With her marriage ending, Olive Maxwell Hill and her little daughter were moving back with her parents, and she no longer needed all this nice furniture from the marital home — at least, that's what I think was going on here.
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Hobart News, Nov. 29, 1923.
Here is the Maxwell farm on the 1921 plat map of Union Township, Porter County:
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Image from https://www.inportercounty.org/Data/Maps/1921Plats/Union-1921.jpg.
We may be seeing the descendant of the old Maxwell place in the house and outbuildings on the north side of U.S. 30 east of N 725 W. Except I don't think the Maxwells had a caboose.
Thursday, July 30, 2020
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