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Phillip and Amanda E. Barber Feathers were the parents of William and George Feathers. William Feathers married Maud Miller, daughter of Oliver and Mary Jane Miller (who had two other children, Mabel Hinton, and Nellie Miller. ) William and Maud's children were Dawson, Wayne, Bobby Gene, Malcolm, d. young, and Ethel, married Ralph Paddack, son of Eric and Lilly Johnson Paddack, northwest of New Ross. Ethel died, and Donald was raised and adopted by his Paddack grandparents. Donald now lives west of New Ross with wife Patty, and their children Michael, David and Donna Paddack. Dawson Feathers had a filling station or service station on south side of highway 136, west of S. Main Street. He and his wife, Vera, son Thomas and daughter Pamela live east of New Ross. Maud Miller and my mother were good friends and I always thought of her when I read the poem about "Maud Muller, raked the meadow, sweet with hay. " George Feathers married Maud Tipton, also a friend and classmate of my mothers, daughter of William and Susan Inlow Tipton, and their children were Delmas, d. 1930, Harry (married Thelma Booher, her first husband, they divorced), d. 1955; Dumont, lives in Crawfordsville; Helen Patton and her daughter Becky live in New Ross. Helen works at Fredericks store; and Betty Feathers. (Given me by Maud Tipton Feathers).
The McVeys came to New Ross in an early day. John McVey, born in Kentucky in 1840, married Mary A. Mc Cracken here 12-30-1863, and his brother William married Mary A. Inlow, daughter of Abraham and Susan Sparks Inlow here on 2-13- 1868. I remember when I was a little girl that John McVeys were visiting my grandparents James and Belle Linn, west of New Ross, and my mother talked so much about the beautiful snow white hair that Mr. McVey had, and she hoped her fath- er would have the same snow white hair. John McVey's child- ren were George McVey, who married 1. Myrtle Whitely, who
died 1906, and they had a daughter Gladys McVey Gardiner; he married 2. Viola McIntire 1908. (She married 2. Albert Denoon). He started a horse-drawn dray once in competition with my father-in-law, but for some reason he didn't continue it very long. He owned land northwest of New Ross; Charley McVey, born 1874, married Minnie Beck Linn, widow of George Linn, and they had two children, Helen McVey Cory Schram, and Lloyd McVey, who married June Christy, and had three girls, Barbara, Ann and Marilee McVey. He has been rural route mail carrier for several years from New Ross on the one route they have. Lloyd was in WW I; Zella McVey Comp- ton; Emma McVey married James Dayton, son of Greenberry and Mary Smith Dayton.
Samuel Imel, born 1799, Virginia, married Susanna Black, born 1800 N. C. in 12-20-1819 Wayne County, Indiana. (In 1850 census here, a Sarah Black, born 1789, Virginia was liv- ing with them, must have been a sister of Susanna). Samuel and Susannah's children were Franklin Imel, married Nancy Harris; Susan Imel, born 1823, married Samuel Hamilton, 4-27-1876; Frederick Imel, born 1828, married Martha J. Har- ris; Samuel S. Imel married Elizabeth Stone, daughter of James and Hannah Rettinger Stone; Stephen Imel married Rebecca Stone, sister of Elizabeth, and they lived in New Ross in an early day, then moved 6 miles west of New Ross (grandparents of Guy Hamilton, who shot Elston Walters). Children of Stephen Imel were Florence Hamilton, Clara, Evelyn, Josephine (Josie, a teacher for many years), and Emery Imel; Sarah Imel, born 1836, married Samuel Hamilton, 4-17-1873; Nancy Imel mar- ried my great, great, great uncle, Miles Corn, son of George and Jane Williams Corn, Shelby or Henry County, Kentucky. Nancy and several children died in Clark Township, Montgom- ery County, and Miles and two children went to Kansas; one of these children, Susanna Corn had married Jacob Voncannon here in this county before she went west.
Henry Imel born 1825, married Hannah White, lived near New Ross and Whitesville. Henry Imel was son of George Imel, who also came here 1833. George and Samuel Imel came here 1833, sons of Peter Ime1.
William B. Harris, who published New Ross News 1886 to 1907 (and Linden, Indiana paper) was the son of a Samuel B. Harris, and the great-grandson of James Harris, who came from N. C. to Monroe County, Indiana, Ellettsville, a former slave owner. William B. Harris died at Ellettsville November 1939. He had a son William B. Jr., at Lebanon, Indiana. YTaken from June 1940 xxxV1, number 2, page 120, Indiana Magazine of His- tory.
John J. Eddingfield, born 2-12-1815 in Butler Co., Ohio, son of John Eddingfield, born 1786 Fayette County, Pennsylvania and wife Hannah Thompson Eddingfield, married Sarah Will- iamson, daughter of George Williamson Sr. and wife Margaret Morrison Williamson, on 12-14-1842. John Jamison Edding- field made a land entry here in 1837. They lived 2 1/2 miles west of New Ross, just north of Greenwood school. They had seven children, Dr. George Eddingfield, was at Mace, Indiana; Oscar Eddingfield was born 1853 and married Nancy Reden- baugh, born 1857, on 1-19-1876, daughter of Jeremiah and E- lizabeth Corn Redenbaugh. (Elizabeth Corn was sister to my great grandmother, Margaret Corn Linn. ) Jeremiah lived west of Greenwood school, where McAnulty's now live. Oscars chil- dren were Emma, married George Layne, had three children, moved to Indianapolis, died there but are buried in New Ross cemetery. Iva married Frank Rice, son of Joseph and Ann Sul- livan Rice, had two daughters, Verda and Dorothy, also moved to Indianapolis, and twin sons, Ernest and Ray Eddingfield. Er- nest married 1. Ethel Hale. They had one son, Maurice. Ethel died and he married 2. Isabelle Shoemaker. They had one son, Francis, and Ray Eddingfield married Ona Temple Rettinger and hey had two children, Geraldine and Ronald. Ray died and the
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widowed husband of Ray's sister Emma, George Layne, married Temple. Ray and Ernest had also moved to Indianapolis. Ethel Hale was a teacher, daughter of Tilghman and Lou Edwards Hale. She died west of Greenwood school, where Joed Lynn how lives. James Carey Eddingfield, born 1856, near Green- wood school, died 4-24-1933 in New Ross, married Aretta E- sham Huffington, born 11-23-1855, Leesville, Indiana, died 12-23-1932, daughter ofJames Madison and Eliza Holland Huf- fington. Eddingfield entered Greenwood school 1862, and in 1881 was the teacher there. He was postmaster, and editor of the New Ross paper, and a poet. Many of his poems were print- ed in the Crawfordsville papers. He was familiar to everyone around New Ross, riding his bicycle. They had two children, Lucile who died 7-20-1895, age 2, and Reverend Paul Edding- field, born 1890, who now lives in Beech Grove, Indiana, a minister of the Christian Church. He was also postmaster at New Ross. (See postoffice data. ) William Thompson Edding- field, also a teacher at Greenwood school, and other schools; Mary A. Eddingfield married James H. Linn, a Civil war sol- dier, son of my great, great, grandparents, James W. and Ma- hala Castle Linn, (who came to 6 miles west of New Ross 1837 from Butler County, Ohio). Mary A. Eddingfield Linn lived nearer to Whitesville, and they are buried at Harshbarger ceme - tery, north of Ladoga, Indiana. They had two children, Calvin Reddingfield, and an infant who died. (Partly from Rev. Paul Eddingfield.
Jeremiah Redenbaugh, son of Henry and Mary Douglas Reden- baugh, married Elizabeth Corn, daughter of Williams and Sarah Allen Corn. They lived near New Market until 1855 when they moved 2 1/2 miles west of New Ross. He had cabins all over the farm for his children to live in when they married. He built the present brick house now owned by Harry E. and Sadie Hays McAnulty. Only 2 of their children remained in same locality, Nancy Redenbaugh Eddingfield and Williams Corn Redenbaugh. Williams was born 1849, east of New Market, married Pemelia Alice Meenach, and he later lived in brick house with their daughter Melissa, her husband, Seth (Jabe) Brown and 4 daugh- ters, Effie, Hazel, Rena, and Ida Frances Brown, a daughter Lily Brown died young. Rena married a Greenwood boy, Marion Lytle, son of Samuel Thomas and Matilda Emmaline Linn Ran- del Lytle. Williams Corn Redenbaugh always stressed that his name was same as his grandfather, Williams Corn; Eliza Ellen Redenbaugh married William Brown, son of Benjamin and Emi- ly McMullen Brown, she married 2. John Munson. Her Brown children were Elizabeth. Brown, who married Horace Lane and lived in New Ross, and their children were Robert (d), Hugh, Frank, Joe, Charles, Harry and Elmer, and 5 others. Her Mun- son children were Ora Munson, who married Clara Ebaugh, sis- ter to Charlie Ebaugh, New Ross. (Williams Redenbaugh's had two sons, Frankie and Charlie, who died young.
rence Russell and Mildred Morrison Linn, west of New Ross. Nancy and Joed have three children Jeffrey Lee, Robert Law- rence, and Donna Marcell; Minnie Gray, born 8-22-1888 mar- ried Elmer Richardson, their children were Russell F., Walter D., Elston A., Ralph and Viola Marie Richardson, married Ray- mond Routh, son of Elmer and Gertrude Jessee Routh, and they had two children, Marilyn married William Dossett, and they with their three children live on S. Main Street in New Ross. Children are Ricky, Denise, and Phillip Ray Dossett, and Mel- vin Routh married Carolyn Norman, daughter of Charles and Vivian Armstrong Norman, but they with their three children, Charles Raymond, Lori, and Stacy Routh live at Mace; Walter Gray, born 10-20-1890, died 5-18-1942, never married; Ward Gray born 11-9-1892 married 1. Kathleen Brown, daughter of Thomas and Mollie Canada Brown. She died and he married 2. Miriam Davis; Esther Gray born 2-9-1897 married 7-5-1913 Arvil Brown, son of Willis and Nancy Ellis Brown, New Ross res- idents. Arvil had a hardware in New Ross, then a grocery in Mace, etc., then went to Pompano Beach, Florida to make their home, but a few years ago came back to Montgomery County. Their children were Waneta Pearl married Lloyal Ru- nion, two children, Monna Sue Brewer and Sandra Sue Davis, and Lois Elizabeth married Glen Max Harvey, and their children are Harriet Hope White, Glenda Carol Harvey, and James Max Harvey; Retta Gray, born 10-11-1898 --- died 11-1-1900; Ar- nold Gray born 7-19-1902, died 1964, married Maud Gott, no children. They had a poultry business in New Ross for many years in old K of P building. Maud works in Fredericks store now. (From Esther Gray Brown).
Jesse Routh, born N. C. 2-7-1779. and wife Nancy Duglas (or Douglas) born 1789, December 10, married 11-22-1804, came from Tennessee to Ohio. then Montgomery County, In- diana, Clark township, 4 miles south of New Ross, in 1828, but like many others of the day, he branched out into other areas in other fields other than farming, and he erected a mill 1/2 mile south of New Ross, near where his descendants now live, Horace and Anna Routh. Nancy died in 1837, and he married 2. Elizabeth Lytle 1838, from Boone County., They lived in Boone County a short time, near to New Ross, then moved near the mill, south of New Ross. He and Nancy had the following children, Dr. Edward Douglas Routh, born 1-10-1807 married Asenith Wright 5-11-1826, Preble County, Ohio by Robert Rhea J. P. and their children were Robert H. born 1833, Ind., Nancy J. born 1836, married William Hugh Brown, son of Lucius and Alcey Simmons Brown, on 5-8-1853. She died 1873, buried Mt. Zion Cemetery, northeast of New Ross. (See Brown family later. ) John Ferguson Routh, 1834-1922, Sarah E. Routh, born 1845, Isaac A. Routh born 1847 married Mary D. Randel, daugh- ter of William and Susan Hinkle Randel, but they were divorced, and she later married her sisters' widowed husband, James Hen- ry Starks, and Martha Routh, born 1849. (These dates for birth are census dates) Issac Addison Routh was a Civil war soldier, was buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington Vir- ginia. He was in Co. B, 154 Regiment, was mustered out 8-4- 1865, near Stevensons Station, Virginia. He died 1913, (see under soldier); John P. Routh born 8-9-1810 married Catherine Sparks 10-4-1830; Mary (Polly) married George Otterman on 9- 30-1831, she was born 11-1-1812; Andrew Jackson Routh born 3-4-1815 married Martha Agee 9-13-1835, their children were Martha J. Acenath (d), James L. died in Civil war at Nash- ville, Tennessee, Issac Routh, Catherine Routh married 1. James I. Inlow, married 2. John Spohr, Jesse H., born 1847 married Joan Randel, daughter of Joseph and Mary Fisher Randel. Joan was a granddaughter to my great, great, grandparents Asa and Margaret Sutton Randel. Her parents died in 1850 when she was young, and she was raised by her aunt, Elizabeth Randel Routh and husband Jesse Routh. (After the death of Joan's husband,
Zimri and Eva Shelley Gray had three children, John Gray, married Ann Robbins, had Lester and Clyde; Will C. Gray died 1913, never married; James Albert Gray born 6-4-1863, died 7-30-1922, married 12-2-1883 Harriet Elizabeth Ronk, daugh- ter of John Thomas and Nancy G. Hamm Ronk. They had eight children, all lived around New Ross. Earl Gray married Iva Hubble on 1-5-1905. Earl was born 10-22-1885. They had one son, Paul Eugene Gray, father of Lloyd and Vera Gray; Bertie Gray born 5-21-1887, died 2-15-1944. Married 1., Goldie Starks, daughter of James Henry and Mary D. Randel Routh Starks (his 2nd wife), Goldie married 2. William Burgess and Bertie married 2. Mattie Lillian Bright, daughter of Hiram Claud and Mary Elizabeth Benefiel Bright, on 3-24-1914. After Bert died Mattie married Will Davis from Ladoga, Indiana. Mattie was a Winter descendant, who owned land early around New Ross. Bert and Mattie had one son, Robert Harry Gray, married Sarah Cornett, and they have two children Robert Larry and Nancy Carol Gray Linn, who married Joed Morrison Linn, son of Law- Jesse H. Routh, she married 2. George Mears) Joan and Jesse
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H. Routh's children were Elmer Routh, married Gertrude Jessee, had seven children, Raymond, Harry Randel Routh, 1911-1956, Kenneth, Vern, Jessie marricd Lewis Cole, June married Harry Bailey, and Mayme Routh married Frazier Hesler; and Perry Routh, born 1869, married Edith Harris, 2 children, Faye, died 1893 and Russell Routh. (Andrew Jackson Routh had another daughter omitted earlier, Ellen Lafollette); another son of Jesse and Nancy Routh was James. M Routh born 5-9-1817 married Eliza Otterman 11-31-1839. They went to Dallas County, Iowa 1870, Adams Township, Adell, Iowa. Their granddaughter, (daughter of their daughter, Mary Catherine Routh Randel and husband Abram Randel, who left Indiana at same time as her parents), in her 90th year, lives there now. Others of James family went to Iowa too; Nancy Routh, born 4-29-1823 mar- ried Thomas Morrison 10-30-1844. She died 1-6-1910 and Mr. Morrison died 8-21-1907, age 86. Their children were Mary E. Morrison born 8-3-1845, John Morrison born 12-22-1847 and Lewis M. born 1849, Marion Morrison 1850-1858, Jesse A. Morrison, born 7-7-1853, married Susan M. Myers. He was cashier at Citizens Bank. Had a daughter Ruth, who married Frank Bratton, (children Zola Smiley and Sherman Bratton (d), and Guy Morrison, Rose E. Morrison born 1-12-1863, died 5- 15-1911 married Theodore Alexander Hankins on 9-18-1889 He was born 3-8-1858 Hamilton County, Ohio, to John and Or- pha Hancock Hankins. They had three children, Harold (d), Everett (d), and Hazel, who lives in Crawfordsville, Indiana. (After Rose died he married 2. Ida Dorsey) James E. Morrison born 1857; Jesse H. Routh born 4-15-1826 Ohio, married Eliza- beth (Betsy) Randel, daughter of Asa and Margaret Sutton Ran- del, my great, great grandparents, on 8-10-1847. Their chil- dren were William, married Anna Click, had Marion Routh, who married 1. Emma Dodd, had Anna and Russell Routh, and he married 2. Eva Elliot, had Helen Routh Featherstone. Mar- ion was a mail carrier at Ncw Ross and at Ladoga for many years. Alva, Frank, Pearl Hovermale and Effie Radford were Williams other children. He married again, to Sarah Payne and had Flossie Miller, Leona Routh Hixon Clark, who gave me Williams' family); John Routh married 1. Sally Thompson, mar- ried 2. Vinnie Duke, his children Dorothy Ruth (Dot) Moore, had two sons Sherman and Harry Moore. Sherman Moore died 1966/7 had a son Gary, and Harry Moore and wife Martha live on West State St., with children Terry and Susan Moore, and Harry Routh. James Routh married Louise Alice Inlow, and they lived near Cason, (now Dover) and their children were Hor- ace Routh married Anna Routh, daughter of Marion and Emma Dodd Routh, two children, Jean married Robert Vansoyac, school- bus driver and telephone lineman and Jean is a telephone opera - tor at New Ross, and they have two children William J. , in army and Carol Ann Vansoyac, and Robert Routh marricd Franccs Weir, daughter of Otto and Dorothy Long Weir, their children James married Patricia Hubert, daughter of Willis and Pauline Warren Hubert, have a son Roger, and Mike Routh, and Treacy Mcade, sister of Horace, a good friend and a classmate of my mother, marricd Harry Meade, had-Richard and Lois Meade; Charlcy Routh married Carrie Powell, had thrce sons, (Data given me by Hazel Hankins, Leona Routh Hixon Clark, Treacy Meade, and Gertrude Randall Kelly. ).
In 1828, Stephen Williams, born 1787 N.C. and wife Eliza- beth Ellis Williams born 1784 N. C., came from Wayne County, Indiana to Walnut township, Montgomery County, Indiana. Had the second cabin in the township .. "The abode was 18' square, round logs, a hole cut out for an entry, no floor but that 'not made with hands'and which women need not scrub, and no windows. " - from Prof. Gronerts Sugar Creek Saga. Stephen died 1875, but Elizabeth died 4-3-1869. They had eight child- ren of Bryan Williams, born 1814, married Elizabeth Castle, daughter of George V and Catherine Horine Castle, and sister to my great, great grandmother, Mahala Castle Linn, wife of
James Washington Linn 1, and both families lived six miles west of New Ross. Bryan Williams had ten children. Other chil- dren of Stephen Williams were Jonathan Williams, born 1815; Jane Williams, born 1817, died 7-4-1902 two miles southwest of New Ross. She married Ricliard Graves, son of John and. Margaret Brookshire Graves. Jane and Richards' children were William H. Graves, born 1843, died 4-2-1911 Salem, Indiana married AliceMotsinger April 1870, Stephen Graves died 8- 13-1894, age 40, Margaret Graves married Thomas Patterson, Sarah Emily Graves married John T. Peterson. She died 2-9- 1909, age 55. John Peterson was son of James and Hannah Dor- sey Peterson, John Graves married Ellen ? He died February 26, 1891, age 50. They had Forest, Omer, and Emory Graves. Emory and Forest were in drug store business in New Ross. For- est married Carrier Losier and they had four children, Imogene married Hilden Ayres, Eileen Pinne11, Dale,in Idaho, and Wil- mer, killed in an accident in 1952, Squire Bryant Graves died 1-30-1909, age 60, Mary A. born 1845, George T. Graves born 1849, and one other child. (Well do I remember Ellen Graves, a tall, stately lady, always wore a sunbonnet, as did my great aunt, Phoenia Harris, who lived on N. Main street. She wore a very pretty straw and blue cloth bonnet most of the time. ) John Williams, Mary Williams never married, died at Ncw Ross 3-12-1901, born 1823, Martha Williams born 1825 died 1-27-1870, and George Williams, born here in 1828. I think Mary and Jane were the only children that remained a- round New Ross.
There were two William H. Browns living in New Ross area, both married to Nancy J's. One is William H. Brown, died 8-26-1914, age 90, wife was Nancy Jesse Brown, who died 4-15-1906, age 73. These two are buried in New Ross ceme- tary. She was daughter of James B. and Nancy Jessee.
The other William H. Brown, (H is for Hugh) was born 11-8- 1830 Rush County, Indiana to Lucius and Alcey Simmons Brown, who went from Rush County to Boone County, Indiana, then Illinois, then to Montgomery County, Indiana. . . This William H. Brown lived two miles west of New Ross, where David Cham - bers, an early settler lived. He died 12-16-1906, age 76, and is buried at the Mace K. of P. Cemetery. He married 1. Nan- cy J. Routh, daughter of Dr. Edward Douglas and Asenath Wright Routh on 5-8-1853, two years after he came here. Nancy J. died 12-30-1873, and is buried in Mt. Zion Cemetery, north- cast of New Ross. William H. and Nancy's children were Alcey Asenath, (called Cena), named for both grandmothers, married John Logan, had ten children, Mary E. Brown, married 1. Jo- siah Markey, married 2. Harvey Miller, married 3. Kile Ro- gers, Eliza E. Brown; John M. Brown, * Tellitha Evaline (or El- da) married 1. James Patterson, married 2. Asbury Linn, mar- ried 3. , James Foxworthy , married 4., James H. Gray, she was burned up in a fire when her house burned 1940, northeast of Ncw Ross, age 78; Willis Brown married 1. Nancy Ellis, mar- ried 2. Jennie Williams Bennett, their son Arvil, in business in New Ross at one time, son Wesley lives at Jamestown, Le- ona married Alvis Braxton Myers, and moved to Chicago. O- ther children also but they do not live around New Ross, James G. Brown, Edward Brown married Mayme Linn, and Charles K. Brown. After the death of Nancy J. Brown, William H. Brown married 2. Priscilla Hays Canine, widow of Henry Canine, and daughter of John Newton and Martha M. Hays. .. she had one daughter, Maud Canine, who married 1., Robert Wilson Linn, who died, and she married 2., his brother William Linn (Er- nest Linn son of Robert and Maud Linn), see Linn family. Chil- dren of William and Priscilla were Stella Brown, a good friend and classmate of my mother) married John Sherrard, had two children, Juanita and Buford Sherrard. (He was such a cute lit- tle boy, my mother-in-law named her son Harold Buford after him. ) Stella dicd, and John Sherrard married her half-neice,
*John Browns family on later page.
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ose Logan, and moved to Wyoming where they homesteaded. Newton H. Brown, Martha Brown married Ed Eikins, had Cecil Adrian, Dorothy, Laura, Lester, and another child, Esta Brown Lucy A. Bowen, born 1848, Indiana, daughter of Mathew F. harried Mort Linn, she married 2. Mr. Harrell, Bertha Brown mar- and Catherine Minnick Bowen, born in Kentucky, both of them, jed John McGraw, and Lula married George Massing, and their
married Alvin B. Sparks born 1841, died 1910, son of George hildren were Helen and Hubert. Helen never married, but Hubert and Catherine Stokes Sparks, lived west of New Ross, near Green- harried Martha Dillman McCartney. William H. Brown bought his land west of New Ross from David Chambers in January 1881. fter his death in 1906, his wife had a son-in-law farm the land or awhile, but in 1910 she moved to Green street in New Ross, hen to N. Main Street, where she died. She is also buried at Mace cemetery. My grandparents moved to this farm February .911. About 1918 Monroe and Pearl Coddington Montgomery mith bought this farm, and moved here and my grandparents noved 1/2 mile west, 1/2 mile north, to other farm of Monroe Smith, now owned by Amos Bruch.
Newt and Evelyn Wall, who lived at east edge of New Ross, ›wned the elevator. They had the following children, Opal Wall, married Claud Bronaugh, son of George and Nettie Vaughn Bronaugh, and nephew: of Dr. Charles T. Bronaugh, and their children were Nettie Evalyn Bronaugh Mccullough, Charles narried Helen Vice, daughter of Winifred and Anita Robbins
Vice, had daughter Cheryl, Johnny Bronaugh married Ruth Fred- rick, daughter of Oscar and Bertie Frederick, had Debbie and ohnny Jr., Teresa Wall married Cline Saylor, one son. Ha- zel Wall Walton, Lucile, never married, in nursing division at indiana State Board of Health, and George Wall. The Wall family left here and went to Pittsboro, Indiana, Teresa to New Markey (she was a school teacher), only Opal remained in New Ross. Charles Wall, brother to Newt Wall also lived in New Ross.
In 1912, George Brown moved to Indianapolis, Mrs. Priscilla Brown moved into Mrs. Caroline Canadas' property she had pur- chased, and Mrs. Canada moved in with her daughter, Mrs. Taylor Emmert; Samuel B. Smith moved into Mrs. Priscilla Browns property on South Green, which they had purchased, a merry-go-round of moving, such as happened all the time .. . !
Allen and Elmira Routh Morrisons' children were Lucinda (Lu- cy) Catherine Morrison, born 3-8-1856, Arminda Morrison mar- ied Frank Clark; Issac (Bob) Allen born 10-27-1871, New Ross, died 1955, married Mary Sherwood 1914, had two children, Ro- bert C. Morrison and Aileen Morrison French, and Daniel Mor- rison married Alice Peterson, their children were Jesse R., Lu- cile Morrison Davidson, and Fred Morrison married 1. Bessie Feather, had son Adrian, married 2. Mae ? , had Virginia O- liver and Loree Hampton. These Morrisons lived 1/2 mile west and one mile south of New Ross.
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