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Charles Latham
19 February 1996
VOLUME OF COLLECTION: 3 items
COLLECTION DATES: 1904-1995
PROVENANCE: Sharon Cisco Parish, Franklin, IN, 18 January 1996
RESTRICTIONS: None
REPRODUCTION RIGHTS: Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained in writing from the Indiana Historical Society
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ACCESSION NUMBER: 96.0237
This collection concerns the Bay and Cisco families of Johnson County, Indiana.
Charles Bay (born 1819) farmed 145 acres in Blue River Township. He was married three times. By his first wife, Alice Watts (d. 1850), he had a son, Joseph R. Bay.
Joseph R. Bay (1847-1920), was a schoolteacher, a Mason, and a newspaper correspondent. He also wrote an essay on Indiana's part in the War of 1812.
Bay's daughter Lillie married Anson Cisco, who in 1908 was living in Iowa. working for a company which built bridges.
Sources: Materials in collection
History of Johnson County (1888), 400, 539
This collection, filling one folder, contains three items, all photocopies. The first is a certificate issued in 1904 to David Cisco of Franklin, Indiana, by the association which maintained the Betsy Ross house in Philadelphia. The second is a letter written in 1908 by Anson Cisco, building bridges in Iowa, to his wife Lillie Bay Cisco in Indiana. The third item is a pair of articles, one written by the donor, Sharon Cisco Parish, about her grandfather, Joseph R. Bay; the other, written about 1885 by Joseph R. Bay, about "Indiana in the War of 1812."
MAIN ENTRY: Parish, Sharon Cisco
SUBJECT ENTRIES: Bay, Joseph R., 1847-1920
Cisco, Anson
Indiana--History--War of 1812
Johnson County (Ind.)--Genealogy
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