Transcribed biographies of Capt. J. L. Leslie, Dr. Miles N. Newman, and Dr. Andrew G. Gorrell from the 20th Century Souvenir Edition of the Ossian News.

Posted biographies of George E. Gardiner and Victor Murray Hatfield from 1896 Memorial Record of Northeastern Indiana.

Transcribed biographies of Edwin T. Hawley, Jacob Fatscher, O. W. Reed, and Abner S. Elzey from the 20th Century Souvenir Edition of the Ossian News.

Posted biography of Hugh Dougherty from 1896 Memorial Record of Northeastern Indiana.

Transcribed Nathan Weaver and Wilson A. Woodward biographies from the 20th Century Souvenir Edition of the Ossian News.

Transcribed bios of Jacob W. Osborn and John S. Krewson from the 20th Century Souvenir Edition of the Ossian News, added bio of Thomas A. F. Doan to 1896 Memorial Record of Northeastern Indiana.

Added biographies of Henry Clay Brannum and W. Paxton Burris to the 1896 Memorial Record of Northeastern Indiana.

Added a separate page for the 1896 Memorial Record of Northeastern Indiana and posted the biography of George Arnold on it.

Transcribed bio of T. S. Cook from the 1900 Souvenir of the Ossian News.

I have added scans of Dec. 1927 Uniondale Rural Telephone Co. Directory and of an old 1800s photocopied ledger of the St. Paul Lutheran Church. Webpages of both sets of images will be added later.

Transcribed bio of James C. Hatfield from the 1900 Souvenir of the Ossian News.

Added some labeled photos of Craigville and Lancaster Central High School to Edith Lude Barrone's collection.

Sue Allen's collection of Wells County photographs of unknown people, found in a box belonging to Bertha Olive Allen Brown (1877-1934) -- probably Allen or Brickley family members.

School attended by Annette and Daisy Campbell of Jackson Township, circa 1910. The actual location and name of the school is unknown. Thanks, Alyssa Manes, for sharing!

Lancaster Central High School alumni, 1923-1938 - Published in 1939 Turned Leaves yearbook. Added link to Edith Lude Barrone's page under Schools on "The Good Stuff" page.

Adam J. Barrone sent in more photos from his grandmother's collection of school photos -- tonight I added the faculty and senior photos from the 1939 yearbook of Lancaster High School. He said he is working on a transcription of the alumni list in the book (1928-1938), and as soon as it's online I'll post an update here.

Also, a submission from October 2004, from Chris Gehlbach: WPA Birth Index pages for ELLIS - ELZEY, HUNTER - HUSS, HUSS - HYDE, LIEUELLEN - LINNEGAR, LOCKWOOD - LOVELL, MOUNSEY - MULOTT, MURRAY - MYERS, and MYERS - MYRON.

I updated/deleted some dead links and created a SITE INDEX for the website. I am hopeful that it will help new visitors find the information they are seeking. If there is something you find confusing, please write to me and let me know, because it's probably confusing other people, too.

I also moved the SURNAMES link off the front page to "The Good Stuff" page.

Is anybody reading this?

Edith Lude Barrone's photos of Craigville School and Lancaster High School from 1928-1938. Great photos! Can you identify any of the children?

With this addition I'm now up to September 2004 on my backlog of data submissions. Watch for more over the next few weeks.

Adam J. Barrone sent scans of the Lancaster Echo newspaper (from Lancaster Central School) from 1937. This particular issue has a class photo of the senior class.

Added family histories submitted by J. R. Vanhoose: KREIGH Family History, MELCHING Family History, and PHIPPS Family History.

Updated 1860, 1870, and 1880 census transcriptions with enumerations of the Erastus and Phebe (Sills) Johns(t)on family.

Changed Sparks Cemetery page to HTML and added a photo of a tombstone (Mary Ida Shoemaker).

Biography of Albert D. Hunsicker
Biography of Jacob J. Neff

Both bios are from the 1918 Standard History of Adams and Wells Counties, Indiana.