Karen Zach
All About The Gobens
By: Karen Zach The Goben family in Montgomery County began in 1829 when Jesse J. Goben entered land in Walnut Township. For a couple of years in his native Kentucky…
Read MoreThe Poor House Millionaire
Those of you who follow my writing will know for sure that I love the Poor House folks. I have tallied the ones (with some help from buddy Kim Hancock…
Read MoreGood ‘Ol Doc Cowan
When you’ve written local history articles for almost 50 years and you’ve lost your computer data twice it’s a bit hard to remember who you’ve presented and who not. I…
Read MoreTerrific Three
Often, careers run in families, such as my father laid carpet and taught my brother; many families continue farming for generations; school teachers often produce school teachers, and a few…
Read More“Charles M. Travis: Two Wars; Inventor; In Everything And Then Some!”
Many of us have gone to or at least around the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument in Indianapolis. How many knew it has a great Montgomery County connection. On August 22,…
Read MoreFreedman, A Selfless Family
When I think of the Freedman family of Crawfordsville, giving comes to mind, charitable in various capacities of life. My first introduction to the family came many moons ago when…
Read More… MEET PHEBE
Decided it was time for a lady and was just perusing my database when I discovered that this gal was one of 18 children (can you imagine) so thinking she’d…
Read MoreGracie and Fay
Gracie and Fay – we heard those names often from my Dad when he’d come back in from his mail route. He and Grace loved to talk baseball and as…
Read MoreVancleave Saga #8 Crossed-Eyed-Ben
My revised plan for Saga #8 was to do Jonathan son of Ralph but I covered him fairly well last week in Ralph’s Saga, so we’ll do my original plan…
Read MoreVANCLEAVE SAGA #7 – Ralph B 1784
Ralph Vancleave was the 8th child, fourth son, of Benjamin Samuel and Ruth Munson Vancleave, born in Kentucky the day after St. Pat’s day in 1784. In Shelby County where…
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