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Here lies a young mother who died while the husband went to get a midwife, there lies a schoolmate who was the victim of appendicitis, another one died from whooping cough and still another from membraneous croup or choleral infantum.
Then I think of my little miracle grandson -- born two and a half months prematurely with the lowest weight at one pound, five and one-half ounces. At 21 months he is a normal child weighing about 30 pounds.
And so as I write these comments it is with thankfulness for the medical discoveries that have come in my lifetime. Under no circumstances is this a criticism of any of our parents or forefathers. They did the best they knew how.
When I read and hear of the medical needs of the people of undeveloped countries I think of the not too distant past when we were in the same "boat".
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First of all it was the time of "patent" medicines and "quack" doctors. Everyone, especially the unscrupulous had a cure for everything. And, when you are sick and don't know what to do you'll try anything. Another thing there was a common belief among many that sickness was the result of sin. This argument I've heard many, many times.
The following are advertisements of 1898:
A. This is the only non-alcholic, invigorating beverage. It cures all stomach and heart trouble, regulates the bowels and appetite, strengthens both the muscular and nervous system.
B. When you use Sarsaparilla you get rid of pimples, boils, eruptions and scrofula. It is the best tonic for the nerves and regulator for the stomach, liver and kidneys and gives you new strength and vigor.
c. This one restores your appetite, gives you restful sleep, perfect digestion, quiets your nerves and brings back new energy.
How do these stack up with the hundreds of medicines which are on a drug store shelf? Thanks to the Pure Food and Drugs act many wild claims have been stopped.
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Early Settlers
When an early settler built his home it was on the highest spot of his farm -- many times up a lane from the road with the house higher than the barn. Many had dug wells until, they could have a driven one. Many times these open wells were polluted from run off water from toilets, etc., and other filth. Dysentery and typhoid fever were common.
Flies from manure piles and garbage swarmed everywhere. Fly traps, Daisy fly killers, and sheets of waxy fly paper helped some. Sometimes the screen door would be thrown open and the waving of cloths would drive out the flies from the room. Some thought cotton pieces on the door would keep the flies away. My what a blessing the modern fly killers are!
And with night would come those hordes of mosquitoes from the surrounding marshes and undrained holes as well as the old rain barrel used to collect rain or soft water. Many suffered from the "ague" or chills, which was a form of malaria.
Some of those blood sucking insects seemed about as big as elephants. Mosquito "netting" was commonly used on the windows. High room ceilings were healthy but night air was considered unhealthy so the windows were closed at night.
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Physiology was taught but later hygiene and teaching was a big step forward. Language or English, which took the place of Grammar, was a big improvement too in the schools.
A Cold
When you got a cold or cough you took cough drops, liquid couch medicine or some other concoction that generally had a high alcoholic content. You then soaked your feet in hot water, rubbed your chest with liniment and lard (some brave soul used skunk grease), covered it with a scratchy wool flannel and went to bed. What a blessing flu shots or penicillin would have been!
And then when a child failed to grow or you didn't know what was the matter you might have "flesh decay" and you would be taken to be "measured". After some sort of "pow wow" by a person who couldn't "charge" you might get better. A child who was born with a deformity was believed to have been "marked" before birth.
Probably the most lingering of all diseases was consumption. Very few ever out grew this disease and it took a heavy toll of lives. This heavy damp foggy weather from the marshes helped the disease. Consumption (consuming) is now known as tuberculosis and thanks to the modern methods of
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detection and cure it is not hopeless. Who ever heard of "vitamins" then?
With the coming of pasteurization of milk, along with refrigeration of foods, the problem of bacteria in foods has been largely eliminated. And, with these have come baby formulas and this brought mothers from the slavery of breast feeding which was needed in early days.
Probably the "flu" epidemics of World War I took more lives than any one year. There was hardly a well person to care for the rest of the family. Many pregnant mothers lost their lives with this killing disease.
If we had had the hospital and medical facilities we now have back in 1900, we probably would have a four to 5,000,000,000 population now.
With all these modern methods and conveniences how happy we should be. Yes, we should be willing to share with other unfortunate peoples our blessings through CROP this fall.
P. S. I don't want to leave the impression that sin and intemperance do not have "price tags" on them. See you next week.
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ROCK ON LIBRARY LAWN HAS SPECIAL MEANING TO WRITER (14th in a Series) By Kenneth Haney
As I pass that large lone rock on the corner of the Milford Public Library lawn my thoughts turn again to the Island.
Sorry, but I'm mistaken, for on it are placed the names of the soldier boys of World War I and if these men gave their brave exploits in battle it would fill many books of adventure. As I look over the names of many of these I knew as a lad, surely I would say, "This rock holds the hallowed names of our defenders and is not 'lonesome'."
This stone was deposited by glacier action on the Mose Hershberger farm on road 1100N (now owned by Jonas Yoder).
About 1914 Mr. Hershberger used his Mogul farm tractor, assisted by a team of horses, to pull this huge stone from the field and place it along the road in his front yard. This was the first two-cylinder, 16-horse, two-plow tractor with steel lugs that I saw on the Island.
On a white background on this rough stone was scribbled in red paint the Bible verse, "Be not deceived, God is not mocked, for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap."
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Buggy horses "shied" away from that object like kids from a cemetery on Halloween.
The Stone Is Moved
When Joseph Baumgartner spear-heading the move, the Ancil Geiger Post of the American Legion of Milford (Mr. Geiger, who lived the first house south of Island Chapel Church, died at Camp Custer, Michigan, of the flu) moved this big "darnick" to its present location.
And now with some help from Dr. Hugh Snyder, who came to the Milford community from Silver Lake and has been one of our outstanding citizens for about 40 years, I'll proceed. Onions growing and associated with the Geiger boys, as in those days, his life has been varied and not always a "bed of roses are ease" as was a common saying.
With that old vehicle, the mud boat, and probably four horses, James "Jim" Long, with some help from Ortie Leemon, the local blacksmith, this memento was slid on the snow the seven miles to its final resting place on the library lawn.
The Legion sold guesses as to the weight of this stone to raise money. Somewhere in the records of the Legion is this information. A fair guess might be three to 4,000 pounds.
Mr. McDougal of Goshen dressed the stone down and the bronze plaque was installed with meticulous care. In getting
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all the names put on one was omitted. It was put on extra. Whose is it? I think this project was in the middle twenties. I welcome help.
When I think of these men who risked their lives for our liberty and who wanted to live their lives "under the fig tree in peace" the same as you and I, it makes your temper rise at these anti-Vietnam marches.
The pattern is the same, the Japanese took to go south in World War II. In the time it took to tell it -- it spread all over the south Pacific.
There is a saying, "The first mistake is yours." Most folks feel that we should quit throwing money away on give away projects and concentrate on our job ahead with all we have!
I wish I had time now to tell you of blacksmithing with Bert McCloughen, Amy Hollar and Sherman Locke. Also a true battle story of the Battle of the Marne, France. But my time is running out.
The Truth
I met my friend Amy Hollar on Main street just a few days before his last trip to the hospital where he died.
Out of a "Blue" sky he accused me of not telling "all" the truth. I was taken "aback" and expressed my apology. He went
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on to say, "You didn't tell the people my father, James Hollar, walked all the way to the Island the first time he came out from Virginia. You did not tell them I walked two miles to the Hastings school and did the janitor work for five cents and then I got a raise to six cents a day."
Now I'm going to tell you in the remainder of these articles some of the things you readers told me I missed.
Probably one of the things that make most parents sad, including myself, is our inability to have done for our little tots what we would like to have done. And yet, it may have been for their best interest.
As I sat with a sorrowing husband whose wife lay dead in a casket near us he had this testimony: "I feel bad to think I hadn't the money to buy her electric appliances, automatic washers, gas heat, nice clothes, anything in modern living."
"We were as poor as 'Job's turkey' and with our family, she was a true mate in rearing our children and feeding them. Oh, if I could have just provided them in those trying times of our early marriage."
Maybe you think I overplay those hard times, but, anyone who has had these experiences will never get used to this "cradle to the grave" security. "Sweet are the uses of
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adversity ." says William Shakespeare.
See you next week.
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HASTINGS WRITER QUESTIONS MEMORY (15th in a Series) By Kenneth Haney
Can you identify the following names?
1. Milk Shake
2. Frog Pond
3. Pig Island
4. Lick Skillet
5. Vittles
Talking about telling the truth last week reminds me that it is sometimes elusive and changeable. I also want to say I'm no psychologist or theologian, although I have had some college courses on them.
As a preface to this story I wish to remind you that people's makeup are slow to change. You be the judge!
I probably heard the following story as a lad sitting on a nail keg in the Hastings store:
In the 19th century there lived on the Island two fine neighbors whom we'll call Bill and John. Both were wonderful husbands, loveable individuals, and had hearts as "big as an ox" when it came to helping anyone in need. Kinfolk and nearly everyone would admit they had no enemy in the world.
Bill had a short-coming of not being too good a listener
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or rememberer and sometimes added or subtracted from what gossip he heard which sometimes caused some friction in the neighborhood. But we'll say it was not intentional.
One morning John was splitting rails from logs and building a fence along a road. It was one of those off-days we are subject too! I don't know whether it was the weather, or his wife failed to have sausage and pancakes (which stuck to your ribs) for breakfast.
As he saw Bill, his neighbor, come on a full gallop down the tree lined road, he thought of an unkind and false remark or story that Bill was supposed to have made him and his temper rose.
He said he wouldn't believe Bill "one a bet!"
With a whoa and a sudden stop Bill passed the time of day saying "good morning, neighbor." His only reply from John was, "Tell me another one, I won't believe you!"
With the drop of his head Bill said, "I'm sorry but my mother-in-law, who lives with us, died last night and I'm going to get the undertaker." With a gid-ap and break-neck speed he took off on his mission towards town.
As John worked along his conscience began to bother him. Yes, he had acted like a kid in answer to a cheery greeting. Yes, with death in the home he had just increased his friend's
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burden and in such situations tenderness and sympathy are needed more than ever. As he mulled over these thoughts of asking penitence and forgiveness he quit early for dinner.
As he told his good wife of what transpired she agreed that he had said the wrong thing and should make amends. dinner they dressed up and with a desire to help their sorrowing neighbors and "patch up" their differences by asking forgiveness they started.
After
On the way over they stopped at several neighbors to tell them of the death of Bill's mother-in-law. And, each was soon getting ready to go and do what they could in this hour of bereavement.
When Mr. and Mrs. John arrived at Bill's home they were eating dinner. With a melted heart John asked for forgiveness for what he had said in the morning. He went on to say, "I won't make such statements again."
Just then the mother-in-law came from the living room to the kitchen. John turned to Bill and said, "You big liar. You
and all Bill said was, "You asked for it, didn't you?" And John remembered his morning greeting, "Tell me another one, I won't believe you!"
He did believe Bill.
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The Answers
Have you identified the names? See how many you had right.
1. The Milk Shake was a local train from Garrett to Chicago on the Baltimore and Ohio that hauled milk and local passengers every morning.
2. Frog Pond was a school house east of Waubee Lake.
3. Pig Island was a large hill on the southwest part of the Henry Stieglitz farm.
4. Lick Skillet was the nickname for the Mt. Tabor
School.
5. Vittles was another name for food in the early days. More That I Forgot
And now, some more things I forgot to tell you.
Victor Yeager told me that the road and marsh west of Hastings was a big sea of mud and water as he went home from a date after a big rain. Someone asked why he and Berlin became preachers and his reply was, "I guess my father, Charles, prayed it on us." What a wonderful compliment to a parent.
Chloe (Tusing) Stone reminds me she won the baby beauty contest conducted by the Hastings Band at one time.
Our pastor, R.R. Wilson, carried water barefooted in Michigan to the men threshing. As he tossed the big jug on the
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wagon it missed and fell and broke his big toe, which wasn't corrected.
My father, Peter Haney, was cutting marsh hay with a scythe when a rattlesnake bit his big toe. A drink of whiskey served as an antidote to counteract the poison and saved his life, but the toe was deformed.
Rudy Sierk reminds me of the big flocks of prairie chickens that roamed the marshes during the hemp growing period and have now vanished.
Dick and Ed Hepler reminded me they hauled hemp from the Graham Marsh to Pierceton.
Harvey Hollar says he was a Milford Mail salesman from birth. A free subscription to the MM by Jack Forbing caused his father Erasmus to become a subscriber for many years.
Otho Oster, Gonstantine, Michigan, remembers Jacob Swartzlander telling how he accidently dropped his lighted pipe in a powder room in the Civil War. He said he had to do a lot of tramping to put out the fire.
Vern Dausman of Oswego reminded me of a driving horse named either Dan or Dan Patch, owned by his father, Samuel, that was one of the fastest on the Island. It was always a question with me whether Mooney, owned by Grandma Rumfelt, or Dan was the faster. He also reminded of the time his Grandpa
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was pickpocketed in the Chicago Stock yards for $40. As a child he said it sounded like a million dollars! It was a lot of money then.
Talking of pickpockets, a gypsy lifted Earl Biller's purse for a considerable amount one day.
Henry Biller reminds me that John Dillinger, robber and killer, stopped and asked for road directions from him while in his front yard just a few days before he held up the Warsaw police station and escaped with guns and ammunition.
This was not long before he was betrayed by a woman dressed in red and shot and killed by Chicago police as he emerged from a theatre about 1933.
I forgot to say I was sitting on a threshing machine separator blower on my birthday. A new pair of overalls, given me as a present, caught in a cog. After the machine was stopped my one pant leg was cut off above the knee. A close birthday call!
William Murphy told of a horse losing its tail in a separator belt and subsequently ran away. A gruesome sight.
Tom Roberts was a local engineer for many years in the community and I forgot to mention him.
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HASTINGS RESIDENTS HAD A FEAR OF GYPSIES; OTHER HAPPENINGS
(16th in a Series) By Kenneth Haney
Next to the fear of spooks and ghosts was that of the gypsy .
These nomadic people traveled in groups of 10 to 20 wagons resembling those used by those going west. They were drawn by two horses with hooches (colts) tied along side and a cargo of kids.
They lifted anything they got their hands on. These men would take hay, corn or anything to feed their skinny horses (sometimes called nags or plugs).
They were "smooth" horse traders. Reminded me of trading pocket knives in school "sight unseen." You traded a beautiful handled knife with no blades for one with sharp blades and the handle broken.
The women would roam the country telling fortunes, curing your neuralgia or arthritis by "laying their hands" on you and leaving with your purse.
Sometimes they would say they had a sick child in the wagon to get sympathy and gain entrance to the home.
The story was that they sometimes abducted little children.
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They were never jailed, just ordered to give back their "snitched" goods and move on.
With the coming of cars they took on modern
transportation.
Stealing was not in the gypsy language.
Don Fox reports his father Jacob was sorting pickles in the back yard when a gypsy woman came to tell his fortune. They generally camped in the Hastings school yard. As she started to go after failing to tell his fortune, she said, "I'll just take this little kid along." Don "skeedattled" into the house and never came out that day.
Others Remember
And then, there was the pony ranch on the Jacob Walters farm (now owned by Harvey Hollar and Verl George). To a child a pony has always been a must at a certain age.
These 40 to 60 beautiful Shebang ponies were like a Sears or Montgomery Ward catalog -- just wishing books. Very few could afford these "high priced" luxuries and they were just that in comparison with other things.
At the noon hour when the onion weeders rested the larger boys would ride pet -- Speed, Fly, Beauty, Blacky, etc. -- but, as some of us were too small we could only look and wish pa and ma had more money.
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In talking about raising hemp Herman George relates this incident:
One morning he and George Carl of Nappanee started for Pierceton to get two loads of hemp machinery. The first day's journey took them to Pierceton. They loaded the machinery and bedded down the horses for the night.
Early the next morning they took the old Pierceton-Winona road to Warsaw. Just west of Pierceton, near a creek, the road had been raised and filled with new dirt. It was their luck to meet several loads of logs coming toward town.
In attempting to pass on this narrow road the berm gave way and dumped their machinery down the incline. Patiently and with much labor the loads were put on the wagon again. They made Warsaw by night fall.
The next day through the mire and mud on old 15 they made Milford. Sometimes as they rested their horses the load would sink and they had to double team to start again.
The next day -- Nappanee and home.
The Laughlin brothers were now ready to process the hemp that was to be one of the main booming businesses of Nappanee for a decade.
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My mother, Mrs. Frances B. Haney, received a letter from Mrs. Leona (Pinkerton) Seckles of Dearborn, Missouri, last week. She is the daughter of "Big" Wes Pinkerton of the Pinkerton settlement.
As a maiden she palled around with mother and Minnie Weimer. These ladies hover around the 90-year mark.
On our way to Houston, Texas, about eight years ago, Mrs. Haney and I stopped in St. Joe, Missouri, to visit Mr. Seckles. Wish I had time to recite her early Island life before moving.
My mother's home place was at the south edge of Jefferson Township, now owned by my brother, Loyal.
My grandfather, William Weaver, moved there from the south side of Big Turkey Lake (Wawasee). Many times he would go to Syracuse by crossing the big lake, through the channel at Oakwood Park and end up at now Syracuse Lake to do his trading.
Fish was plentiful and was one of the main sources of food in those days.
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Someone reminded me I forgot Dog Town, a nickname for Gravelton, and that I failed to mention that Ransom (Spinner) Sawyer of that city was one of the last of the traveling butchers. A practice that has now disappeared.
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Many times my thoughts go back to the old log house that stood about 40 rods to the southeast of where I live.
Many times as you walked over the upstairs floor you could see your footprints in the white snow that had sifted through the cracks during the night.
Wading those two to four feet snowdrifts to Hastings school and arriving with frozen hands or ears was not for the timid -- - frozen dinners, no lights on those gloomy days. High
school five to seven miles away -- not pleasant thoughts.
And then when I hear folks with modern homes, cars, televisions, radios, and about everything that money can buy I think of the saying, "Contentment consisteth not in the abundance of things," else everybody would be happy and singing. I am thankful for these challenges in life. * * *
I suppose I had to stay in at recess to learn some poetry about as much as anybody. After teaching school for many years and in my present occupation many of these "gems" come to mind. The "Village Blacksmith" on Emeline street where the sparks would fly as a hot shoe was shapened for a horse's hoof stirs my memory.
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He goes on Sunday to the church and sits among the boys. He can hear the parson prayer and preacher and hear his daughter's voice sitting in the village choir and it makes his heart rejoice. . . Can you finish the poem?
And then, as I view the Montcalm-Wolfe monument on the Plains of Abraham in Quebec, Canada, I muse:
I boast of heraldry the pomp of power
And all that beauty or that wealth 'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour The path of glory lead but to the grave.
Standing in front of the monument in Gettysburg Cemetery you repeat the immortal lines by Lincoln, "Four score and seven years ago our fathers shall not perish from the earth."
Are you acquainted with "Gradadim, " "To a Water Fowl," "Grays, " "Elegy, " "Snow Bound, " "The King of the Golden River, " or "The Great Stone Face"? Ah! You can't beat this good literature and thoughts. We need more of this uplifting influence and less of the cheap degrading paperbacks for our youth.
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'LET'S TAKE A TRIP (Last in a Series) By Kenneth Haney
Mrs. Haney and I have been fortunate in visiting and traveling through 43 of the states in the continental United States.
As we travel there lurks in our minds -- "Oh! that our parents would have had the opportunities that we have of going places. " Most of them never got out of the state.
With the pleasure of traveling and as a conclusion to these articles about the Island I would like for you to read this poem which was the end of a series of articles I wrote on western travel several years ago.
LET'S TAKE A TRIP Original -- Kenneth Haney I Just a little less griping and a little more grip A little more sober and a little less sip; A little less getting and a couple more gifts, A little less pushing and a little more lift. A little more flying and a few less flops, A few less sighs and a few more trips;
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And I tell you friends as we go along Our hearts will sing a joyful song. II A little less piece of your tongue to give, A little more peace of mind to live; A little more joy and a little less woe, A little more kindness and a little less toe. Forget this humdrum life,
And journey with your tired wife,
And it will follow ere the day is gone She'll be singing a loving song. III
Now, let's plant the beans and corn, I say, Combine the oats, and make the hay; Harvest the wheat, and still the spear, For vacation time is nearly here. Close up the shop, shut down the mill, Close up the store, and forget the till; And I say to you neighbors in the summer long, You'll be humming a happy song.
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IV
So buy a new tire, put in a plug,
Cast in the baggage, give her a hug; Put in some gas, lay in a stove, Throw in a tent, for we're going to rove. Pull up the blind, put down the sash, Turn off the juice, pick up your cash; And with your kids all packed in, strong There'll come forth a merry song. V
Okefenokee or Tower of Bok,
Cascades of Washington or Mount of Rock, I see views of Canyon Grand, All these and Dunes of Sand; Paul Bunyon, his ox, and Smokey Bear, Scent of pines and mountain air, And as you gaze on Niagara Falls, long, You'll remember your wedding song. VI You'll look in her face and say, "my dear" Possibly you'll shed a tear; That in this hustle, bustle, and busy life,
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You neglected your loving, faithful wife. You see her trust and you see her grace, You see the joy in her kind face; And with a wish her years would be long, You'll just whistle a grateful song. VII
When you look in the fire and your steps are slow, Your eyes are dim and your hair is snow; And your wants are few, your old friends are still, Your youth is gone you're over the hill. And with a prayer that both of you, Can take a trip as you used to do; With Christ, you Guide -- it won't be long, Till your soul will sing an eternal song.
Thanks to those who expressed their pleasure in these articles. I could go on and on but time doesn't permit. Thanks to all of you for your help.
Last week began the solicit for CROP, and don't forget to take your good books and magazines to your church on December 26 to be taken to the Indiana State Prison.
Glad to have had you along in Hastings! Bye.
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INDEX
Argos, 31 Armey, Joe, 7
Baker, Glenn, 38
Barnhart, Grace (Oster), 19
Baumgartner, Joseph, 76
Baumgartner, Mrs. Ted, (Gladys Estep), 58
Beach, Delia (Roberts), 19
Berger, Milton, 37
Beer, Otto, 49 Big Turkey Lake, 89
Biller, Arthur, 42
Biller, Bertha, Bessie, 19
Biller, Bill, 42
Biller, Boys, 55
Biller, Daisy (Tusing), 19
Biller, Earl, 85
Biller, "Coon" Earl, 56
Biller, Mrs. Emma, 10, 56
Biller, Henry, 19, 37, 42, 56, 85
Biller, Mrs. Henry, 18
Biller, Jesse, 19, 42
Biller, Johnny, 45
Biller, Madison (Matt) James, 4
Biller, Royce, 37
Biller, "Flick" Sam, 56
Biller's, 29
Blough, Tom, 19 Bremen, 15
Brittsan, C.R., 32
Brock, John, 54
Brown, John, 2
Brumbaugh Cemetery, 36
Brunings, 29
Bushong, Joe, 2
Cain, Ed, 14 Caris, Phil, 50 Carl, George, 88 Charlton, Frank, 37 Charlton, Gerald, 37 Charlton, Wesley, 65
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Clem, Jap, 33 Clunette, 8, 16 Coldeberg, John, 15 Collins, 28 Collins, Ira, 50
Collins, Sherman, 50
Conkling Hill, 31
Cotton, Gary and Ronnie, 52
Coppes Brothers, 47
Cummins, George, 1 Cunningham, Bertha (Biller), 19
Darsh Marsh, 49
Dausman, David, 5, 10, 31
Dausman Ditch, 7
Dausman, Samuel and Vern, 84
Dausman's, 29 Davis, Bessie (Biller), 19
Davis, Lew, 37, 54, 56
Davis, Otto, 56
Deeter, W.R., 38
DeFreese, Mrs. Stoffel, 2
Deisch, David, 58 Dick, Amanda (Jensen), 19 Dierk, Henry, 43 Dierks, Allen, 25, 54
Dierks, Lawrence, 37
Dillinger, John, 85
Dutchtown Sawmill, 50
Dygert, Tim, 50
Erick, Henry, 59 Estep, Cleo and Gale, 58
Estep, Gladys (Mrs. Ted Baumgartner), 58 Estep, Grandma and Grandpa, 1
Estep, Joe, 58
Estep, Noah, 38
Estep, Sam, 2, 58 Esteps, 28
Foraker, 56 Forbing, Jack, 84 Ford, Elder, 28 Fox, Clara (Haney), 2 Fox, Don, 87 Fox, Mr. & Mrs. Don, 45 Fox, Jacob, 45, 87
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Fox, Welcome, 2 Foxes, 29 Fuller, James, 5
Garrett, 83
Geiger, Ancil, 76
Geiger, Charlie, 9, 56
Geiger, Frank, 9
Geigers, 29
George, Sherman, 88
George, Verl, 87
Good, Claude, 56
Goshen, 76
Graham Marsh, 84
Gravelton, 56, 89
Green, John, 2
Griffith, Joe, 50
Grove, Ziler, 53, 54
Groves, Rev. W.E., 33
Haab, Thee, 11 Hall, Arthur, 37
Hamman, Mr., 67
Haney, Belle (Hollar), 19
Haney, Clara (Fox), 2
Haney, Daniel, 2, 15
Haney , Mrs. Daniel, (Ella), 2, 38
Haney,
Edward, 15
Emanuel, 15
Haney , Haney, Foy, 66 Haney, Mrs. Frances B., 89
Haney , Katie, (Swartdlander), 15
Haney, Loyal, 89
Haney , Oscar, 31, 52
Haney, Peter, 84
Haney , Samuel, 15
Haney , Wesley, 15
Haney, William, Jr., 15
Haneys, 29
Hartsough, Harvey, 19, 87
Hartter, Jacob, 58
Hartter, William, 58
Heckaman, Robert, 1
Heiber, Frank, 58
Heightsmith, Henry, 32
Hepler, Dick, 84
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Hepler, Ed, 84 Hepler, Pearl, (Roberts), 19 Heplers, Frank, 58 Hershberger, Eli, (Daddy), 67 Hershberger, Mose, 75
Hill, Dave, 59 Hollar, Alex, 54, 56
Hollar, Amy, 77
Hollar, Belle, (Haney), 19 Hollar Boys, 55
Hollar, Charlie "Sigh", 54, 56
Hollar, Clarence, 19
Hollar, Clarence (Sox), 58 Hollar, Enos, 11, 12, 19, 29, 37, 45, 50, 53, 56, 67 Hollar, Erasmus, 84
Hollar, Ernest, 37 Hollar, Fremont, 19
Hollar, George, 56
Hollar, Harvey, 84
Hollar, Irvin, 19
Hollar, James, 18, 78
Hollar, John, 19, 54 Hollar, Lloyd, 19 Hollar, Loren, 19
Hollar, Mace, 19 Hollar, Paul, 37 Hollar, Richard, 58
Hollar, Robert, 58
Hollar, Russel, 28, 37
Hollars, 28
Hoosier, John, 1
Irvine, Bert, 36 Irvine, Flossie, 19 Island Chapel Church, 15, 76
Jefferson Township, 7, 89 Jensen, Amanda, (Dick), 19 Jensen, Arvilla, 19 Jensen, Peter, 9
Kaiser, Darell, 38 Kaiser, John, 8-9, 58 Kauffman, John, 2 Keltner, Mr., 32 Kilmer, Joyce, 46 Kline, Butch, 56, 58
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Kline, Jack, 56, 58 Kline, Walter, 9 Krull, Albert, 58
Lambert, Guy, 2, 14
Lathrops, 28
Laughlin Brothers, 88
Leazenby, Dora (Tusing), 19
Leemon, Ortie, 76
Lentz, Albert, 49
Lentz, Ed, 49 Lentz Coal Company, 10, 49-50
Lentz, Mrs. Emma, 9
Lentz, Dr. Owen, 49
Lentz Saw Mill, 47, 68
Locke, Sherman, 77
Long, "Jim" James, 76
Losee, George, 11
Lutes, Orville, 65
McCloughen, Bert, 77
McDonald, Gerald, 37
McDougal, Mr., 76
McGowns, 28
Mckibbin, Austin "Jack," 42
Mckown, Fred, 10
Mclaughlin, Jacob, 1
McNeil, Libby, 14
Marquart, Elizabeth & John, 15
Martin, 65
Mellot, Sylvanus, 65
Michael, Plomer, 11
Milford, 1, 4, 32, 33, 34, 49, 50, 55, 56, 58, 59, 63, 67, 76, 84, 88
Milford Ice Company, 5
Milford Public Library, 75
Mishler, Mervine & Wade, 33, 37
Mitchell, Isaac, 50
Monger's, (of Elkhart & Griffith), 50 Moore, Billie, 37
Mt. Tabor School, 83
Murphy, William, 58, 85
Mutschler Woodworking Factories, 47
Myers, Ford Agency, 33
Nappanee, 8, 13, 14, 51, 56, 88
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Neff Ditch, 11 Neff, Omer, 7
Oakwood Park, 31, 89 Orn, Charles, 4 Orn Gravel Pit, 69 Orn Road, 8, 39 Oster, Mrs. Daniel, 14
Oster, Dora, Glenice, Grace, 19
Oster, Otho, 19, 84 Oster, Susan (Rumfelt), 15
Oster, William, 15
Oswego, 84
Pierceton, 52, 84, 88 Pig Island, 83
Pinkerton, Glen, 37
Pinkerton, Leona, (See Seckles), 89
Pinkerton, "Big" Wes, 89
Pinkerton, "Little" Wes, 29
Pinkerton's, 29
Pittman, Elder, 28
Poe, Flossie, 19 Prices, 28
Rarry, Rev., 29 Rheinheimer, Dr., 38
Roberts, Delia (See Beach), 19
Roberts, George, 8, 31 Roberts, Pearl (See Hepler), 19 Roberts, Tom, 19, 85 Rohrer, Cora (Swartzlander), 19 Rohrer, Leland, 8, 42 Rumfelt, Grandma, Susan (Oster), 14, 15, 84 Rumfelt, Jim, 1 Rumfelt, Mrs., 17 Rumfelt, Oscar (Jim), 2 Rumfelt, Robert, 2 Rumfelt, Trella, 19 Ruple, Don, 2 Rymans, 28
Sawyer, Ransom (Spinner), 89 Scott Company, 14 Seckles, Mrs. Leona (Pinkerton), 89 Seybert, Bishop, 15 Sierk, Otto, 37
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Sierk, Rudy, 37, 84 Sierk, William, 38 Silver Lake, 76 Silveus, 28
Silveus, Orville, 2
Slabaugh, Aaron, 37
Snyder, Dr. Hugh, 76
South Jefferson Threshing Company, 58
Sparklin, Charles, 34
Spicher, Berniece, 37
Stieglitz, Clarence, 69
Steiglitz, Henry, 10, 13, 83
Stone, Chloe (Tusing), 83
Stump, Ben & William, 2
Sumpter, Tom, 58 Swartdlander, Katie (Haney), 15
Swartzlander, Arvilla (Jensen), 19 Cora (Rohrer) Edgar, Walter
Swartzlander, Jacob, 22, 84
Swartzlanders, 29
Syracuse, 89 Syracuse Lake, 89
Teeple, Roy, 42 Thaden, Roy, 25, 42
Thwaits, Elmer, 10
Troup, Irvin, 5
Tusing, Arthur, Daisy (Biller), Dora (Oster), 19
Tusing, Herbert & Roy, 19
Tusing Boys, 55 Tusing, Chester, 42
Tusing, Chloe, (Tusing), 83
Tusing, Harold, 50
Tusing, Isaac, 65
Tusing, Noah, 4
Tusing, William, 2, 19, 50 Tusing, Mrs. William (Oster), 14 Tusings, 28
Wagner, Glenice (Oster), 19 Waldsberger, Ella, 42 Walters, Jacob, 87 Warsaw, 85, 88 Waubee Lake, 5, 38, 39, 83 Wawasee, 89 Weaver, William, 89
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Wedrick, William, 10 Weimer, Claude, 2, 53 Weimer, Minnie, 89 Weldy, Sam, 19 Wilson, R.R., 83 Wise, Carson, 2 Wuthrich, Fred, Sr., 37 Wysong, Charlie & Vern, 56
Yeager, Berlin, 83
Yeager, Charles, 83
Yeager, Orville, 54
Yeager, Victor, 83
Yoder, Jonas, 75
Zimmerman, Ernest & Joshua, 13
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