44 Hendricks County probate packets from 1850-1912 digitized

A 1908 petition for the adoption of Beulah A. Baker

The Indiana Genealogical Society's website recently added 44 digitized probate packets for Hendricks County for free viewing.

This batch of probate packets spans 1850 through 1912 (as well as one stray packet from 1923). They were digitized by volunteers at the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne.

The 44 digitized probate packets are:

Applegate, Milton B. (1874) - estate
Appleton, James (1850) - estate
Arbuckle, Bertie, Mary V. & Nora B. (1891) - guardianship of minors
Arbuckle, Elizabeth (1891) - estate
Arbuckle, John M. (1871) - estate
Archer, Isaiah (1912) - estate
Armstrong, Alonzo, Izzie, Millie & Thomas (1888) - guardianship of minors
Armstrong, Eppa H. (1888) - estate
Armstrong, Fernando W. (1877) - guardianship of minor
Armstrong, Izzie (1895) - estate
Armstrong, Thomas (1898) - estate
Asher, Catharine (1892) - estate
Asher, Joseph (1889) - estate
Atkinson, Benajah (1871) - estate
Atkinson, Osborn (1867) - estate
Ayers, Balinda J., Ida Viola & Jesse Oran (1878) - guardianship of minors
Ayers, Corbina Bernice (1880) - guardianship of minor
Ayers, Gertrude (1880) - guardianship of minor
Ayers, Jesse W. (1880) - guardianship of minor [see also Christian, Jesse W.]
Baker, Beulah A. (1908) - adoption
Baker, John (1868) - estate
Baldock, William H. (1889) - estate
Bales, Esther C. (1894) - estate
Ballard, Amos W. (1869) - estate
Ballard, Charles S., Nathan T., Nancy Jane & Cora (1870) - guardianship of minors
Ballard, David (1877) - estate
Ballard, Grandison (1893) - estate
Ballard, James (1892) - estate
Ballard, Jane (1868) - estate
Ballard, Louisa Alice & Alfred H. (1869) - guardianship of minors
Ballenger, Data/Datee and Bainey, John S. & Edward (1869) - guardianship of minors
Barber, Samuel (1923) - estate
Barbour, Clement (1870) - estate
Barker, Almira (1856) - guardianship of minor
Barker, Elihu F., Cora & Dora (1885) - guardianship of minors
Barker, John C. (1871) - estate
Barker, Joshua F. (1885) - estate
Barker, Polly L., Daniel L., Elizabeth E., William Jasper, James Newton & Joshua Hadley (1850) - guardianship of minors
Barker, Sabina (1886) - estate
Barker, Sarah Ann (1871) - estate
Barnes, William H. (1891) - estate
Barnett, James B. (1865) - estate
Barnett, John (1871) - estate
Barnett, Melevia (1870) - estate

OBITUARY: William Boldock (1932)

from The Republican (Danville, Indiana) – issue of Thursday, March 3, 1932 – page 8, column 4:

Stilesville Farmer Commits Suicide With Shot Gun
(Greencastle Banner)

William Boldock, age 48 years, residing on the Eddie Pruitt farm just east of Broad Park, near the Putnam and Hendricks county line, committed suicide about 8 o’clock Tuesday morning by shooting himself.

Boldock asked his wife to see about the chickens and while she was gone he went to his bedroom and got his shotgun. He placed the barrel of the gun against his chest and pulled the trigger by using a forked stick about 18 inches long. The discharged passed through his heart, killing him instantly. Mrs. Boldock heard the report of the gun and rushed into the house only to find her husband’s lifeless body.

Dr. F.N. Wright of Stilesville was summoned by he pronounced death as instantaneous. According to the physician, Mrs. Boldock admitted that she and her husband had had trouble but that she returned to live with him in January. She told Dr. Wright that her husband had asked about his rifle on Monday and that she informed him that a neighbor had borrowed it to kill hogs.