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Mauck School - District No. 1, Montgomery Twp.
"Mauck school was located northeast of Owensville, southwest of the Leo Dyball farm." MAUCK SCHOOL (ca. 1891)  Front Row L to R— Elizabeth Lee,
Hattie Fravel (Mrs Jacob Moser), Johnson), John Raines, Horace Spore, Arthur Lee, Charles Cleveland, Elmer Thomp- Son, Lytle Stancil, Tom Knight, Ellis Thompson, Francis Thompson, Millard Spore. Second Row L to R— (Mrs Lawrence Knowles), Minnie Spore (Mrs John Moser), Willie Stancil, John Knight, Homer Smith, George Fravel, Beales Lee. Third Row L to R— Dora Stancil, Clara Armstrong (Mrs Oscar Mounts), Fannie Spore (Mrs Oscar Woodson), Effie Lancaster,
Isaac Wright, Jesse Thompson, John Bingham, Lawrence Herbert Lee, Burl Knight. Submitted by Gerald L "Jerry" Spore.
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Mauck School - District No. 1, Montgomery Twp.
"Mauck school was located northeast of Owensville, southwest of the Leo Dyball farm." MAUCK SCHOOL (1897)  Mauck School photograph in 1897. On the back, it says C. E. Kimball, teacher. I can identify my father Horace Spore as Back Row, 7th from left. (Note: Clarence E Kimball was the teacher in 1897-98.) (Click here to view a copy of a list of the names of pupils in 1897-1898.) Submitted by Gerald L "Jerry" Spore. |
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OWENSVILLE HORSE SHOW -- Post Card 27 May 1909 -- Front Side  "You surely recognize this. Have several others, but I think this is the best.
I think you and Dorothy are very plain. We have decided to go Tuesday A.M., so
I would expect to hear from you Thursday P.M. Had a long letter and several
cards from the girls this A.M., soon be here.
Yours, L. F. Short"
Note--"Dorothy" is the horse.
Submitted by Gerald L "Jerry" Spore. This card "was from my mother to my dad in 1909, a year before they were married. I think
my mother was in Wash. DC to be with her sister Nella, or on the way there. My
dad may have been in a business college in Indy at that time." |
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OWENSVILLE HORSE SHOW 27 May 1909
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Central Hotel, prior to 1915 "The Central Hotel was located where Holder's Funeral Home is today. Mrs. Phillips was the proprietor. Red Barton was her porter who "made" the trains regularly." "A History of Owensville Indiana", 1982, McDowell Publications, Utica KY 42378, Page 14. (Marie Strickland, Editor)   Front & back of postcard submitted by Warren Stewart, 28 May 2013 Della Phillips (great-grandmother) and Edna Phillips (grandmother) |
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Central Hotel -- from hotel to Funeral Home.
 From a SOUTH GIBSON EXTRA, published by the Princeton Daily Clarion October 7 1999, with the headline "Holder Funeral Home celebrates 125 years in Owensville". The first picture is of the John L Short family standing in front of the old Furniture and Undertaking store (see photo at top of this section) - then a series of three photos starting with the old hotel as it appeared in 1945, and a post-remodeling photo with white siding, and then the present look after brick was applied. (This article and information supplied by Gerald "Jerry" Spore, 28 May 2013) |
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Harvey Harmon Home
 About 1913. Elsie (Spore) Woods
Smith (1894-1995) standing in front of the old Harvey Harmon home on the NE
corner of N. Main and Clark St (facing south) in Owensville IN. Young
girl is believed to be one of the Harmon girls, daughters of Harvey & Nora
(McGinnis) Harmon. Note the low concrete curb/wall on the front and side
of the house. About 1915, this house was moved south across Clark St to
make room for the new yellow brick home of Harvey Harmon. The old house remained, facing north, for several years next door to the Abie and Doris Thompson house on Clark Street. Contributed by Gerald "Jerry" Spore. |
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Harmon -Short Home Currently standing. Built by
Harvey Harmon about 1915, later owned by the Porter Short family until after
2000. Note the low concrete wall still standing. The wall remained
in place, although deteriorated, until about 2013. Contributed by Gerald "Jerry" Spore. |
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Cumberland Presbyterian Church
 This is a photo from Marie Strickland's History of Owensville, as it looked when erected in 1883 as a Cumberland Presbyterian Church. It's the only pic I have seen of the building with the steeple, which was later removed. Contributed by Gerald "Jerry" Spore. |
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Cumberland Presbyterian Church  Above is a photo of the CP Church
building, (dedicated 1916) on the SW corner of N. Main and Clark St, on the
site of the John L Short Furniture and Undertaking building. (See
pic of Short family in front of that building about 1893, with Owensville
Photographs.)  This photo is a congregation photo in front of
the new Cumberland Presbyterian Church, taken about 1929-30. The large
man on the front row, right end, is Andrew J "Jack" Spore, who died
in 1934. He was my grandfather. Photos contributed by Gerald "Jerry" Spore. |
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The photo below is thought to be of the Owensville Grade School pupils ca. 1915-1916.
(No identifications are available.)
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Gospel Temple Congregation  This is a picture of the congregation about
1934, after Rev. Wayne Buchanan and several followers established the Gospel
Temple in 1931. Wayne and his wife Gladys are on the left end of the 3rd
row (man in suit and tie). Incidentally, I (Gerald "Jerry" Spore) am on the front row, 4th from
left. |
