718 pp, 8.5" x 10.25", tooled leather with bumped and worn corners, repaired with new black spine with title in gold on red background, new endpages, ex-lib with only marking on back of title page, all edges gilt, nice tight book.

This is a typical "mug book" of the era. These books were sold by subscriptions to the area residents and info was collected from the residents. You will find biographies of residents listing offspring, their parents and some times grandparents. There are also portraits of residents and prints of area farms.

Some of the names found in the book are Adamson, Allen, Anderson, Atkinson, Aydelott, Lailey, Baldwin, Barnes, Bilsland, Black, Boord, Briney, Brown, Brubeck, Burks, Burns, Byers, Cahill, Carr, Causey, Chesterson, Clark, Claypool, Clore, Cochran, Collings, Coyner, Curtis, Davis, Dice, Dooley, Duncan, Durham, Elder, Elwell, Faust, Ficken, Flaningam, Forgey, Foxworthy, Freeman, Fullinwider, Galey, Goben, Grinley, Hanger, Harper, Heath, Hess, Hutson, Johnson, Kalley, Lane, Lehr, Livengood, Loop, Luse, Lynch, Mack, March, McCain, McCuthan, Milford, Moffett, Mumms, Nebecker, Nolan, Otterman, Overpeck, palin, Peterson, Ratcliff, Reed, Sage, Shoop, Smock, Stipe, Stout, Ten Brook, Utterback, Wade, Waugh, Zuck.

The counties are in western Indiana. The county seat of Parke County is Rockville and other towns are Bloomingdale, Mansfield, Marshall, Mecca, Montezuma and Rosedale.

The county seat of Montgomery county is Crawfordsville. Other towns are Alamo, Darlington, Ladoga, Linden, New Market, New Richmond, New Ross, Waveland, Waynetown, Wingate, Balhinch, Browns Valley, Elmdale, Garfield, Lake Holiday, Linnsburg, Mace, Parkersburg, Shannondale, Smartsburg, Whitesville and Yountsville.

The county seat of Fountain county is Covington. Other towns are Attica, Hillsboro, Kingman, Mellott, Newtown, Veedersburg, Wallace, Cates, Coal Creek, Fountain, Harveysburg, Riverside, Rob Roy, Silverwood, Steam Corner, Stone Bluff and Yeddo.

If you are working on your family history or genealogy and wonder if your family is included email me and I will check the index. The index is only for the main subject and does not include buried names.

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