Hendricks County residents at Indiana School for the Blind (1847-1891)

source: 1891 annual report for Indiana School for the Blind.

These were the residents from various Hendricks County towns who attended Indiana School for the Blind in Indianapolis from its beginning in 1847 through the time of its 1891 annual report:

A. Lafayette Cosner (hometown Stilesville) 1881 - ?
Nancy L.C. Davidson (hometown Danville) 1866-1867
John D. Hunter (hometown Brownsburg) 1869-1874
William C. Meredith (hometown Clayton) 1890 - ?
Emily A. Miles (hometown Belleville) 1863-1863
David Newton (hometown Friendswood) 1877-1879
John Smith (hometown Brownsburg) 1890 - ?
M. Jane Smith (hometown Danville) 1855-1869
Oliver C. Smith (hometown Brownsburg) 1890 - ?
William Smith (hometown Clayton) 1865-1867
Daniel Tynan (hometown Clayton) 1871-1873
Phebe Ellen West (hometown Pecksburg) 1868 - ?

John WEST obituary (1915)

From the Danville Gazette (Danville, Indiana) - issue of Thursday, February 4, 1915 - page 8, column 4:

JOHN WEST DIES SUDDENLY
John West, a prominent farmer living north of Pecksburg, dropped dead Friday morning. His death was due to heart trouble. Mr. West was in a hog house when the fatal attack came on. He had been subject to the trouble for some time. The funeral was held from the home Sunday morning and burial was at Stilesville.

The widow and an adopted daughter survive. Deceased was a brother of Milo West of Greencastle, George West of this county, and Mrs. John Baron and Mrs. George Harvey of Clayton.

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.

Hendricks County 1880 Business Directory Added

An index of Hendricks County businesses in 1880 has been added to the Directories section of the Hendricks County GenWeb site. This listing of businesses was extracted from Polk’s Indiana State Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1880-1881 Volume I (Indianapolis: R.L. Polk & Co., 1880). The towns included in this listing are: Amo; Avon; Belleville; Brownsburg; Cartersburg; Center Valley; Clayton; Coatesville; Danville; Friendswood; Hadley; Joppa; Lizton; Montclair; New Winchester; North Salem; Pecksburg; Pittsboro; Plainfield; Rainstown; Reno; Stilesville; Tilden (the Brownsburg listing is incomplete, due to missing pages in the directory).

Hendricks County Business Directory 1882 Added

An index of Hendricks County businesses in 1882 has been added to the Directories section of the Hendricks County GenWeb site. This listing of businesses was extracted from Polk’s Indiana State Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1882-1883 Volume II (Indianapolis: R.L. Polk & Co., 1882). The towns included in this listing are: Amo, Avon, Belleville, Brownsburg, Cartersburg, Center Valley, Clayton, Coatesville, Danville, Friendswood, Gale, Hadley, Joppa, La Clair, Lizton, Maplewood, Montclair, New Winchester, North Salem, Pecksburg, Pittsboro, Plainfield, Rainstown, Reno, Stilesville and Tilden.