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Image courtesy of Eldon Harms.
Christened Maria at her birth in 1882, the eldest daughter of Henry and Anna Harms was known throughout her life as Mayme or Mamie. In 1903 she married Fred Harney. I think the young couple lived in Ainsworth, while Fred worked in the blacksmith shop of Ed Sauter. Around 1905 they moved to Hobart, and then to Miller. The 1910 census, taken in May, showed them back in Ross Township, farming rented land — probably her parents' farm east of Ainsworth. Just a month later they moved again to Hobart. That's where the 1920 census found them; Fred was working as a blacksmith, and they lived in a rented house. But in July 1920 they moved to their own house.
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Their new home lay on the south side of her parents' town lot. Its address was 708 Lincoln Street, as you will find in the 1930 directory. And that, I believe, was their last move … until the eternal one.
Sources:
♦ 1910 Census.
♦ 1920 Census.
♦ "Ainsworth Pick-Ups." Hobart Gazette 24 Nov. 1904.
♦ Indiana Marriage Collection.
♦ "Local Drifts." Hobart Gazette 20 Nov. 1903; 29 Sept. 1905; 10 June 1910; 30 July 1920.
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