Monday, January 20, 2014

Ellen's 78th Birthday

It's a collection of Ainsworth old-timers, as two Chester sisters — Carrie Raschka and Lovisa Nelson — visit Mrs. C.E. Smith, née Ellen Harper. Carrie and Lovisa must have known Ellen from their childhood, as she and her husband Cyrus were already their neighbors when they came into the world.

Mrs. C.E. Smith; John Harms move
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From the Hobart News of 3 Mar. 1921.


Also, it's the farm-moving season, and John and Sophia Harms, with their two children, at last are occupying the land they bought in August 1919.

2 comments:

Bonnie Jordan said...

Just above the "pink" article, I see the reference to the Rohwedder family. Do you have any idea where the Wolf farm would have been? My husband does recognize the Marquardt name as being the former owner of the farm in Wheeler.

Ainsworthiana said...

Based on the description in the public sale notice in this post ...

http://ainsworthindiana.blogspot.com/2013/08/this-must-come-and-these-must-go.html

... I think it may be the "K.J. Wolf" land taking up most of Section 26 and a little of 23 in Portage Township, Porter County, in this 1921 plat map:

http://www.inportercounty.org/Data/Maps/1921Plats/Portage-1921.jpg