Indiana

Indiana Cemetery Transcriptions, Lawrence to Montgomery

Indiana Cemetery records are listed by county then name of cemetery within the Indiana county. Most of these are complete indices at the time of transcription, however, in some cases we list the listing when it is only a partial listing. Lawrence County Following Cemeteries (hosted at Lawrence County, Indiana Tombstone Transcription Project) Following Cemeteries (hosted at Interment) Madison County Following Cemeteries (hosted at Madison County, Indiana Tombstone Transcription Project) Following Cemeteries hosted at Madison County Indiana INGenWeb Project) Forrestville Cemetery (hosted at Interment) Donahoo Cemetery (hosted at CoonWEB) Marion County Following Cemeteries (hosted at Marion County, Indiana Tombstone Transcription … Read more

Indiana Cemetery Transcriptions, Jennings to LaPorte

Indiana Cemetery records are listed by county then name of cemetery within the Indiana county. Most of these are complete indices at the time of transcription, however, in some cases we list the listing when it is only a partial listing. Jennings County Coffee Creek Baptist Cemetery Hulse Cemetery (hosted at Jennings County, Indiana Tombstone Transcription Project) Johnson County Following Cemeteries (hosted at Johnson County, Indiana Genealogy INGenWeb Project) Hopewell Cemetery Utterback Cemetery Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens (hosted at Interment) Knox County Following Cemeteries (hosted at Knox County Indiana INGenWeb Project) Cemetery Book 1 Cemetery Book 2 Cemetery Book 3 Cemetery … Read more

Indiana Cemetery Transcriptions, Hancock to Jefferson

Indiana Cemetery records are listed by county then name of cemetery within the Indiana county. Most of these are complete indices at the time of transcription, however, in some cases we list the listing when it is only a partial listing. Hancock County Following Cemeteries (hosted at Find A Grave) Philadelphia Church Cemetery Steele Cemetery Harlan Cemetery (hosted at Coonweb) Harrison County Following Cemeteries (hosted at Harrison County, Indiana Tombstone Transcription Project) Old St. Peter’s Cemetery Union Cemetery Reep Cemetery St. Michaels Cemetery Byrnville Cemetery Wolfe Cemetery Following Cemeteries (hosted at Interment) Beswick Cemetery, aka Radmacher Cemetery Crosier Cemetery King … Read more

Indiana Cemetery Transcriptions, Fulton to Hamilton

Indiana Cemetery records are listed by county then name of cemetery within the Indiana county. Most of these are complete indices at the time of transcription, however, in some cases we list the listing when it is only a partial listing. Fulton County Cemeteries Hosted by the Fulton County Public Library Henry Township Cemeteries PDF HTML Newcastle Township Cemeteries PDF HTML Richland, Aubbeenaubbee, & Union Townships Cemeteries PDF HTML Wayne and Liberty Townships Cemeteries PDF HTML Rochester I.O.O.F. PDF HTML Rochester Township PDF HTML Gibson County Cemeteries Following Cemeteries (hosted at Gibson County, Indiana Tombstone Transcription Project) Marsh Creek Cemetery … Read more

Indiana Cemetery Transcriptions, Dearborn to Franklin

Indiana Cemetery records are listed by county then name of cemetery within the Indiana county. Most of these are complete indices at the time of transcription, however, in some cases we list the listing when it is only a partial listing. Dearborn County Following Cemeteries (hosted at Dearborn County USGenWeb Project) Coles Cemetery inscriptions Horham Cemetery Platt Cemetery South Sparta Cemetery Trestor Cemetery, Decatur County, Indiana Forest Hill Cemetery  (hosted at Interment) Decatur County Following Cemeteries (hosted at Decatur County, Indiana Tombstone Transcription Project) Mt. Moriah Cemetery DeKalb County Following Cemeteries (hosted at DeKalb County USGenWeb Project) Alton Cemetery Barker … Read more

Indiana Cemetery Transcriptions, Vermillion to Whitley

Indiana Cemetery records are listed by county then name of cemetery within the Indiana county. Most of these are complete indices at the time of transcription, however, in some cases we list the listing when it is only a partial listing. Vermillion County Cemeteries Following Cemeteries (hosted at Vermillion County Indiana INGenWeb Project) Helt’s Prairie Cemetery (hosted at Interment) Vigo County Cemeteries Following Cemeteries (hosted at Vigo County Indiana INGenWeb Project) Following Cemeteries (hosted at Vigo County, Indiana Tombstone Transcription Project) Following Cemeteries (hosted at Vigro Public Library) Following Cemeteries (hosted at Interment) Following Cemeteries (hosted at Self Family Newsletter … Read more

Indiana Cemetery Transcriptions, Clark to Daviess

Indiana Cemetery records are listed by county then name of cemetery within the Indiana county. Most of these are complete indices at the time of transcription, however, in some cases we list the listing when it is only a partial listing. Clark County Following Cemeteries (hosted at Clark County USGenWeb) Cemetery Index lists the following cemeteries Adams Family Cemetery Adams Cemetery, aka Fifer Cemetery African-American Cemetery, near Daisy Hill Cemetery Antioch Cemetery Applegate Cemetery Bethlehem Cemetery Baird Cemetery, aka King Cemetery, 54 Cemetery and 74 Cemetery Barnett Cemetery, aka Adams Cemetery Barnes Cemetery Beswick Cemetery, aka Walnut Hill Cemetery Black … Read more

Indiana Cemetery Transcriptions, Randolph to St. Joseph

Indiana Cemetery records are listed by county then name of cemetery within the Indiana county. Most of these are complete indices at the time of transcription, however, in some cases we list the listing when it is only a partial listing. Randolph County Following Cemeteries (hosted at Randolph County, Indiana Tombstone Transcription Project) Fairview Cemetery Union Chapel Cemetery (hosted at Wayne County Cemetery listings) Hopewell Cemetery (hosted at Interment) Ripley County Following Cemeteries (hosted at Ripley County INGenWeb Project) Ripley County Cemetery Index Ripley County Townships and Cemetery Listing Following Cemeteries (hosted at Ripley County, Indiana Tombstone Transcription Project) Remote … Read more

Indiana Cemetery Transcriptions, Allen to Cass

Indiana Cemetery records are listed by county then name of cemetery within the Indiana county. Most of these are complete indices at the time of transcription, however, in some cases we list the listing when it is only a partial listing. Adams County Following Cemeteries (hosted at Adams County, Indiana USGenWeb)

Biography of Hon. William Payne

Farmers who have been elected to positions of trust and honor are not by any means few in America, but it is the exception that the tiller of the soil continues to be such long after he has won success in any sphere outside his regular calling. The allurements of city life in the great majority of cases quickly overcome the inborn love of nature unadorned and the farmer is known by another name. Honorable William Payne has been one of the few. After terms of service in county offices and through twelve years in which he held membership in … Read more

Fort Wayne Indiana Directories

These directories represent a large collection of Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana directories covering the years of 1858-1923 (not inclusive). These 15 volumes may provide the researcher with valuable data on their Fort Wayne ancestors such as specific address, occupation, business name. These directories are most valuable during the years of 1881-1899 as they can serve to supplement the missing 1890 census. 8 of the 24 directories which cover that specific period, with 6 of those in the 1890-1899 time span. One of the listings is a Bell Telephone Directory for Fort Wayne. As such, it will only contain a listing for those residences and business which had a telephone at the time.

Biography of Grover Chester Bowman

GROVER CHESTER BOWMAN – To be responsible for the proper and up-to-date management of modern schools, to endow them with an atmosphere which pervades both the teaching staff and the students, requires men of superior endowments who, as students have been in contact with high-class educational establishments of different types. In this respect Mr. Grover Chester Bowman, superintendent of schools of North Adams, has been singularly fortunate for having as a student, at a period of life when the mind is in a state for high receptivity and plasticity, come under the influence of the academic atmosphere of two of … Read more

Biography of Hon. William McEniry

In considering the prominent legal firms in Rock Island County one’s mind instinctively turns to the firm of McEniry & McEniry, a firm composed of the two brothers, Hon. William McEniry and Matthew J. McEniry, having offices both in Rock Island and Moline. It is the life and character of the former of these two gentlemen that we pro-pose to depict in the sketch that is to follow. The life and character of Matthew J. McEniry will be found elsewhere in this work treated at length. William McEniry was born in Rock Island County, Illinois, May 9, 1860, his parents … Read more

Biography of Matthew J. McEniry

It is said that the legal profession is one of the most difficult in which to achieve success. It is doubtless true that to be a truly successful attorney requires ability of a high order. We have spoken elsewhere in this work of; the success achieved by the legal firm of McEniry & McEniry, and one of the fruits of that success is a renown that is not merely local but that has spread throughout the northwest. In the article mentioned the life and character of one of the members of the firm, William McEniry, was taken up and discussed … Read more

Biography of Deacon John A. Boyer

A man remembered only by the older generation of Rock Island County’s citizens was Deacon John A Boyer, deceased. He was born at Bedford, Pennsylvania, October 16, 1809. During a portion of his boyhood his parents lived at Paris, Kentucky, and later removed to Indiana. In 1837 he came to this county and settled in what was then the town of Stephenson. In 1838 Mr. Boyer was united in marriage to Mrs. Zeruiah Phillips, whose maiden name was Zeruiah Robbins. The following year Mr. and Mrs. Boyer moved to the farm at the south end of what is now Thirtieth … Read more

Biography of Samuel A. Wilson

Samuel A. Wilson, professor of Latin and Greek at Cooper College, was one of the first body of instructors in that institution when it was opened in 1887. At that time he was given the chair of languages and his influence as a teacher and Christian gentleman had entered into the lives of all the students who in the past thirty years have passed through the halls of that institution. Mr. Wilson is of Scotch-Irish stock. His great-grandfather. Archibald Wilson, was born in Ireland May 17, 1772, and learned the trade of weaver. In 1791, when nineteen years old, he … Read more

Biography of James Noble Smith

James Noble Smith, now in his second term as sheriff of Harvey County, is a Kansan of thirty-five years residence and experience. He is a veteran railroader, having handled the throttle of an engine on the Santa Fe road for a score of years or more. He is a capable and trusted officer, and had long been a man of prominence in affairs at Newton and in Harvey County. Mr. Smith was born at Union in Pike County, Indiana, September 22, 1859, and had an interesting family lineage. His great-grandfather was a Scotch Irishman who came to America and founded … Read more

Biography of James B. Jones M. D.

James B. Jones, M. D. For almost a half century Dr. James B. Jones had been in the active practice of his noble profession in Anderson County, Kansas, and while widely known and universally appreciated in other honorable capacities, it is as the skilled and experienced physician and surgeon that his people love him most. Doctor Jones was born October 21, 1847, in Randolph County, Indiana, in one of the picturesque little pioneer cabins that have long since given way in that section to the march of progress, but the memory of which still lingers along with childhood’s recollections. His … Read more

Biography of John W. Simpson

John W. Simpson. The people of the Town of Tescott in Ottawa County recognize in John W. Simpson the man who more than any other individual had been identified with the growth and upbuilding of the community, and they have confirmed their choice of him as a natural leader by keeping him in the office of mayor continually for twelve successive terms, so that he is at once the first and last and only mayor the village had ever had. Mr. Simpson was born in Owen County, Indiana, March 26, 1854, and is of old Virginia colonial stock. His father, … Read more

Biography of William Q. Elliott

William Q. Elliott, who joined the pioneers of Rice County in the early ’70s, had been one of the conspicuous men in that section of the state for many years. His sturdy energy as a farmer brought him liberal rewards, and he had used his means and influence to do good in many directions. He sent a large family of children into the honorable walks of life, had stanchly upheld the forces of religion and morality in his home community and state, and at the age of fourscore his usefulness still continues, especially manifesting itself in his official work with … Read more