Memorials

Mar 15, 1939

Our mother, Frances, was a beautiful. Loving, shy woman. She fell in love with her high school sweetheart and married Richard Henry Meyer in 1930. Lulu B. Chamberlin, her mother, made her wedding dress. Richard and Frances were married at their own home on Tibbs Avenue in Indianapolis, Indiana.In December 1934 they brought a son home there. Richard Dale Meyer...

Dec 31, 1938

Nick was a World War Veteran from 1898.

Family Tree: Spouse: Elizabeth Gale Hilt Children: Emma Jean Stone Tom Grandchildren: Nan Nick Shannon Parents: William Perry and Margaret Hilt Siblings: George Hilt Ethel Hilt Robb Grandparents: None listed

Nov 13, 1937

Lucile Evelyn Lyda was born November 7, 1983 in Illinois. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas and Martha Church Lyda. She had two brothers, Thomas Ray Lyda and Ellis Earl Lyda. They both lived in Indianapolis. She also had one sister, Martha May Lyda Barnett, whom lived in Paris, Illinois and Chrisman, Illinois. Her brothers and sister...

Feb 26, 1937

John M. Young son of Horace Greeley Young and Lucine Bell Phipps was born in Indianapolis, IN 1902. He was 5 years old when his mother died from TB. 4 boys and 1 baby girl, Catherine was left in 1907.Lucine was buried in Bloomfield, IN. Catherine was adopted and the boys were with friends and neighbors after their father Horace...

Jun 4, 1936

William Franklin Reid was born in Birmingham, Alabama. In his early life he moved to Hartford, Kentucky. He worked in the coal mines. He met and married Daisy Dean Miller. They had three children. They later moved to Linton, Indiana, where he opened and ran a restaurant. After some years they moved to Indianapolis. He has been missed and lovd...

Mar 13, 1936

I must give a basket of roses to this beautiful lady. She gave birth to three wonderful children. One was my father. I remember him saying she was a great cook and made the best apple pie ever. In her middle years she bought a three story house in Indianapolis, where she started a rooming house. I know she has...

Jan 29, 1934

According to his daughter, Nellie, John W. Farrell was born in Ireland in 1872 to Andrew and Nancy Farrell. He married Ada Gillespie in Indianapolis in 1899. He spent many hours working in his bicycle shop on Tenth Street. They had a son, John Russell in 1903, but he died at six months and is buried at Crown Hill Cemetery....

Jan 7, 1934

Florence Hoover Kealing was born on January 21, 1903, in Minerva, Ohio, where her father was a Christian Church minister. She grew up in Chicago, Illinois, Tipton and Indianapolis, Indiana. After graduating from Shortridge High School, she attended Butler College and was a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. She graduated from Butler in 1923.Her first job after graduation...

Sep 15, 1933

Virginia Dillinger Hoover was born on March 9, 1875, in Findley, Ohio, to Archibald and Fannie Kempher Dillinger. She was the fourth of five daughters, the first having died in infancy. She was a beautiful blond and blue-eyed girl who did well in school and was devoted to her parents and the Christian Church. After graduating from high school, she...

Aug 31, 1930

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Family Tree: Spouse: Richard Martin Curl Married: May 11, 1871 Children: Thomas Sylvester Curl Samuel D. "Red" Curl James M. Curl Nathan A. Curl William L. Curl Grover Cleveland "CleveL Curl Maryella Curl Grandchildren: None listed Parents: Samuel Partlow Nanacy Anna "Hendricks" Hendrix Siblings: Samuel Partlow Jesse...

Oct 9, 1928

Louis Albert Eytchison was born in Madison County, Indiana. As a young man, he worked in Elwood, Indiana as a glass blower.In his early 20's, he met and married Nellie Mae Jester. After residing in Alexandria, Indiana, for a few years, they moved to the little town of Brightwood where he worked for the Big Four Railroad. He also worked...

Aug 17, 1927

Mary Luella Howard was born in Macoufrin County, Illinois, in 1857. Her parents had three children, Mary, Mathilda and Larkin. Mary married a man with the last name Gillespie and they had a daughter, Ada in 1877. It is said that her husband died soon after. Mary then married William Nichols and they had a daughter, Pearl, in 1880. Ada...

Mar 15, 1927

Born in Great Britain, little is known of the early years of William George McLaughlin. It is believed his father, William John McLaughlin (1851-1945) was from Cushendall, Ireland. William John married Ellen Spencer (1957-1927) of London in 1875. Nine children followed; five boys and four girls. William John and Ellen McLaughlin immigrated to America sometime in the 1890's living in...

Oct 1, 1926

William Albert Harris was born in Newton, Illinois. He spent his childhood there. He had three brothers, Charles, Murry and Anthony. He came to Indiana and worked at Link Belt Company. While there, he met and married Alma Ragan. He spent a short time in the Navy, at the end of World War 1. There were three children born from...

Jan 21, 1924

Foster's wife, Essie Jane Adams Robertson is buried at Simpson's Chapel, nine miles north of Bloomington, Indiana. Her grave is on the east side of the church on a slope.Foster and Essie's son, Earl Austin Robertson is buried in Ft. Gibson NAtional Cemetery, Oklahoma (Broken Arrow). He was married to Nellie C. Farrell and later Derlie Robertson (Jones). Derlie is...

Adeline was born August 22, 1899 in Switzerland County, Indiana, to John and Prudence Claghorn. She married Clyde Haine, Sr. on June 12, 1920 in Indianapolis, Indiana. She lived in Fort Collins, Colorado for the past 8 years with her daughter, Martha Zielen and her husband, Alexander. She lived in Indianapolis most of her life, excluding a few years that...

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Family Tree: Spouse: Edna Mae Jordan (Miller) , January 12, 1957 Children: Michael (Mike) E. Jordan Robert (Bob) E. Jordan Mark L. Jordan, Kathy L. (Jordan) Garcia, Steven W. Jordan, Kenneth D. Jordan Grandchildren: Heather M. Jordan Jamie L. Jordan, Michael J. Jordan, Austin R. Jordan, Rachel J. Garcia, Aaron V....

Albert F. Carter Jr. died at only 3 months old. Born to Albert F. Carter Sr. and Charlotte Marvel.St. Luke 18:16 Jesus said, "Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the Kingdom of God." Now I lay me down to sleep I pray the Lord my soul to keep If I...

In memory of our mother, sister, aunt, grandma and friend, Betty Baker.Betty grew up in Brightwood, Indiana, the fourth of seven children born to William and Georgia Davis on august 30, 1922.She married for the first time at an early age to Jerry's father, Johnny Culley, and briefly moved to Arizona.She moved back to Indiana and divorced Johnny. Shortly after...