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My name
is Karen Zach and I am
your Coordinator for Montgomery County. I would really like to
thank Jeff Scism for assisting me for the last years, he has been such
a tremondous help. At this time, however, real life has to take
priority for him and I wish him well in his endeavors. The State
Coordinator is Debby Beheler
and the Assistant State Coordinator is Katy Hestand. If you would
like to adopt a county,
please contact Debby. Montgomery County Courthouse - Pre 1905
Montgomery County, Indiana is rich with history and owns many interesting sites, including the Old Jail Museum (with one of the only workable rotating cells); the Lane Place (home of Henry S. Lane, Senator and personal friend to President Lincoln); Lew Wallace Study (author of the book, Ben Hur); DAR house (owned by the Elston family until the Dorothy Q Chapter, DAR purchased it); and Wabash College (an all-male Liberal Arts School with less than 1,000 students dating back to 1832). Townships include Brown (with towns of Browns Valley and Waveland); Clark (Ladoga); Coal Creek (New Richmond, Wingate and Elmdale); Franklin (Darlington, Shannondale); Madison (Linden and Kirkpatrick); Ripley (Alamo, Yountsville); Scott (Parkersburg, New Market); Sugar Creek (Bowers); Union (Crawfordsville; Whitesville); Walnut (New Ross, Mace); Wayne (Waynetown). Crawfordsville, the County seat, is a third-class city with a full time mayor, a seven-member council and a clerk-treasurer. The city is located just off Interstate 74, about 45 miles West of Indianapolis. |
What's New??? 1 August 2010 -- Thanks to Bill Boone -- this is quite a unique photo -- both Blue & Gray soldiers buried side-by-side in Ladoga Cemetery Added many obituaries this month - close to 100 19 July 2010 -- Revamped the Surname Exchange pages - they're much brighter, cheerier and easier to read July 2010 - HELP -- we need help identifying a schoolbus photo (1937) with children |
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