Indiana Historical Society - Manuscripts & Archives

BAY-CISCO FAMILY
PAPERS, 1904-1995


Collection #
SC 2538


Table of Contents

User Information
Historical Sketch
Scope and Content Note
Cataloguing Information

Processed by
Charles Latham
19 February 1996


USER INFORMATION

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

ALTERNATE FORMATS: None

OTHER FINDING AIDS: None

RELATED HOLDINGS: None

ACCESSION NUMBER: 96.0237


HISTORICAL SKETCH

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


SCOPE AND CONTENT

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."


CATALOGUING INFORMATION

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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