Lookabill - Alfred
Source: Weekly Argus News, Oct 22, 1898
A few evenings since I noticed an editorial in the Crawfordsville Journal in which it stated among other things, that I had been giving the police trouble on the streets. Now, I will just say that it is absolutely false. I never gave the police or any other officer any trouble in my whole life and in this every officer will bear me out. Now can the Journal click say as much for themselves. I do not like to be assaulted without cause by a little pop gun news paper loaded with a gang of little wasp waist, bullet headed editors, neither do I care to lower my dignity by noticeing any thing they may say about me in the future. I bear the title of Commodore to our firm. Now where do you pin heads rank?
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Source: Indiana Death Certificate Lafayette, Indiana SS Home Tippecanoe County Indiana #27023
Alfred Lookabill male white married
Spouse: Harriett M. Lookabill
Boern Feb `838
87 Years 6 Months (unknown days)
Real Estate - retired
Died Aug 17, 1925 @ 7 p.m.of Dimentia - acute myocarditis
Dr George Dewey
Buried Aug 20th Russellville, Ind
Informant: Daniel V. Lookabill - W. Wabash, Crawfordsville, Ind
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Source: US Civil War Soldier Records
Alfred Lookabill resides Indiana
Pvt - Enlisted Co K Ind 111th Inf 10 July 1863 - mustered out 15 July 1863 at Indianapolis
ODD only in 5 days ??
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Source: Weekly Argus News Jan 6, 1900 p 1
Commodore Alf Livengood & Co. today sold a farm of 40 acres about six miles southwest of the city near Stump school house for N.H. Coon to Squire Henry of Wingate for $1300 spot cash. Come next only four a week.
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Note: Alf was a gourd connesieur -- he not only raised but sculpted them and had a large collection and eventually a museum people visited from all over the world. He left on the northwest corner of the first curve going out of C'ville on the Country Club Road (home still in good shape). Same side of road not far around the curve is another old home (still standing, in nice shape) where my great grandparents lived for just a few years and my grandmother, Sarah "Hazel" Morgan Smith was born. My great grandmother sent the oldest son to Lookabill's to tell of her birth. They had four sons so my grandmother was quite welcomed as the Lookabills had five sons.