Indiana Cities & Towns Thread

[Trigger Time]

South Bend has a vice president buried here. Schuyler Colfax, buried in City Cemetery was Vice President from 1869-1873.

Thomas Hendricks the 21st Vice President of the United States was from shelbyville Indiana.

 

[the1kidd03]

A member of my family is descended from a child that was born via an affair with a prince of England who later became king. I can't off the top of my head tell you which one an I'm not able to look it up at the moment. Pretty funny and cool. While not "official" by marriage the kings bloodline still comes through that line in my family.

We have been able to also trace our very far back on my fathers side (maternal and paternal). England and Ireland citizens. With the earliest American traces being some of the first to the colonies. One was a constable in Pennsylvania before the USA existed.
Lots of records were kept and handed down and other before me gained many more legal documents as proof by visiting various courthouses and making copies and taking photos of the records. Now days because of certain newer state laws you cannot just go to the courthouse and flip through marriage records and such. You have to know exact info and dates to view them. That's fine if the clerk at the time entered the info correctly but sometimes names were spelled wrong or marriages accidently got listed under the maden name Ect. Then you run into road blocks.

That's cool. We have things that mention our ancestor were descendants of royalty as well. Not sure how, and I don't have physical proof of anything at this time. The ancestor which migrated here was wealthy, as were his predecessors, and supposedly tied in with politics somehow. So, perhaps that got passed down through generations after becoming royalty.

I do have rather detailed accounts that one fought along close sides with King William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hasting in 1066. It says that for this the king rewarded him with control over a considerable amount of land and money. Perhaps this is where the royalty aspect of our lineage comes from.

I'm going through what I have record of to find proof bit by bit. However, I'm starting at the migration here to the US and working forward. Once that's complete, I'll begin looking into what I can dig up on things that happened earlier across the pond.

 

[Trigger Time]

That's awesome!! Yeah I guess you could say a member of my family was a "royal" whore. and produced a "royal" bastard

thats some one awesome history you have found!! Very hard to find it that far back!
I have been lucky to have great records for my family in America an the colonies. I'm very proud to have had family in every conflict in our nations history up through today.

 

[the1kidd03]

I'm very proud to have had family in every conflict in our nations history up through today.

oorah...and ditto

 

[TheEngineer]

The jail he escaped from with the wooden pistol was in Indiana I believe. Don't know about the apartment.
Al Capone frequented the casino and spa that's in southern Indiana (French lick?) and had an apartment in the town square of a nearby town (can't think of the name). The local sheriff protected him.

that same town has a courthouse in the center of the square that Abraham Lincoln gave a campaign speech at. I was told there's also a massive cave system that runs under the town.

I know he spent some time at the West Baden Springs Hotel

 

[red_zr24x4]

He had a place at Koontz Lake also. I used to live across the street from it. The stories I heard was there was a tunnel from the house to the garage so he could leave without being seen. The house is on the county line, one side of the road is Starke and St.Joe on the other. If one Sheriff was messing with him he would go across the street.

 

[CathyInBlue]

Allegedly he would not rob a bank in Hammond because there were too many trains, he didn't want to get stuck at a crossing after robbing a bank.

He might have made that decision about Hammond as well, but it was reported that he said it about Terre Haute.

 

[BuddieReigns]

He might have made that decision about Hammond as well, but it was reported that he said it about Terre Haute.

I've heard that about Muncie too.

 

[GregD]

And I've heard that about Anderson. He didn't like trains I guess.

 

[littletommy]

Anyone have any handed down stories about john dillenger?

He supposedly had a girlfriend in Clarksville who lived on Arlington Ave. An older lady I worked for told me she met him several times when she was a kid, and that he would come through here often. I lived in the oldest house on Arlington, built in 1909, and always wondered if that was the house his girl lived in.

 

[hammer24]

The World's tallest woman, Sandy Allen, was from Shelbyville. Met her once at the chili's there. She was riding around in a van with "World's Tallest Woman" painted across the side. 7'7"

 

[Trigger Time]

He supposedly had a girlfriend in Clarksville who lived on Arlington Ave. An older lady I worked for told me she met him several times when she was a kid, and that he would come through here often. I lived in the oldest house on Arlington, built in 1909, and always wondered if that was the house his girl lived in.

That would be pretty cool!

 

[Trigger Time]

The World's tallest woman, Sandy Allen, was from Shelbyville. Met her once at the chili's there. She was riding around in a van with "World's Tallest Woman" painted across the side. 7'7"

I met her too. So so nice! It scared me because she had a deeper voice. I was young

 

[littletommy]

If you are in the southern part of the state, and happen to be on hwy 31, or Lewis and Clark pkwy, as it's called in Clarksville, where the road dead ends at Silver creek, there was a night club years ago (I'm thinking it burned down in the late 30s/early 40s) that a lot of the gangsters used to frequent. I've heard mention of Capone being there, as well as Dillinger.

Also, Clarksville used to have the Greyhound, which was a popular nightclub and casino back in the 30s. I know Capone visited there, not sure about Dillinger. The Old building is gone, after being turned into the Greyhound grocery for many years. Greyhound grocery built a new building sometime in the 80s, and tore down the old one. It is now S+S powersports, sitting next to I65 at the Eastern blvd exit.

 

[joe138]

One of Dillengers gang members was shot and killed near Bean Blossom in Brown County. Story goes that Dillengers guy's car had broken down and he was walking. Two locals came upon him and shots were exchanged with Dillengers guy getting the worst of it. His body was kept in the log house on SR 135 across from the grocery store until arrangements were made. The community was worried that there would be pay back from the gang.

 

[RockofStrength]

I've looked through 22 pages and I hope I didn't miss someone else throwing out this little tidbit, buuuuut...

Remember this little place from a certain Indiana-centric movie?

It's the inside of the Hoosier Gym in tiny Knightstown, Indiana. I played my first basketball games there as a kid, but I was too young to know about the movie at the time. It's still in use, though today most residents are probably more inclined to be grumbling at the gigantic Taj Mahal school they built for the 5,000 or so kids out here...

 

[winchester]

Nope, not true.

It sat on the 12 mile marker of the railroad track and got it's name that way. The 12 miles distant from Peru, Logan and Rochester came along later and isn't true. East of the tracks used to be the town of Hen Peck, but the just kind of grew together. It's "famous" for the Twelve Mile 500 riding lawnmower race and Living Christmas Pageant. At one point, the town even supported two auto dealerships, Slifer Motors and Grable Chevrolet. They were both closed in the 80's, with Slifer Motors continuing with repair and the body shop into the 90's.

i lived in twelve mile in the 70's. the amtrak tracks ran right through our farm. i dont know how many of my dads silver coins were smashed on the tracks that i couldn't find. does anyone remember skinners grocery store? litz dairy farm?

 

[Cozy439]

So was I, Jimmy Hoffa, and Henry Lee Summer.

HENRY LEE SUMMER!!!!!!!!!!! "Wish I had a girl that walked like that..." Saw him at great parties and bars in Bloomington a lifetime ago.

 

[hooky]

i lived in twelve mile in the 70's. the amtrak tracks ran right through our farm. i dont know how many of my dads silver coins were smashed on the tracks that i couldn't find. does anyone remember skinners grocery store? litz dairy farm?

I sure do. Fred and Dale sold us our televisions and then fixed them when the tubes went out. Remember Farley's Castle?

 

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