This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bartholomew, Campbell, Girth, Headley, Hummer, Kantz, Kopf, Lane, Moorhous, Warner Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Hi.2ADI/1748 Message Board Post: This information comes from our property abstract. I transcribed it hoping it might of help to someone researching these families. ____________________________________________________________________ Ethel H. Hummer To The Public Affidavit sworn to September 27, 1961 Recorded October 6, 1961 Ethel H. Hummer, being first duly worn upon her oath, deposes and says, 1. That she is the daughter of ELLA BARTHOLOMEW HEADLEY and GEORGE HEADLEY and formerly resided in Tippecanoe County, Indiana; that her residence now is and for many years past has been 134 East Calvert Street, South Bend, Indiana. 2 That MARIA E. MOORHOUS grantor in Deed Recorded in Deed Record 82 at page 187 of the Records at Tippecanoe County, Indiana, was her maternal grandmother, and that she is familiar with the BARTHOLOMEW and MOORHOUS Families as hereinafter set forth. 3. Affiant further says that her grandmother's maiden name was MARIA E. WARNER, and that she married one JONATHAN BARTHOLOMEW in Fairfield County, Ohio, and that as a result of said Union, two (2) children were born, towit: JOHN M. BARTHOLOMEW being one and the same person as the grantee named in the deed appearing of record in Deed Record 66 at page 163 of the Records of Tippecanoe County, Indiana, and ELLA BARTHOLOMEW, your affiant's mother, who married GEORGE HEADLEY, affiant's father. 4. Affiant further says that JONATHAN BARTHOLOMEW predeceased his wife, the said MARIA, dying about the year 1860, and that thereafter, about the year 1869, the said MARIA married one WILLIAM MOORHOUS, then a resident of the Town of Chauncey (now West Lafayette), Indiana. 5. Affiant further says that the said WILLIAM MOORHOUS, husband of MARIA E. MOORHOUS, died about the year 1870, and that shortly after his death, twin sons, WILLIAM and CHARLES MOORHOUS, were born posthumously to the said MARIA MOORHOUS (affiant's grandmother). That one of the said twins, CHARLES MOORHOUS, died at the age of 5 days, survived by his mother and twin brother. The said WILLIAM MOORHOUS has no other children by the said MARIA MOORHOUS. 6. Affiant further says that about the year 1877, her uncle, the said JOHN M. BARTHOLOMEW, acquired title to a certain tract of ground in Tippecanoe County, Indiana by virtue of deed appearing in Deed Record 66 at page 163 of the records of Tippecanoe County, Indiana; that the said JOHN M. BARTHOLOMEW mortgaged the property to his mother, the said MARIA E. MOORHOUS, in said year, and thereafter about the year 1882, died, intestate, a resident of Tippecanoe County, Indiana. 7. Affiant further says that the said JOHN M. BARTHOLOMEW had no children, never having married in his lifetime, and left surviving as his only heirs, at law, the following persons, towit: (a) His mother, MARIA E. MOORHOUS (b) His sister, ELLA B. HEADLEY (c) His half-brother, WILLIAM MOORHOUS 8. Affiant further says that the said MARIA E. MOORHOUS, by deed date March 18, 1885, and recorded in Deed Record 81, at page 187, conveyed said property to her son, WILLIAM MOORHOUS, and to her daughter, ELLA HEADLEY, reserving a life estate to herself therein; that the said MARIA MOORHOUS died about the year 1920. 9. Affiant further says that her mother, the said ELLA HEADLEY died intestate in the year 1904, leaving surviving her husband, GEORGE HEADLEY, and your affiant, her daughter. That the said ELLA B. HEADLEY left no other children or the descendants of any deceased child her surviving. 10. Affiant further says that her father, GEORGE HEADLEY, never remarried, and died intestate, in the year 1921. That the said GEORGE HEADLEY, left surviving as his sole heir his daughter, your affiant, and that he left no other child or children of any deceased child him surviving. 11. That by virtue of the foregoing your affiant became vested by inheritance with the interest her mother, the said ELLA HEADLEY, acquired by virtue of the said deed mentioned in Paragraph 8 hereof and the interest she acquired by inheritance from her brother JOHN M. BARTHOLOMEW, which said interest affiant conveyed to ELLA KOPF, by Deed dated October 12, 1921 and recorded in Deed Record 156 at page 144 of the Record of Tippecanoe County, Indiana. 12. Affiant further says that the said WILLIAM MOORHOUS, one of the grantees in deed mentioned in Paragraph 8 hereof, son of MARIA and WILLIAM MOORHOUS, intermarried with one LILLIE CISSNE, by whom he had two children, towit: (a). GEORGE M. MOORHOUS, intermarried with MARTHA GIRTH, and (b). THELMA MOORHOUS, intermarried with IRVIN CARLSON, and thereafter and now intermarried with EUGENE CAMPBELL. 13. Affiant further says that after the death of the said LILLIE (CISSNE) MOORHOUS, her husband, the said WILLIAM MOORHOUS intermarried with one ETHEL LANE, by whom he had one child, towit: OLIVER MOORHOUSE; that the said ETHEL (LANE) MOORHOUS, after termination of her marriage to the said WILLIAM MOORHOUS, married one OLIVER KANTZ. 14. That the said ETHEL KANTZ, mother of OLIVER MOORHOUS, and mentioned in the next preceding paragraph, was duly appointed guardian of her said son, OLIVER MOORHOUS, and as such Guardian, and by virtue of an order of the Tippecanoe Circuit Court, conveyed the interest of the said OLIVER MOORHOUS in and to the real estate described in deed recorded in Deed Record 155 at page 420 thereof; that in said preceedings [sic] the said was inadvertently named as OLIVER M. MOREHOUS, his correct surname being "MOORHOUS". 15. That the said WILLIAM MOORHOUS never remarried subsequent to his marriage to ETHEL LANE, and had no children other than those resident of the State of California, about the year 1953, leaving him surviving as his heirs at law, his children, GEORGE MOORHOUS, THELMA CAMPBELL (formerly Thelma Carolson), and OLIVER MOORHOUS. 16. That the said GEORGE MOORHOUS, and THELMA CAROLSON who joined your affiant in warranty deed to ELLA KOPF referred to in paragraph 11, hereof, together with OLIVER MOORHOUS mentioned in paragraph 14 hereof, are the sole heirs of law of WILLIAM MOORHOUS and are the grandchildren of MARIA MOORHOUS. 17. Affiant says that to the best of her knowledge, Thelma Campbell, George Moorhous and Oliver Moorhous are living at this time. 18. Affiant says that the family name of her grandmother has been spelled in various ways, including "Moorhous", "Moore House", "Moorhouse", "Morehous", the correct and accepted spelling thereof being "Moorhous". 19. Affiant further says that she makes this affidavit for the purpose of establishing the aforesaid family relationships and clarifying the title to said real estate in the various deeds described. 20. Affiant further says that she heretofore resided on the land conveyed to ELLA KOPF by deed referred to in paragraph 11 hereof and knows that for more than seventy (70) years there has been continuous use by the occupants of said land, of the right of way through the riverside Gravel Road, now known as Indiana State Highway No. 43. Further affiant saith not. Signed, Ethel H. Hummer September 27, 1961 in St. Joseph County, Indiana.