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Alexander Walker and William Walker 30 Jul 2010 | 06:50 pm
Census record from 1870, Chester Township, Wells County, Indiana. William Walker, the son of Alexander Walker [my third great-grandfather], shot and killed a man (George Shaw) in 1883 in Keystone, In...
Hobart Hampton Scott, Company A, 47th Indiana Volunteer Infantry 28 Jul 2010 | 08:54 pm
Private Hobart Hampton Scott died on July 7, 1863. Hobart Hampton SCOTT was born June 17, 1823, Hartford, Connecticut. He was a Private, enlisting on October 25, 1861 with Company A of the 47th India...
Vicksburg/Champions’s Hill 47th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regimental History 28 Jul 2010 | 08:07 pm
Sketch by Col Slack, 47th Indiana Indiana at Vicksburg (1911) contains a history of the 47th. The following paragraph is notable: General McClernand’s Corps now consisted of Carr’s, Osterhaus’, H...
Company A, 47th Indiana Volunteer Infantry 28 Jul 2010 | 06:26 pm
Daniel Hilton Benjamin Jones A great-grandfather, John Kennedy, served in Company A, 47th Indiana Volunteer Infantry. An excerpt from the roll of enlisted men serving in Company A: Name ...
Chester Township, Wells County, Indiana 1881 Hand Atlas – Kennedy’s 80 Acres 28 Jul 2010 | 04:39 pm
Chester Township, Wells County, Indiana 1881 from “Historical Hand-Atlas, illustrated” Chicago, Hardesty 1881 John Kennedy’s property is located near the upper left quarter: Online link to map Cli...
1850 and 1860 Census – Wells County, Indiana – No Kennedys or Kenedas Appear in Chester Township 28 Jul 2010 | 02:14 pm
Link to online 1850 pdf file Link to online 1860 pdf file
What’s In a Name? – John “Keneda” Kennedy 28 Jul 2010 | 01:46 pm
The following is the 1880 Census information for John Keneda (“Kennedy”), a great-grandfather – the reason for the alternative spelling of Kennedy in the census record I know not: Link to location fo...
Untitled 27 Jul 2010 | 07:49 pm
The above is from the 1870 census for Chester Township, Wells County, Indiana. There were two Jeremiah Kennedy’s in Wells County in the 19th century. One of them I was related and one is not, the ab...
47th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, Soldier Obituary 1939 27 Jul 2010 | 06:35 pm
Click to enlarge – a paternal gr-grandfather, from the same county (Wells), served with this man in the 47th Indiana Volunteer Infantry. Click photo above to enlarge. http://www.mosocco.com/pic/enye...
Early Laws of the Northwest Territory – 1788 30 Oct 2009 | 04:55 pm
A law respecting crimes and punishments. Pub- lished on the 6th of September. By this statute the crimes of treason, murder and houseburning in case where death en- sues from such burning, were res...
