The Mail-Journal, Volume 22, Number 41, Milford, Kosciusko County, 9 October 1985 — Page 17

It happened . . . in Milford

10 YEARS AGO, OCT. 10,1975 Mrs. Julia May, Milford, celebrated her 84th birthday Friday, Oct. 3. Her neighbors helped her celebrate with cake and ice cream. The Sorosis, club of Milford toured the Pound Museum in Oswego Monday, Oct. 6. The museum is the first commercial building built in Kosciusko county. The second floor of the museum is arranged in period room displays of the 1800 s and early 1900 s. Women’s Missionary Society of the First Brethren Church met Thursday evening, Oct. 2, in Mrs. Herman Miller’s home west of Milford. Work began last week on the parking lot at the Milford Mennonite Church. The lot will be used by the staff of The M-J during the week and by the church on Sundays and at other times when services are held and should

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By DORIS McMANIS CAMDEN Numerous publications are available from the genealogy section of the Kosciusko Comity Historical Society. These are definitely aids for those who are working on family research in Kosciusko County. “Our Missing Links’’ is the quarterly publication of the group. There are 24 pages in each issue and they contain queries, family histories, tax lists, voting and land records plus newspaper extractions and obituaries. It is by yearly subscription and has been printed continuously since 1976 with back issues available. “Surname Lists” is a complete listing of all names submitted to the genealogy section and its contents are approximately 950 names and the people who are researching them from all over the country. “1895 Tax Assessment Lists” contains enumeration of 19 townships of people who owned taxable property in 1895. “A Burial Record of Deceased ExUnion Soldiers, Sailors & Marines, 1889-1920, Kosciusko County” is a valuable tool. It is fully indexed. “Index for the Mentone Centennial Book,” “The Pittenger-Cook Family Reunions, 1910-1941,” “The 1921 Graduates of Kosciusko County, Indiana,” and “Membership List of the Royal Arcanum, Warsaw, Indiana” are for groups that probably could not be found elsewhere. The newest publications, “Bibler Funeral Home Records,” 1939-1970, and “Reed Funeral Home Records,” 1889-1962, are indexed and complete. “Miscellaneous Newspaper Clippings,” 1927-1937; “Maps of Cemeteries of Kosciusko County,” “Estates & Administrators, Common Pleas Court, 1859-1865; ” “Claypool School Records (scattered 1933-1973); “Register of Voters in Kosciusko County, March 1845;” and an application for Pioneer Family Applications complete the listings. Soon will be a five-general chart book with 170 charts of Kosciusko County ancestors and collection is being made for the next volume. “1927 Kosciusko County Rural Directory” is new also. Authors of the publications are Annie Laurie Austin Smith, Mary Nichols Ettinger, Carolyn Fawley, Lois Perry, Douglas L. Mayer, Georgia Lutes, Connie Kugler, Carol Boyer and Virginia Bowerman Lucht. Prices vary according to the size of the volume. For information, please write to Genealogy Section, Kosciusko County Historical Society, P.O. Box 1071, Warsaw, Ind. 46580 and enclose a selfaddressed, stamped envelope (SASE). 143. Wish to contact persons researching the following families: Charles Klinger, born 1824, Pa., died 1887 or 1889, Atwood, Kosciusko County, buried Stony Point Cemetery ; Emanuel Klinger born 1843, Pa., died 1908, Atwood, and William Epler, born 1833, Onio, died 1905, Atwood. Helen M. Berg, 3833 Pennsylvania Avenue, Eureka, Calif. 95501. 144. Would like to contact descendants of Huffman and Moore families in Kosciusko County area. Jeremiah Huffman, born August 1849, married 1870 or 1871, died before June 1891. His wife, Susan Moore, bdm April 1855, died 1940, buried Pierceton Cemetery. She married a Thayer after first husband died. Daughter, Selene May Huffman, born in Indiana 1889. Where? Families lived entire lives in Kosciusko County area. Judy Baird, 13738-3 Mile Road, Lowell, Mich 49331. 145. Seeking burial locations and tombstones of Abraham Sherbondy (1800-1880) and his wife, Lavina Swain (1796-1869). Moslems meet BEIRUT, LEBANON - Moslem leaders met recently in Syria, the power broker in this war-ravaged nation, seeking ways to halt the bloodshed and to counter U.S. sanctions imposed on Lebanon in retaliation for the TWA hijacking.

vacate parking spaces in uptown Milford. Mrs. Ronald (Gladys) Brown is going to have to give all her Syracuse friends the details on the trip she and her husband plan to take to Yugoslavia next month. A note from our Syracuse office say people there are asking about “Gladys Brown of Milford going to Sweden by barge.” A Milford man “went navy” recently when George K. Susan enlisted in the sea service. The son of George K. Susan, r 1 box 225 Milford, George attended Wawasee high school. 20 YEARS AGO, OCT. 6,1965 More than 50 boys eagerly await the annual Punt, Pass, Kick competition, to be held at the Milford school grounds at 1:30 p.m. Saturday. The event is sponsored by C.S. Myers Ford agency in Milford. A full array of football

One son was named George Sherbondy and married Priscilla Aukerman. Monte D. Milburn. H. C. R. 6 1, box 79, Hunter, Kan. 67452. 146. Would like to contact relatives in Kosciusko County area of the following: Ida J. (Jennie M.) Singer, born April 1899, daughter of John Singer, Jr., Wabash. She married Bernard R. Browning, January 1920, Cass County. Mrs. Worley A. Spitler, r 1, Claypool, Ind. 46510 Correction: Address of Hoenstine Rental Library is 414 Montgomery Street, P.O. Box 208, Hollidaysburg, Pa. 16648. Correction: 140. Wish to contact persons working on research of Absalom or John Wesley Parker families. Believe Absalom farmed in Clay Township, south of Claypool. Born July 1818, died October 1892, Clay Township. John was born 1821 in Pennsylvania. Lived Liberty Mills, Chester Township, Wabash County. Larry Phalin, 515 Crest Drive, Cary, 111. 60013.

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gifts will be presented winners and a chance for further competition. Milford coach James Allen has been named competition director. The Milford police department is investigating the theft of a 1959 blue two-door .Buick stolen sometime between midnight and 6 a.m. Sunday from the Fred Rich property. Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Beer of Milford spent last week end with their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Leman, and family of Eureka, 111. John Snell has just returned from the New York fashion market where he bought fall and holiday merchandise. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Huffer, Lani Jay and Lee Ann of Warsaw were last Friday evening guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harry F. Haab at Milford. Lani Jay and Lee Ann remained and spent the week end with their grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Fox, r 1 Milford, and Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Stickle of Wakarusa recently returned from a five-day tour of Illinois and lowa. In lowa they visited the Amana colony r near Cedar Rapids and the Herbert Hoover memorial at West Branch. 30 YEARS AGO, OCT. 6,1955 L.S. Emmert, general manager of EM-ME-CO Corporation in Milford, received a telegram this morning notifying him that the EM-ME-CO home entered in the National Retail Lumber Dealers’ Association contest won first place award for all around design and excellency. Last Thursday William Nuetzel the Chicago Motor Club presented C.S. Myers, Milford Ford Agent, with a certificate in recognition of Distinguished Public Service. Pvt. Rodney H. McCreary, 26, whose wife, Maxine, and parents, Mr. and Mrs. John R. McCreary, live in Milford, Indiana, recently was graduated from the Army’s Ordnance School at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. Mrs. Clayton Hollar entertained ten members of the Thursday Evening Sewing club, Thursday,

Sept. 29. The next meeting, Oct. 9, will be a potluck dinner for members and husbands at the home of Mrs. Eldon Hurd. Merle Campbell, well known Milford retail merchant, took over the management and operation of the Milford Packing Company on Monday, according to Mr. Campbell. 50 YEARS AGO, OCT. 10,1935 Frank Grove has purchased the Sam Ulery farm located east of here. Mr. Grove is administrator of this estate. Mrs. Mose Ryman of northeast of Milford has been quite ill. Mrs. Charles Ryman has been helping care for her. Miss Dorothy Custer spent Saturday with her parents Mr. and Mrs. John Custer and family of near Topeka. It was her 15th birthday and a party was held in her honor. Carlyle Barnes and family and Miss Frances Estep were Sunday afternoon and evening guests in the Lloyd Eherenman home at Plymouth. G.W. Ralston and David Miller

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