Pittsboro resident Ellis PIERSON dies in Lebanon (1939)

 source: Indianapolis Star - issue of Sunday, April 23, 1939:

Lebanon, Ind., April 22 - Injuries suffered in a collision of two automobiles caused the death yesterday of Ellis Pierson, 65 years old, of near Pittsboro. His car collided with one driven by Donald Warren of Frankfort.

Activity in Hendricks County probate cases (March 1893)

From Hendricks County probate records:

Activity in probate cases as of 4 March 1893 [in vacation of the January 1893 term of court]:
--Santford Richmond estate - Mary Richmond appointed administrator ($1,200 bond)
--William Pierson estate - Rebecca Pierson appointed administrator ($1,200 bond)
--John Cosner estate - Leander S. Cosner appointed administrator ($1,200 bond)
--David E. Surber estate - Alex A. Surber appointed administrator ($500 bond)
--Elizabeth Johnson estate - David McClellan appointed administrator ($1,400 bond)
--Wesley Byram estate - Charles Albertson appointed administrator ($300 bond)
--Jabin Weesner estate - Oscar K. Weesner appointed administrator ($2,400 bond)
--Fannie J. Downard guardianship (minor) - John W. Tinder appointed guardian ($650 bond)

Mary Etta COWLEY Changes Name (1895)

As mentioned in Hendricks County Civil Order Book Volume 39 (May 1895 - April 1896), Mary Etta COWLEY filed a petition in June 1895 to change her name. The petition was granted and her name was changed to Mary Etta PIERSON. NOTE: Thomas W. Cowley and Mary Etta Cowley were granted a divorce in Civil Order Book Volume 38.

Austin Pierson Earns A Belated $218 Salary As Middle Township Trustee (1903)

Source: Laws of the State of Indiana passed at the sixty-third regular session of the General Assembly (Indianapolis: William B. Burford, 1903)

According to Acts of 1903, Chapter 28 [approved February 25, 1903], Austin Pierson is to be paid $218 by the Hendricks County Commissioners, as payment for his salary as the township trustee for Middle Township in 1882. The act says that Pierson served as Middle Township Trustee from April 1882 until April 1886, and that his annual report for 1882 mentioned a salary of $218, which the county commissioners approved, but when he turned over his township funds in 1886, he forgot to deduct the $218 from it.

Coatesville business letterhead (1873)

The Indiana Genealogical Society has been working on preserving and digitizing the contents of Hendricks County probate packets as part of its Records Preservation Project. Among the items they've found: letterhead from 1873 (shown below) containing a receipt from the business of Pierson & Fellows in Coatesville - owned by John W. Pierson and Price H. Fellows.