BOOKS on Brown County Subjects
1870 Census
of Brown County, Indiana
Read by
Pauline Hoover and Sarah Clevenger
The census
pages of the Van Buren Township of Brown County have been rearranged
to reflect the original sequence of the pages. Apparently, when the
census pages were being copied, the unnumbered and undated pages were
lying in a stack on a table when a breeze coming through an open
window blew the pages onto the floor into disarray. This would have
been a small matter if the dwellings and households had been numbered
sequentially. However, this was not the case. Each page
started with dwelling one and household one. Since the surname
of each family was written only once, this meant that children at the
top of the next page were “orphaned” without a surname
and appeared to belong to the family at the bottom of the previous
page, which may or may not have been the case. Using a variety
of source materials, the order of the pages of the census of Van
Buren Township has been modified to reflect a more appropriate
sequence. This book contains an every name index which includes the
given name and the age of each individual.
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Other
Books by the same Authors:
Vital Records of Brown County, Indiana 1882 - 2000
Volume 1: Births Volume 2:
Deaths
Brown County Folks
by
Richard (Dick) F. Reed
This book is a wonderful collection of 62
biographical sketches which appeared in the Brown
County Democrat from 1973 to 1977.
Price $ 18.00 plus priority mail.
These biographical sketches are about people born in
the early part of the Twentieth Century and contain stories about
their parents who were early residents of the county. This
books presents a fascinating picture of Brown Countians during
the previous century.
The people who are chronicled in THE BROWN COUNTY
FOLKS include the folowing:
Pat Allender, George Anthony, Helen Stedman
Baptisti, Ivan Bartley, Lilliam H. Bohm, Theron E. "Tubby"
Clark, Harold "Doc" Clupper, Dr. Clyde Aulbertson, Charles
Robert Davis, Leston Deckard, Walter M. Dine, Prof. Edward E.
Edwards, John "Abe" Eyed, George Raymond Fleener, Arnold
Ford, Charley Fox, Angelina Frost, Harry Manley Gibson, William A.
"Bill" Gore, Robert "Bob" Greeg, James Mack
Hamblen, Sarah Harden, Brunlell Hederick, Fern Howe, Arthur B.
Kepler, Leo Knight, Rex Kritzer, Louise Pittenger Long, Harry Mathis,
Lawrence McCoy, Gladys McDanald, Ival McDonald, Grotis McGuire, Dale
Moberly, Lenora Mobley, William Romey Murphy, Lt. Col. Tyner Myers,
Herma Chafin Ogle, Edna Parmerlee, Otha Roberts, Sr., Mary Catherine
Robertson, Melusina Seehausen, Otis Sisson, James Skinner, Cdr. Ben
Sparks, Jr., Carl Spicer, Lucile Gross Steinbeck, Ruth Tilton, Lowell
Todd, Sally Twyford, Oral Voland, Cash Waggoner, Leatha Walker, Edgar
D. Warford, Martha Weddle, Leonard Welsh, Alva West, Gladys Ralphy
Whitaker, Charles H. White, Ed Wilkerson, Paul Dwight Williamson,
Jack Woods
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Federal Land Entries for Brown County, Indiana
compiled by
John W. Hamblen, Ph. D.
The early land records in Brown County were lost in
the court house fire in 1873, but the original land entry book
did survive. The records are listed alphabetially by name of
the original purchaser and year of purchase as well as by location
or Township, Range and Section.
Price $ 18.00 plus priority mail.
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