A Complicated House for Bessie

Is it any wonder I can't get anything done? — I come across an announcement like this:

Chas. Ols has purchased from the heirs of Anna Medrow through the administrator, Paul Born, the Born house and lot on Lake street, consideration being $3,000. Mr. and Mrs. Ols' daughter and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Ittel, have moved into the house.

— and feel the need to spend half an hour poking around in the records to try to find out who these Medrows and Borns were, when it doesn't really matter. (We already know who these Olses and Ittels were.)

Then again, I suppose I had to make sure there wasn't any Ainsworth connection. Which there doesn't seem to be. Paul and Anna Born were siblings, I believe, who lived in Hobart in 1880. Sometime before 1900 Anna married William Medrow. She spent the rest of her life in Chicago, died May 17, 1920, and was brought home for burial in Crown Hill Cemetery.

No word on whether Charles Ols ever got his dog back.


Sources:
♦ 1880 Census.
♦ 1900 Census.
♦ 1920 Census.
♦ Ancestry.com. Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916–1947." Index. FamilySearch, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2010.
♦ "Local Drifts." Hobart Gazette 3 Dec. 1920.