PETITION
FOR ADOPTION TIPPECANOE COUNTY FEBRUARY TERM 1873 The State of Indiana }
PETER J. COOK petition for
adoption } In Common Pleas Court PETER J. COOK respectfully
petitions the court as follows. He respectfully asks to be permitted to
adopt as his child one AMMA ELDORA HEYWARD who was two years old on the
28th day of September 1872. Your petitioner says that said AMMA ELDORA
HEYWARD has no property either personal or real that she has a father
living
in Delphi [in Delphi crossed out] in Carroll County in the state of
Indiana
that she has no mother living. He respectfully asks that the said AMMA
E. HEYWARD may be adopted by him and her name changed to AMMA ELDORA
COOK. WILEY S. VAN CAMP Notary Public Transcribed and submitted by Adina Dyer |