> Robinson absent, both being out of the city. >> Mr. Myers made remarks favoring the opening of Oak street, he and >> the >> engineer having made a survey of it. >> The Board of Public Improvements was granted further time to >> consider >> the proposed addition of Mr. Ireland and also on the request of W. M. >> Darter >> for the vacating of eight feet on Grant avenue in front of his residence. >> J. H. Cook, as the superintendent of the work of exhumation of the >> bodies in the vacated portion of the old town cemetery, reported that 222 >> bodies had been exhumed. Of these 208 had been reinterred in the old >> town >> cemetery and 16 removed to other cemeteries. The expence of removal was >> in >> the neighborhood of $375. Of the bodies exhumed 174 were those of >> unknown >> persons. >> The question of placing two arc lights in front of the Cathlolic >> church >> for Rev. J. R. dinnen's jubilee came up, but was not disposed of, no one >> making a motion to put the thing through. >> Mr. McCampbell very properly roasted the miserable crossing now >> running >> across Main street from Myers & Charni's store and on motion a brick >> crossing was ordered put in. >> It was moved and carried to repair the city building with paper, >> paint, >> etc., and it was decided to receive bids for the same at the next >> meeting. >> A large photograph of the floral tributes at the funeral of the late >> W. >> Vanarsdall was presented to the council by the family of the deceased and >> received a vote of thanks. >> Gen. Lew Wallace was present and stated to the council that he had a >> petition to present to them signed by nearly all the business men in town >> and about 200 young men. At his suggestion it was voted to have a called >> meeting on Thursday evening to consider the petition which relates to the >> purchase of uniforms for Company B. >> The resolutions calling out the city commisioners to consider the >> opening and extentions of Oak street from College to Haw was unanimously >> passed. >> The question of the purchase of the lot just north of the city >> building >> came up but nothing was done, the council holding a secret after meeting >> to >> consider the question. >> The council adjourned without further business. >> >> 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 > > 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