Just take the main road south out of Hobart and look for the name "W.G. Haan" on a schoolhouse, which you can hardly miss, as it towers over the open fields in all its bright red-brick newness.
But suppose you came across this little item in the News: "C.C. Shearer is planning to have a public sale on his farm known as the old Freeman place, on Nov. 1st." Not even a direction to point yourself. Good luck!
After some searching, I think I've found the place. And unfortunately it does not involve the Tecumseh Freeman who shows up renting land in Ross Township in 1910 and who had been listed in 1880, at the age of one year, as "Dumpsy" — that is priceless! But no; if we go back to 1918, we find this announcement in the Gazette: "C.C. Shearer has purchased the Freeman farm of 140 acres southeast of Deepriver in Porter county. He paid $60 per acre." And looking at a 1906 plat map, we find more than 160 acres under the name Freeman in southwest Union Township, Porter County, some of which may be the land in question, but if it's not Lake County and it's not Dumpsy Freeman, I'm not all that interested.
Sources:
♦ 1880 Census.
♦ 1910 Census.
♦ "Additional Local News." Hobart Gazette 27 Sept. 1918.
♦ "Local and Personal." Hobart News 21 Oct. 1920.
♦ "Notice to Farmers." Hobart Gazette 22 Oct. 1920.
♦ "Notice." Hobart News 21 Oct. 1920.
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