Names, where
are names from?
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Some
names change completely.
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Mathew Worth Married
H. Ellen Richardson
"Worth was born in
Switzerland and his name was Werth Americans called him Worth and wrote
it so. The families, his children, now write their name Ward (Mr.
John George saw his name written in letters from Switzerland which he
read for him because Werth could not read and his wife was Eng.
American. Werth had a smith shop in Leopold."
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Miller's Chapel,
St Michael's, Harrison
Co. |
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Caspar MILLER, born
Dec 10, 1847 son of John Thomas and Elisabeth, baptized Feb 6, 1848
sponsor Adam Slett and Catherine Hess.
** Priest's note:
"These were the Miller's mentioned in Aldering's History.
"Miller's
Chapel." St. Michael's church took the place of the church."
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St. Patrick's Church |
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"Sept 22, 1850
Mass was for the first time celebrated in St. Patrick's
Church (Cannelton Ind.)"
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St. Mary's
Church |
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"Nov 17, 1850 St. Mary's
Church (Derby) was blessed by Rev. Kundek" |
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"St Mary's
Congregation Records (Derby) Baptisms, Marriages, Burials" (Father Bessonies at first probable resided at
Derby, but later resided in Leopold) was started by Father Benoit (Julia
--) and his last, baptized entry is No.71 (Silas Taylor). No.72 (John
Cassidy) is the first by Father August Bessonies, recently (Feb. 22,
1840) ordained at Vincennes. Bessonies and all subsequent priests
resided at Leopold and recorded Bapts of Perry, Crawford, and part of
Harrison and Spencer counties in this record of St Mary’s. |
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Rev. Joseph Kundek
On Oct. 7, 1849 Feast of Holary Rosary of B.V.M. the cornerstone of St.
Mary's was laid by Rev. Kundek." (This was the 2nd church at
Derby, because the old log church on river bank was gradually being
washed (i.e. the ground on which it stood) away by high water." |
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Graves they write
their name now, and is same family which before were recorded "Gravet"
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Serian, Sar Anna, written as spoken by people
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Lake
is Low german and means Sheet.
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"originally Thornberger or Dornberger either would Americanize into
Thornberry."
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Franchville. (once spelled Frenceville)
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Do you
remember |
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In 1849 Hiranl Sweet went south with a flat boat of hoop poles, caught
cholera on
steam boat, returned, died and buried at next landing by boat crew. Son,
Martin, later hunted grove, could not find it. |
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John and
ZIEGLER and Mary F. Hollinger said
to have come from PA, intend to reform farming methods here, make
cheese, etc. live a few years (south) near Chestnut City |
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Did you
know
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Places you may not know.
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Mt. Pleasant ridge was yet
called Figgins Flat in 1904. John FIGGINS and wife Pauline Harp lived in
Figgins Flat in the 1800's.
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