Where Alice Lived

I have discovered that my favorite house in Hobart has an Ainsworth connection.


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Hobart Gazette, 3 Sept. 1953.

Gilbert and Alice Estella (Markham) Bullock had left their Ainsworth-area farm and retired to Hobart before house numbers were in use,[1] so it wasn't until Alice died that I realized they had lived in a house I have always loved.

As we know, Gilbert died in March of 1916. The newly widowed Alice put the Center Street house up for rent[2] and went to live with her daughter and son-in-law, Ruth and Dwight Mackey, on Connecticut Street, where the 1920 Census records her. By 1930, however, she had moved back to 404 Center and was living with her other daughter and son-in-law, Margaret and William Killigrew, and their children.

The Bullock farm described in the obituary as being across from what is now Indian Ridge Golf Course was bought sometime after 1890, when it fails to appear in the 1890 Plat Book, and 1908.[3]

I do not know why Alice's grave marker shows 1952 as the year of her death. The Gazette and her death certificate say 1953.

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The newspaper page above brings in another Ainsworth connection: the death of Pauline Hunter. With her husband, Lee, having died in 1947 and their son, Gilbert, now a resident of Chicago, all connection between the Hunters and Ainsworth was at an end.

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[1] I believe they moved to Hobart in 1902, not 1899 as stated in the obituary, based on contemporary newspaper reports (see "Local Drifts," Hobart Gazette, 17 Jan. 1902; "General News Items," Hobart Gazette, 21 Mar. 1902). Per the Lake County records, the house was built in 1880.
[2] "Local Drifts," Hobart Gazette, 17 Mar. 1916.
[3] Possibly as early as 1901; see "Bullock-Lambert Nuptial," Hobart Gazette, 5 Apr. 1901; see also "Obituary," Hobart Gazette, 10 July 1903.