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The Bayor farm lay in Ross Township, on the northeast corner of 69th and Colorado, with the Grand Trunk Railroad crossing its southern acres. I can't even find Charles Szikora in any census earlier than 1930 (and that may not be the same Charles), and I do not know if he was related to John Szikora.
The only Deppe farm I can find is on the southern border of Hobart Township and is ascribed to Catherine, not Frank, Deppe. The 1920 census enumerator who recorded Michael Malz and his neighbors noted that they lived on the "South West Road out of Hobart Past Green House." The Malz household consisted of Michael, 55 years old, his 54-year-old wife Magdalen, and a five-year-old grandson — only those, to take care of 400 chickens and all those cattle!
Across Colorado Street from the Bayor farm lay the Price farm. I mention that only because I just recently came across pictures of Fremont and Carrie Price (while babysitting the Merrillville museum). They are undated, and while to me they look earlier than 1920, I'm not going to try to guess at a date.
Fremont Benjamin Price
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Images courtesy of the Merrillville/Ross Township Historical Society.
Carrie Belle Cunningham Price
And here's a totally random fact I just learned about F.B. Price — he had a grocery-store-running brother in Ludington, Michigan.
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Sources:
♦ 1908 Plat Map.
♦ 1920 Census.
♦ 1926 Plat Book.
♦ "Local and Personal." Hobart News 23 Sept. 1920.
♦ "Public Sale." Hobart News 23 Sept. 1920.
2 comments:
Loved the ref to Ludington as we spend summers there...there is still one coal burning ship, The Badger ,making runs across to Manitowoc, WI. It's so much fun to go down to the dock to see it go out or return. We can also hear the horn from our campground a couple of miles from town. At one time early in the 1900's there were six vessels making the runs. The railroads found it was cheaper to load the cars on the ships. Thirty or so RR cars could fit into the hold! This was a huge lumbering area at one time. Many of the lovely old homes in Ludington were built by those barons. Anyway, during the summer these ships also did runs to Waukegan and Chicago. Will have to check into local history and see if the Price store building is still there!
When I was a kid my family always went to Elberta for a week or two in the summer. Ludington was one of the towns we'd pass on the way, so the name has good memories associated with it in my mind. One year we made the trip back via car ferry from Frankfort to Milwaukee, then drove home from Milwaukee. Good times!
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