An index of the landowners in Liberty Township in 1918 has been added to the Land Records section of the Hendricks County GenWeb site. This index was compiled from the Hendricks County Assessor's collection of plat books and lists the Congressional Township, Range and Section that the land was located in.
The Hendricks County Government's Archive has digital files of the plat books for scattered years between 1852 and 1940.
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Showing posts with label Hazelwood. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 5, 2017
Sunday, April 23, 2017
List of Liberty Township landowners in 1928 added
An index of the landowners in Liberty Township in 1928 has been added to the Land Records section of the Hendricks County GenWeb site. This index was compiled from the Hendricks County Assessor's collection of plat books and lists the Congressional Township, Range and Section that the land was located in.
The Hendricks County Government's Archive has digital files of the plat books for scattered years between 1852 and 1940.
The Hendricks County Government's Archive has digital files of the plat books for scattered years between 1852 and 1940.
Thursday, December 22, 2016
Hendricks County residents who graduated from Purdue University (1926)
source: A commencement program for Purdue University, West Lafayette for June 15, 1926:
CLAYTON:
John Lorin Richardson - Master of Science in Agriculture
DANVILLE:
Harold Jasper Thompson - Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
Glenn Edwin Vogel - Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
HAZELWOOD:
Roy Sigler Hazelwood - Bachelor of Science in Agriculture
PITTSBORO:
Ulysses Byron Yeager - Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering
CLAYTON:
John Lorin Richardson - Master of Science in Agriculture
DANVILLE:
Harold Jasper Thompson - Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
Glenn Edwin Vogel - Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
HAZELWOOD:
Roy Sigler Hazelwood - Bachelor of Science in Agriculture
PITTSBORO:
Ulysses Byron Yeager - Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering
Wednesday, June 15, 2016
List of Liberty Township landowners in 1925 added
An index of the landowners in Liberty Township in 1925 has been added to the Hendricks County GenWeb site. This index was compiled from the Hendricks County Assessor's collection of plat books and lists the Congressional Township, Range and Section that the land was located in.
The Hendricks County Government's Archive has digital files of the plat books for scattered years between 1852 and 1940.
The Hendricks County Government's Archive has digital files of the plat books for scattered years between 1852 and 1940.
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
Amy (COX) BODENHAMER dies (1950)
source: The Republican (Danville, Indiana) - issue of Thursday, September 7, 1950 - page 5, column 1:
Amy Bodenhamer, beloved daughter of Charles and Alpha Cox, was born in Putnam County December 3, 1895, and passed to her glorious reward in the morning of August 31, 1950, after an illness of several months. She was united in marriage to Orpheus Bodenhamer February 13, 1918. Three children came to share their home, Mary, Mildred and Marion.
Mrs. Bodenhamer united with the Stilesville Christian Church, later transferred her membership to the Hazelwood Christian Church. She was also a member of the Church Aid Society.
Mrs. Bodenhamer was preceded in death by her father, Charles Cox, one sister, Maggie, and two brothers, Earl and Edgar. In passing, she leaves the husband, the mother, the children, one brother, one sister, five grandchildren, several nieces and nephews, and many friends.
Amy Bodenhamer, beloved daughter of Charles and Alpha Cox, was born in Putnam County December 3, 1895, and passed to her glorious reward in the morning of August 31, 1950, after an illness of several months. She was united in marriage to Orpheus Bodenhamer February 13, 1918. Three children came to share their home, Mary, Mildred and Marion.
Mrs. Bodenhamer united with the Stilesville Christian Church, later transferred her membership to the Hazelwood Christian Church. She was also a member of the Church Aid Society.
Mrs. Bodenhamer was preceded in death by her father, Charles Cox, one sister, Maggie, and two brothers, Earl and Edgar. In passing, she leaves the husband, the mother, the children, one brother, one sister, five grandchildren, several nieces and nephews, and many friends.
Thursday, March 24, 2016
Death of Arminta (SAWYER) JORDAN (1941)
source: Friday Caller (Plainfield, Indiana) - issue of Thursday, April 17, 1941 - page 1, column 4:
MRS. ARMINTA JORDAN DIES AT AGE OF 81 YEARS
Mrs. Arminta Sawyer Jordan, age 81 years, a resident of Plainfield for fifty-five years, died last Thursday morning at the McCormick nursing home at Clayton.
She was born April 4, 1860 on a farm west of Hazelwood, at the time located in Morgan County. She lived here until her marriage to George Jordan who died forty years ago. Just before her marriage the county line was relocated and the farm placed in Hendricks County. Thus was she born in Morgan County and married in Hendricks [County], in the same house. She is the last of a family of eighteen children.
She was an active member of the Plainfield Christian Church and auxiliary organizations and for a number of years was a Rebekah.
Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at the Hall funeral establishment here with the Rev. Mr. Lett, Danville Christian minister in charge of the service. Burial was in Maple Hill Cemetery.
Surviving are two sons, Orla G. Jordan, Plainfield and Omer Jordan of Oklahoma City, Okla.; four grandchildren, Willard Jordan, Plainfield; Mrs. Norris Porter, Danville; Mrs. Lester Laughlin, Memphis, Tennl. and George Jordan, Oklahoma City, and one great-grandson, Charles Porter, Danville.
MRS. ARMINTA JORDAN DIES AT AGE OF 81 YEARS
Mrs. Arminta Sawyer Jordan, age 81 years, a resident of Plainfield for fifty-five years, died last Thursday morning at the McCormick nursing home at Clayton.
She was born April 4, 1860 on a farm west of Hazelwood, at the time located in Morgan County. She lived here until her marriage to George Jordan who died forty years ago. Just before her marriage the county line was relocated and the farm placed in Hendricks County. Thus was she born in Morgan County and married in Hendricks [County], in the same house. She is the last of a family of eighteen children.
She was an active member of the Plainfield Christian Church and auxiliary organizations and for a number of years was a Rebekah.
Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at the Hall funeral establishment here with the Rev. Mr. Lett, Danville Christian minister in charge of the service. Burial was in Maple Hill Cemetery.
Surviving are two sons, Orla G. Jordan, Plainfield and Omer Jordan of Oklahoma City, Okla.; four grandchildren, Willard Jordan, Plainfield; Mrs. Norris Porter, Danville; Mrs. Lester Laughlin, Memphis, Tennl. and George Jordan, Oklahoma City, and one great-grandson, Charles Porter, Danville.
Sunday, July 19, 2015
List of Liberty Township landowners in 1915 added
An index of the landowners in Liberty Township in 1915 has been added to the Hendricks County GenWeb site. This index was compiled from the Hendricks County Assessor's collection of plat books and lists the Congressional Township, Range and Section that the land was located in.
The Hendricks County Government's Archive has digital files of the plat books for scattered years between 1852 and 1940.
The Hendricks County Government's Archive has digital files of the plat books for scattered years between 1852 and 1940.
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Mildred THOMPSON of Hazelwood Files For Divorce (1934)
source: The Republican (Danville, Indiana) - issue of Thursday, July 12, 1934 - page 1, column 4:
WIVES ARE PLAINTIFFS IN THREE DIVORCE PLEAS
Two weeks of wedded life were enough for Mildred Thompson, who with two other discontented wives filed suits for divorces in the local circuit court the first of this week.
Mrs. Thompson was married to Glen Thompson on May 17 and separated on May 31 of this year. In that short a time she claims the defendant proved unfaithful. She also alleges cruel and inhuman treatment. The plaintiff is a resident of Hazelwood and by occupation is a clerk.
WIVES ARE PLAINTIFFS IN THREE DIVORCE PLEAS
Two weeks of wedded life were enough for Mildred Thompson, who with two other discontented wives filed suits for divorces in the local circuit court the first of this week.
Mrs. Thompson was married to Glen Thompson on May 17 and separated on May 31 of this year. In that short a time she claims the defendant proved unfaithful. She also alleges cruel and inhuman treatment. The plaintiff is a resident of Hazelwood and by occupation is a clerk.
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Civil War Veteran Jesse MOON Dies in Clayton (1934)
source: The Republican (Danville, Indiana) - issue of Thursday, September 27, 1934 - page 1, column 2
LAST LIBERTY CIVIL WAR VETERAN DIES
Jesse D. Moon, Member of 117th Infantry, Buried Yesterday
Jesse D. Moon, aged 91, a member of Co. B, 117th Indiana Infantry during the Civil War, and the last of the veterans residing in Liberty Township, died at his home in Clayton, Monday morning. He had been confined to his home a number of years but had been able to be about the house until a short time before his death. The immediate cause of death was pneumonia.
Comrade Moon enlisted in Co. B. of the 117th on July 22, 1863. He was honorably discharged February 24, 1864, but re-enlisted in February, 1865, in Co. K, of the 148th Infantry and served until the close of the war.
He was the son of John and Lucinda Moon and was born on a farm between Clayton and Hazelwood and has lived in Wayne, Sullivan and Hendricks counties.
In 1867, he was married to Miss Rebekah Jane Osborne, and to them were born two sons, John and Harvey. After the death of his wife he was married to Fannie Burkhart. In 1911 he moved from the farm to Clayton, where he had resided until his death.
He is survived by two daughters, Grace and Mrs. John Booker of Sullivan, and one son, one granddaughter, one great-grandson, one sister, Mrs. Emma Busby, and one brother, Rigdon Moon, both of Clayton, and one step-son, Roley Moon.
Funeral services were conducted at the Clayton Presbyterian church, yesterday afternoon, in charge of the Rev. Ruben Masten of Belle Union with interment in the Clayton cemetery.
LAST LIBERTY CIVIL WAR VETERAN DIES
Jesse D. Moon, Member of 117th Infantry, Buried Yesterday
Jesse D. Moon, aged 91, a member of Co. B, 117th Indiana Infantry during the Civil War, and the last of the veterans residing in Liberty Township, died at his home in Clayton, Monday morning. He had been confined to his home a number of years but had been able to be about the house until a short time before his death. The immediate cause of death was pneumonia.
Comrade Moon enlisted in Co. B. of the 117th on July 22, 1863. He was honorably discharged February 24, 1864, but re-enlisted in February, 1865, in Co. K, of the 148th Infantry and served until the close of the war.
He was the son of John and Lucinda Moon and was born on a farm between Clayton and Hazelwood and has lived in Wayne, Sullivan and Hendricks counties.
In 1867, he was married to Miss Rebekah Jane Osborne, and to them were born two sons, John and Harvey. After the death of his wife he was married to Fannie Burkhart. In 1911 he moved from the farm to Clayton, where he had resided until his death.
He is survived by two daughters, Grace and Mrs. John Booker of Sullivan, and one son, one granddaughter, one great-grandson, one sister, Mrs. Emma Busby, and one brother, Rigdon Moon, both of Clayton, and one step-son, Roley Moon.
Funeral services were conducted at the Clayton Presbyterian church, yesterday afternoon, in charge of the Rev. Ruben Masten of Belle Union with interment in the Clayton cemetery.
Sunday, January 6, 2013
Hendricks County Doctors Directory 1886 Added
An index of doctors in Hendricks County in 1886 has been added to the Directories section of the Hendricks County GenWeb site. This listing of doctors was extracted from Medical and Surgical Directory of the United States (Detroit: R.L. Polk & Co., 1886). The towns included in this listing are: Amo; Avon; Belleville; Brownsburg; Cartersburg; Clayton; Coatesville; Danville; Hazelwood; Lizton; Maplewood; New Winchester; North Salem; Pecksburg; Pittsboro; Plainfield and Stilesville.
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
PHOTO: 1930 Hazelwood School Boys Basketball Team
This is a photo of the 1930 Hazelwood Grade School boys basketball team in Liberty Township, courtesy of Bill Mynatt (colbill@msn.com).
From left to right: Sylvan Mynatt, Delbert Simmons, Robert Walls, Glenn Thompson, John Mynatt, Ross Mitchell, Lowell Reeves, Wayne Mynatt and Mr. Canary (Coach).
From left to right: Sylvan Mynatt, Delbert Simmons, Robert Walls, Glenn Thompson, John Mynatt, Ross Mitchell, Lowell Reeves, Wayne Mynatt and Mr. Canary (Coach).
Friday, June 1, 2012
Liberty Township - Hazelwood - Belleville Added To 1940 Census Index
Entries from the Liberty Township & towns of Hazelwood and Belleville enumeration have been added to the database Every-Name Index of 1940 Census for Hendricks County, Indiana, which is on the Hendricks County GenWeb site. This database is not complete - more entries will be added. When finished, the database will include every person listed in the 1940 Hendricks County census.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Liberty Township Schools Graduates 1905
Source: Annual Commencement of Liberty Township Public Schools at the Presbyterian Church, Clayton, Ind. June 17, 1905, 8:00 p.m. (in the collection of Plainfield Public Library)
Graduates - Clayton:
Frank Parsons
Kate Worrell
Mary Pruitt
Maude Hutcheson
Daisy Richardson
Ralph Wills
Lena Gilbert
George Edgar Cox
Mabel Farquer
Ruth Farquer
Ernest Kenworthy
Amy West
Eva Wills
Charles Candy
Lindley Hadley
Alice Cox
Graduates – Hazelwood:
Jennie Johnson
Goldine Clark
Nora Cox
Pearl Craven
Iva Hite
Graduates – Cartersburg & Belleville:
Chase R. Fletcher
Lucinda Bybee
Vira Tharp
Lillian Hadley
Teachers:
Charles R. Mays
Orville G. Swindler
Otis Kennedy
Grant W. Stone
Dr. A.K. Gilbert, Trustee
G.M. Wilson, County Superintendent
Graduates - Clayton:
Frank Parsons
Kate Worrell
Mary Pruitt
Maude Hutcheson
Daisy Richardson
Ralph Wills
Lena Gilbert
George Edgar Cox
Mabel Farquer
Ruth Farquer
Ernest Kenworthy
Amy West
Eva Wills
Charles Candy
Lindley Hadley
Alice Cox
Graduates – Hazelwood:
Jennie Johnson
Goldine Clark
Nora Cox
Pearl Craven
Iva Hite
Graduates – Cartersburg & Belleville:
Chase R. Fletcher
Lucinda Bybee
Vira Tharp
Lillian Hadley
Teachers:
Charles R. Mays
Orville G. Swindler
Otis Kennedy
Grant W. Stone
Dr. A.K. Gilbert, Trustee
G.M. Wilson, County Superintendent
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