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Searching for a nice photo, older and
modern, of Huff School in LaGrange Co., Indiana. - duane@carduff.com
I
am doing continued research on my ancestors who lived in your
area. The
information that I have is that Jeffrey C. Francis married Laura A.
Fillmore
about 1844. Laura died in 1848. Jeffrey then married Helen
M.
Fillmore and they had four children. Jeffrey C. Francis is my
great,
great grandfather. He was born about 1821 in New York . His parents were
Isaac
Francis and Burdean Champin/Champion. His parents were also from New York
. I do not
know if they followed my great, great grandfather to Indiana .
Laura
A. Fillmore and Helen M. Fillmore, I believe, were the children of
Cyrus
Fillmore and Laura Morey. Laura A. Fillmore was buried in the GreenfieldTownship , S. Side of St. Road
120.
Apparently the cemetery was destroyed when they widened the road and
the
headstone of Laura A. Fillmore remained inside the old Fillmore home
east of
the Cemetery site. While visiting your area in Feb. of this year
I tried
to locate this site but was unable to do so. If you have any
information
regarding these families please email me at b.odonnell@bresnan.net.
Ultimately
Jeffrey C. Francis and Helen M. Fillmore moved to the Sturgis, Michigan area
and it is
there that they are buried. Thank you for your help.
B.O’Donnell
Posted By: Jack Walter, October
30, 2006
Reply to at - jwwalt@worldnet.att.net
"There was an old frame
one or two room school house with hand hewn
timbers on the southwest side of the first intersection 1 mile East of
South
Milford. That was on the part of my grandparent's farm, originally
patented
1838 by grandmother's grandfather Gary P. Newnam and it appears on the MilfordTownship map in " The Combined
1874
& 1883 Illust'd. Atlas of LaGrangeCountyIndiana". It was used for grain
storage during 1930- 1950 period when I was a kid. My Grandparents, Wm.
and
Clemma Newnam Walter, b. 1872 and 1866, resp., went to elementary
school there.Does anyone know when the
school was built
and how long it was used, etc.?"