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From: rhayes <>
Subject: Re: [INJENNIN] Where was farm in Spencer Township?
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:31:47 -0500


What has worked for me in other areas is this......................
Go to the Register of Deeds office in Jennings County and ask for their help.
You have a time frame and a township to work with.
Once you determine the property they owned, you can then take the range and compare to a map which should allow you to "walk the land" of your ancestors.
Good luck, lynn

> Hi,
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> First, thanks to everyone who has been so helpful on the Jennings County,
> Indiana email list. I want to know if it is possible to zero in on an area
> in which a farm was located, based on census records. I am looking for the
> farm of John and Mary Dardis and their foster son Thomas Donnelly. In the
> 1860 census they are family # 817 in Spencer Township, Vernon Post Office,
> in Jennings County, IN, and John was a laborer worth $200. In the 1870
> census they are family # 103 in Spencer Township, Six Mile Post Office, in
> Jennings County, IN, and John is a farmer worth $325. If I make a visit to
> Jennings County, where would I go to find the actual Dardis farm or the
> general area of the farm? Is Six Mile now Hayden?
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> Earlier I wrote the list to say:
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> I am searching for information on JOHN DARDIS (1814-1887), his wife MARY
> DARDIS (1815-1876), and their foster son THOMAS DONNELLY (1849-1928). They
> appear in Spencer Township of Jennings County, Indiana as farmers in both
> the 1860 census and 1870 census. Thomas' birth parents, MICHAEL DONNELLY
> (1822-1850) and HONORA ("NORA") WINN (born about 1827) were both from
> Ireland. Thomas was born in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey. Family lore
> says that when Michael died, Nora re-married and moved to a farm in Indiana.
> How did Thomas Donnelly end up the 10-year-old foster son of John and Mary
> Dardis in the 1860 census? John and Mary Dardis were also Irish and Catholic
> and had come to Indiana via New York. In the 1880 census widower John Dardis
> and his foster son Thomas Donnelly are back in Madison County, New York near
> the rest of the Dardis family. John and Mary Dardis and Thomas Donnelly are
> all buried in Saint James Catholic Cemetery in Cazenovia, Madison County,
> New York. What brought John and Mary Dardis to Jennings County, Indiana? How
> did Thomas Donnelly end up in Indiana, too? How did Thomas end up the foster
> son of John and Mary Dardis? What happened to Thomas' birth mother Nora
> Winn?
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> Thanks,
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> Sharlotte Donnelly
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> http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/d/o/n/Sharlotte--N-Donnelly
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Lynn Hayes
Farmington Hills, MI

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