South Bend has a vice president buried here. Schuyler Colfax, buried in City Cemetery was Vice President from 1869-1873.
Thomas Hendricks the 21st Vice President of the United States was from shelbyville Indiana.
South Bend has a vice president buried here. Schuyler Colfax, buried in City Cemetery was Vice President from 1869-1873.
That's cool. We have things that mention our ancestor were descendants of royalty as well. Not sure how, and I don't have physical proof of anything at this time. The ancestor which migrated here was wealthy, as were his predecessors, and supposedly tied in with politics somehow. So, perhaps that got passed down through generations after becoming royalty.A member of my family is descended from a child that was born via an affair with a prince of England who later became king. I can't off the top of my head tell you which one an I'm not able to look it up at the moment. Pretty funny and cool. While not "official" by marriage the kings bloodline still comes through that line in my family.
We have been able to also trace our very far back on my fathers side (maternal and paternal). England and Ireland citizens. With the earliest American traces being some of the first to the colonies. One was a constable in Pennsylvania before the USA existed.
Lots of records were kept and handed down and other before me gained many more legal documents as proof by visiting various courthouses and making copies and taking photos of the records. Now days because of certain newer state laws you cannot just go to the courthouse and flip through marriage records and such. You have to know exact info and dates to view them. That's fine if the clerk at the time entered the info correctly but sometimes names were spelled wrong or marriages accidently got listed under the maden name Ect. Then you run into road blocks.
oorah...and dittoI'm very proud to have had family in every conflict in our nations history up through today.
The jail he escaped from with the wooden pistol was in Indiana I believe. Don't know about the apartment.
Al Capone frequented the casino and spa that's in southern Indiana (French lick?) and had an apartment in the town square of a nearby town (can't think of the name). The local sheriff protected him.
that same town has a courthouse in the center of the square that Abraham Lincoln gave a campaign speech at. I was told there's also a massive cave system that runs under the town.
He might have made that decision about Hammond as well, but it was reported that he said it about Terre Haute.Allegedly he would not rob a bank in Hammond because there were too many trains, he didn't want to get stuck at a crossing after robbing a bank.
He might have made that decision about Hammond as well, but it was reported that he said it about Terre Haute.
He supposedly had a girlfriend in Clarksville who lived on Arlington Ave. An older lady I worked for told me she met him several times when she was a kid, and that he would come through here often. I lived in the oldest house on Arlington, built in 1909, and always wondered if that was the house his girl lived in.Anyone have any handed down stories about john dillenger?
That would be pretty cool!He supposedly had a girlfriend in Clarksville who lived on Arlington Ave. An older lady I worked for told me she met him several times when she was a kid, and that he would come through here often. I lived in the oldest house on Arlington, built in 1909, and always wondered if that was the house his girl lived in.
I met her too. So so nice! It scared me because she had a deeper voice. I was youngThe World's tallest woman, Sandy Allen, was from Shelbyville. Met her once at the chili's there. She was riding around in a van with "World's Tallest Woman" painted across the side. 7'7"
i lived in twelve mile in the 70's. the amtrak tracks ran right through our farm. i dont know how many of my dads silver coins were smashed on the tracks that i couldn't find. does anyone remember skinners grocery store? litz dairy farm?Nope, not true.
It sat on the 12 mile marker of the railroad track and got it's name that way. The 12 miles distant from Peru, Logan and Rochester came along later and isn't true. East of the tracks used to be the town of Hen Peck, but the just kind of grew together. It's "famous" for the Twelve Mile 500 riding lawnmower race and Living Christmas Pageant. At one point, the town even supported two auto dealerships, Slifer Motors and Grable Chevrolet. They were both closed in the 80's, with Slifer Motors continuing with repair and the body shop into the 90's.
So was I, Jimmy Hoffa, and Henry Lee Summer.
i lived in twelve mile in the 70's. the amtrak tracks ran right through our farm. i dont know how many of my dads silver coins were smashed on the tracks that i couldn't find. does anyone remember skinners grocery store? litz dairy farm?