One is titled, "Record of Recognizance Bonds," and memorializes some of the law-breaking that went on in Lake County from 1877 through 1892. I have glanced through it and was delighted to find various interesting things like adultery, and assault and battery; also a mystifying crime described as "maintaining screens on Sunday" — I don't know what that means, but it was occasionally practiced in the early 1890s by familiar residents of Hobart. I suspect that maintaining screens had something to do with saloonkeeping, but I don't have time to figure that out.
More pertinent to today's post is the other book, titled, "Applications for Marriage License," covering just a single month: January 1922. And from that book, I present to you the marriage license applications of Clarence Schavey (one of the children of Henry Schavey, Sr., and thus a brother of Mable Schavey Breyfogle) and Hazel Comstock (about whom I know nothing).
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Images courtesy of the Merrillville/Ross Township Historical Society.
