BASTARDY case
BASTARDY case – Buckett-Cox
Source: Greencastle Star Press, Greencastle, Putnam County, Indiana 1 October 1892 p 2
One of the saddest suits for bastardy ever tried in Putnam Circuit Court was heard on Tuesday last, the plaintiff being Mary Cox, aged 15 years and the defendant Charles Buckett, aged 16 years – both of them really children in years, yet, as the complaint alleges, principals in a paternity suit. The lesson taught is that people are lax in the management and training of children, else such things could not and would not occur.
PECK case - Peck - Jennie Ingelton
Source: Greencastle Banner 29 Jan 1863 p 2
State Indiana, Putnam County SS – On the relation of Jennie Ingleton vs. Henry T. Peck – Bastardy
March Term, AD 1863 – be in known that heretore towit on the 19th day of Sept 1862 the transcript of the Justice of the Peace, together with accompanying papers in the above entitled cause was filed in the office of the Clerk of said Court; and afterwards, towit at the September term of said court in said year 1862 upon affidavit of the non-residence of the defendant filed, it was ordered “that the said defendant be notified of the pendency of this proceeding by publican, according to law. Said defendant, Henry T. Peck is therefore hereby notified of the filing and pendency of said proceeding against him and that unless he appear and answer or demure thereto, at the calling of said cause on the second day of the next term of said Court to be begun and held in the Court House in the city of Greencastle on the last Monday in March next, said cause and the matters and things therein contained and alleged will be heard and determined in his absence. Witness: Melvin McKee, Clerk CC Matson & Baber, Atty for plaintiff.